JUST THE FACTS: Ragan has 15 Sprint Cup career starts at Phoenix International Raceway ... He has one top-10 finish at the one-mile oval ... His best finish at Phoenix is 10th (2008) .... Taco Bell returns as primary sponsor of the No. 34 Ford for Sunday's race.
Joey Logano leads the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series point standings going into this weekend’s race at Phoenix International Raceway. The last Ford driver to hold the top spot this late in the season was Carl Edwards in 2011 when he held a three-point lead over Tony Stewart with two races remaining.
The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) heads to the desert for the penultimate race of the season at Phoenix International Raceway. Although Ben Kennedy has never made a NCWTS start at the Arizona track, he has three previous starts at the 50-year-old facility in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West. In those three events, he has never started outside the top 10 and has earned a best finish of 10th (fall of 2012).
Rise Like A Phoenix...The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) heads to the desert for the penultimate race of the season at Phoenix International Raceway. Although Ben Kennedy has never made a NCWTS start at the Arizona track, he has three previous starts at the 50-year-old facility in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West. In those three events, he has never started outside the top 10 and has earned a best finish of 10th (fall of 2012).
"The Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup has provided great excitement and intense competition. Brad Keselowski is a champion who competes to win in every race, which is what I expect of him."
Rev Racing history will be made once again at the NASCAR Nationwide Series DAV200 “Honoring America’s Veterans” race at Phoenix International Raceway this Saturday, November 8th. Fresh off of her second consecutive NASCAR K&N Pro Series East season, Mackena Bell will be making her debut in the NASCAR Nationwide Series with Rick Ware Racing. The only female graduate of NASCAR’s Drive for Diversity program will pilot the No. 23 Chevrolet Camaro.
Richard Childress Racing is adding NASCAR K&N Pro Series driver Brandon Jones to their NASCAR XFINITY Series lineup on a part-time basis for the 2015 season.
Greg Biffle came back from being a lap down to finish 13th at Texas Motor Speedway in his No. 16 Ortho Fire Ant Killer Ford Fusion. Biffle started the race 19th and lost a lap due to handling. After taking the “wave around”, he got back on the lead lap and survived two green-white-checkered attempts to finish 13th and remain 13th in the point standings.
Furniture Row Racing driver Martin Truex Jr., who qualified eighth and ran in or near the top-10 for the majority of the race, got stuck in traffic during the final green-white-checkered restart. He was credited with a 19th-place finish in Sunday's Sprint Cup Series race, which went seven laps into overtime – from 334 to 341.
The 2024 O'Reilly Auto Parts Series champion led a race-high 35 of 100 laps and capitalized on a two-lap shootout to notch his fifth victory of the 2026 season at the Tricky Triangle.
The reigning world champion defeated Leah Pruett in the final round of the bonus race on Saturday at historic Bristol Dragway as part of this weekend’s 25th annual Super Grip NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals.
Brent Crews continued his stellar rookie season as he won the second stage and finished second to race winner Justin Allgaier in the NASCAR O’Reilly Series race at Pocono Speedway on Saturday evening.
There continues to be no stopping Doug Kalitta in the Mission #2Fast2Tasty Challenge, as the reigning world champion defeated Leah Pruett in the final round of the bonus race on Saturday at Bristol Dragway
Joe Gibbs Racing driver Denny Hamlin was made available to the media on Saturday after winning the pole for the NASCAR Cup Series race from Pocono Raceway.
The three-time Daytona 500 champion from Chesterfield, Virginia, tied Ryan Newman for having the ninth-most poles all-time in the Cup Series with his third consecutive pole this season at the Tricky Triangle.
