Aric Almirola is riding the momentum of a 12th-place finish in the No. 43 Smithfield Ford Fusion during the 2016 season-opener in Daytona. Currently sitting 12th in points, the team will look to jump higher in the standings with another strong run at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Fresh off a 25th-place finish at Daytona International Speedway, NASCAR XFINITY Series driver Jeb Burton and the No. 43 J. Streicher Ford team are ready to race at the first intermediate track of the season.
This weekend, for the first time this season, Roush Fenway Racing’s Greg Biffle and the No. 16 Ford Fusion will carry the ROUSH Performance colors in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Stenhouse has three career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) starts at Atlanta with an average starting position of 15.7 and average finishing position of 24.0.
Trevor Bayne will make his third career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) start at Atlanta Motor Speedway this weekend. In two previous starts at the 1.5-Mile oval, Bayne recorded a best finish of 16th in Sept. 2012.
Ryan Reed has two starts at Atlanta Motor Speedway (AMS) in the NASCAR XFINITY Series (NXS) with finishes of 18th in 2014 and 16th in 2015. The last time the NXS visited AMS, Reed was making his final green-flag pit stop when the caution was displayed, trapping the team a lap down late in the race.
NASCAR’s annual visit to suburban Atlanta is on tap this weekend as all three major touring series compete at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Ford has registered 30 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series wins at the 1.5-mile facility and will try for its first triumph since 2008 on Sunday afternoon. Here’s a look at Ford’s history in Hampton, GA.
With all three of NASCAR’s national touring series set to descend on Atlanta Motor Speedway for the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 weekend just days from now, drivers looking ahead to the races have described AMS in many different ways. Fast, abrasive, slick, aged, fun, wild and even mean are just a handful of the adjectives that have been uttered by drivers about historic 1.54-mile race track. In a yearbook of race tracks, AMS might sweep the superlatives page for most character, most dramatic and certainly, most popular.
Garrett Smithley, driver of the No. 0 JD Motorsports Chevrolet in NASCAR XFINITY Series competition, has added NASCAR Camping World Truck Series events to his 2016 schedule. Smithley will run double-duty this week in the JD Motorsports NXS entry as well as the No. 63 MB Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado NCWTS truck starting this weekend at Atlanta (Ga.) Motor Speedway. Both teams will carry primary sponsorship from Instalco.
In 28 NASCAR Cup Series starts at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway, Spire Motorsports has logged four top-20 finishes. Michael McDowell owns the team's best finish, a 12th-place effort earned in March 2025.
Entering Rounds Three and Four of the 2026 INDY NXT by Firestone season, HMD Motorsports heads to Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama, on March 27–29 focused on contending at the front.
In celebration of National Cocktail Day March 24th, Roush Fenway Keselowski (RFK) Racing today announced Kickstand Cocktails as the team’s Official Bold Canned Cocktail.
