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BROTHERS IN ARMS

Kurt and Kyle Busch have taken turns making trips to Victory Lane at Bristol Motor Speedway as of late.

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his week brings us a special episode of Out of the Groove powered by our sister publication NASCAR Pole Position magazine. We sent Eric to Texas Motor Speedway so he could see first-hand, live and up close, the effects of the new aero package introduced for 1.5 Mile tracks.

How did the new package turn out? It was designed, of course, to help reduce the number of races that deteriorate into single file parades behind the leader, an issue that’s been creeping up for a number of years but was really on full display last season, when Kevin Harvick seemed all but uncatchable at the mile and a halves.

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The added variable that we haven’t seen so far this season at any of the other new package runs was the fact that Texas has a newer paved surface, far from the bumps and bounces of Atlanta or Las Vegas.

What effect, if any, did this have on the racing at Texas, especially now that the teams have had a chance to fine tune their adjustments?

And of course, this episode of Out of the Groove has the patented Groovy Gauge, giving NASCAR fans the definitive - well, OK, maybe not the definitive - answer on where Texas lands in the history of NASCAR. What did it rate? Watch the video and find out!

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things to watch at Bristol Let the Tempers Flare

Bristol’s tight track could reignite feuds

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here’s no track in NASCAR quite like Bristol Motor Speedway — a fast, high-banked .533-mile oval that has produced some of the greatest racing in NASCAR history. Needless to say, it’s anyone’s best guess what might go down in Sunday afternoon’s Food City 500. Here are five key storylines to watch for this weekend at the popular short track in East Tennessee.

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When will Martin Truex Jr. Win With JGR?

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n his first season with Joe Gibbs Racing after five mostly successful seasons at Furniture Row Racing, Martin Truex Jr. is winless in seven starts. While Truex’s absence from Victory Lane this season isn’t shocking, it is mildly surprising in light of how fast the JGR cars have been and the talent that he and crew chief Cole Pearn bring to the powerhouse organization. Will Sunday’s race at Bristol be Truex’s big breakthrough with his new team? Truex has five top-10 finishes in his first seven starts with JGR and is seventh in the standings. However, Truex is winless in 26 career starts at Bristol and has failed to finish in the top 20 in his last three outings here. In fact, you have to go all the way back to the spring of 2012 — when Truex was with Michael Waltrip Racing — to find his last top-five finish at Bristol.

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A Fourth Consecutive Bristol Winner Named Busch

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he last three races at Bristol Motor Speedway have belonged to drivers with the last name Busch. Kurt Busch won under the lights last August at the .533-mile oval after younger brother Kyle won the two previous races in Thunder Valley. Combined, the Busch siblings have captured a total of 13 Monster Energy Series races here, with the younger Busch holding a one-win advantage over his brother. Kurt returns to Bristol this year with a new team in Chip Ganassi Racing, after winning last fall’s race with Stewart-Haas Racing. Kyle, of course, has remained the driver of the familiar No. 18 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing. While Kyle is one of three drivers with two victories already in 2019, Kurt is seeking his first triumph with his new team and his first win since going to Victory Lane at Bristol last August. Both Busch brothers should factor heavily into the mix this weekend.

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A Nail-biter Of A Finish

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he 2019 season has been mostly bereft of close finishes, but look for that to change this weekend at Bristol — a track where nail-biters are the rule and not the exception. Think about all the thrillers that have transpired over the years at the Tennessee short track, and you will marvel not only at how often they’ve occurred but at how exciting a number of them have been.

For example, who will ever forget the late Dale Earnhardt knocking Terry Labonte across the finish line here in the fall of 1995? How about Earnhardt spinning Labonte (or was it “rattling his cage?”) in Turn 2 on the final lap of the 1999 night race? Even when drivers don’t completely wreck one another at Bristol, the familiar “bump-and-run” method is often utilized. For whatever reason, drivers will stop at nothing to win here, and the result is often finishes that go down to the wire.

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Testy Drivers and Temper Tantrums

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ood luck finding a track anywhere on the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series tour that is more prone than Bristol Motor Speedway to invoke boisterous displays of emotion often fueled by disagreements that start on the track. “Thunder Valley,” as Bristol is commonly known, has been the site of some of the most heated disagreements in NASCAR history. Witness, for example, the time Jeff Gordon emerged from his car and abruptly shoved Matt Kenseth on pit road moments after being spun by Kenseth in the race’s final laps. Likewise, no one will forget about the time — after the 1995 Bristol night race — when Rusty Wallace threw a water bottle at rival Dale Earnhardt, triggering a post-race garage area confrontation that came on the heels of Earnhardt knocking Wallace out of the race. Bristol, perhaps more so than anything, is known for raw emotions. Sunday’s showdown should be no exception.

