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DELAWARE — D.J. Kennington can’t wait to get back to Delaware Speedway — and given the reaction from most of the 5,000 spectators at the famed oval on Saturday night, neither can they.
That wait won’t be long, either.
Kennington, now with back-to-back victories in the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series at Delaware, confirmed he’ll return “home” July 7 when NASCAR Sprint Cup star Kyle Busch competes in the Summer Showdown.
“I love Delaware and even with everything we’ve done down south, I can’t wait to come back again,” the 31-year-old St. Thomas native said after winning the Keystone Light 200 in a green-white-checkered finish.
Kennington won the inaugural NCATS Delaware race a year ago. That went 221 laps as it required three tries at the green-white-checkers.
It was Kennington’s first major win on the half-mile ,where he got his baptism in a late model two days after his 16th birthday. He’d won countless Friday-night features, a track championship, and is even in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, but it took 14 years before he finally scored a biggie at Delaware last year.
Kennington not only beat his good friend JR Fitzpatrick to the stripe by just .492 seconds this year, he also beat the rain, which had forced a couple of late-race extended cautions, but let up just long enough for NASCAR to allow the exciting finish.
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http://www.lfpress.com/sports/othersports/2010/06/06/14286131.html
DELAWARE — D.J. Kennington can’t wait to get back to Delaware Speedway — and given the reaction from most of the 5,000 spectators at the famed oval on Saturday night, neither can they.
That wait won’t be long, either.
Kennington, now with back-to-back victories in the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series at Delaware, confirmed he’ll return “home” July 7 when NASCAR Sprint Cup star Kyle Busch competes in the Summer Showdown.
“I love Delaware and even with everything we’ve done down south, I can’t wait to come back again,” the 31-year-old St. Thomas native said after winning the Keystone Light 200 in a green-white-checkered finish.
Kennington won the inaugural NCATS Delaware race a year ago. That went 221 laps as it required three tries at the green-white-checkers.
It was Kennington’s first major win on the half-mile ,where he got his baptism in a late model two days after his 16th birthday. He’d won countless Friday-night features, a track championship, and is even in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, but it took 14 years before he finally scored a biggie at Delaware last year.
Kennington not only beat his good friend JR Fitzpatrick to the stripe by just .492 seconds this year, he also beat the rain, which had forced a couple of late-race extended cautions, but let up just long enough for NASCAR to allow the exciting finish.
The rest of the article is here:
http://www.lfpress.com/sports/othersports/2010/06/06/14286131.html