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RYAN BLANEY – No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion – “We unfortunately had an engine problem. It was really unfortunate. I thought our Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion was pretty good. Jeremy Bullins and everyone on the team did a great job of working on it all night and getting us better, and it really took off on that one restart and I thought we were gonna be pretty good."

Dale Earnhardt, Jr., driver of the No. 88 Nationwide Chevrolets SS lead the Team Chevy effort at the Coca-Cola 600, round 12 of the NASCAR Sprint Cup circuit at Charlotte Motor Speedway, with a third-place finish. It was Earnhardt, Jr.’s 12th top 10 finish in 31 races at his hometown track.

Trevor Bayne, driver of the No. 6 AdvoCare Ford Fusion, finished in the 27th position on Sundayevening in NASCAR’s longest race of the season at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

But for the first 370 of 400 laps at Charlotte Motor Speedway, no one would have picked Carl Edwards or his No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota as the likely winner of the season’s 12th NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race.

JUAN PABLO MONTOYA, NO. 2 VERIZON TEAM PENSKE CHEVROLET - RACE WINNER YOU HAD TO DO THIS HARD WAY TODAY COMING FROM 30TH. “Yeah, it was fun. Our Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet was good all day. These guys at Team Penske did an amazing job. When I came through the field, I knew I had a good car. That fight there at the end… that was awesome.”

A total of 22 Team Chevy drivers will start the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Round 12 on the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) circuit. The 400-lap/600-mile race is scheduled to begin at 6:00 p.m. ET on Sunday, May 24. Live coverage will be available on FOX, PRN, Sirius NASCAR Radio Channel 90 and NASCAR.com.

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Austin Dillon won the Hisense 300, Ty Dillon finished seventh, Brendan Gaughan 18th and Brian Scott 20th.

Roush Fenway Racing’s Elliott Sadler finished in ninth-place during Saturday’s NASCAR XFINITY Series (NXS) race at Charlotte Motor Speedway (CMS). Sadler qualified for the 200 lap event on Saturday morning and started the NXS race from the 11th position.

For the second straight Saturday, Denny Hamlin had the chance to hold off a race’s strongest car for the victory. Unlike last Saturday’s NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, however, there were too many laps left after the final restart in Saturday’s Hisense 300 NASCAR XFINITY Series, and polesitter Austin Dillon powered past Hamlin on Lap 186 of 200 to finish the race where he belonged—at the front of the field.