NASCAR Cup Series

Ty Dillon will pilot chassis No. 441 for this weekend's SpongeBob SquarePants 400 at Kansas Speedway. This Chevrolet SS was last raced earlier this season at Auto Club Speedway by Brian Scott. Dillon is scheduled to make his fourth-career Sprint Cup Series race. He made a start in the No. 33 Cheerios/Kroger Chevrolet SS earlier this season in the Daytona 500.

David Ragan will be a popular driver at the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Kansas Speedway Saturday night.

The SpongeBob SquarePants team just welcomed another of its friends to the field for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway on May 9, 2015, -- with NASCAR young star Ty Dillon set to drive the No. 33 Plankton Chevrolet SS.

In spite of the stereotype of many sports fans, including race fans, as having room to improve as far as wellness, fitness and healthy eating, NASCAR as a sanctioning body has taken that effort to heart and has made great strides in its own wellness efforts.

Under the guise of unusually good weather, as well as a new qualifying format, here is what was surprising and not surprising in the 46th annual Geico 500 at Talladega Superspeedway.

In NASCAR, it is also all about family. It was started by a family and has featured such families as the Pettys and Allisons. We were thrilled by their success and crushed by their tragedies. They were and remain a part of us.

Just in time for the start of one of the busiest and most intriguing months of the racing season this May, Team Penske is proud to unveil a new website design and functionality at www.TeamPenske.com.

Richard Childress Racing teammates Paul Menard, Ryan Newman and Austin Dillon finished third, seventh and 35th, respectively, in the GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. Menard ranks 11th in the Sprint Cup Series championship point standings, trailing current leader Kevin Harvick by 114 points, while Newman ranks 14th and Dillon ranks 25th.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. thrilled the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series fans at Talladega Superspeedway by winning the GEICO 500 in dominating fashion to capture his first victory of the 2015 season and 24th of his Cup career.

It was a performance of being steady and savvy for Martin Truex Jr., who nailed a fifth-place finish in Sunday's Geico 500 at the harrowing Talladega Superspeedway.