Trevor Bayne makes his seventh NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) start at Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway on Friday evening. In six previous starts at the 1.5-mile oval, Bayne has recorded one top-five and four top-10 finishes.
A NEW SHADE OF BLUE DUECE: This weekend the No. 2 Team Penske Ford Fusion will feature blue Detroit Genuine Parts colors. This marks the second race that the No. 2 Ford Fusion is appearing in the livery this season (Richmond). A key Alliance Truck Parts partner, Detroit Genuine Parts is a premiere brand in the transportation aftermarket that supplies remanufactured parts to commercial on- and off-highway customers around the world.
Carlos Contreras, the first Hispanic-born NASCAR driver continues his bid towards 100 career National Series starts this Friday night at Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway (CMS) in the running of the Drive for the Cure 300 presented by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina.
Despite a 25th-place finish at Kansas Speedway last weekend, the No. 43 WinField team showed speed throughout the weekend but bad luck during the race put Armstrong several laps down.
The job demands for the driver of the Aaron’s Dream Machine are more than just climbing behind the wheel of the No. 55 for 38 races each year. Like most NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers Brian Vickers also makes time for media and sponsor work along with a heavy dose of testing to make his Toyota faster. As the Sprint Cup Series prepares for Saturday night’s Charlotte race, the Michael Waltrip Racing driver’s time is in high demand.
Justin Allgaier will make his second NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) start at Charlotte Motor Speedway (CMS) on Saturday night. In his first NSCS start at the 1.5-mile speedway in May, Allgaier's night ended with a 37th-place finish due to a part failure. Allgaier has 11 starts in the NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) at CMS, with two top-five and six top-10 finishes, along with six laps led. Steve Addington, crew chief of the No. 51, has one win at Charlotte with Kurt Busch in 2010.
After four races since the start of the Chase, Truex and the single-car Furniture Row Racing team are doing it. And they’ve been doing it with an exclamation mark.
Last weekend at Kansas Speedway, Harvick earned the pole award with a track-record speed and lap time – a feat he also accomplished at the 1.5-mile track in May. He finished 12th on Sunday after the team had to make an unscheduled green-flag pit stop.
BRINGING BACK THE TWO-CAR EFFORT: Team Penske will return to a two-car NASCAR Nationwide Series organization this weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway, with Ryan Blaney driving the No. 12 Western Star Trucks Ford Mustang. Greg Erwin will return to the crew chief seat as part of the two-car effort. The duo worked together earlier this year at Kentucky, where they finished fifth driving a second NNS Mustang for Team Penske.
Ford Racing has won three of the first four NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Chase races this season. That’s two behind the manufacturers' all-time single season Chase high of five, which was set in 2005 and 2008.
Jimmie Johnson confirmed that he will compete in the 2027 DAYTONA 500 with a familiar car number – the No. 48 – in the final NASCAR Cup Series start of one of the most accomplished careers in the history of American motorsports.
The two-time ARCA Menards Series East champion from Prairie, Minnesota, cut his points deficit to make the Chase cutline by 14 points with a fifth-place run at IMS.
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