RFK Weekly Advance | Kansas I
05/12/2022

RFK Weekly Advance | Kansas I

Roush Fenway Keselowski Weekly Advance | Kansas I

The NASCAR Cup schedule heads next to Kansas Speedway for the first of two trips to the track, where Jack Roush has nine wins overall including four in the NCS.

 

 

NASCAR Cup Series Race at Kansas

Sunday, May 15 | 3 p.m. ET

FS1, MRN, SiriusXM Channel 90

  • Brad Keselowski, No. 6 King’s Hawaiian Ford Mustang
  • Chris Buescher, No. 17 Castrol GTX Ford Mustang

 

 

Follow the Yellow Brick Road

Overall, RFK has started 175 races across the three national series, earning nine wins, 41 top-five finishes, 76 top-10 finishes and has an overall average finish of 14.8.

 

Winning at Kansas

RFK swept both the NASCAR Xfinity Series and NCS races at Kansas in the fall of 2012 with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Matt Kenseth. Stenhouse became the sixth driver to win at the track for the organization via his Xfinity victory.

 

NASCAR Hall of Famer Mark Martin earned RFK’s first NCS win at Kansas in 2005 and former driver Greg Biffle bested the 1.5-mile track in 2007 and 2010. RFK’s first overall win at Kansas came in 2002 via Jeff Burton in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. Three drivers (Jon Wood in 2003, Carl Edwards in 2004 and Erik Darnell in 2007) have won in the NCWTS at Kansas for RFK.

 

Tale of the Tape

RFK has started 106 NCS races at Kansas, recording four victories, 20 top-five finishes, 36 top-10 finishes, an average finish of 16.5 and has led 970 laps. Kenseth earned the most recent victory at Kansas in the fall of 2012.

 

RFK Kansas Wins

 

2002       Burton  NXS

2003       Wood    Truck

2004       Edwards Truck

2005       Martin  Cup

2007       Biffle     Cup

2007       Darnell  Truck

2010       Biffle                     Cup

2012-2   Kenseth               Cup

2012       Stenhouse          NXS

 

 

By the Numbers at Kansas

Race      Win       T5           T10         Pole       Laps       Led        AvSt      AvFn     Miles

106         4              20           36           2              27056    970         16.9        16.5        40584

50           2              14           28           3              9699       383         12.9        12.9        14548.5

19           3              7              12           0              3059       229         9.9          11.0        4588.5

175         9              41           76           5              39814    1582       14.8        14.8        59721

 

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