Last weekend at Loudon, New Hampshire saw history was made as Kyle Busch won his 100th career NASCAR race in the NASCAR Nationwide series race on Saturday.
This weekend the NNS is in Nashville, Tennessee for some Saturday night action under the lights.
With only two Sprint Cup regulars in Carl Edwards and Brad Keselowski making their way down there the NNS regulars have another opportunity to win the race.
Reed Sorenson had a particularly rough day at Loudon. His solid run was ended when was caught up in a wreck late in the race.
He lost the points lead and dropped to seven points behind series leader Elliott Sadler.
Nashville Speedway is a very good track for Sorenson. He has five top 10 finishes there including his first series win.
He has also led a lot of laps there 197 to be exact and that is the most of any winner.
Sorenson is still right in the heart of this title hunt and a win on Saturday could go a long way.
For Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. has looked at times like he can contend for not only wins but also the title. Then other times when he speeds on pit road, or a slow stop or trouble on the track you see why instead of leading the points like he should he is third but only 18 points behind.
Stenhouse has fast cars every week when he comes to the track including last week where he ran 88 percent of the laps in the top 15.
He ended up finishing fourth but this weekend marks another opportunity for him to win a race.
Nashville isn’t exactly his best race track in fact his best finish of fifth came this past April. He has finished 23rd, 32nd and 31st in his three previous starts.
I expect Stenhouse to run well here on Saturday night. He is completely different driver now than he was in his first three starts here.
A solid finish or a win could catapult him to the points lead.
I normally only feature NNS regulars in my previews but for Carl Edwards he has owned this track recently.
He has four wins here including three in a row from June 2006 to June 2007.
Edwards had a rough weekend at Loudon last week but I expect him to bounce back this weekend.
My drivers to watch this weekend are Stenhouse, Justin Allgaier and Edwards.
The Federated Auto Parts 300 is Saturday 7:30 ET on ESPN.
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