The drivers of the Sprint Cup Series will take on a road course on Sunday afternoon when they race in the Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at the Glen at Watkins Glen International.
Greg Biffle won the series’ last event, the Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500 at Pocono Raceway. Tony Stewart, Carl Edwards, Kevin Harvick, and Denny Hamlin rounded out the Top 5 at Pocono.
Jeff Gordon, Mark Martin, Jeff Burton, Martin Truex Jr., and Jimmie Johnson also turned in Top-10 results at the Pennsylvania 500. Clint Bowyer was 15th, Matt Kenseth was 18th, Kyle Busch was 23rd, and Kurt Busch was 33rd.
Harvick leads Gordon by 189 points atop the driver standings after 21 races, with Hamlin, Johnson, Burton, Kyle Busch, Kurt Busch, Stewart, Kenseth, Edwards, Biffle, and Bowyer also above the Chase cutoff line.
Martin is 34 points behind Bowyer for the 12th and final Chase berth. Dale Earnhardt Jr. sits in 14th place heading into Watkins Glen, 129 points back of Bowyer.
Stewart is the defending Watkins Glen champ, and he also won the race on that track in 2007, 2005, 2004, and 2002. Gordon has four career Watkins Glen wins, in 2001, 1999, 1998, and 1997, while Martin won there three straight times from 1993 to 1995. Kyle Busch, Harvick, and Robby Gordon have each won once on the track.
After racing at Watkins Glen the drivers of the Sprint Cup Series will move on to Michigan International Speedway for the Carfax 400 on August 15. The month’s calendar then comes to an end at Bristol Motor Speedway on August 21.
