Ricky Stenhouse Jr., No. 6 Blackwell Angus Ford Mustang: “I won my first ARCA race at Kentucky and I ran ninth in one Nationwide start there so I feel pretty good about it. It’s been two years since I’ve been on the track. Our cars have always been pretty fast there."
Biffle on Kentucky: “A racetrack has to have character and Kentucky has character. The progressive banking off of Turn 4 makes it a lot of fun to race here."
New Addition: This weekend's race at Kentucky Speedway makes it the first track to be added to the Sprint Cup Schedule since Chicagoland Speedway and Kansas Speedway were introduced in 2001.
The 2025 Coca-Cola 600 champion from Alva, Florida, outlasted two red flag delays due to weather and a late scrape into the wall while leading to notch a weather-shortened victory at Charlotte.
The 2026 Daytona 500 champion from Corning, California, was awarded the pole position for Sunday's Coca-Cola 600 event at Charlotte due to rain canceling Saturday's qualifying session.
Joey Logano, driver of the No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Ford Mustang Dark Horse, has one career NASCAR Cup Series victory at Charlotte Motor Speedway with that coming in the Bank of America 500 in 2015.
Joe Gibbs Racing owner and founder Joe Gibbs was made available to the media on Saturday prior to the NASCAR Cup Series race from Charlotte Motor Speedway.