NASCAR Sprint Cup: Sylvania 300 at a glance

Sylvania 300

Distance: 300 laps or 317 miles.

Where: New Hampshire Motor Speedway, a 1.058-mile, paved oval in Loudon, N.H.

When: 2 p.m. EDT, Sunday.

TV: NBC Sports Network.

Last year’s winner: Joey Logano.

Also this week: VisitMyrtleBeach.com 300, Xfinity Series, Kentucky Motor Speedway, 8 p.m. Saturday, NBC Sports Network; UNOH 175, Truck Series, New Hampshire Motor Speedway, 1 p.m., Saturday, Fox Sports 1.

Worth mentioning: Second race in the Chase. Will there be more confrontations on track or off between Kevin Harvick and Jimmie Johnson?

Who’s Hot/Who’s Not

HOT

Denny Hamlin: Has sites set firmly on Chase’s second round after victory at Chicagoland.

Darrell Wallace Jr.: Third-place finish in Xfinity race was a career best, outdid others in the series with 1-2 finish by Cup regulars (Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth).

John Hunter Nemechek: Surprise Truck winner at Chicagoland; wasn’t long ago he was a high school student.

NOT

Kevin Harvick: Reigning champ quickly dropped to 15th in Chase standings and blamed Jimmie Johnson for it.

Jimmie Johnson: Finishing 11th dropped him from first in the standings to seventh.

Clint Bowyer: Didn’t do anything at Chicagoland (finishing 19th) to improve his chances of climbing out of the bottom four. Penalty didn’t help, either.

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