Sunday went from great to unbearable for Kasey Kahne. The Enumclaw NASCAR Sprint Cup driver started on the outside pole in Loudon, N.H., Sunday, led the most laps on the one-mile track and was running near the front when the engine on his No. 9 Ford failed. He finished 36th and dropped two points in the drivers’ standings.

“We had a fast Budweiser Ford,” Kahne said. “It was nice to drive, but we just had another mechanical failure. It’s tough. We’ve been doing pretty good points-wise and that hurts again, but we can keep going for it.”

Kahne and crew head to Daytona, Fla., Saturday night.