Double-duty drivers Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards face the toughest of the standalone travel itineraries this weekend – the Infineon/Milwaukee trek. It’s the road course in wine country versus short track in the country’s beer capital.
Double-duty drivers have always made it from Infineon to Milwaukee – sometimes just barely. The closest call recently was 2007 when Denny Hamlin took over for substitute driver Aric Almirola – who won the pole and was leading – on Lap 58. Hamlin crossed the finish line first, but Almirola was credited with his first career win.
Almirola – who leads all drivers with two poles at Milwaukee – is entered this weekend in the No. 40 Chevrolet for Key Motorsports. It will be his first time back since that turn of events. Subs this weekend are Johnny Sauter for Busch and Colin Braun, who won his first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race last week at Michigan, for Edwards. Sauter, a Wisconsin native, won this race in 2005. Braun had a top-10 start in this race last year.
