The Oneida Daily Dispatch (Oneida, NY)
THREE THINGS TOWATCH
1. Kyle’s streak
Kyle impressive at Speedway. Michigan Larson Since streak has International an the going
second season, race he has of the won 2016 three
straight NASCAR Cup Series
races at the fast two-mile
oval. Is his No. 42 Chevro
let up for the challenge?
“We need to be a little bit
better to compete with Kyle
Busch, Kevin Harvick and
Martin Truex Jr.,” he said.
“They are definitely the
class of the field. We are
close.”
2. 14 and 40
It Cup took Series Jimmie races Johnson to lead 14
his first laps of competition
in the No. 48 Chevrolet.
Johnson, the seven-time
NASCAR champion, led
Laps 26 and 27 at Pocono
to push away that embar
rassing statistic. Now there
is that little matter of the
40-race winless streak. He
has back-to-back top-10
finishes. “We just need to
keep improving, but we're
slowly chipping away at it,”
Johnson said.
3. Better get to it
Don't look now, but the
NASCAR Cup Series just
passed the halfway point of
the regular season, leav
ing only a dozen races for
drivers to get qualified for
the playoffs. Kevin Harvick,
Kyle Busch and Martin
Truex Jr. have hogged
Victory Lane, combining for
11 wins in 14 races. Drivers
around the bubble area
can hear the clock tick
ing. “When you are racing
(Busch) and (Truex) you
are splitting hairs,” Harvick
said.