Roush Fenway Racing’s Chris Buescher will make his fifth NASCAR XFINITY Series start at Richmond International Raceway this Friday night. In his four previous starts, Buescher has two top-10 finishes, with his best finish of seventh coming in the spring of 2014. Buescher has completed all but five laps in his four starts at Richmond.
Roush Fenway Racing’s Bubba Wallace will make his third NASCAR XFINITY Series start at Richmond International Raceway on Friday night. In his previous two races at the .75-mile track, Wallace’s best start is 11th (2015) and his best finish is 10th (2012).
The day is finally here. The last race to decide which NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers make this year’s Chase for the Sprint Cup is this weekend at Richmond International Raceway (RIR). Team Chevy currently has five drivers locked into the battle to decide this year’s champion – Jimmie Johnson, Kevin Harvick, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Kurt Busch and Martin Truex, Jr. All have wins in 2015 and have locked themselves into this season’s playoffs.
Biffle started the race 32nd and searched for grip in his No. Ford over the course of 400 laps. In his search Biffle went two laps down to the leaders, but made a rebound towards the end to be the first car two laps down. Biffle was scored 21st when the checkered flag fell.
In eight starts at Richmond in the XFINITY Series, Bayne has recorded two top-five and three top-10 finishes. Bayne earned his best finish of third in the Sept. 2010 event after starting from the eighth position.
Fresh off of a Top-20 finish at the track "Too Tough To Tame", Dakoda Armstrong and the No. 43 WinField team will compete this weekend at Richmond International Raceway (RIR). The track is a personal favorite of Armstrong's and was the site of his best performance of his rookie year, where he finished seventh in the fall race in 2014. Armstrong appears to have finally broke his streak of bad luck and looks to better last year's efforts.
This weekend's race marks the return of Ryan Truex to the NASCAR XFINITY Series. Richmond International Raceway (RIR) will be the site of the first of three scheduled starts of the 2015 season for the young New Jersey driver. It's also the site of his first start for Biagi DenBeste Racing.
Reed has competed at Richmond International Raceway (RIR) five times in the NASCAR XFINITY Series. He made his first career NASCAR XFINITY Series 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, Reed finished 21st.
Darlington Recap: Denny Hamlin finished third in Sunday night’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Southern 500 at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway, leading three times for 57 laps in the #11 Sport Clips Toyota en route to his third-straight top-five result in the event won by Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Carl Edwards.
Crew chief Patrick Donahue, car chief Dillon Bassett and engineer Morgan Olsen have been barred for the next four O'Reilly events due to fallen ballast from Patrick Staropoli's No. 48 entry during this past weekend's event at Sin City.
Hendrick Motorsports enters this weekend's NASCAR Cup Series race at Darlington Raceway as the facility's all-time leader in wins (16), top fives (58), top 10s (97) and laps led (4,269).
As good as a season-opening win in Gainesville felt for Matt Hartford, a repeat of that at his home track during this weekend’s FMP NHRA Arizona Nationals presented by NGK Spark Plugs
