Kyle Busch (sixth) and Denny Hamlin (ninth) were the highest finishing Toyota drivers in Saturday night's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at Richmond International Raceway.
Kevin Harvick won the Wonderful Pistachios 400 at Richmond International Raceway on Saturday to earn the second seed in the 2011 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. Harvick, No. 29 Budweiser Chevrolet, leads six Team Chevy drivers in the '11 Chase field.
In the final race before the 12-driver, 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup championship begins, U.S. Army driver Ryan Newman pulled off another solid performance, finishing eighth in Saturday night's Wonderful Pistachios 400 at Richmond International Raceway.
YOUR THOUGHTS ON MAKING THE CHASE AS THE NO. 4 SEED? "If you take tonight out of the equation, tonight was a disaster, but I feel like we have been pretty good lately."
KEVIN HARVICK, NO. 29 BUDWEISER CHEVROLET, RACE WINNER - 2ND SEED IN THE CHASE: ON HIS RACE: "We had a really good Budweiser Chevrolet on the short runs. Just want to thank the fans and all of our troops for everything that they do for us to come out here and race."
Carl Edwards led 112 laps and came just short of victory in the final ‘regular season’ Sprint Cup race before the Chase cutoff point at Richmond International Raceway, finishing second to Kevin Harvick.
KURT BUSCH (No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Dodge Charger R/T) Finished 5th “Really a good, hard fought battle. That debris from that early caution cut our right rear tire and you know, we were lucky to obtain a yellow while we were sitting there limping around."
Carl Edwards, No. 99 Cheez-It/Kellogg’s Ford (Finished 2nd) “Kevin wouldn’t give me enough room to run into him. He stayed on the bottom because he said I knew I was going to hit him."
Rusty Wallace Racing's No. 62 Freightliner Trucks team claimed an 11th place finish this weekend in Richmond International Raceway's Virginia 529 College Savings 250.
Katherine Legge will make her first NASCAR Cup Series start of the 2026 season over Mother’s Day weekend, piloting the No. 78 e.l.f. Cosmetics Chevrolet for Live Fast Motorsports in the Go Bowling at The Glen event.
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Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. has been named as the Official Circuit Partner of NASCAR San Diego Weekend presented by Anduril and will serve as the naming rights partner of the soon-to-be constructed race track at Naval Base Coronado.
Ryan Blaney and the No. 12 Menards/Knauf Ford Mustang Dark Horse team took advantage of a late-race caution to come away with a 10th-place finish Sunday at Texas
