Track: Kansas Speedway
Location: Kansas City, Kansas
Track length: 1.5 miles
When: Sunday, 3 p.m.
Where to connect: FS1, Radio MRN, Nascar Siriusxm radio
Pure racing hand: $ 11,055,250
Race distance: 267 towers | 400.5 miles
Steps: 80 | 165 | 267
Defending winner: Kyle Larson, May 2024
Starting range: Kyle Larson pushes Chris Buescher of P1 to take the Kansas pole
The execution of the team in the middle of chaos is the key to success Sunday in Kansas
If the training session on Saturday afternoon was an indication, the race for the series of the Sunday Cup will be unpredictable.
The teams pushed the limits to find speed and were aggressive on air pressure in their tires, which led to several problems for Brad Keselowski, Chase Briscoe, Ty Gibbs and Zane Smith to maximize the pace during short -term sessions. While the teams will be more conservative in maintaining their cars for potential long races on Sunday afternoon, the Kansas always provides treacherous moments for the moment when drivers choose to push strong.
During training, the double winner of Kansas, Kyle Larson, rubbed the wall with the upper line of the towers gradually tilted 3 and 4. Despite contact, Larson has always put the ninth best session tower and was the fastest in all the consecutive averages of 10 laps.
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According to data from Nascar Insights, all signs point to Toyota taking over the reins on a track they dominated in 2022 and 2023.
Denny Hamlin, Christopher Bell and Tyler Reddick are all listed in the first five speed note during the next Gen Gen in Kansas, and three Toyota teams also have the best teams of stands so far in 2025 with teams No. 23 (Bubba Wallace), n ° 54 (Ty Gibbs) and n ° 11 (Hamlin).
Three of the eight of 23xi Racing victories took place in Kansas, but Wallace and Reddick were snubbed from the Top 10 in the two events of last year.
De Wallace: “We wanted to give everyone a chance,” he said with a sly smile on Saturday during the media track devices. “We decided to try something different and it didn’t work for us. Myself, I was very categorical to come back where we must be when we present ourselves because when you present yourself in places where you have succeeded, it generates confidence, right? Path, but I hope to recover it.
Reddick and Wallace were in the top 10 of the training speed on a single blow on Saturday. In qualification, Reddick posted the fourth best time while Wallace will start the 15th for the 400-one Sunday.
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From the top of the pit box …
What have the team leaders developed to win the Sunday race?
With the Kansas trend to offer large races from start to finish, the last laps can be summed up in a pass in the last corner or which was only thousandths of a second to the start / arrival line.
The last spring edition in Kansas gave this, while Kyle Larson exceeded Chris Buescher by a only margin of 0.001 second in the series closest to the series of the Cup in history. For the chief of the Buescher crew, Scott Graves, seeing the reruns making almost impossible not to linger.
“The part that makes it difficult is that they show it all the time, right?” Graves told Nascar.com. “The guys who were on the cars Ricky Craven, Kurt Busch of the closest arrival to Darlington – there was a guy who always works in the garage who was at the end of this one, and he thanked me last year after this finish because he is like” now I don’t have to watch him every year. “Those who are so close, you are still looking at it and remember to know if, but you try to move on.
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Kansas was also a track that shows a full result of the team where the pilot and the team of stands have an almost equal contribution in the way they finish their race. Last year, the playoff race saw Denny Hamlin lose a lot of position on the track on Pit Road while crew No. 11 had trouble stopping clean, but Hamlin was able to grind a top 10 result to get a good day of points.
Cliff Daniels, team leader of the Chevrolet de Law 5 Hendrick Motorsports de Larson, noted that their team also had its wads in the oval of 1.5 mile, but which Larson was able to compensate.
“You can manage so many different ways,” Daniels told Nascar.com. “You have cars that are good around the bottom, then you have a way out of the wall, then you have a path to the wall. It just makes a really, really fun and exciting race. When you have the track position, the critical maintenance aspects are the details of the stop and to be good enough on Pit Road and to execute these couples which are really essential to maintain your day.”
Kansas has sheltered from the most excessive penalties with intermediate oval in the next generation car with 37 since the spring race in 2022.
“We are aware of it. It is part of what we are going every week, what I am sure that everyone,” said serious. “There are hot spots on the road to the stands that we are aware, and if you are in a place, you can choose in this area on Pit Road, so it eliminates them in a way of play. Otherwise, then you must be aware of them and be careful. There are certainly here.
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History tells us …
Dominating Kansas does not guarantee a victory. The pilot leading the most laps did not succeed in the last five kansas races, the longest sequence of all time on the track. In addition, the guardian pole has not won Kansas in the next generation car and has only won once since 2018 (Kyle Larson, autumn 2021).
He may not be the favorite to win, but pay attention to …
Ross Chastain. An average starting position of 23.5 through 11 races this season has been by far the worst for track racing pilot N ° 1 since he joined the team in 2022, but he did not prevent the 32 -year -old companion from establishing himself the top 10 after the top 10. He scored five of them during the last seven races and between Kansas, where he won last fall, Speedway last weekend.
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For the second consecutive year thanks to training and qualification during the spring weekend, Chris Buescher leads the charge of drivers contesting Hendrick Motorsports and Toyota. Buescher threatened the rhythm in the long term, ranking second on averages of 10 laps and fourth on a 20 -round race. I added car n ° 17 to my range instead of Kyle Busch, which had speed in practice but slapped the outside wall during its qualification race. An early qualification levy dropped Alex Bowman to the 21st in the starting program, but the car n ° 48 is very fast for available on Sunday.
Align: Kyle Larson, Tyler Reddick, Christopher Bell, Denny Hamlin, Chris Buescher.
Garage: Alex Bowman.
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