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| Matt Kenseth is 12/1 to win Saturday night. |
Quaker State 400 at Kentucky Speedway
No. 20 Dollar General Toyota News and Notes:
KENSETH BY THE NUMBERS: Kenseth has made four Sprint Cup Series career starts at Kentucky Speedway and has completed all 1,068 laps that he’s raced. Kenseth has an average starting position of 15.8 and an average finish of 4.5, which ties him for first among all active series drivers at the 1.5-mile track in Sparta, Kentucky with his teammate, Kyle Busch. Kenseth has earned one victory, two top-five and four top-ten finishes at the 1.5-mile track in Sparta, Kentucky.
JOE GIBBS RACING AT KENTUCKY: Joe Gibbs Racing has 12 Sprint Cup Series starts at Kentucky Speedway and has earned two wins, six top-five, and seven top-ten finishes. The organization has led for a total of 375 laps, has an average start of 10.6, an average finish of 12.5, and completed 2,843 of 3,204 (88.7 percent) laps.
THIS WEEK ON THE NO. 20 DOLLAR GENERAL TOYOTA: Dollar General vendor partners Cottonelle, Mucinex, Glad, Slim Jim, STP, Oreo, Gildan, Nestle Drumstick, Xtra, Sundown Naturals, Hellmann’s and AmeriGas will be featured on Joe Gibbs Racing’s No. 20 Toyota Camry this weekend at Kentucky Speedway.
RACE INFO: The Quaker State 400 at Kentucky Speedway (1.5-mile) begins at 7:30 p.m. ET on Saturday, July 11th. The race will be broadcast live on NBCSN, Sirius XM Channel 90 and PRN Radio.
Kenseth’s 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Season Stats:
| Starts | Wins | Top 5 | Top 10 | Poles | Laps Led | Earnings | Avg. Start | Avg. Finish |
| 17 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 143 | $2,791,917 | 11.9 | 15.2 |
| Starts | Wins | Top 5 | Top 10 | Poles | Laps Led | Earnings | Avg. Start | Avg. Finish |
| 561 | 32 | 156 | 279 | 15 | 9,598 | $109,956,165 | 18.0 | 14.1 |
From the Cockpit:
Matt Kenseth: “Looking ahead to this weekend with the new aero package, obviously right now no one really knows yet how it’s going to act until we get a whole bunch of cars on track together. I’m excited about it though and I think it’ll be an interesting race for sure. The key to a good car at Kentucky is getting the car to handle well through the bumps there. The track surface is pretty rough there, and I think it’s one of the roughest tracks that we go to. You need to be able to handle well through the bumps and be decent in traffic.”
From the Pit Box:
Jason Ratcliff: “Our No. 20 team tested Kentucky a few weeks ago and we came home feeling pretty good about our time spent on track there. We’ll get about four more hours of track time on Wednesday of this week with the new aero package, and I’m looking forward to that because I feel that it’s a step in the right direction. Kentucky has been a good track for us over the last couple of years with a win and a top-five run for Matt (Kenseth). It’s a track that I’m really fond of as well so I’m looking forward to this coming week and weekend. I think that the aero package may shake things up a bit since I feel it is a significant change, but I don’t think that we’ll know as a group what we think about it entirely until we get into a race setting. Any time that NASCAR makes a change that is that big, it seems like different groups pick it up faster than others may so I think it will definitely change the game up mid-season.”
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DG at the Track:
Dollar General has more retail locations than any retailer in America, with more than 12,000 stores in 43 states. There are numerous Dollar General locations in the state of Kentucky.
- Joe Gibbs Racing
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