Frontstretch Newsletter: July 7, 2021
Volume: XV, Edition CXIII
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- NASCAR teams are back at their shops, preparing for this weekend's action in Atlanta and Knoxville. If anything of note breaks, we'll have it for you at Frontstretch.
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Around the World in Motorsports: July 6
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- Peugeot Sport unveiled their new 9X8, the challenger that they will use in the FIA World Endurance Championship's Hypercar class, on
Tuesday. It is a low-slung prototype that has no rear wing. It is viewed as a direct successor to the Peugeot 905 of the early 1990s and the 908 HDi FAP of the late 2000s and early 2010s.
The lack of a rear wing is described as a "major innovative step" due to a degree of aerodynamic efficiency being achieved that it is not necessary. Peugeot Sport will not say how they've achieved the necessary downforce to eschew the wing, though. The car is scheduled to debut at the beginning of the 2022 FIA World Endurance Championship
season.
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| | Atlanta Announces 2022 Reconfiguration, Repave
During a press conference Tuesday, Atlanta Motor Speedway announced plans to not only repave, but reconfigure the 1.54-mile quad-oval immediately after Sunday's Quaker State 400 presented by Walmart. The result will be a
repaved track that is narrower, but higher-banked.
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| | Chase Briscoe’s Team Penalized After Road America
Chase Briscoe had the best finish for a Ford driver Sunday at Road America, but he'll have to go to Atlanta this weekend without his crew chief Johnny Klausmeier. Klausmeier was suspended for this weekend due to two loose
lug nuts.
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| | Chase Elliott Takes Atlanta Cup Pole
Hendrick Motorsports' Chase Elliott will start from the pole in Sunday's Quaker State 400 presented by Walmart at Atlanta Motor Speedway. He'll have the entire JGR fleet immediately behind him, led by Kyle
Busch.
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| | Entry List: 2021 Quaker State 400
There are 37 teams on the entry list for Sunday's Quaker State 400 presented by Walmart at Atlanta Motor Speedway. BJ McLeod is back in his No. 78, while Garrett Smithley replaces Ryan Eversley at Rick Ware
Racing.
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| | Chase Elliott Added to SRX Nashville Roster
Superstar Racing Experience (SRX) announced Tuesday that Chase Elliott will participate in the season finale July 17 at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway.
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| | Luke Fenhaus to Race in SRX After Slinger Nationals Win
Luke Fenhaus, a late model racer from Wausau, Wis., won the Slinger Nationals Tuesday night at Slinger Speedway. By virtue of his victory, he has qualified for the Wild Card slot into Saturday night's Camping World SRX
Series event.
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| | Kyle Busch Begins on Xfinity Pole at Atlanta
By virtue of his victory in Saturday's Henry 180 at Road America, Kyle Busch will go for his own personal season sweep from the pole in Saturday's Credit Karma Money 250. Teammate Daniel Hemric starts second, then AJ
Allmendinger, Austin Cindric and Harrison Burton.
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| | Entry List: 2021 Credit Karma Money 250
For Saturday's Credit Karma Money 250 at Atlanta for the Xfinity Series, there are 41 teams entered. Kyle Busch is entered in his final race of the year, while Santino Ferrucci returns to Sam Hunt
Racing.
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| | Entry List: 2021 Corn Belt 150
For the inaugural Corn Belt 150 at Knoxville Raceway for the Camping World Truck Series, there are 40 trucks entered. Brett Moffitt will race a second truck for AM Racing, while Jessica Friesen returns. Donny
Schatz will also attempt to make his series debut for David Gilliland Racing.
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| | Saturday night's ARCA Menards Series race at Minnesota's Elko Speedway will have 18 cars in the field. Taylor Gray will race for the first time since a crash on the street back in April, while Gracie Trotter returns to
Venturini Motorsports.
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Photos are courtesy of Nigel Kinrade Photography, Mike Arning of True Speed Communications, Paul Arch via the World Racing Group and Jay Alley of ARCA Racing.
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