The second race of the 2017 NASCAR Monster Energy Cup playoffs is Sunday afternoon, with the IMS Connect 300 from New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, N.H. The race will be televised by NBCSN beginning at 2 p.m. ET (live streaming via NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app).
NASCAR New Hampshire live stream: Time, TV channel, and how to watch IMS Connect 300 online
2nd race of the 2017 NASCAR playoffs
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Martin Truex Jr. was the regular season points leader and his win last week at Chicagoland in the first race of the playoffs ensured him a spot into the Round of 12.
Kyle Busch was on the pole last week in Illinois and finished fifth. He will be in pole position again on Sunday, thanks to a top qualifying lap of 135.011 mph on Friday. Busch leads the circuit with eight poles in 2017, though has won just one of those eight races.
“It’s been fun to have fast cars on Friday and fast cars throughout the weekend,” Busch said. “We just haven’t been able to close the deal.”
Kevin Harvick won in New Hampshire in 2016.
New Hampshire is the second of three races in the Round of 16, along with Chicagoland last week and next week in Dover. After the race in Delaware, the bottom four in points of the 16 drivers will be eliminated from championship consideration.
Sunday’s race will be called on NBCSN by Rick Allen, alongside analysts Steve Letarte and Jeff Burton.
How to watch the IMS Connect 300
- Time: 2 p.m. ET
- Location: New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Loudon, N.H.
- TV: NBCSN
- Streaming: NBCSports.com & the NBC Sports app
NASCAR playoffs news
- Chase Elliott was penalized 15 driver points and two crew members were each suspended one race for “illegal aerodynamic modifications” made to his No. 24 call last week at Chicagoland.
- Speaking of penalties, Joey Logano was forced to park for 50 minutes during a practice session on Friday after failing a pre-qualifying inspection four times. Logano called the penalty “a joke.”
- NASCAR is at a crossroads, especially after terrible television ratings for the first playoff race, and one the sport’s young star drivers — Kyle Larson — without a fulltime primary sponsor for 2018.
- Dale Earnhardt Jr. thinks celebratory burnouts by NASCAR drivers have gone too far.
IMS Connect 300 quotable
“The penalties for stepping out of bounds have to escalate. Emanuel Zervakis told me a long time ago ‘If you don’t make people do the right thing, they are not going to.’ And that is the truth. These penalties are a good thing, but NASCAR needs to ramp them up, because this sport has to have integrity. When a person watches a race, they have to know all the drivers are playing by the same rules.”
-NBC analyst Jeff Burton, on the penalty issued to Chase Elliott for his infraction last week in Chicagoland.
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