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The Next Step In A Possible Hendrick Motorsports Resurgence

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fter a painfully slow start to the season, Hendrick Motorsports showed its first real signs of life last weekend at Texas Motor Speedway, where Hendrick teammates Jimmie Johnson and William Byron finished fifth and sixth, respectively, after Hendrick drivers swept the top three positions in qualifying with Johnson leading the field to the green flag. Now, the 12-time championship-winning organization, which hasn’t won a race since Chase Elliott went to Victory Lane at Kansas Speedway last fall, is looking to take it up yet another notch as the series moves to the high-banked, .533-mile short that is Bristol Motor Speedway. Last fall’s race at Bristol was a good one for Team Hendrick as Elliott (third), Alex Bowman (eighth) and Johnson (ninth) all came home in the top 10. Bristol is also the site of Johnson’s next-to-most-recent victory, which the seven-time Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion recorded in April 2017.

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By Jared Turner ▶▶ Kyle busch. Kyle Busch has won two of the last three Monster Energy Series races at Bristol and owns a total of seven premier series victories at the Tennessee short track. Given how strong Busch has been just about everywhere in 2019, he’s the prohibitive favorite to end up in Victory Lane this weekend. ▶▶ Kurt Busch. Kurt Busch is the most recent Bristol winner, having prevailed last August. Incredibly, Busch’s six victories at Bristol have been divvied up among three different teams — Roush Fenway Racing, Team Penske and Stewart-Haas Racing. If Busch can win on Sunday with Chip Ganassi Racing, it will be the fourth team he’s taken to Victory Lane in Thunder Valley. . ▶▶ Brad Keselowski. A two-time Bristol winner, Brad Keselowski hasn’t gone to Victory Lane here since 2012. However, he’s already won twice in 2019 — including most recently at Martinsville Speedway, a short track that doesn’t bear many similarities to Bristol but is a short track, nevertheless. ▶▶ Joey Logano. Joey Logano owns a pair of Bristol victories, both coming in the August night race. The reigning Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion won earlier this season at Las Vegas and appears to be well on his way to another championshipcaliber campaign. ▶▶ Jimmie Johnson. Boasting a renewed sense of confidence on the heels of his best overall weekend of the season, Jimmie Johnson has high hopes for Bristol, where he’s a two-time winner and most recently triumphed two years ago this weekend.

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n May 25, 2014, Jimmie Johnson, driver of the No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet, collected his fourth-career Coca-Cola 600 victory at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The El Cajun, Calif., native sealed the deal by passing Matt Kenseth with nine laps remaining to log his first victory of the season. Johnson broke a 13-race winless streak dating back to Texas Motor Speedway in November of 2013 and put to rest any concerns about the team’s chemistry. He would go on to win three more Cup events by season’s end.

Johnson dominated the race by leading 10 times for 165 of 400 laps in NASCAR’s longest race. Kevin Harvick finished second, followed by Kenseth and Carl Edwards.

Johnson broke a tie with Darrell Waltrip and Bobby Allison for

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Cup victories at the track with seven. Three career wins at the Concord, N.C., track were logged in October 500-mile events.

“To deal with all the things that are thrown at a race team through the evening with the track changing, the mechanical obstacles that you have to overcome, keeping an engine alive, tires alive, all of it, it means a lot,” Johnson said in post-race interviews. “It’s a serious team effort to finish 600 miles. And then win here, especially as hard as we had to run throughout the night, the pace we had to keep up, I’m certainly proud of that.”

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Tyler Ankrum takes the checkered flag in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series race last July at Iowa Speedway. (NKP/Nigel Kinrade via NASCAR)

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yler Ankrum became a NASCAR champion at just 17 years of age when the native of Bernardino, California, won four races en route to securing the 2018 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East championship.

That effort during his rookie NASCAR season earned Ankrum a promotion and he became a full-time NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series driver for DGR-Crosley after celebrating his 18th birthday on March 6.

