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Despite a disappointing crash on the final lap of the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Sunday, rookie Ryan Blaney and the No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane team are off to a strong start to the team’s first full-time campaign since 2008.

Stenhouse has three-career Sprint Cup starts at Las Vegas with an average starting position of 14.7 and average finishing position of 24.7.

NASCAR heads west for three consecutive weekends and it starts this weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where Ford has had the most success of any manufacturer with eight NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victories. Here’s a look at some of the more memorable moments for Ford at LVMS.

Martin Truex Jr.’s past two visits to Las Vegas have been quite memorable even though he never hit the jackpot at one of the local casinos.

Two-time NASCAR Champion Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and the No. 17 Roush Fenway Racing Sprint Cup team will not be reaching in the drink cooler for any of that ‘purple stuff’, OJ or soda when they feel the need to quench their thirst at the race track, instead they will go for the refreshing bold and tangy taste of a true classic - SunnyD.

Las Vegas Preview: The Series heads to Las Vegas Motor Speedway for Sunday’s 400-mile event on the 1.5-mile oval. Hamlin has two top-five finishes and five top-10 results in 10 previous starts at Las Vegas, including a career-best third-place run in 2007.

Fans coming to the Good Sam 500 at Phoenix International Raceway will be entertained with live music prior to the race as popular Grammy-nominated and multi-platinum rock group Soul Asylum will perform a pre-race concert in the Fan Midway area at 10:30 a.m. MST.

Martin Truex Jr. had mixed feelings about his seventh-place finish in Sunday’s Sprint Cup Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Camry driver Kyle Busch (third) was the top-finishing Toyota in Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

After earning his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) pole award in 2013 at Atlanta Motor Speedway, , Ricky Stenhouse Jr. drove his Ford Ecoboost Ford to a 10th-place finish in Sunday’s Fold of Honors QuikTrip 500 and currently sits 13th place in the point standings.