NASCAR Cup Series

NASCAR notified teams this afternoon in all three national series that they have made some modifications to the knock-out qualifying procedure.

McDowell is not short on experience with race stats on tracks less than one-mile in length. He has 25 starts on short tracks in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. "Bristol Motor Speedway is awesome. I cannot wait to get there this week.

“Bristol has been a really great race track for me and our whole Roush Fenway group. We’ve had a lot of fun there and we have a lot of wins in the Truck, Nationwide and Cup series. I had the chance to go out there earlier this season and talk to the folks at Bristol.

NASCAR notified its teams this afternoon that effective immediately the following modifications apply to all elements of its national series qualifying including the breaks:

“Bristol will always be a little bit special to me because it is the first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race I made,” Allmendinger said. “I enjoy it, but like I have said before it is just a tough place. You fight for 500 laps around there.

Rome has its Colosseum and so does the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series circuit. Bristol Motor Speedway self-titled its .533-mile oval, the “last great Colosseum.” Clint Bowyer and the rest of NASCAR travel there this weekend ready to do battle.

Last weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Harvick started 16th and finished 41st after a mechanical failure sent him to the garage area for repairs, which put the team 30 laps down.

Paul Wolfe, crew chief of the No. 2 Miller Lite Ford Fusion, was a guest earlier today on the weekly NASCAR Sprint Cup Series teleconference.

Las Vegas Recap: Denny Hamlin finished 12th in Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, fighting an ill-handling #11 FedEx Ground Toyota throughout the 267-lap event won by Brad Keselowski on the bumpy 1.5-mile oval.

Brian Vickers doesn’t mind sharing Michael Waltrip Racing’s secret for success at Bristol Motor Speedway. That secret has led to three top-five finishes in his last four races on the Bristol high banks.