NASCAR Cup Series

If there’s one thing that Martin Truex Jr. wants to achieve in Sunday’s AAA Texas 500 Sprint Cup Series race it’s to see his mojo return after it took a two-week hiatus due to uncontrollable circumstances.

Brad Keselowski and the No. 2 Miller Lite Ford Fusion are tied with teammate Joey Logano with a series-leading two victories in the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Chase for the Championship. Keselowski has claimed three victories in the last eight races and he is the winningest driver to date this season with a career-high six victories to his credit.

The Series heads to Texas Motor Speedway for Sunday’s 334-lap event at the fast 1.5-mile Fort Worth facility. Hamlin is a two-time Texas winner, sweeping a pair of races at the track in 2010. In 17 career races at Texas, Hamlin has posted eight top-10 finishes and has led 151 laps.

Michael Annett and the No. 7 CypressHQ Chevrolet SS race team head west this weekend to the 1.5-mile Texas Motor Speedway, located less than an hour from the Addison, Tex. offices of team sponsor Cypress Associates, for the 34th race of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season.

At Talladega he finished third and last weekend at Martinsville he had another shot at a win when he started fourth during a green-white-checkered restart. Unfortunately, he got hung in the high line during the final laps but still managed to finish seventh. He carries that momentum into Texas where Bowyer has finished in the top 10 in six of the last eight races, including an eighth-place finish at the Ft. Worth track back in April.

Brian Vickers and the No. 55 Aaron’s Dream Machine team at Michael Waltrip Racing are getting a jump on the 2015 season testing the newly unveiled 2015 Toyota Camry this week at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif.

Few positions in sports are as important to the success or failure of their teams as the NASCAR Sprint Cup crew chief.

Edwards has three wins at Texas in the Sprint Cup Series to include 2005 and a sweep in 2008.

His smile is infectious and his exuberance contagious. Nowhere was that more evident than in victory lane after Dale Earnhardt Jr. finally won at Martinsville Speedway. He’s an unexpected combination of vulnerability and a hidden strength born of tragedy that endears him to not only his fans but his fellow competitors as well. When Earnhardt wins it’s difficult not to get caught up in his joy.

Hosting the first Eliminator race in the Chase, here is what was surprising and not surprising in the 66th annual Goody’s Headache Relief Shot 500 at Martinsville Speedway.