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A BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE. Kyle Busch survived an eventful race of attrition that sidelined several contenders Sunday afternoon, winning for the first time this season at Texas Motor Speedway. Busch led a race-high 116 of the 334 laps in the O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 in the Joe Gibbs Racing No. 18 Toyota. GETTY IMAGES texas rearview: april 9, 2018

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ASCAR admittedly messed up during Sunday’s race by failing to penalize Kevin Harvick for his team letting go of a tire during a late-race pit stop. After the race, the sanctioning body surprisingly made no attempt to defend the botched no-call. In fact, NASCAR readily admitted the mistake. “It was a judgment call, and after conducting a post-race review of the incident, an uncontrolled tire penalty for the 4 car (of Harvick) would have been correct. We missed that call,” NASCAR Senior Vice President of Competition Scott Miller said in a statement. Further complicating matters was the fact that earlier in the race, NASCAR penalized Ryan Blaney in a strikingly similar situation. While Harvick clearly caught a huge break in not being penalized, NASCAR at least deserves a tip of the hat for being willing to fess up and say that it was in error in this particular situation. texas rearview: april 9, 2018

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4 Kevin Harvick Wants To Speak His Mind

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unday’s race in the Lone Star State was tough on a number of drivers, and some of the sport’s biggest names weren’t immune from the trouble. Consider: The last five finishers in the field were Brad Keselowski, Denny Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson, Kyle Larson and Martin Truex Jr. All five were involved in wrecks, with Larson and Truex both hitting the wall hard as a result of tire failures, and Keselowski, Hamlin and Johnson being caught up in a multi-car wreck triggered when Hamlin lost control of his No. 11 Toyota while running in a big pack of cars. Not since the season opener at Daytona have so many of the sport’s elite drivers left a racetrack with torn-up cars. “Just blew a right-front tire out of nowhere,” said Truex, the reigning series champion. “Not sure what happened there — if we ran something over or what.” texas rearview: april 9, 2018

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rior to Sunday’s race in Texas, Jamie McMurray had finished no better than 16th in six races this season. That’s a disappointing start to 2018 no matter how you slice it. But the veteran driver enjoyed a terrific afternoon in Texas, finishing third. “We just had a really good car and were able to miss some of those accidents,” said McMurray, who has qualified for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series playoffs the past three seasons with his No. 1 Chip Ganassi Racing team. “The [Easter] off-weekend couldn’t have come at a better time for us. We had such a horrible season going, and it’s awesome to run as good as we did today at a 1.5-mile track. We have so many of these tracks, and I feel like we have been a little bit behind on the 1.5-miles, but we had a really good run today.”

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ver seven races so far in this Monster Energy Series season, Kyle Busch has six top-10 finishes. In the past five races, the Joe Gibbs Racing driver has finished no worse than third. Of course, his most convincing performance yet came in Sunday’s race at Texas, where he led 116 of 334 laps on the way to his first victory of the season. Think Busch — the series points leader — is feeling confident about the state of his team or its performance so far in 2018? You thought correctly. “I can’t say enough about everybody on my team,” he said. “We’ve just got everything clicking right now. Adam (Stevens, crew chief) does a great job. He leads these guys really, really well.

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The Q-Collar is actively being evaluated with consideration for its involvement in motorsports. The Q-Collar is already worn by professional athletes in other forms of high contact sports like football, hockey, soccer and even the military.

“I am particularly excited with the possibility of driver athletes, in varying age groups, being able to embrace this novel technology,” Cormier said. “There are exciting nuances with the collar that we think could have an important role with regards to helping on the preventive side of concussions, and part of the technology is established on nature’s physiological advantages found in other animals and human beings.

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