Chase Elliott was the fastest NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) Rookie-of-the-Year contender in today’s qualifying session with a lap of 27.974 seconds, 193.036 mph in his No. 24 NAPA Auto Parts Chevrolet SS at Texas Motor Speedway. The Team Chevy driver will start fourth in the 40-car field in Sunday’s Duck Commander 500.
CARL EDWARDS, No. 19 Stanley Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - Starting Position: 1st - What does the lower downforce package mean for you at Texas, given your success at this track? “I like it here, I really enjoy Texas."
KYLE BUSCH, No. 18 Interstate Batteries Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - What has Norm Miller meant to Joe Gibbs Racing over the year? “Norm Miller (chairman of Interstate Batteries) and Joe Gibbs (Joe Gibbs Racing team owner) are obviously both instrumental in Joe Gibbs Racing and what it’s become and where it started, so without Norm Miller and the Interstate Batteries folks back in the beginning there would be no Joe Gibbs Racing. I think that was on the NASCAR side as well as the NHRA side when they did some drag racing stuff back in the day, so Norm’s been a passionate guy for us to work with and be around for the last 25 years – for me, it’s been the last 10 years – and we’ve had a lot of fun together both on and off the race track.”
Erik Jones made a clean sweep of Thursday's NASCAR XFINITY Series practices, pushing atop the leaderboard in the final session at Texas Motor Speedway.
Martin Truex Jr. rose to the top of an ever-changing leaderboard Thursday to lead the opening NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice at Texas Motor Speedway.
JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 48 LOWE’S CHEVROLET SS met with media and discussed his success at Texas Motor Speedway, what he expects with the new downforce package on Saturday night, and more.
Brad Keselowski made his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) start for Team Penske in the 2009 fall race at Texas Motor Speedway (TMS), qualifying and finishing 35th
Chris Buescher, driver of the No. 34 Love’s Travel Stops Ford Fusion, will be making his second NASCAR Sprint Cup Series start at Texas Motor Speedway. The Prosper native was in this event a year ago with Front Row Motorsports and finished 30th. He spoke about returning to his home track before today’s practice session.
MATT KENSETH, No. 20 Dollar General Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - What do you enjoy about racing at Texas Motor Speedway? “You enjoy it when you have a good car. Haven’t done too well here in recent history, but before that it’s always been a good track for us."
DANIEL SUAREZ, No. 19 Juniper Networks Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - How are you looking forward to this weekend’s race at Texas Motor Speedway? “It’s a tough race track. I won’t say that it’s been the best race track for us so far, but it’s one of those race tracks that we’re looking forward to it. This is almost like my home race track."
The 23-year-old Smith from Talking Rock, Georgia, led eight of 102 over-scheduled laps and went from third to sixth and first on the final lap to win the first Truck event of 2026 at the World Center of Racing.
The 2023 Craftsman Truck Series champion from Seymour, Wisconsin, posted a pole-winning lap at 176.883 mph in 50.881 seconds to claim the first Truck pole position of 2026 at the World Center of Racing.
Gus Dean (No. 25 CAB Installers / IMPACT Toyota) earned the pole for Saturday’s ARCA Menards Series General Tire 200 at Daytona International Speedway.
NHRA officials and FOX Sports released the television schedule for the upcoming 2026 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series season, a year that also celebrates NHRA’s 75th anniversary.
Ellis will pilot the No. 02 Young’s Motorsports Chevrolet Camaro across the full 33-race schedule, culminating with the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series Championship Race at Homestead-Miami (Fla.) Speedway in November.
