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JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 48 LOWE’S CHEVROLET SS, met with members of the media at Texas Motor Speedway and discussed his success at the track, strengths of his challengers in the Chase and being in close proximity to some of those challengers.

JOE GARONE, GENERAL MANAGER OF FURNITURE ROW RACING AND MARTIN TRUEX, JR., NO. 78 FURNITURE ROW/DENVER MATTRESS CHEVROLET SS, met with members of the media at Texas Motor Speedway and announced that Martin Truex, Jr. will be the driver of the No. 78 Chevrolet SS in 2014 and beyond.

KYLE BUSCH, No. 18 Snickers Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - Are you excited to return to Texas after the success in the spring? "It certainly went well for us here earlier this year and we made it a lot of fun. Looking forward to being able to do that here again and try to have a repeat performance of those successful races. We'll see how it goes -- obviously a lot can happen throughout the weekend."

MATT KENSETH, No. 20 Home Depot 'Let's Do This' Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - How do you feel heading into the final three races of the year being tied for the points lead? "Obviously I'm happy to be the leader even though it's just really a tie and we have the tie breaker. I'd be more happy if we were the leader and it was three-and-a-half weeks from now, so we still have three races to go. Glad we're still in it. I'm looking forward to the challenge here in the next three weeks. Hopefully we can go out here and run away -- I know we're capable of running up front and get a good result on Sunday and keep rolling."

Furniture Row Racing general manager Joe Garone announced today that the Denver, Colo.-based organization has entered into a multiyear agreement with Martin Truex Jr. to drive the team’s No. 78 Chevrolet, beginning with the 2014 Sprint Cup Series season.

Phoenix International Raceway president Bryan R. Sperber, along with six of his fellow leaders in sports, business, entertainment and public policy will participate in “Arizona’s Heating Up,” an innovative webcast on Thursday, Nov. 7 at 1 p.m. MST (3 p.m. EST) which will be broadcast digitally from the Royal Palms Resort and Spa.

Penalties have been issued to the No. 3 team in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series following last weekend’s race at Martinsville Speedway.

Even though Kurt Busch finished 37th and dropped to 24th in driver points at the Texas Motor Speedway race in April, the Furniture Row Racing driver feels it was the turning point of the season for the single-car team.

Edwards has accumulated three wins at the 1.5-mile Texas track, the most of any active Sprint Cup driver. Edwards’ average start at Texas is 14.1 and his average finish is 14.4. He is one of only two drivers to win both the spring & fall events in the same year at Texas.

Nationwide teams had run for 21 straight weeks before taking the past two weekends off. The schedule resumes Saturday at TMS with the O’Reilly Auto Parts Challenge, a 300-mile race on one of the circuit’s fastest tracks.