Ankrum’s racing journey began at age 9 in Quarter Midgets and he earned multiple local, regional and national championships in the small, open-wheel cars before advancing to Late Model competition. His first Late Model victory came at North Carolina’s Caraway Speedway when he was 14.

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The young racer eventually graduated to Super Late Models and made sporadic starts with the CARS Super Late Model Tour, where he had 11 top-10 finishes in 17 races during four seasons.

In addition to running the full K&N Pro Series East schedule a year ago, Ankrum made two Truck Series starts with a best finish of sixth at ISM Raceway in November.

“Honestly, this is a dream come true,” said Ankrum about racing in the Truck Series. “It’s crazy to think that something I’ve been a fan of for so long, I’m now going to be a part of it. It’s even more special that I get to stay at DGR-Crosley and progress within their organization.”

Spotlight crew member profile Clint Leatherwood, tire specialist for Team Penske

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Keeping Rubber on the Road Leatherwood Manages Tires for Team Penske

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lint Leatherwood, tire specialist for Team Penske and driver Brad Keselowski, enjoyed a family ritual each Sunday while growing up in the small town of Rockmart, Ga. “We watched NASCAR on TV with my Mom and Dad from the time I was very small,” Leatherwood said. “I saw my first race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, which is about two hours from where I grew up. That was in 1996 at age 6 or 7.”

Leatherwood got the bug to race at age 9, wheeling

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“We have guys that have been at Penske Racing for 20 or 25 years and still going at it. It’s such as great organization to work for. Once you’re there, you stay if you do your job. They take care of you.”

crew member profile go-karts until he was 18. From there, he moved to North Carolina and found an interest in working on Late Models on local short tracks. He aspired to drive on a local level but instead applied for positions with several of NASCAR’s prominent teams before getting the call to join Team Penske in 2015.

After being hired as a tire technician for Penske’s Xfinity operation, a crew member from their No. 22 Cup series team was injured, Leatherwood spent a half season working for both teams under the Penske umbrella.

His job is to keep the tires on Keselowski’s No. 2 Fords performing flawlessly wherever the Monster Energy Cup schedule takes them. He also helps the team with car maintenance when needed.

“We get our tires and then we go through and set the tech pressures for the weekend,” Leatherwood said. “We start measuring and check the wear on the tires and make marks on the tires before they are worn. Then we put them in sets and set air pressures and monitor them.”

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Kyle Busch 310 Denny Hamlin 302 Brad Keselowski 237 Joey Logano 275 Kevin Harvick 277 Aric Almirola 245 Martin Truex Jr. 232 Ryan Blaney 219 Chase Elliott 218 Kurt Busch 213 Clint Bowyer 192 Kyle Larson 185 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 183 Daniel Suarez 180 Jimmie Johnson 176 Erik Jones 173 Austin Dillon 160 William Byron 153 Alex Bowman 152 Ryan Newman 152 Paul Menard 149 Chris Buescher 128 Ty Dillon 124 Matt DiBenedetto 104 Ryan Preece 97 Michael McDowell 84 David Ragan 84 Bubba Wallace 83 Daniel Hemric 72 Corey LaJoie 67 Matt Tifft 62 Landon Cassill 49 Jamie McMurray 19 Cody Ware 18 Quin Houff 7 Reed Sorenson 7 Casey Mears 1

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cknowledged as one of the country’s leading neurosurgeons, Dr. Jason Cormier has helped MSG provide a comprehensive, grassroots marketing campaign focused on preventative health care education and wellness training.

With an emphasis to educate and engage race fans in their growing role as health care consumers, the objective is to influence behavioral changes, to provide racing’s brand-loyal audience with the medical knowledge to make informed, preventative decisions that directly affect the wellness of their families.

One health issue that affects NASCAR racecar drivers and fans alike is neck and back pain. Cormier shared some preventative measures one can take to help avoid lower back pain.

“Outside of the red flags – like a fever, weight loss that is not explained by a change in diet, suspicion of cancers, long-term steroid use, or a weak immune system – we can look at simple things to prevent lower back pain,” Cormier said. “We’ll take a look at improving the diet, weight loss, smoking habits and exercise.”

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A patient can also strengthen his or her core to help prevent lower back pain. Improving one’s range of motion and maintaining an active lifestyle are also helpful preventative measures.

