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The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) heads to Texas Motor Speedway for a Halloween race, which is sure to be a thriller. Ben Kennedy has one previous start at the Fort Worth, Texas track, earning a top-15 finish earlier this year. Kennedy has a solid record at intermediate tracks like the 1.5-mile oval, earning five of his eight career top-10 finishes on tracks between one and two miles long.

For the 10th time this season, Roush Fenway Racing’s Ryan Reed has a special guest riding along with him during Saturday’s NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) race at Texas Motor Speedway. The No. 16 American Diabetes Association Drive to Stop DiabetesSM presented by Lilly Diabetes Ford Mustang will carry the name of Ryleigh Ashford above the passenger side window.

Dale Earnhardt, Jr. checked another item off of his bucket list with a victory in the Goody’s Headache Relief Shot 500 at Martinsville Speedway. It took him 30 starts at the half-mile Virginia track to win the coveted Martinsville grandfather clock trophy.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. has yearned for a famous Martinsville Speedway grandfather clock winner’s trophy since he was a little boy. Sunday he finally got to take his own home.

Richard Childress Racing teammates Ryan Newman, Austin Dillon and Paul Menard finished third, 12th and 14th, respectively.

DALE EARNHARDT, JR., NO. 88 NATIONAL GUARD CHEVROLET SS – RACE WINNER - THERE ARE A LOT OF REASONS TO WANT TO WIN TODAY. WHAT STANDS OUT TO YOU TODAY? “Oh, man. We’ve been trying to win here for so many years. And this place is so special to me. I’ve wanted to win here so bad. We brought the good cars. I’m out of breath from celebrating more than driving."

Martin Truex Jr. kept coming back from tire rubs and hits to his race car Sunday at the Martinsville short rack. But Truex’s flat-black No. 78 Furniture Row/Denver Mattress Chevrolet found itself in a non-survivable situation when it got collected with major damage during a multicar wreck on Lap 437 of 500.

JOEY LOGANO – No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Ford Fusion – “It was a solid points day. It’s a good the 88 won and not the 24, that’s a good thing. We just weren’t fast enough with our Shell/Pennzoil Ford. We didn’t have the lateral, forward drive that I needed off the corner and every time we tried to fix that the center didn’t turn."

Matt Kenseth (sixth) was the first Toyota driver to the finish line in Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at Virginia's Martinsville Speedway. Dale Earnhardt Jr. was the race-winner.

DALE EARNHARDT, JR., NO. 88 NATIONAL GUARD CHEVROLET SS – RACE WINNER - THERE ARE A LOT OF REASONS TO WANT TO WIN TODAY. WHAT STANDS OUT TO YOU TODAY? “Oh, man. We’ve been trying to win here for so many years. And this place is so special to me. I’ve wanted to win here so bad. We brought the good cars. I’m out of breath from celebrating more than driving."