JEFF GORDON, NO. 24 DUPONT CHEVROLET met with media and discussed strategy for the 600, recent safety issues, the All-Star race, Race Control, and more.
Clint Bowyer, No. 33 BB&T Chevrolet, will start on the outside of the front row for Saturday night's NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
KYLE BUSCH, No. 18 M&M's Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing Starting Position: 1st How was your car in qualifying? "I can't say enough about everything. The guys unloaded a really, really good M&M's Camry today. Dave Rogers (crew chief) did a great job."
It will be an all-Ford front row for tomorrow night's Sprint Showdown as David Ragan and AJ Allmendinger captured the first and second spots, respectively, in qualifying. Both drivers visited the infield media center to discuss their qualifying efforts."
Carl Edwards, driver of the No. 99 Aflac Ford Fusion, will be making his sixth start in the Sprint All-Star Race and is still looking for his first win. Edwards spoke to the media before qualifying for Saturday night's Sprint All-Star Race.
BRAD KESELOWSKI (No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger) Starts Fourth In Sprint Showdown “The Miller Lite Dodge crew went work after practice and made the car better. I think we picked up about six-tenths; that’s a pretty big gain."
PAUL MENARD, NO. 27 MOEN/MENARDS CHEVROLET, QUALIFIED 3RD: "I have a really good race car. Really good long-run car. We are going to start third, which is good. The track picked up a lot of speed from where we did our last run. It is about how brave you are diving off in the corner."
JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 5 LOWE'S 5% EVERY DAY CHEVROLET, met with media and discussed racing in the All-Star this weekend and the million-dollar prize, planking, the importance on how the race car unloads off the truck, and more.
TONY STEWART, NO. 14 BURGER KING CHEVROLET, met with members of the media at Charlotte Motor Speedway and discussed racing the All-Star versus the Coke 600, health of short track racing, driving Lewis Hamilton's car and other topics.
The 2024 O'Reilly Auto Parts Series champion from Riverton, Illinois, dropped from 2nd to 4th in the Chase standings and trails the points lead by 31 points following an early exit from an on-track accident at Sin City.
The 20-year-old Day from Clovis, California, led a race-high 136 of 201 laps and fended off Carson Kvapil over a late side-by-side battle for his third O'Reilly Auto Parts Series career victory in Sin City.
BRAD KESELOWSKI, No. 6 Consumer Cellular Ford Mustang Dark Horse – “I’ll fire us off. I know there are probably three things you probably want to ask me about. I’m gonna take the easiest one first. I just ran at Las Vegas."
Joe Gibbs Racing driver Denny Hamlin was made available to the media on Saturday after winning the pole for the NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
The three-time Daytona 500 champion from Chesterfield, Virginia, clocked in a lap of 186.787 mph in 28.910 seconds for his 53rd Cup career pole, fifth of 2026 and second at Sin City.
