There were eight NASCAR Cup races around the 1.5-mile design at Kentucky Speedway and seven of them have been won between three motorists, the exact same three drivers that have combined to win the most races at 2019.
Kyle Busch, Martin Truex Jr, and Brad Keselowski have combined to win 11 of the 18 races this season and they’ve dominated at Kentucky, that is the reason they’re the favorites to win Saturday night’s Quaker State 400.
Kyle Busch won the inaugural Kentucky race in 2011 from the pole and he also won the 2015 occasion. His finish was 12th in 2016. He leads all drivers with six top-five endings, a fifth-place average finish and 549 laps led. He won two Truck Series races and three Xfinity Series races and also an ARCA race .
Truex Jr. is connected with Busch with a series-leading four wins this season and has only two top-fives in Kentucky, but they have both come in the previous two seasons and they were equally dominating wins. It may be the most dominating. In 2017, he started second, won the first two stages and led 152 of the 274 laps before winning. Last year , he took it up yet another notch by winning from the pole, leading 174 laps and winning the first two stages.
Keselowski was the final driver until Truex took over to win at Kentucky. He’s the monitor boss with three Cup wins (2012, 2014, 2016) and he’s also got three Xfinity Series wins. He’s headed laps in six of the eight Cup starts, such as 38 laps led last season when he started fourth and finished third. He’s three wins this season and two of these came on 1.5-mile tracks. He is the only driver with numerous wins involving the six races run on 1.5s in 2019.
Truex won at Charlotte in May top 116 laps for his just win on a 1.5 this season, but surprisingly, Busch does not have a win on any of these yet. His wins employing this race package with aero ducts and 550 horsepower arrived on the 2-mile layout at Fontana and the 2.5 catchy triangle at Pocono.
The other winners on 1.5s besides Keselowski and Truex have been Joey Logano at Las Vegas, Denny Hamlin at Texas, and Alex Bowman at Chicagoland and three of these should be considered this week as well because their chances should be boosted greater than normal because of the low likelihood posted on the 3 favorites.
Logano ought to be a motorist. He’s never won a Cup race at Kentucky but has led laps in four of his past five starts there having a best finish of runner-up in 2015. He also won three consecutive seasons at Kentucky in the Xfinity Series (2008-10). He’s been better or third in the last two races on 1.5-mile tracks.
Bowman will be the true interesting odds appear this week based on how powerful he has been in the previous 3 races on 1.5s — runner-up at Kansas top 63 laps, seventh at Charlotte, also leading 88 rebounds and winning at Chicagoland fourteen days ago. Hendrick Motorsports has turned the corner and I am expecting more wins from the group in the second half of the year from Bowman, Chase Elliott, and Jimmie Johnson.

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