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"Bristol [Motor Speedway] is one of the tracks that we go to that has a little extra special meaning. I got my first XFINITY win there, and that's something I'll never forget. It's such a challenging track, and I can really make a difference there as a driver.

No. 55 Aaron’s Dream Machine driver Brett Moffitt gets a rare opportunity to race on a familiar track this weekend when the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series visits the high-banked, half-mile Bristol Motor Speedway.

"I always look forward to Bristol. It's like a home track, like how we grew up racing. It's a short track, high-banked, lot of speed, lot of momentum. People have mixed feelings on it, but I like that it has a wider groove on it and you're able to move around and make things work.

Toyota driver Carl Edwards enters this weekend's NSCS race at Bristol as the defending race-winner as Edwards makes his first visit to Bristol behind the wheel of a Camry. Edwards has celebrated three-career NSCS victories at Bristol with his famed back flip on the Tennessee high banks

Martin Truex Jr. enters this weekend’s Sprint Cup Series race at Bristol(Tenn.) Motor Speedway third in driver points as a result of scoring seven-straight top 10s to open the 2015 campaign.

Heading into Sunday's Food City 500, Bliss will be making his 7th career NSCS start at "The Last Great Coliseum." The Oregon native has a best NSCS finish of 7th in Thunder Valley, which came back in 2005 driving for Gene Haas. This weekends event will be another double duty weekend for Bliss, as he will run for Mark Smith and Tri-Star Motorsports in the Xfinity Series on Saturday.

* James Hinchcliffe and Schmidt Peterson Motorsports played strategy to perfection and won the inaugural Indy Grand Prix of Louisiana at NOLA Motorsports Park on April 12. Now the "mayor of Hinchtown" hopes to make Long Beach his latest conquest.

“I just love short-track racing. If you look over the statistics of my career, I’ve performed best at the short tracks. Bristol is also one of those racetracks I loved to go to as a kid. There were places on the circuit you looked forward to, but Bristol was always on top of the list. There is just no other track like it.”

“Bristol is my favorite short-track. We had a lot of success there last year earning two top-10 finishes. We feel after our Texas finish and earning three top-15 finishes in four races that we have momentum heading into Bristol.

“Bristol has been a great track for our FedEx team over the years. We might not have all the finishes to match how we have run there, but outside of a couple races, we’ve shown speed, led laps and been up front a lot.