If final practice was any indication, Kurt has a better backup car than Kyle as Kurt was 11th in the final 50-minute session Saturday afternoon and Kyle was 25th.

Carl Edwards led all drivers in the final practice with a speed of 184.982 mph, followed by Paul Menard, Brad Keselowski, Kenseth, Johnson, Juan Pablo Montoya and race polesitter Kevin Harvick. Menard had the fastest 10-lap average of any driver in the final practice.

The only incident in the final practice was a spin by Aric Almirola.

Temperatures are expected to remain in the mid-60s for the 267-lap race Sunday (2 p.m. ET, ESPN).


JUNIOR WANTS TO RACE ON AND ON


Dale Earnhardt Jr. doesn't want to ever stop racing. He's ready to race for another 40 years. Or even more.

That doesn't mean he expects to be a Sprint Cup Series driver the rest of his life, but the Hendrick Motorsports driver wouldn't mind continuing to dabble in the sport one way or another as he ages.

Earnhardt turns 39 next week and has been racing professionally for 22 years. If he retired at the end of this season, it would be a solid career for the 10-time Sprint Cup most popular driver.

But he sees someone like former Cup driver James Hylton, who retired from stock-car racing Friday at age 79 with his final ARCA Series event, and it makes him want to race forever.

"I'd love to be driving racecars somewhere," Earnhardt said after his Sprint cup qualifying lap Friday at Kansas Speedway. "I was watching him and he was in the top-30 in the (ARCA) time chart.

"He has a passion to be able to show up and still compete at that age. ... You only want to have that kind of passion that long in your life. He certainly lived it to his fullest."


DANCIA HOPING FOR SOMETHING GOOD


When drivers have not had great seasons, this is about the time of year they just want the season to get over.

For Danica Patrick, it has been a season of struggle. It was an expected season of struggle as a Sprint Cup Series rookie in just her second full-time season of stock-car racing.

She sits 28th in the standings with a season-best of eighth in the season-opening Daytona 500, the best finish ever for a woman in that event.

Since then, there hasn't been a ton to smile about 29 races into the season with just seven remaining. The Daytona 500 was Patrick's only top-10 this year and one of six top-20s driving Stewart-Haas Racing equipment.

"What enters my mind when I think about this season and it coming to an end is not that I want it to just get over with -- I want it to just end well," Patrick said Friday at Kansas Speedway.

"That's all. Even if you can just have one or two good races at the end of a season where it's been up and down -- and a lot of down -- and especially being a rookie season, that's a good way to end."

Doing "well" would be top-20 finishes, she said.

"I would say that top-20s are the goal right now," she said. "I had really thought that top-20s are really where we should have been to start the year. But we started behind (as an organization). I'd hoped to be more consistently in top-15s at this point.

"But we've got Talladega and Martinsville coming up and both of those tracks are for me I would say, better tracks. So I think a top-15 will be good for me toward the end of the season, here. And shoot, at Talladega, go out and win."


TWEET OF THE DAY


-- "Brad vs Kyle round 25. Wonderful......" — Brian Keselowski (@KeselowskiBrian) about the resumption of the Keselowski-Busch feud. 	-- "Hey @keselowski will you please come run in my 5k next Sunday morning at 10am? Its a really good time!" -- Kasey Kahne (@KaseyKahne) about Keselowski's running skills.


WHAT WE'RE WATCHING


We'll be watching how many times the caution flag flies Sunday as five drivers have had issues the last two days of practice. It's one of those repave and new tire things. Oh, and then there's this whole Brad Keselowski-Kyle Busch mess. Should be a good time as long as it's not your favorite driver bringing out the caution.

Contributor: Bob Pockrass