FOX in the Fast Lane: Kobalt Tools 400 (Vegas)

NASCAR’s next stop? VEGAS, baby! ?It’s the Kobalt Tools 400, honoring one of the pioneers of NASCAR, and it’s brother vs. brother battling for the top of the leader board. ?FOX News Radio’s Marghiee Teshineh has this week’s “FOX in the Fast Lane”…

NASCAR ROLLS INTO SIN CITY THIS WEEK, HOME TO THE LAS VEGAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY.

JIMMIE JOHNSON, THE DEFENDING CHAMP AT THE MILE-AND-A-HALF OVAL, SAYS THE TRACK’S? RECENT RENOVATION HAS MADE IT BETTER…

(THE TRACK’S EVOLVING AND REALLY GROWING INTO A GREAT FACILITY)

LAS VEGAS-NATIVE KURT BUSCH? SAYS IF YOU COMPARE LAS VEGAS PRE- AND POST-RENOVATION…

(IT WAS MORE OF A FLAT TRACK – HAD TO REALLY TO TRY TO KEEP YOUR SPEED BUILT UP ALL THE WAY AROUND. NOW WITH THE BANKING IT’S EASY TO KEEP YOUR SPEED, IT’S JUST HARD TO FIND THAT EXTRA EDGE? THAT WILL KEEP YOU UP FRONT)

BROTHERS KYLE AND KURT BUSCH? CURRENTLY ARE IN FIRST AND SECOND PLACE, RESPECTIVELY, IN THE CUP? STANDING. THE LAST TIME, FAMILY MEMBERS HELD THE TWO TOP SPOTS WAS THE FATHER-SON DUO OF BOBBY AND DAVEY ALLISON IN 1988.

AND IN HONOR OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN RACING PIONEER WENDELL SCOTT’S FIRST SPRINT CUP START FIFTY YEARS AGO, SPRINT CUP AND NATIONWIDE DRIVERS? WILL HAVE A COMMEMORATIVE? DECAL BEARING HIS IMAGE ON THEIR CARS THIS WEEKEND.