WAITING OUT WET WEATHER IN ‘DEGA: Three Camry drivers recorded top-10 finishes in Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at Alabama’s Talladega Superspeedway following a near four-hour rain delay. Matt Kenseth (eighth) led a race-high 142 laps (of 192) and Toyota team owner Michael Waltrip (fourth) was the first Camry driver to the finish line, while his Michael Waltrip Racing (MWR) teammate Martin Truex Jr. took seventh on Sunday. Waltrip’s result was his first top-five performance since the 2008 season when he finished runner-up at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Both Truex, who started second, and Bobby Labonte led five laps apiece on the 2.66-mile track. In Saturday’s NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) event, Camry drivers Parker Kligerman (sixth) and Jason White (eighth) recorded top-10 results following a more than three hour delay for precipitation.
BACK IN THE SADDLE: Toyota driver Denny Hamlin returned to the Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) No. 11 Camry at Talladega following an ab...
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Bobby Labonte,
Parker Kligerman,
Denny Hamlin,
Brian Vickers,
Clint Bowyer,
Kyle Busch,
Elliott Sadler,
Joey Logano,
Matt Crafton,
Johnny Sauter,
Joey Coulter,
Martin Truex, Jr.
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