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NEXT STOP … BRISTOL MOTOR SPEEDWAY … with opportunities dwindling for drivers to work their way into the Chase for the Sprint Cup as just three races remain before the post-season begins. Entering Saturday’s Irwin Tools Night Race, four drivers are separated by 105 points in the battle for the twelfth … and final … spot in the championship field. Clint Bowyer holds it now – with Mark Martin, Ryan Newman and Jamie McMurray in pursuit. Sprint Cup Series teams will hit the track for their first practice today at 12 p.m. (ET) and qualify at 5:40 p.m. Kyle Busch, who won Wednesday’s Camping World Truck Series event to kick off race week in Bristol, is the defending winner of Saturday’s race and also is entered in tonight’s Food City 250 Nationwide Series event.
PAPIS MOVES FROM CUP SERIES TO TRUCKS … It’s been confirmed that Max Papis is yielding his seat in the Number-13 GEICO Racing Toyota to Casey Mears, starting with the September 5th Sprint Cup Series race in Atlanta. Papis has announced that he’ll run a full season in the Camping World Truck Series next year, under the Germain Racing banner. He finished fourteenth Wednesday night at Bristol and is planning to drive in three more Truck Series races during the remainder of the current season.
BUSCH GOES TRUCKIN’ IN KENTUCKY … Kentucky Speedway confirmed yesterday that Kyle Busch will enter the track’s September 3rd Built Ford Tough 225 Camping World Truck Series race.