KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Shell-Pennzoil Dodge driver Sam Hornish Jr. was running in the top 10 during the final stages of this afternoon’s Hollywood Casino 400 here at Kansas Speedway when his strong run began to unfold. When the checkered flag fell, instead of scoring the solid finish he appeared to be headed to, Hornish was already in the garage. Late-race misfortune ended his day with 30 laps remaining and relegated him to a 26th-place finish.
“We had more yellows today than the rest of the year combined (laughs),” Hornish said of the first Sprint Cup battle on the “new” Kansas Speedway. “It’s been pretty tough today. Everyone knows that they have to get everything they can on the restarts because it’s so hard to pass once everyone gets strung out. Everybody is trying to take advantage of each other and you get lots of yellows when that happens.”
The drivers and teams returned to Kansas Speedway this week to find a challenging new layout. Since the last visit back in April, the track
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Kyle Busch,
Jeff Burton,
Bobby Labonte,
Danica Patrick,
Marcos Ambrose,
Trevor Bayne,
Ryan Newman,
Aric Almirola,
Greg Biffle,
Kurt Busch,
Matt Kenseth,
Paul Menard,
Kasey Kahne,
Clint Bowyer,
Regan Smith,
Brad Keselowski,
Jeff Gordon,
Denny Hamlin,
Martin Truex, Jr.
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