Stenhouse aiming to ride momentum of fourth-place finish at Charlotte on Thursday night.
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. could not have had a bumpier return to racing after NASCAR’s 10-week shutdown. How bad was it? Stenhouse crashed on the first lap of the first race back and finished last. He followed it with a 25th-place finish at the second Cup race at Darlington Raceway, then was 24th in the Coca-Cola 600. In three races, Stenhouse plummeted seven spots in the standings to 24th. Stenhouse finally snapped out of it Thursday night in a second visit to Charlotte Motor Speedway with a fourth-place finish for his new JTG-Daugherty Racing team. “It was just really good to just have a smooth race with really no issues,” Stenhouse said. “It was just huge to get a good run in and pass a lot of really good cars.” Next up is Sunday’s stop at Bristol Motor Speedway — the fifth Cup race since NASCAR resumed May 17 and a decent track for Stenhouse. His six-career top-10 finishes rank Bristol behind only Talladega Superspeedway at tracks where Stenhouse has delivered. “The feel that I have in this race car is better than any of the feel that I had in my Cup cars over my career so far,” he said. “I’m looking forward to getting to Bristol knowing that we’ve had good runs there.” . . . The field was set by a random draw and Brad Keselowski again got the lucky pull for the pole. He will start first for the second time in five races. It was a strong lottery for Team Penske, which got all three of its drivers in the first two rows. Joey Logano will start second and Ryan Blaney third. Blaney cruises into Bristol riding back-to-back third-place finishes scored at Charlotte.
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