NASCAR – Chase for Sprint Cup continues in Kansas
The Chase for the Sprint Cup continues this weekend with the Price Chopper 400 at the Kansas Speedway in Kansas City.
The Kansas race is round three in the Chase after last weekend’s race at Dover. Kansas Speedway is the first of four 1.5-mile tracks on the Chase schedule.
It has been a tight race for the Sprint Cup championship, with just eight point separating leader Denny Hamlin from eighth-place Jeff Gordon. Hamlin’s advantage over second-place Jimmie Johnson is 35 points, which is the largest margin after the second race in the Chase.
Hamlin has struggled at Kansas in the past, but he improved to a fifth-place finish last year and expects to just keep getting better this year.
“I felt like we almost had a race-winning car there last year,” Hamlin said. “I think our program is better this time around than where we were last year. So if we finished fifth last year, we should improve on it this time around.
“When I go there, I’m going to go with an open mind. It is another one-off racetrack where we don’t go there but once a year. Really, it’s almost like everyone is going to have to start over.”
Kansas will host two Sprint Cup races beginning next year.
Forty-six teams are on the preliminary entry list for the Price Chopper 400.
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