NASCAR Sprint Cup Weekend: June 11 – 13

[ad#Betus-144]This weekend sees several big NASCAR events taking place, headlined by Sunday’s Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Race.

The Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips 400 is one of the two NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races that take place at the Michigan International Speedway (the second one is the 3M Performance 400, later in the season). This is the first year that Heluva Good! Sour Cream is sponsoring this race, formerly known as the LifeLock 400 and before that the Citizens Bank 400.

What remains consistent about this race, regardless of sponsor, is that since 1999 it’s been held on the 2 mile track at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan and has a race length of 400 miles. This is the 15th race out of 36 in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. This year the green flag flies at 1:16 pm EDT on June 13.

Last year’s winner was Mark Martin driving for Chevrolet, which also won the year prior, thanks to driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet has won this race 11 times, second only to Ford, which has won the race 15 times.

This year’s drivers to watch include Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick, Matt Kenseth, Jeff Gordon, Kurt Busch, Jimmie Johnson, and Jeff Burton.

Also running this coming weekend is the Racing for Wildlife 200 ARCA Racing Series on Friday, June 11, at 5:15 p.m., just following Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips 400 qualifying race, and the VFW 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series on Sunday, June 12.