KANSAS CITY, Mo. – NASCAR Cup Series drivers hit the track for the first time on Saturday at Kansas Speedway, with practice and qualifying sessions falling in consecutive order.
But before drivers can hit the track, weeks of preparation are necessary to make sure the cars and drivers are ready to go.
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“Whether it’s with the team, with all four teams, with the manufacturer, we try to correlate into the simulator. We have a lot of different things we do,” said Alex Bowman, driver of the 48 car. “There’s a lot of layers of preparation. It’s a well-oiled machine to keep this thing rolling.”
Some drivers, like John Hunter Nemechek, are hard at work off track…