NASCAR Cup Series

"The Daytona 500, obviously, is the biggest Great American race. It is what stock car racers dream about. I am thrilled to death to be making my debut with a company like Shore Lodge and Whitetail with ECR Engines under the hood.

“We’ve got a really fast race car which is great. The guys worked really hard on our Fastenal Ford and we have increased our speed a lot since testing. I’m really excited about the race. Now we just have to make it through the Duels without tearing it up."

“When we came down here in January we just weren’t as fast as we wanted and we went home, did our homework, worked really, really hard and found some speed. These guys have worked so hard on this race car, the engine shop, nobody has given up. I feel good about the speed we had during qualifying and I’m ready for the 500.”

“We have been strong since we’ve been here so I am looking forward to the Daytona 500. Even though we didn’t get the finish we wanted in the Sprint Unlimited, we learned some things for the Duels and the Daytona 500. Daytona has so much history that we all want to add our name to the list of Daytona 500 winners.

Sometimes there isn't much drivers agree upon, but one thing that is pretty unanimous within the garage is that winning a Daytona 500 is a life and career-changing event. But for those that haven't won the Great American Race, we wanted to know what race to this point in their career had been a life-changer.

As a means to raise awareness and resources to fight global poverty and injustice, the No. 78 Furniture Row Chevrolet, driven by Martin Truex Jr., will display signage for World Vision during the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup season.

Watching 43 cars pack race three- and four-wide at 200 mph around NASCAR’s biggest and most competitive race track – Talladega Superspeedway – has always been a “Must See” event. But now, thanks to a valuable video enhancement initiative launched by International Speedway Corporation (ISC) for 2014, it’s going to be much easier to take in the view of views in NASCAR, beginning with the Aaron’s Dream Weekend set for May 2-4.

The long season, well it might have been just three months, of our winter discontent has come to a close. The engines are running, our hopes and dreams have been renewed, and NASCAR keeps trying its damndest to drive us to watching something else.

With all the rule changes, driver swaps, and format modifications, this has been one of the most hectic off-seasons in recent memory. But, a fresh season of NASCAR awaits as the Daytona 500 draws nearer. Plenty of questions are still buzzing around the head of many fans.

In what came as a shock to almost nobody, Austin Dillon drove his Earnhardt-Childress Racing powered No. 3 Chevrolet to the top of the leaderboard in qualifying. Dillon was very fast in both testing and practice for the Daytona 500, so him winning the pole was no surprise.