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Brickyard 400 Preview - Kasey Kahne
- Kasey Kahne will be making his seventh start at Indianapolis Motor Speedway this weekend
- Kahne has scored two top-five and four top-10 finishes at the 2.5-mile track
- Kahne has posted four top-10 finishes in the past five races
Kasey on Indianapolis Motor Speedway: “We’ve come close at Indy. It’s definitely one of the races I look forward to each year. It’s a neat track. To me it’s just tough because all four corners are different, so you have to get your car to handle in each of them and get down the straightaway. If you can win at that place in any type of race car it’s a great day.”
What Would Winning at Indy Mean to You? ”Winning at the Brickyard and the Daytona 500 are on the top of my list. I think it depends on what type of racing background you have which one is more important to you. For me, coming up in the sprint car ranks, I raced in the Indianapolis area a lot and learned early on how significant winning at the Brickyard was. When you think about the drivers that have won at Indy throughout the years, it would mean a lot to be able to add my name to that list. We’ve been close a few times and it’s certainly a victory I’d love to pull off.”
Notes: Kenny Francis and the No. 9 crew have prepared chassis number 275 for this weekend’s event at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. This Budweiser Ford was last utilized for the event at Michigan International Speedway. Kahne started that race from the fourth position and drove to a runner-up finish.
With six races at the historic track already under his belt, he has scored two top-five and four top-10 finishes. Kahne’s average start there is 6.2 and his average finish is 16th. He’s also led 40 laps around the 2.5-mile track.
Kahne’s return to Indy this weekend is also a trip back to a town he called home early in his driving career. As a teenager, Kahne moved from Enumclaw, Wash., to Indianapolis with his sister, Shanon, to pursue his racing dreams. Kahne spent several years competing in sprint cars, USAC Midgets and Silver Crown cars, and even tested with Indy Car and CART teams before making the transition to stock cars in 2002 with starts in what was then the NASCAR Busch Series.
Kahne has an average finish of 10th in the last five NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races. That stretch includes three top fives, four top 10s and a 36th-place finish after an engine failure at New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS). He led 110 laps in the race at NHMS and was running second when the No. 9 Budweiser Ford’s engine expired.
Kahne is 17th in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver point standings and 120 points out of the 12th-place cut-off point for the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup with seven races to go before the Chase begins.
Follow along each weekend with Kahne and the team on Twitter. Check out @kaseykahne for behind-the-scenes information straight from the driver of the No. 9 Budweiser Ford.
