Official Release

Richard Petty Motorsports welcomes Columbus, Ohio based E.E. Ward Moving & Storage, one of the country's oldest minority-owned businesses, as an associate sponsor on the No. 43 WinField Ford Mustang this weekend.

The second-annual Pennsylvania Hauler Parade, in advance of the Axalta “We Paint Winners” 400 at Pocono Raceway, will take place on Thursday, June 4. Race fans are encouraged to come out and watch the parade in Harrisburg and follow the rest of the day’s events on Twitter by using #haulerPArade

After powering to his second pole of the season on Thursday night,Matt Kenseth will start NASCAR's longest race from the most advantageous position—with his No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota getting serviced in the most advantageous pit stall.

MATT KENSETH, No. 20 DeWalt Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - Starting Position: 1st - How do you feel after that qualifying effort? “Happy – the DeWalt guys did a great job on our Camry today. They made some great adjustments and they worked hard on it the last couple weeks to get it ready to come here."

ARIC ALMIROLA – No. 43 U.S. Air Force Ford Fusion – “I’m not sure what happened. The car did something a little bit goofy there that we weren’t expecting. It just drove weird, so we’ll have to go back and tear it apart and see if they can figure out what happened, but it was still a decent lap for the problems we had going on.”

Starting lineup for the 99th Indianapolis 500 Verizon IndyCar Series event on the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway, with rank, car number in parentheses, driver, chassis-engine, time and speed in parentheses:

Thursday evening, FOX Sports announced that Gordon will join its NASCAR broadcast team full-time in 2016 as a race analyst for the network’s 16th year of Sprint Cup Series coverage. He will team with play-by-play announcer Mike Joy and analyst Darrell Waltrip in the booth.

Joey Logano, driver of the No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Ford Fusion, met with the media after a press announcement for the Bojangles' Summer Shootout at Charlotte Motor Speedway and discussed a number of topics.

Two members of the Roush Fenway XFINITY driver team – series points leader Chris Buescher and Elliott Sadler – visited the Charlotte Motor Speedway infield media center to answer questions from the assembled press about this weekend's Hisense 300 and other topics.

KEVIN HARVICK, NO. 4 BUDWEISER/JIMMY JOHN’S CHEVROLET SS met with media and discussed safety issues, driver communication with NASCAR, aero, voting in the Hall of Fame, and more.