NASCAR Cup Series

Marcos Ambrose will race the No.9 STANLEY Ford this weekend at the Charlotte Motor Speedway, marking the final time that he'll race at the track that most NASCAR drivers call 'home'. Ambrose has made 11 previous starts at the track and has three Top-10 finishes and one Top-Five result.

A NEW SHADE OF BLUE DUECE: This weekend the No. 2 Team Penske Ford Fusion will feature blue Detroit Genuine Parts colors. This marks the second race that the No. 2 Ford Fusion is appearing in the livery this season (Richmond). A key Alliance Truck Parts partner, Detroit Genuine Parts is a premiere brand in the transportation aftermarket that supplies remanufactured parts to commercial on- and off-highway customers around the world.

Despite a 25th-place finish at Kansas Speedway last weekend, the No. 43 WinField team showed speed throughout the weekend but bad luck during the race put Armstrong several laps down.

The job demands for the driver of the Aaron’s Dream Machine are more than just climbing behind the wheel of the No. 55 for 38 races each year. Like most NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers Brian Vickers also makes time for media and sponsor work along with a heavy dose of testing to make his Toyota faster. As the Sprint Cup Series prepares for Saturday night’s Charlotte race, the Michael Waltrip Racing driver’s time is in high demand.

Justin Allgaier will make his second NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) start at Charlotte Motor Speedway (CMS) on Saturday night. In his first NSCS start at the 1.5-mile speedway in May, Allgaier's night ended with a 37th-place finish due to a part failure. Allgaier has 11 starts in the NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) at CMS, with two top-five and six top-10 finishes, along with six laps led. Steve Addington, crew chief of the No. 51, has one win at Charlotte with Kurt Busch in 2010.

After four races since the start of the Chase, Truex and the single-car Furniture Row Racing team are doing it. And they’ve been doing it with an exclamation mark.

Last weekend at Kansas Speedway, Harvick earned the pole award with a track-record speed and lap time – a feat he also accomplished at the 1.5-mile track in May. He finished 12th on Sunday after the team had to make an unscheduled green-flag pit stop.

Ford Racing has won three of the first four NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Chase races this season. That’s two behind the manufacturers' all-time single season Chase high of five, which was set in 2005 and 2008.

Stenhouse Jr. made his first Sprint Cup start at Charlotte in 2011 in the famed No. 21 finishing an impressive 11th-place.

Trevor Bayne will make his Roush Fenway Racing Sprint Cup debut this weekend at Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway behind the wheel of the No. 6 AdvoCare Ford Fusion. This marks the first time that a No. 6 Roush Fenway Ford will start a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race since the 2012 season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Bayne will take the wheel of the No. 6 Ford Fusion full time in 2015.