JAMIE MCMURRAY, NO. 1 CESSNA CAMARO ZL1 – Finished 3rd - ON HIS RUN: “Yeah, it was basically just a really good day for us from the start of the race. The car was pretty good, especially on the long runs. And then fortunate to miss a lot of the wrecks that happened and survived and then had good pit stops. So, all around just a pretty solid day for our team.”
JAMIE MCMURRAY, NO. 1 CESSNA CAMARO ZL1 – Finished 3rd - ON HIS DAY: “We just had a really good car and were able to miss some of those accidents. The off-weekend couldn’t have come at a better time for us. We had such a horrible season going and it’s awesome to run as good as we did today at a 1.5-mile. We have so many of these and I feel like we have been a little bit behind on the 1.5-miles but had a really good run today.”
KEVIN HARVICK, No. 4 Busch Light Ford Fusion - Finished: 2nd - YOU OVERCAME AN AWFUL LOT THROUGH THE COURSE OF THE DAY TODAY: “We did overcome a lot. That was unfortunate. We had a pathetic day on pit road, two days on pit road because of pit guns. When you have a pit gun problem like we have multiple times and been able to overcome it and then today we couldn’t overcome it. Time after time you can’t get the lug nuts tight because the pit guns don’t work.”
It was a long time coming for Huntington Beach, Calif.'s Zane Smith; but it was well worth the wait. On the heels of three runner-up finishes in 2017, Smith put it all together Saturday night at Fairgrounds Speedway Nashville, winning the Music City 200.
Chase Briscoe drove to an 11th-place finish at Texas Motor Speedway, despite an unscheduled pit stop for a flat tire and a tight-handling Nutri Chomps Ford Mustang.
RYAN BLANEY, No. 22 Fitzgerald Glider Kits Ford Mustang - Finished: 1st -- VICTORY LANE INTERVIEW -- WAS THE ONLY SCARY MOMENT WHEN IT STEPPED OUT ON YOU ON THE RESTART? “Yeah. That was definitely the scary moment of the race. I can’t say enough about these guys. The Fitzgerald Glider Kits Mustang was amazing all weekend.
Kurt Busch, Kevin Harvick and Clint Bowyer will start in the top-3 positions Sunday, a sweep for Stewart-Haas Racing. Team Penske’s Ryan Blaney starts 4th, one of five Fusions in the top-10.
Inclement weather halted qualifying for Sunday’s O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway, and the field will be set per the results of the first session.
ERIK JONES, No. 20 Reser’s Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - Talk about being back at Texas Motor Speedway for the race here this weekend. “Texas has always been a place that I’ve enjoyed from really everything I’ve ran here from trucks to Xfinity and now in Cup. The repave changed it a lot here last year and you know made it quite a bit different than what it was."
RYAN BLANEY, No. 12 Menards/Richmond The Water Heater Experts Ford Fusion -- CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THE SEASON SO FAR? “It’s been a good year for our team. I think Ford, in general, obvious has a ton of speed. It’s nice to be in that camp. We’d like to get a win on the Penske side. When Ford is winning it’s helping everybody. We’re really close. We just need to close that little bit of a gap to beat the best cars out there. We’re getting there. I thought we had potential in first practice today. We’ll see where we’ll qualify. Yeah, this a fun race track. It’s aging well. It seems to be winding out a little bit more. I think that will be even better in the race. It’s just a matter of time and the tire dragging deal. We’ll see what we have for ‘em on Sunday. Hopefully we’ll be competitive and have a shot.”
The 24-year-old Riggs from Bahama, North Carolina, clocked in a pole-winning lap at 121.503 mph in 18.502 seconds for his second consecutive Truck pole of 2026 in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina.
This weekend marks the first points-paying NASCAR Cup Series race at North Wilkesboro Speedway since 1996, but Richard Childress Racing has a long and storied history at the track.