Annett Rolls on to Richmond...Michael Annett and his No. 46 Switch Hitch Chevrolet team travel to Richmond International Raceway (Va.) for Saturday night's 400-mile NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race. The event at the 3/4-mile track is the second-to-last short track race of the 2015 season.
Benny Gordon returns to the NASCAR Xfinity Series this weekend to drive the No. 66 SRWR/VSI Toyota Camry at Richmond International Raceway (RIR). The Virginia529 College Savings 250 on September 11, 2015 will mark Gordon’s 4th start in the 2015 season with Performance Energy Group.
The No. 17 Cargill Beef Ford Fusion will feature a special Sam’s Club paint scheme this weekend at Richmond International Raceway. Cargill Beef first featured a Sam’s Club scheme in 2011 during Ricky Stenhouse Jr.’s first championship season in the NASCAR XFINITY Series. In 2012, Stenhouse drove the Cargill Beef/Sam’s Club Ford to victory lane in Kansas for his sixth win en route to his second XFINITY Series title. The Sam’s Club scheme will also run on the No. 17 Cargill Beef Ford at Phoenix International Raceway in November.
Brett Moffitt | No. 34 Dockside Logistics Ford "Richmond has been pretty good to me. I've got a win in the K&N Series there. I look forward to going back. It's a fun racetrack. It's actually a really tough short track, though. It can be frustrating if your car is off, but if you hit it, it's going to be good."
Stenhouse has five career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) starts at Richmond with an average starting position of 18.6 and average finishing position of 23.6.
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.
Spire Motorsports has logged one top five, four top 10s and one pole award. Corey LaJoie owns the team's best finish, a fourth-place effort earned in October 2023.
NHRA announced today that “Chasing Speed,” a six-part docuseries that recently aired on VICE TV, will debut in full on NHRA’s YouTube page on Wednesday.
