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It wasn’t smooth sailing for Martin Truex Jr. but the gritty Furniture Row Racing driver still brought home a fourth-place finish in Sunday’s AAA 400 Drive for Autism at Dover International Speedway.

Paul Menard and the Motorcraft/Quick Lane team had a fast Ford Fusion for Sunday’s 400-miler at Dover International Speedway, as evidenced by their practice speeds on Friday and Saturday.

THE MODERATOR: We're going to continue our media availability around the AAA 400 with two members of the race‑winning organization of Stewart‑Haas Racing, crew chief Rodney Childers as well as team owner Tony Stewart. Rodney, obviously a lot has been made about the speed in the 4 car this year, but this is not the first year that you guys have come out of the box strong since you've been together. But it seems like the results have just been different this year, four wins, the strongest start you guys have had on the results side of things. What has made 2018 different?

KYLE BUSCH, No. 18 Pedigree Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - Could you tell the problem was serious? “Oh yeah, it just kept getting worse and worse the more the day was going, especially after restarts it was really, really bad, so I was just trying to bide it out, see if we’d make it to the end. At first, I thought that it was an engine problem, but that wasn’t the case."

KEVIN HARVICK, No. 4 Jimmy John’s Ford Fusion -- RACE WINNER (VICTORY LANE INTERVIEW) HOW DID YOU GET IT DONE TO WIN BY SEVEN SECONDS? “The first thing I’ve got to do is just thank everybody on my team -- everybody at Stewart-Haas Racing, Roush Yates Engines, everybody from Ford for just continuing to put the effort that they put into these cars."

JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 48 LOWE’S FOR PROS CAMARO ZL1 – Finished 9th “All in all, it’s been a really good day for our Lowe’s for Pros Chevy. We had a couple of restarts being in the wrong lane. We pitted and we expected a lot more (cars) to come but they didn’t, so we had to start in the teens and start all over again. It’s a good driving car. I’m was really happy with it. It’s amazing how much faster I was when I was up in third and fourth; just had a half a second of speed on our side just due to the cleaner air."

Prior to the start of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race Sunday at Dover International Speedway, Aric Almirola, driver of the No. 10 Smithfield® Ford Fusion for Stewart-Haas Racing and his team owner, Tony Stewart, unveiled a custom, high-performance 2018 Ford Mustang and announced the kickoff of the Smithfield national sweepstakes that will allow one lucky Smithfield customer, race fan, or auto enthusiast to bring it home at the end of this year’s racing season.

Justin Allgaier had more than one reason to celebrate at Dover International Speedway’s Sunoco Victory Lane on Saturday.

Camry driver Christopher Bell (fourth) had the top-finishing Toyota in Saturday afternoon’s NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) race at Dover International Speedway in Delaware.

Austin Cindric was in position to score a top-five finish Saturday afternoon at Dover International Speedway but was foiled by a loose-handling his No. 22 Menards/Richmond Ford Mustang.