Frontstretch Newsletter: Aug. 20, 2020
Volume: XIV, Edition CX
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Around the World in Motorsports: Aug. 19
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- For NASCAR teams, preparation continues for this weekend's action in Delaware. Truck teams will leave their shops late tonight to get to Dover for Friday's race (load-in begins at 7 a.m. and there's a health screening that has to be completed before you
can enter). If anything of note breaks, we'll have it for you at Frontstretch.
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| | Chase Elliott Claims Busch Pole Award for 1st Cup Dover Race
The good news keeps coming for Chase Elliott. Not only did he win Sunday in Daytona, but he'll start Saturday's Drydene 311 No. 1
from the pole. Denny Hamlin will start second, then Martin Truex Jr., Clint Bowyer and Joey Logano.
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| | Austin Cindric Nabs Pole for 1st Xfinity Dover Race
If the remainder of the Xfinity Series field wants to usurp Austin Cindric, then they got some bad news Wednesday. Cindric will
start Saturday's Drydene 200 No. 1 from the pole. Noah Gragson will start second, followed by Brandon Jones, Harrison Burton and Justin Allgaier.
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| | Brett Moffitt on Truck Pole at Dover
GMS Racing's Brett Moffitt will start from the pole Friday afternoon in the KDI Office Equipment 200 at Dover International
Speedway. Sheldon Creed will start second, while Austin Hill will be third. Matt Crafton will start fourth, while Raphael Lessard rounds out the top five.
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| | Helio Castroneves Added to SRX Lineup
The Superstar Racing Experience announced Wednesday that they have added Helio Castroneves as the fifth confirmed driver for the inaugural
2021 season, joining Tony Stewart, Paul Tracy, Bobby Labonte and Tony Kanaan.
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| | Daniel Buttafuoco Wins 2020 eNASCAR Heat Pro League Championship
Wednesday night saw the eNASCAR Heat Pro League championship decided with a three-race slate. Germain Gaming's Daniel Buttafuoco
finished fourth at Michigan, third at Phoenix and won the finale at Bristol to win the title.
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Photos are courtesy of Nigel Kinrade Photography and INDYCAR Media.
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Frontstretch Line of the Week
From Despite Improvements, Brandon Jones Needs to ‘Win a Bunch’ Before Moving to Cup
"I would honestly say so. And it helps that this year, when we’ve had things go wrong, we’ve been running really good and really fast. So that’s been the positives that we’ve been taking away from the weekend. But in the past, man, there’s times where it seems like you can’t do anything right. I think you do eventually get into a slump naturally. That’s
what makes some drivers better than others, if they can deal with that a little bit better." - Brandon Jones, on his overall mood at the track these days
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