NASCAR Cup Series

On Sunday, Kurt Busch was able to hold off the charge of Jimmie Johnson on the last lap to score the victory at Martinsville Speedway. It marks Busch's first win in 83 races, and his first win Stewart-Haas Racing after moving over during the off-season.

“I think our intermediate program has been pretty good and we’re ready for Texas Motor Speedway,” AJ Allmendinger said. “Hopefully, I’m up there battling in the BUSH’S Beans Chevy for a top-10 finish if not a win."

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. on Texas: “Texas is one of my favorite tracks. The past two weekends have been tough for our team but I think we are all looking forward to getting to Texas and being competitive.

No. 55 Aaron’s Dream Machine Crew Chief Billy Scott’s career atop the pit box with driver Brian Vickers is only six races old. But the former team engineer feels like he’s already made a year’s worth of progress in his first season.

Aric Almirola and the No. 43 Eckrich Richard Petty Motorsports (RPM) Ford team head to the mile-and-a-half Texas Motor Speedway this weekend for Sunday's 500-mile event at the Texas Motor Speedway fresh off a top-10 finish at Martinsville.

Now with two Top-Five finishes after the first six races, Marcos Ambrose is off to his best start in his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career. His start has placed him 14th in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series point standings and in position to make the post-season.

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McMurray at Texas Motor Speedway: McMurray has made 20 previous starts at TMS. In those 20 starts he has compiled three top-five and six top-10’s finishes. He has an average starting position of 24.1 and average finish of 18.4.

Richard Petty Motorsports in enjoying the organizations most successful start to a season thus far in 2014. Coming off the organizations 100th and 101st top-10 finishes with Marcos Ambrose and Aric Almirola at Martinsville, the drivers, along with Director of Competition Sammy Johns, took part in a teleconference Tuesday morning to discuss the success both individually, and as a team.

"The only other mile-and-a-half that we've run to date is Las Vegas, and it doesn't wear the tires as much as Texas does. Lap times are very similar, very fast, but tire wear is a lot different at Texas. You wear it a lot more. So that is something that we will focus on and make sure our engineers have a good game plan for it.