There is typically one race in NASCAR’s Chase for the Championship that throws the Sprint Cup field the proverbial curveball.
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Matt Kenseth won Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway, the sixth of ten races in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Chase. The race was caution-filled with drivers making contact with each other and the wall as a series of right front tires gave way, leading to a record number of 14 cautions.
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Kenseth puts team back on track
It appeared late in the summer and even entering the NASCAR Chase for the Sprint Cup that Roush Fenway Racing was behind on its mile-and-a-half and 2-mile-type racetrack program.
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Matt Kenseth TUMS Fast Relief 500 Race Preview
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October 25, 2012
Matt Kenseth comes into the TUMS Fast Relief 500 looking for his third win in the Chase and that will be no easy task. In 25 prior starts at the Martinsville Speedway, Kenseth has a best finish of 2nd (2002), three top 5s, and eight top 10s. One year ago he finished 31st, but on the upside in the Spring he finished 4th.
Team: No. 17 Ford EcoBoost Fusion
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October 25, 2012
Matt Kenseth survives wild Cup race on new pavement at Kansas
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October 22, 2012
Fans who came to Kansas Speedway on Sunday thought they were attending a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race.
Instead, they witnessed the latest episode of "Survivor."
Matt Kenseth won a wild war of attrition, otherwise known as the Hollywood Casino 400, beating Martin Truex Jr. to the checkered flag by .495 seconds to claim his third victory of the season, his first at Kansas...
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October 22, 2012
Kenseth Completes Roush Yates Sweep at Kansas
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October 22, 2012
Matt Kenseth finished first in a wild race at the repaved Kansas Speedway on Sunday to complete a weekend sweep for Roush Yates engines with winners in the ARCA Series on Friday, NASCAR Nationwide Series on Saturday, and Sprint Cup Series on Sunday.
Kenseth took the checkered flag at Kansas Speedway to earn his second win in just three races and the 24th of his career. In what...
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October 22, 2012
Matt Kenseth Survives In Wild Race at Kansas
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The second half of the 2012 Chase for the Sprint Cup kicked off Sunday at the Kansas Speedway and it lived up to high expectations after Saturday’s Nationwide race.
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Kenseth survives Kansas melee for victory
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October 21, 2012
If you’re a person who was longing for more caution flags in your Spring Cup Series races, Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway was the race for you.
With a track-record 14 caution flags in the 267-lap event, Sunday’s race marked the highest number of caution flags in a single event in the 2012 season, surpassing the August race at Bristol which had 13.
Although...
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October 21, 2012
Matt Kenseth wins wreck-filled Sprint Cup race at Kansas Speedway
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October 21, 2012
Fans who came to Kansas Speedway on Sunday thought they were attending a Sprint Cup Series race.
Instead, they witnessed the latest episode of “Survivor.”
Matt Kenseth won a wild war of attrition, otherwise known as the Hollywood Casino 400, beating Martin Truex Jr. to the checkered flag by .495 seconds to claim his third victory of the season, his first at Kansas and the 24th...
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October 21, 2012
Ford Racing Hollywood Casino 400 Race Recap
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October 22, 2012
Matt Kenseth won his third race of the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Sunday in the Hollywood Casino 400 from the Kansas Speedway, leading the way for the Ford Racing drivers. The next highest finishing drivers were Marcos Ambrose in 12th and Carl Edwards in 14th place. Strong runs by Greg Biffle (27th) and Aric Almirola (29th) were derailed by accidents. Almirola led 69 laps prior...
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October 22, 2012
Kenseth Survives Caution Fest for his Second Chase Win
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October 22, 2012
A record setting day occurred Sunday afternoon at the Kansas Speedway. We set the all-time caution record at the Kansas Speedway. Fourteen cautions at Kansas were also the most in any race this season. Matt Kenseth was slightly involved in an incident today but Kenseth still came out on top. Kenseth struggled early in the Chase and that put him behind in the point’s standings and...
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October 22, 2012
RotoWire NASCAR Barometer Martinsville
The repaved surface at Kansas Speedway pushed speeds higher all weekend, and tires seemed to take a beating as well. A few teams were able to figure it out, though, and while some were forced to overcome adversity, a handful had it in hand all afternoon.
Mark Martin led for much of the late race, but it was a Roush Fenway Racing car that pushed its way forward in the closing miles...
RotoWire NASCAR Barometer
The repaved surface at Kansas Speedway pushed speeds higher all weekend, and tires seemed to take a beating as well. A few teams were able to figure it out, though, and while some were forced to overcome adversity, a handful had it in hand all afternoon.
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