Kasey desperately fighting to get back on track

Richard Petty Motorsports driver Kasey Kahne is still looking to climb out of the hole from a blown engine in the first race in the Chase For The Sprint Cup, and this weekend’s Pepsi 500 could be a good place to do it. Why you ask? Just look at his record there.

1 Victory.
3 Top 5's
7 Top 10's

While rallying back to win the Championship is basically long gone just due to the fact he's so behind and really can't challenge the Hendrick stable to much leaves Kahne fighting for a Top 5 finish in points before the season is over. Kasey is only 99 points behind fifth-place Kurt Busch.

“Fontana is a good place for us,” Kahne said of the 2-mile track. “The track has always treated us really well with results. We seem to have a pretty good package there every time we go with Kenny Francis and the things that he does there."

After California, the Chase moves to Lowe’s Motor Speedway, where Kahne has a pretty good record, too

“I think we run pretty well in these upcoming Chase races,” Kahne said. “We have as good a shot as anybody at these tracks because they’re tracks I enjoy and we’ve always raced pretty well at. If you have an issue, you lose points. If I didn’t have an issue in New Hampshire, I think that I would have run in the top 10, and these upcoming races we can do the same thing.

“We have a great package for most of these tracks. I think we'll do it; we just need to keep pulling it together and get these points back. I think we have a shot at getting a lot of them back.”