In the event that a patient is already affected by lower back pain, Cormier recommends he or she take an anti-inflammatory, such as Ibuprofen or Tylenol – if the patient has been cleared by a doctor. Avoiding carrying large bags, briefcases and purses can also limit the stress on a person’s back.

health and wellness “Watch your posture,” Cormier said. “Make sure you’re not overloading your back. Consider switching to a briefcase or bag on wheels.”

One of the most common causes of upper back and neck pain in this day and age is poor posture when sending text messages and looking down at smart phones. Writing for extended periods of time without stretching your neck is another common cause.

“It’s the result of constantly looking down at a computer or phone,” Cormier said. “It’s important to think about posture.”

Neck trauma is a more serious issue that can be managed non-surgically with traction

therapy, physical therapy or an interventional procedure, depending on the results of one’s MRI. Racecar drivers also are at risk of suffering compression fractures. Austin Therriault and Aric Almirola have both suffered those types of injuries in the recent past.

“When you’re driving at high speeds, the spine absorbs the ‘G’ forces of the wreck, which predisposes one to the possibility of spinal fractures,” Cormier said. “Protect your body by consistently exercising for a few minutes three to four times weekly, and maintain a healthy life style, and your body will be significantly optimized to endure the physical challenges ahead.”

Introducing Brain Armor new product that excites Cormier in terms of improving brain function is the Brain Armor nutritional supplement.

The product is the work of Dr. Julian Bailes, a recognized leader in the field of neurosurgery and the impact of brain injury on brain function.

The supplement includes Omega-3 Fatty Acids, which help the human brain possess the ability to grow new nerve cells, or neurons.

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Also, patients that suffered brain-related injuries were more likely to recover after 30 days of ingesting Omega-3 Fatty Acids.

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in DHA and EPA levels are more protected with regard to brain function. That drew me in. If we pursue that in racecar drivers, we can protect them with a supplement like Brain Armor that includes fish oil and Omega-3 Fatty Acids.”

Fish oils are also available for purchase over the counter. Cormier said the only downside of ingesting fish oil is that of its blood thinning properties.

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DRIVER PROFILE: LANDON CASSILL

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By Joseph Wolkin La n d o n C as s il l no lo nge r has to wo r r y a bou t what tea m h e wil l be r acing fo r. Sta r Co m Racing is de e ply inves te d in NASCAR , a n d t h ey wa nt C as s il l to be t h e ir d r ive r fo r yea rs to co m e. ▶▶ What’s it like to know you have a steady full-time ride once again? “It’s definitely a good thing. It helps you be the best driver you can be. It helps keep focused, rather than when you’re on a part-time schedule because that’s when you’re trying to find rides and sponsorship. Now, I have a program that I’m bought into, I’m willing to build with, and the team is willing to build with me.” ▶▶ What is the key to this team’s growth? “Probably consistency. We’re having one driver and one car. The purchase of the charter from Richard Childress Racing and the engine program from ECR is helping improve our performance. Those are the things that are getting things in line. It’s not one major thing that moves the needle. It’s just a collection of everything around the program that gets all of the machines running to get us the best we can be.”

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Making the Most of It Joe Graf Jr. using Daytona misfortune to bring awareness

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isfortune can turn into opportunity. And that sentiment couldn’t be truer for ARCA Menards Series driver Joe Graf Jr. In his sophomore season driving for Chad Bryant Racing (CBR), Graf Jr. made his superspeedway debut at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway driving the No. 77 EAT SLEEP RACE Ford Fusion.

While maneuvering his way towards the front of the race in the season-opening Lucas Oil 200 -– a plastic bag from the grandstands found itself on the grille of Graf’s Ford Fusion which subsequently led to his race car overheating and ruining the opportunity to win his second career victory.

Instead of placing blame on the hardship, Graf Jr. has elected to raise awareness about the consequences of plastic bags and the encouragement of using reusable shopping bags.

To help with his mission, Graf and his sponsor EAT

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▶▶ FLASHBACK. Rusty Wallace is honored at Bristol Motorway, where he earned nine career victories, before the 2005 Sharpie 500.

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▶▶ FLASHBACK. Matt Kenseth collected a narrow victory at Bristol Motor Speedway in 2006.

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While Nemechek is still relatively new to life with three dogs, his passion for pets is nothing new. “I’ve always had a love for animals,” said the son of longtime NASCAR Cup Series driver Joe Nemechek. “We used to own a horse farm.

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