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Camry driver Joey Logano's win in Saturday's NASCAR Nationwide Series race (NNS) at Talladega Superspeedway was a milestone moment for Toyota in NASCAR -- the victory was Toyota's 200th in NASCAR national series competition.

Cole Whitt - “I feel like our TaxSlayer team has been steadily improving as a group. Until Talladega, we just hadn’t had much luck through an entire race. It’s good to finally get a finish that our team deserved. There were a few races where I feel our finish didn’t show how well we were running."

Darlington Raceway and Cargill Beef are asking fans to submit recipes for the “Track Too Tough to Tame’s” new signature hamburger. Fans will submit their favorite and most unique hamburger recipes, with the selected entries being prepared by Miss Sprint at an old fashioned race-day cook out on Saturday at the track prior to the Bojangles’ Southern 500. The burgers will then be judged and a winner chosen by track president Chris Browning.

DODGE QUOTES: “Everybody accepts the fact that you’re going to get into the wall, that you’re going to have a Darlington stripe, but you don’t want it to lead you into problems. Almost everybody is going to have excitement at the end of the race, but you don’t want to do it on lap one or in practice."

0 – fewest cautions (9/2/63), 1 – fewest cars on lead lap at finish (24 times, most recent 9/3/79)

Detroit-based Quicken Loans Inc. today announced it has teamed with Michigan International Speedway (MIS) in Brooklyn, Michigan, to sponsor the Quicken Loans 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at MIS on Sunday, June 17.

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series star Carl Edwards will move from the cockpit of his race car to the broadcast booth as he becomes an analyst for ESPN on two upcoming telecasts of NASCAR Nationwide Series races.

For the first time in his NASCAR career Regan Smith enters a Sprint Cup race with the status of being the defending champion.

Dodge has five wins at Darlington Raceway – Buck Baker, Buddy Baker (2), Ward Burton and Sterling Marlin. Dodge posted back-to-back wins at the 1.366-mile track in 2001 (Burton) and 2002 (Marlin).

Richard Childress is tied for third all time with Holman-Moody and the Wood Brothers for car owner victories at Darlington with eight - each with Dale Earnhardt behind the wheel. In 103 collective starts, RCR boasts 21 top-five and 35 top-10 finishes at the 1.366-mile egg-shaped oval with five different drivers including Clint Bowyer, Earnhardt, Kevin Harvick, Jeff Burton and Robby Gordon.