“I am so excited to go race back home. Having so many friends and family there is going to be awesome. On top of that, this track looks like it is a blast to drive.”
"Fontana is actually one of my favorite tracks that I've raced so far. My first time there was last year in the Nationwide series, and I was really worried about it because everyone says it's a really rough track and there's no grip, but I actually thought it was fun with the multiple grooves.
It’s been since the season-finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway that Joey Logano was behind the wheel of the No. 22 Team Penske Ford Mustang in the NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS). This weekend, he returns to the seat at Auto Club Speedway.
This Week's Whitetail Chevrolet at Auto Club Speedway ... Brian Scott will wheel chassis No. 460 in this weekend's NASCAR Sprint Cup series race at Auto Club Speedway. This Chevrolet SS is newly constructed by the Richard Childress Racing crew and will be utilized for the first time under race conditions this weekend.
As part of the partnership, Kwikset will be the primary sponsor and paint scheme for Newman's car during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Kansas Race in Kansas City on May 10, and will have its logo on Newman's No. 31 car for every race during the 2014 Sprint Cup Series in an associate capacity.
After a taste of victory at Bristol Motor Speedway, Aric Almirola is ready to head west and compete for the win at Auto Club Speedway. Posting his career-best finish last week was definitely a good shot in the arm for the Richard Petty Motorsports driver, and the No. 43 Farmland Ford team hopes to ride that momentum
Coming off his best finish of the season and 16th top-five finish of his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career, Marcos Ambrose and the No. 9 Richard Petty Motorsports team will bring the logo of DEWALT on the hood with them to the Auto Club Speedway in California this Sunday.
There will not be an International Motorsports Hall of Fame induction ceremony this year, as a result of no individual receiving the required 51 percent of the vote from the 120-person voting panel. The annual event was tentatively scheduled for Thursday, May 1, as a kickoff to the Aaron’s Dream Weekend at Talladega Superspeedway.
"We were more than just a little disappointed with not making the race in Bristol. So we're going to regroup and not let that happen again. I couldn't have felt worse with how close we were (.001 seconds). But it was better to know we were really close than not even in the ballpark. At the end of the day, we should've been in.
23XI Racing driver Tyler Reddick was made available to the media on Saturday after winning the pole for the NASCAR Cup Series race from Darlington Raceway.
BRAD KESELOWSKI, No. 6 Solomon Plumbing Ford Mustang Dark Horse – “I thought it was really smooth. It looks like Chris is qualified right next to me. I felt like I got all it had. We know the cars are gonna be very difficult to drive and that did not disappoint.”
Ryan Preece, driver of the No. 60 Kroger/Oscar Mayer/Heinz Ford Mustang Dark Horse, came into the Darlington Raceway infield media center before practice to talk about this weekend’s race.
