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Ford announced the opening of its new Ford Technical Support Center in Concord, N.C. today. The state-of-the-art facility will add an array of tools to develop future performance vehicles and help increase Ford’s overall success in motorsports.

Target is expanding its sponsorship in the NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) to include the up & up brand as the primary sponsor on the No. 42 Turner Scott Motorsports’ (TSM) Chevrolet Camaro for five races. The up & up brand will make its track debut this weekend during the Get to Know Newton 250 Presented by Sherwin Williams NNS race at Iowa Speedway.

Since entering NASCAR Camping World Truck Series competition in 2005, RHR has logged 389 starts, earning 12 wins, 74 top-five finishes, 162 top-10 finishes and 11 pole awards, with an average starting position of 13.5 and an average finishing position of 14.3.

For the first time in 10 years, Jimmy Weller will compete at one of the tracks at the Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway complex. On October 13, 2004, Weller sustained critical injuries while attempting to make his USAC debut in a race at The Dirt Track at Charlotte.

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series rookie Michael Annett will take part in his first All-Star Race weekend, taking to the 1.5-mile Charlotte Motor Speedway on Friday night for the Sprint Showdown. The top two finishers in the race will advance to Saturday night's Sprint All-Star Race.

The Series heads to Charlotte Motor Speedway for Saturday night’s Sprint All-Star Race at the 1.5-mile oval. Hamlin will make his eighth All-Star appearance in the #11 FedEx Express Toyota, a non-points event reserved for 2013 and 2014 race winners, previous NASCAR champions and former All-Star Race winners.

After a three-year absence from the Sprint All-Star Race, Martin Truex Jr. returns to the prestigious event, which will be contested Saturday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Fans at Charlotte Motor Speedway for Friday night’s Sprint Showdown and North Carolina Education Lottery 200 Camping World Truck Series Race will have the chance to meet the biggest stars of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series during a special Sprint All-Star autograph session at the legendary 1.5-mile superspeedway.

Chip Ganassi Racing Teams (CGRT) announced today a new partnership with Japan’s largest oil company, JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp., which will see their brand, ENEOS, as the primary sponsor on the No. 42 Chevrolet Camaro for two NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) races with driver Kyle Larson at Turner Scott Motorsports (TSM).

Showdown: “It is always interesting and a fun race and this weekend we are proud to have Freighliner and Miller on board,” Allmendinger said. “We will go out there in practice and I think it will be the same thing we have seen at a lot of these mile-and-a-half tracks. I think our first practice is around noon or so. Our first time out, there will be a ton of grip on the track and we will be flying around that place.