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Roush Fenway Racing moves into the first weekend of the 2012 Chase for the Sprint Cup looking for its first-ever NASCAR win at the 1.5-mile tri-oval of Chicagoland Speedway.

On August 17, 2012, Justin Griffin was riding his bicycle, a 15th birthday present from his mom, down a road in his hometown of Grove City, Penn.

It’s a busy and important time in the life of No. 56 NAPA AUTO PARTS Toyota driver Martin Truex Jr. - and that’s just describing the time before he arrives at Chicagoland Speedway for Sunday’s first of 10 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup races.

Kevin Harvick and the No. 29 Budweiser Designate a Driver Chevrolet team travel to Joliet, Ill., this weekend for Sunday’s GEICO 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at Chicagoland Speedway.

Kansas will be top of mind for Regan Smith in this weekend's Geico 400 Sprint Cup race at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Ill. "I'm just as excited about heading to Chicagoland Speedway as are the 12 Chase drivers," said Smith. "The reason for the optimism is that we're taking the same Furniture Row/Farm American Chevrolet that we tested with in Kansas a few weeks ago. We were really fast in the Kansas test session, which is a 1.5-mile track like Chicagoland."

DODGE QUOTES: “I’m really looking forward to Chicago. We ran really well there in the fall race last year. We had a pit stop and a couple of the nuts got away from the changer. We were already debating whether to take two or four and we should have taken two ‘cause it was the left-front ones that got away from him. But we finished fifth. We had a real long green-flag run there towards the end. We came out tenth or so and we were able to get back up to fifth without any yellow flags. We had a car that was capable of winning there but we didn’t get the job done. We’ll go back and try to get it done this year.” --Sam Hornish Jr.

TOYOTA TIDBITS RICHMOND REWIND: Clint Bowyer earned his second NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) win of the season in Saturday night's rain-delayed race at Richmond International Raceway, the final event before the start of the 10-race 'Chase for the Sprint Cup' championship. Bowyer's triumph also marked the third consecutive victory by a Toyota driver -- after Denny Hamlin's back-to-back wins at Bristol Motor Speedway (Aug. 25) and Atlanta Motor Speedway (Sept. 2). Bowyer led the final 88 laps (of 400) in the Michael Waltrip Racing (MWR) No. 15 5-hour ENERGY Toyota Camry en route to victory lane.

Fresh on the heels of announcing a reunion of lifelong friends joining forces for the upcoming NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, FAS Lane Racing is proud to announce that North Country Ford will sponsor the team in this historic event. The Frank Stoddard led team will field the No. 32 North Country Ford that will be driven by Stoddard’s lifelong best friend Mike Olsen in the running of the Sylvania 300 on Sunday September 23, 2012.

THE NUMBERS for the GEICO 400 - Chicagoland Speedway (all 12 Sprint Cup races) 1 – win from the pole (Kyle Busch, 7/12/08) 1 – number of times qualifying canceled due to weather (7/12/08)

Going back to his roots, Bobby Runyan Jr. took the weekend off from his normal stock car racing to enter a double regional event in the San Francisco SCCA. Runyan Jr. drove one of Porter Racing's Formula Continental's powered by JKB Energy at Thunderhill Raceway in Northern California. Although not unfamiliar with Formula cars, being the 2009 Formula Ford Champion, Runyan Jr. had never driven a winged car. The 2.0 liter powered machine would be his first attempt at such a race car with this much power and the added down force that the front and rear wings would provide.