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In-car audio from Kentucky: Expletives fly lots more than do track-record caution flags

Sprint Cup competitors had no idea what to expect Saturday night when they raced at the "new" Kentucky Speedway.

Since the drivers last visited the 1.5-mile track south of Cincinnati, the surface had been repaved with a coarser-type asphalt. More importantly, Turns 1 and 2 were slightly reconfigured, in effect leading to vastly different racing conditions.

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The result was a track-record 11 cautions and an infinite amount of swearing over the radio waves, even under yellow.

During a caution with about 70 laps remaining, Martin Truex Jr.