Briscoe on Iowa - “I’ve had Iowa circled on the calendar for a long time. It’s hands down my favorite pavement track, and I love how many options it gives you as a driver. Hopefully we can have a good day and battle up front.”
Self on Racing at Pocono: “Pocono is one of those places I just keep getting better with more laps,” said Self. “It’s a fun place – but it’s a track where you have to be on your game every lap. You have some recovery time if you make a mistake, but it’s a track you can lose a lot of time.
Fontaine on Racing at Pocono: “I’m looking forward to Pocono,” said Fontaine. “This weekend will be my second time in a truck and I feel like I can take what I learned there last year and apply it towards, hopefully, a successful weekend for our No. 45 ProMATIC Automation team.
Jeremy Clements Racing is excited to announce that they will run the 1960 Cup Champion Rex White’s "Gold Thunder" paint scheme in the VFW200 at Darlington Raceway "Celebrating 7 Decades of NASCAR” Labor Day Weekend. RepairableVehicles.com will fuel the #51 Camaro SS to honor not only White but moreover, Jeremy’s Great Uncle Louis Clements.
Johnson on his 600th Cup start:“I’m not huge into milestones but I really can’t believe I am sitting here at 600 starts. All I ever wanted to do was win a race and now we are here with seven championships, 83 wins and hopefully there are many more to come. I’m proud to have come all this way with one sponsor in Lowe’s and hope that this weekend will be a good one for this No. 48 team. I definitely want to try to get more wins for Lowe’s before they exit the sport.”
Pocono Preview: The Series returns to Pocono Raceway for Sunday’s 400-mile race around the 2.5-mile “Tricky Triangle”. Hamlin is looking to rebound from his 35th-place finish that resulted from a late-race crash in the June event and add a fifth victory at Pocono to his impressive résumé of 10 top-five and 15 top-10 finishes at the Pennsylvania track.
KAHNE BY THE NUMBERS: In 29 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series career starts at Pocono, Kasey Kahne has an average start of 11.8 and an average finish of 19.0. He’s completed 4,829 of 5,110 (94.5 percent) career laps, and has led for a total of 219 laps. Kahne has earned two poles, two wins (June 2008 and August 2013), five top-five and nine top-10 finishes at the 2.5-mile track located in Long Pond, PA.
Gallagher and the No. 23 team will utilize chassis no. 222; this chassis has been raced three times this season, twice by Spencer Gallagher at ISM Raceway (Start:12th/Finish:14th) and at Richmond Raceway (Start:17th/Finish:17th) then by Justin Haley in his NXS debut at Iowa Speedway (Start:13th/Finish:12th).
Stenhouse has 11 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) starts at Pocono Raceway with an average starting position of 21.9 and average finishing position of 22.7.
Alex Bowman will retire from full-time auto racing following the 2027 season after signing a one-year contract extension with Hendrick Motorsports, where he has spent the majority of his NASCAR Cup Series career.
One of NASCAR's crown jewel events awaits Josh Berry and the No. 21 PPG team this weekend as they take on the historic Indianapolis Motor Speedway in the Brickyard 400 presented by PPG.
In November 2025, Ryan Ellis was announced as Young’s Motorsports’ full-time driver in the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series as the organization enters its third season of competition.
