Marcos Ambrose will carry the colors of Mac Tools on the No. 9 Ford for the one and only time this weekend at the one-mile Phoenix International Speedway just outside the city of Phoenix. Ambrose will be making his 12th Sprint Cup start at the track.
This media tour is a great way to decompress off of something like that. I don't know how I would take it in just having nothing to do with myself. It's been fun being busy and talking about the win. It's an opportunity to celebrate my team and their effort, give everybody credit.
Aric Almirola will pilot the No. 43 Farmland Ford in his seventh start at Phoenix International Raceway this Sunday. Almirola and team look forward to seeing their off-season work prove fruitful in the 312-mile race. Almirola has 15 NASCAR National series starts under his belt at the Phoenix, Ariz., track, while Crew Chief Trent Owens has 14 Nationwide races from atop the pit box. They have scored a collective seven top-five, nine top-10 and 11 top-15 finishes at the track.
Roush Fenway Racing (RFR) driver, Ryan Reed will make his second start at Phoenix International Raceway (PIR) on Saturday. Last fall, Reed started 18th and finished 15th in his fifth overall NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) race.
Dakoda Armstrong goes into this weekend's race at Phoenix International Raceway with optimism. While the Sunoco Rookie of the Year contender only has one start at the one-mile track in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS), he comes from a long career in open wheel racing. He looks to his success in open wheel, as well as his short track experience in NCWTS and the ARCA Racing Series, to guide him through this weekend.
Brian Scott will pilot chassis No. 418 in this weekend's NASCAR Sprint Cup series race at Phoenix International Raceway. This is the same chassis Scott utilized in his Cup series debut at Charlotte Motor Speedway last fall.
Team owner Richard Childress has five victories at Phoenix International Raceway, ranking him third on the all-time car owner victories list at the Avondale, Ariz. facility.
Elliott Sadler and the Joe Gibbs Racing No. 11 OneMain Financial team are geared up for the second race of the 2014 NASCAR Nationwide Series season at Phoenix International Raceway. Sadler has 10 career Nationwide Series starts at the one-mile track with one win in 2012, three top-five and four top-10 finishes with 26 laps led.
Coming off a 16th-place finish in the season opening event at Daytona International Speedway, James Buescher and the RAB Racing No. 99 Rheem team will shift their focus to the one-mile tri-oval of Phoenix International Raceway (PIR).
James Hinchcliffe began defense of his win of the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg on Feb. 24 by helping with the ceremonial start of the track build for the season-opening IndyCar Series race on March 30.
The three-time Daytona 500 champion from Chesterfield, Virginia, clocked in a pole-winning lap at 178.241 mph in 30.296 seconds for his 52nd Cup career pole and fourth of 2026 in Joliet, Illinois.
Enzo Fittipaldi completed a dominant Saturday at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, leading all 35 laps from the pole to earn his third career INDY NXT by Firestone victory and cap a historic day for HMD Motorsports.
