LONG POND, Pa. – Kasey Kahne is winless this season; he owns two top-five finishes this season, but is in solid position to make the Chase on points.
Kahne was a threat at Indianapolis, leading a race-high 70 laps and finishing sixth in his Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet. It was his fourth top-10 finish in the last six races.
“I think it was good for me to lead laps. We hadn’t done a whole lot of that this season,” says Kahne, the defending champ in the GoBowling.com 400. “It was the first time (this) season we have put a whole race together.
“We got some confidence out of it. Hopefully we can carry that into this weekend. I think our cars are really good here.”
Hendrick has produced the last four Cup winners at Pocono with Jeff Gordon (2012), Jimmie Johnson and Kahne (2013) and Dale Earnhardt Jr. in this June’s 400 miler.
Greg is the author of "The Nuts and Bolts of NASCAR: The Definitive Viewers' Guide to Big-Time Stock Car Auto Racing" and has been published in major publications across the country including the Los Angeles Times, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He was also a contributor to Chicken Soup for the NASCAR Soul, published in 2010, and the Christmas edition in 2016. He wrote as the NASCAR, Formula 1, Auto Reviews and National Veterans Affairs Examiner for Examiner.com and has appeared on Fox News. He holds a BS degree in communications, a Masters degree in psychology and is currently a PhD candidate majoring in psychology. He is currently the weekend Motorsports Editor for Autoweek.
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