Aric Almirola and the No. 43 Smithfield Ford team head to Richmond International Raceway with one more opportunity to make it into The Chase. Inside of the Top 30 in the Championship Point Standings, Almirola is eligible to compete in The Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship but must win to move on.
Stenhouse has seven career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) starts at Richmond with an average starting position of 17.7 and average finishing position of 22.9.
Reed has competed at Richmond International Raceway (RIR) seven times in the NASCAR XFINITY Series (NXS). He made his first career NXS start at the track in 2013, earning a 16th-place finish. His best career finish at the track came in September 2013 when he finished ninth. In his last appearance at the track in April of this year, Reed finished 11th after starting 18th.
The Chase field for this season will be set following Saturday night’s scheduled NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Richmond International Raceway and three Ford drivers are currently part of the 16-driver field. Brad Keselowski, Joey Logano and Chris Buescher all have at least one win and are in the Top 30 of the point standings.
In the midst of a year-long celebration of the 75th anniversary of the iconic M&M’S® Brand, NASCAR, and Mars Chocolate North America announced today a renewed agreement that will extend their Official Partnership through 2019. As part of the renewed relationship, Mars Chocolate will continue its designation as the Official Chocolate of NASCAR®, ensuring its various brands remain a race day staple for millions of fans.
The M&M’S ® Brand and 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion Kyle Busch are saying thanks in a big way during the Inaugural Fan Appreciation Weekend at Richmond International Raceway.
Camry driver Martin Truex Jr. was victorious in the Southern 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at South Carolina’s Darlington Raceway on Sunday night.
JOEY LOGANO, No. 22 Shell Pennzoil Ford Fusion (Finished 5th) - DOES ANYTHING SHORT OF A WIN AT THIS POINT MATTER? “Yeah, it just doesn’t matter if it isn’t a win. At this point I guess momentum means something so I guess something matters. I disagree that I didn’t have anything for them.
Kevin Harvick earned a second-place finish in this year’s annual Bojangles’ Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway, the penultimate race until the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series field is decided. Harvick led the 367-lap Southern 500 five different times for a race-high 215 laps in route to his fourth second-place finish of the season. A late-race pit stop mired Harvick and his No. 4 Busch Beer Chevrolet SS deep in the top 10, but the former NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion rallied to a runner-up finish.
KEVIN HARVICK, NO. 4 BUSCH BEER CHEVROLET SS – FINISHED 2ND - ON HIS NIGHT: “Our team in the garage did a great job. They brought the fastest race car to the track once again and we just didn’t do a good job on pit road and gave it away.”
A $50,000 fine and a 25-point dock for Ryan Preece highlights the penalty report from this past weekend's triple-header weekend of racing at Texas Motor Speedway.
In four NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series starts at Watkins Glen International (WGI) Spire Motorsports earned its lone top-10 finish when Sammy Smith finished sixth in last year’s Mission 176 at the Glen.
