NASCAR Cup Series

JUST THE FACTS: Sorenson has 14 Sprint Cup starts at Richmond International Raceway ... He has two top-10 finishes at the 3/4-mile track ... The race will be the 29-year-old's first with Front Row Motorsports, filling in while David Ragan subs for the injured Kyle Busch in the No. 18 car.

The Pete Store will go racing once again with David Gilliland's No. 38 Ford in 2015. The largest privately owned Peterbilt dealer by sales in the country reached a multi-race agreement with Front Row Motorsports for the current season, starting with Saturday night's race at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway.

Biffle started the race 26th due to qualifying being rained out and looked to have a Ford capable of a top 10. As the laps dwindled down a tight handling condition developed, and that combined with a few mishaps on pit road resulted in lost track position. Biffle battled back and earned a 15th-place finish.

Richmond Preview: Hamlin will return to the cockpit of the #11 FedEx Ground Toyota in Saturday night’s Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond International Raceway. Following neck spasms that forced him out of the car after 22 laps Sunday at Bristol, Hamlin will compete at his hometown track this weekend.

Heading into Saturday Nights Toyota Owners 400, Gase will be making his first career NSCS start at "America's Premier Short Track". The 21 year old, Gase has a best NSCS finish of 33rd, which came last fall at Phoenix. This weekend's race will additionally be a double duty weekend, as the Iowa native will run for Jimmy Means in the Xfinity Series on Friday Night.

Reed made his NASCAR XFINITY Series debut at Richmond International Raceway (RIR) in April 2013 and earned a 16th-place finish. He went on to finish 9th in the September 2013 race at the track and finished 12th and 16th in the spring and fall 2014 races at the track, respectively.

Kevin Harvick led 184 laps at Bristol, but his fortunes turned dramatically when he crashed into David Ragan’s spinning No. 18 car. Harvick finished 38th, 43 laps down, ending his streak of seven consecutive top-10 finishes this season.

In spite of buying his glove the night before the game, Joey Logano led his Monster Mile softball team to a 12 to 6 victory over the Pocono Raceway team led by Dale Earnhardt Jr., with an assist from Darrell Wallace, Jr.

SEASON-TO-DATE: After the first eight NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races this season, Kasey Kahne currently ranks first in quality passes (698), second in average running position (9.232), second in fastest drivers on restarts (7.750 average rank), second in laps in top 15 (2,380), third in fastest speed in traffic (7.000 average rank), fifth in fastest drivers late in a run (6.857 average rank), sixth in fastest drivers early in a run (7.714 average rank), sixth in driver rating (97.7), seventh in green-flag speed (6.857 average rank) and eighth in fastest laps run (101).

Elliott Sadler makes his 24th NASCAR XFINITY Series (NXS) start at Richmond International Raceway (RIR) this Friday night in Richmond, VA. In Sadler’s previous 23 starts, he has two top-five and 10 top-10 finishes at RIR. Sadler has also led 77 laps at RIR in the NXS.