Marcos Ambrose wins at Watkins Glen, and makes the wild-card race in the Sprint Cup series wilder than ever.
M&M’s Driver Dominates Race, but Last-Lap Shenanigans Result in Seventh-Place Finish
Kyle Busch saw a sure victory transform into a heartbreaking seventh-place finish after a wild final lap in the Finger Lakes 355k at The Glen NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race Sunday on the 11-turn, 2.45-mile road course at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International.
Busch, driver of the No. 18 M&M’s Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR), led three times for a race-high 43 laps. He also led at the start of the final lap, with Brad Keselowski a few cars lengths behind in second and Marcos Ambrose on Keselowski’s bumper in third.
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Marcos Ambrose talks about winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Watkins Glen. He’s also joined by team owner Richard Petty, crew chief Todd Parrott and team manager Sammy Johns.
Brad Keselowski finished second, Jimmie Johnson third in the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Watkins Glen. Afterwards they spoke to the media about the wild finish.
Kasey Kahne, driver of the No. 5 Farmers Insurance Chevrolet, is leaning on his Hendrick Motorsports teammates as he prepares for this weekend’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International.
The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series heads to the faster of the circuit’s two road courses. Could this event shake up the wild card race?
Tony Stewart is so good at the relatively niche art of road racing that he might as well add a few umlauts to his name, at least for this weekend as the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series invades the 11-turn, 2.45-mile road course that is Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International.
For years, road racing was considered a European hallmark, where Formula One reigns supreme and oval racetracks are vastly outnumbered by the twists and turns of the continent’s seemingly endless supply of road courses. Drivers with such names as Lewis, Jenson, Nigel, Mika, Sebastian, Kimi and Fernando are most often thought of as the premiere road-course talent.
But here in the good, ol’ U.S. of A, it’s a guy named Tony who reigns supreme, as Stewart’s five Sprint Cup wins at The Glen suggest.
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The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races 39 times a year – 36 points-paying events and a trio of non-points events in the Budweiser Shootout, the Gatorade Duals and the All-Star Race. A variety of tracks comprise that 39-race schedule, from short tracks to intermediate tracks to superspeedways to road courses. The majority of those events, however, take place on tracks labeled as ovals. In fact, series competitors race on oval tracks 94.8 percent of the time. That means Sprint Cup Series regulars compete on road courses just 5.2 percent of the time or, to put it another way, a whopping twice in 39 events.
With so few road races, it would seem they’d be mere blips on the radar screen relative to the entire Sprint Cup schedule. But that just isn’t the case and, oftentimes, the road courses have been the setting for some of the most dramatic and exciting events in any given year, including the current one.
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