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Rookie Respect: Although Kyle Larson won’t be making a run for the NASCAR Sprint Cup over the next 10 races, he will be continuing to race for rookie of the year honors at season’s end. Currently, the Sunoco Rookie of the Year candidate has a 52-point lead in the rookie point standings and has been the top-finishing rookie driver in 18 of 26 races, finishing inside the top-10 on 11 occasions.

Justin Allgaier will make his second NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) start in the No. 51 BRANDT Professional Agriculture Chevy at Chicagoland Speedway on Sunday. Chicagoland was the site of the Riverton, Ill. native's NSCS debut last year in the No. 51 BRANDT Chevy.

MB Motorsports driver Justin Jennings will once again be behind the wheel of the #63 Mittler Brothers Machine & Tool / LG SEEDS Chevy Silverado at Chicagoland Speedway. "I really like racing at Chicagoland,” says Jennings. “Even though in some ways it’s similar to other mile and a half tracks, it has some unique characteristics that can challenge you both as a driver and in how you set the truck up.

For the seventh 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 Chicagoland Speedway. The No. 16 American Diabetes Association Drive to Stop DiabetesSM presented by Lilly Diabetes Ford Mustang will carry Rachel Janovsky’s name above the passenger side window.

Ryan Reed will make his second NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) start this weekend at Chicagoland Speedway. In his first start, coming earlier this season, Reed started 14th and finished 15th. Reed also has one start in the ARCA Racing Series at Chicagoland Speedway, coming in 2012, where he started fourth and finished fifth.

Unity Field features more than 3,000 American Flags proudly displayed to honor the victims of 9/11. The flags were placed by members of the Columbia Central High School National Honor Society in Lot 10 at Michigan International Speedway on Tuesday. In addition, members from the Brooklyn America Legion, Gleaner Arbor in Adrian, Michigan and MIS staff assisted.

Penske marks 400th motorsports win: A week after celebrating its Verizon IndyCar Series driver and entrant championships in Southern California, Team Penske principals marked the organization's 400th victory in all forms of motorsports in the stock car race at Richmond, Va.

Will Kimmel is back behind the wheel of the No. 44 Camry this weekend at Chicagoland Speedway. This will be the first track where Kimmel has turned, and even led, laps before; with four starts in the ARCA Racing Series. After his 25th place finish last weekend in Richmond, VA, Kimmel is looking forward to running 300 laps on Saturday afternoon.

After his 20th place finish last weekend at Richmond International Raceway, Mike Bliss is ready to return to Chicagoland Speedway this weekend. With 12 NASCAR Nationwide Series starts at the 1.5-mile speedway, Bliss has an average starting position of 16.8 and an average finishing position of 17.0. Bliss has turned over 2,000 laps at the speedway and is ready to turn 300 more laps Saturday afternoon.

NASCAR announced on Monday that all 16 Challengers in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup would participate in a “Chase Across North America” media tour. Sixteen drivers in sixteen different cities, with one in each Chase market and additionally Los Angeles, Mexico City, San Antonio, TORONTO, New York and Bristol Connecticut.