NASCAR | Stenhouse Looking Forward to MENCS Playoffs

09/14/2017 07:06 PM

by Andrew Chernoff
• @ADChernoff

• Filed under: Sports Night

The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series playoffs begin this weekend at Chicagoland Speedway.

Martin Truex, Jr. enters the playoffs as the top seed. He has a 20-point advantage over second place Kyle Larson.

One of the 14 other drivers hoping to chase down Truex and Larson is Roush Fenway Racing’s Ricky Stenhouse, Jr.

Stenhouse has won two races this season (GEICO 500 and Coke Zero 400). He enters the NASCAR Playoffs as the eighth seed, 43 points behind Truex.

Spectrum News’ Andrew Chernoff caught up with Stenhouse on Thursday’s edition of Sports Night. They talked about the upcoming playoffs, the racing future of his girlfriend, Danica Patrick, and about the 2017 Ole Miss football team:

Sunday’s Tales of the Turtles 400 at Chicagoland Speedway will begin at 3 p.m. ET.

Andrew Chernoff

Andrew is a sports anchor and sports managing editor for Spectrum News. He covers sports all across the state of Kentucky for Sports Night, which airs weeknights at 6:30 and 10:30 on Spectrum News. Andrew was a sports anchor and reporter at KFDM/KBTV in Beaumont, Texas for four years before making the move back home to the Midwest. He is originally from Carmel, Indiana and majored in broadcast journalism and political science at Syracuse University.

When he’s not on the air or in the field covering sports, you can likely find Andrew playing golf, watching IndyCar and Formula 1 races, or exploring the state of Kentucky. His favorite sport is open-wheel racing. In fact, he has not missed an Indianapolis 500 since the early 2000s.

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