Stenhouse has three NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) starts at Auto Club with an average starting position of 26.7 and average finishing position of 23.0.
“Over the past couple of years the races have been so good there,” Allmendinger said. “It’s always nice to see that place packed with fans. The last two years the races have been sold out and that makes it awesome and the finishes have been exciting.
KASEY AT AUTO CLUB: The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series encounters the first two-mile track of the season this weekend at Auto Club Speedway. Kasey Kahne is familiar with Victory Lane at the Fontana, California, track, taking home the checkered flag in the September 2006 race.
Following a 27th-place finish in Phoenix, Brian Scott and the No. 44 Albertsons/Whitetail Ford team are powering ahead to the two-mile D-shaped speedway in Fontana, California. Scott struggled early in the race at Phoenix, battling a tight racecar and unable to find the grip needed to speed the Ford Fusion to the front.
Aric Almirola is riding the momentum of a Top-15 finish in the desert heading into southern California's Auto Club Speedway. The No. 43 Smithfield Ford team scored a 13th-place finish in Phoenix, NASCAR's first short track of the season, and currently sits 13th in the Sprint Cup Series Championship Point Standings.
The No. 43 Streicher Ford team, less than a month from the team's inception, struggled at their first short track race of the season last weekend at Phoenix.
Richard Childress Racing's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series history at Auto Club Speedway ... In 80 overall NASCAR Sprint Cup Series starts at Auto Club Speedway, RCR Chevrolet teams have earned one win (Kevin Harvick - 2011), one pole award (Mike Skinner - April 2000), 12 top-five and 28 top-10 finishes.
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Chasse Elliott, the 2020 Cup Series champion from Dawsonville, Georgia, led 84 of 400 laps and utilized a late pit strategy call to record his first Cup victory of 2026.
Chase Elliott took Chevrolet on its first trip to victory lane in the NASCAR Cup Series this season – claiming the checkered flag in the Cook Out 400 at Martinsville Speedway.
