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“This is a big weekend coming up for us. It’s the home track for the team. We just came off a spectacular finish at Kansas. After making it into this round of the Chase, we wanted to kick it off with a good points day, a solid run, no mistakes, and a lot of luck. We need another good run here in Charlotte.

With only four races remaining in the 2014 season, the RAB Racing No. 99 Rheem/Microsoft team head home to Charlotte for a Friday night showdown. James Buescher and the team are looking to secure a top-10 finish to close out the enduring 18-week stretch before having two weeks off.

Mike Bliss and the No. 19 TriStar Motorsports Camry team qualified 21st for the Kansas Lottery 300. After a disappointing finish last weekend in Dover, Bliss was ready to take on the 1.5-mile tri-oval speedway in Kansas. When an early caution came out, Bliss was battling teammate, David Starr for the 21st position. Bliss reported that his Camry was tight off and snappy loose and reported that he still hadn't gotten a feel for the car while running 21st.

JOEY LOGANO, TODD GORDON, ROGER PENSKE POST RACE PRESS CONFERENCE - JOEY LOGANO, No. 22 Shell Pennzoil Ford Fusion – TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR CHANCES GOING FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP THIS YEAR. “I feel good about it. Obviously everyone at Team Penske and this 22 team in particular has been amazing.

Chevrolet Rookie of the Year challenger, Kyle Larson, continued his impressive ways with a second-place finish at that Hollywood Casino 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Kansas Speedway, the first race in the ‘Contender’ segment in the new 2014 playoff format. The run was Larson’s eighth top-five finish of the season. The 22-year old driver of the No. 42 Target Chevrolet continues leads the Rookie of the Year battle over fellow Chevrolet competitor Austin Dillon.

“Awesome job guys, let’s keep it going and win Charlotte,” said Martin Truex Jr. to his crew following his fourth-place finish in Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400 Sprint Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway.

Kyle Busch (third) was the highest-finishing Toyota driver in Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at Kansas Speedway that was won by Joey Logano.

KYLE LARSON, NO. 42 TARGET CHEVROLET SS – FINISHED 2ND - WHERE WAS JOEY (LOGANO) JUST A LITTLE BIT BETTER THAN YOU AT THE END? “I don’t know if he was better than us, and I don’t know if we were better than him. I thought we were pretty equal and were running about the same laps there on the last run.

JOEY LOGANO, No. 22 Shell Pennzoil Ford Fusion (Finished 1st) VICTORY LANE INTERVIEW - YOU HAVE A FREE PASS INTO THE ELIMINATOR ROUND “I think my fiancée just took the Ice Bucket Challenge right here in victory lane. What a crazy race. We had such a fast Shell Pennzoil Ford again. It is so much fun to race these cars lately. Everyone at Team Penske has given me great stuff to work with. It is awesome to be back in victory lane again.

Ty Dillon qualified on the pole for the Kansas Lottery 300 at Kansas Speedway, his third of the season and was the highest qualifying Richard Childress Racing entry. Teammates Brian Scott, Paul Menard and Brendan Gaughan qualified fifth, eighth and 10th respectively.