NASCAR Cup Series

“I need to learn how to slow down. In everything else I drove, I’ve had to make up for the lack of equipment,” he explained. “You can’t do that in the Nationwide Series. The drivers are too good and the cars you’re racing against are really good.

They say the best relationships are formed over time, and two of the longest in NASCAR are the ones Richard Petty has formed with Goody’s® and Martinsville Speedway. The three will come together Oct. 26 as Petty has been named Grand Marshal of the Goody’s® Headache Relief Shot® 500.

For the final superspeedway race of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season, Kyle Larson welcomes Energizer® to the track as the primary sponsor on his No. 42 Chevrolet SS. Larson will trade in the familiar Bullseye on his hood for the iconic Energizer® Bunny, as he looks to keep “going and going” around the fast Talladega Superspeedway.

Superspeedway Racin'...Justin Allgaier will make his third NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) start at Talladega Superspeedway (TSS) on Sunday afternoon. TSS is one of four tracks where Allgaier made NSCS starts last year in the No. 51 BRANDT Chevy. He has completed all laps in his two NSCS starts at the 2.66-mile superspeedway. Allgaier has five starts in the NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) at TSS, with one top-five and three top-10 finishes, along with four laps led. TSS is the fourth and final superspeedway race of the 2014 season.

The anticipated more-rapid qualifying format for both the GEICO 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) and fred’s 250 Powered By Coca-Cola NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) races at Talladega Superspeedway will be unveiled this weekend and should create an extra element of fan excitement at the 2.66-mile venue. It marks the first time the new five-minute, three-round system will be used in 2014.

Two-time Daytona 500 champion Michael Waltrip’s hardest hit in life came when his sister called to tell him their mother, Margaret Waltrip, had suffered a major stoke due to arterial fibrillation (AFib.)

CAMRY CHASERS: All three Joe Gibbs Racing drivers are in the top-10 in points as the final race in the 'Contender' round of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship approaches this weekend at Alabama's Talladega Superspeedway.

Wood Brothers Racing and its driver, Trevor Bayne, expect the famed No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion to be running toward the front of the pack all day in the Geico 500 at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday, Oct. 19.

Will it be a morale booster or a morale buster? That’s the $64,000 question for 43 of the best stock car drivers as they approach Sunday’s Geico 500 Sprint Cup Series race at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway.

Assuming Trevor Bayne successfully qualifies the No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion at Talladega Superspeedway on Saturday, Sunday’s GEICO 500 will mark the Wood Brothers’ 400th start on a Sprint Cup speedway two miles in length or longer.