THE CUP COMES TO

KENTUCKY

SPEEDWAY

It's already been a long day here at Kentucky Speedway and the first race of the 2011 season hasn't even got here yet. The Sprint Cup cars have made it to Kentucky Speedway for the inaugural Quaker State 400 on Saturday night. But this is Thursday night and it's the Craftsman Truck Series that takes center stage. Actually the Cup cars have been the ones to draw all the attention with very few paying attention to the trucks or Nationwide cars.

The Cup cars have had two rounds of testing here today once for six hours and again for two more hours after the truck qualifications. So far Kyle Busch has been the fast car on the track but only by just over a mile an hour with seven cars closely in behind him. While Busch and a couple of others have more experience here it hasn't taken long the other teams to figure things out about the track. Tomorrow's practice could be event more interesting and qualifying really could see anybody on the pole. Jimmie Johnson is one of those close behind and one of those to be contending.

I'm not going to make any predictions. It could be anybody's race. We'll just see what the mayhem brings.....

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