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FAS Lane Racing is proud to announce that Southern Pride Trucking will serve as Primary Sponsor to the team’s No. 32 entry in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series for this weekend’s running of the Bojangles Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway.

Tom Hessert III, driver of the No. 52 Federated Auto Parts Toyota Camry delivered his fourth consecutive top-10 finish at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway Friday afternoon after thundering to his first top-five finish of the season in the International Motorsports Hall of Fame 250.

Tony La Russa, one of the greatest managers in the history of Major League Baseball, has been named Grand Marshal of the Toyota/Save Mart 350 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series weekend at Infineon Raceway, June 22-24.

After a highly successful inaugural event in 2011, 5-hour ENERGY and Dover International Speedway are again providing fans with the opportunity to get a close-up look at the Monster Mile with the June 2, 2012 “5-hour ENERGY Open Track” session.

Annett has three career starts in the Nationwide Series at Darlington Raceway Annett enters this weekend’s event in sixth-place in the Nationwide point standings Annett’s best finish (11th) came in 2010 at the 1.366-mile speedway

TMI (Team McClure, Inc.) announced today that due to injuries sustained last Saturday following a crash at Talladega Superspeedway, Eric McClure will be sidelined for Friday night’s NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Darlington Raceway.

Michael Waltrip Racing’s No. 15 5-hour ENERGY transport driver Al Nelson, a native of Long Island, N.Y., will get the special opportunity on Thursday night in Darlington to honor his brother Peter Allen Nelson. Peter Nelson was a firefighter in FDNY Rescue 4 killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.

No. 56 NAPA AUTO PARTS Toyota driver Martin Truex Jr. relies on his pit crew whenever his race car needs repairs. On Wednesday near Columbia, S.C., it was the NASCAR Sprint Cup driver’s turn to act as the chief mechanic.

NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series history began in Charlotte, N.C. on June 19, 1949 with Jim Roper’s victory in a 150-mile race over the 3/4-mile dirt Charlotte Speedway.

Kentucky Speedway’s inaugural NASCAR Sprint Cup Series “Quaker State 400” has been honored as the 2011 Sports Event of the Year by the Cincinnati Sports Professional Network (CSPN) and speedway General Manager Mark Simendinger will accept the award during a Wednesday, June 6 ceremony in the Sharonville Convention Center at 11355 Chester Rd., in Sharonville, Ohio.