In his 21 career Cup Series starts at the 1.5-mile track, Biffle has two wins, eight top-five and 12 top-10 finishes. His average starting position is 12.3 with an average finishing position of 14.7.
Richard Childress Racing's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series history at Texas Motor Speedway ... In 81 starts at Texas Motor Speedway dating back to 1997, RCR has recorded one win (Jeff Burton, April 2007), eight top-five and 30 top-10 finishes with drivers Burton, Clint Bowyer, Dale Earnhardt, Kevin Harvick, Jeff Green and Paul Menard.
Dakoda Armstrong and the No. 43 WinField team will return to action at Texas Motor Speedway after a two week hiatus for the Nationwide Series. Prior to the break, the series competed at two mile-and-a-half tracks and will return to another one this weekend. Armstrong and the team are looking for improvement with their mile-and-a-half program and are hoping that the consistency of competing at mile-and-a-half tracks the last two races will help them going into this weekend.
Home Sweet Home...The NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) returns to action after taking a two-week break from the schedule. To start off the last three weeks of the 2014 season schedule, the series will head to Texas Motor Speedway (TMS) for the O'Reilly Auto Parts Challenge.
Joey Logano won this season’s first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway and can become the third driver to sweep both events since the track began hosting two races a year in 2005. Carl Edwards was the first to do it in 2008 while Denny Hamlin was the second in 2010.
David Ragan, driver of the No. 34 Dockside Logistics Ford, comments on his top-10 finish at Martinsville Speedway and on racing at Texas Motor Speedway:
Elliott Sadler and the No. 11 OneMain Financial team travel back to Texas Motor Speedway this week for the second time this season. In 13 NASCAR Nationwide Series starts at Texas, Sadler has three top-five and seven top-10 finishes with 40 laps led. Sadler also won the pole award in 1998 and 2011. In addition, the veteran driver has 19 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series starts at Texas, with one win in 2004, a pole award in 2010, a top-five and three top-10 finishes.
A year after achieving the pinnacle start of his career at Texas Motor Speedway, Ryan Lynch will find himself back in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver seat at the storied speedway once again, this time piloting the No. 07 IDLifeRacing.com/BlankHood.com Chevrolet for SS Green Light Racing.
Austin Austin Cindric and the No. 2 Menards/Quaker State Ford Mustang Dark Horse team charged from 23rd to a third-place finish Saturday night at Richmond Raceway, earning their second top-five finish of the season in the Cook Out 400.
With two cars starting inside the top ten Saturday night, Roush Fenway Keselowski (RFK) Racing was among the strongest cars in the field when the green flag dropped at Richmond Raceway.
Despite a late-race skirmish that appeared to hinder the speed of the No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Mustang Dark Horse, Josh Berry battled to an eighth-place finish in Saturday night’s Cook Out 400 at Richmond Raceway
