Ford Racing has won three of the first four NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Chase races this season. That’s two behind the manufacturers' all-time single season Chase high of five, which was set in 2005 and 2008.
Trevor Bayne will make his Roush Fenway Racing Sprint Cup debut this weekend at Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway behind the wheel of the No. 6 AdvoCare Ford Fusion. This marks the first time that a No. 6 Roush Fenway Ford will start a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race since the 2012 season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Bayne will take the wheel of the No. 6 Ford Fusion full time in 2015.
Ryan Reed will make his third NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) start at Charlotte Motor Speedway this Friday. In his previous two starts, Reed has crossed the finish line in 14th both times.
Chris Buescher will make his third NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) start at Charlotte Motor Speedway this Friday. In his previous two starts, Buescher’s best finish is ninth, which came earlier this season.
For the ninth time this season, Roush Fenway Racing’s Ryan Reed has a special guest riding along with him during Friday’s NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The No. 16 American Diabetes Association Drive to Stop DiabetesSM presented by Lilly Diabetes Ford Mustang will carry the name of Karl Reynolds above the passenger side window.
In 142 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series starts at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Richard Childress Racing teams have earned seven points-paying victories (four wins with Dale Earnhardt, one with Jeff Burton and two with Kevin Harvick) and four All-Star race victories (three with Earnhardt and one with Harvick), giving RCR 11 total Sprint Cup Series checkered flags at the Concord, N.C.-based track.
Biffle has 23 starts in the Cup series at Charlotte, but a win has eluded him. He has finished in the top-five five times and has eight top-10 finishes.
In 1996, when most 16-year-olds were serving up burgers at a local fast food joint, Letarte was already working full time for Hendrick Motorsports. A year later he was a tire specialist, then a mechanic and by 2002, at the ripe old age of 22, he was a car chief.
