NASCAR Cup Series

The drivers of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series do not have to travel much further than their back yards to get to the track this week. A hometown race this week, and the only night race of the 2013 Chase for The Sprint Cup for the vast majority of teams this week. There have been 109 races at Charlotte Motor Speedway, everyone knows the history that has been made at the track, so I'll spare the history for some statistics this week.

With an impressive NASCAR Sprint Cup season thus far, including four wins, with fourteen top-5 and eighteen top-10 finishes, Kyle Busch has won many...

Kevin Harvick’s stride will set in this weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway (CMS). Harvick started on the pole and dominated last weekend at Kansas Speedway, setting Harvick as a legitimate contender to steal the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) championship.

After a late crash in the Hollywood Casino 400 last week at Kansas Speedway that landed Busch a 34th place finish and caused him to drop two spots in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup standings, Busch comes to Charlotte Motor Speedway on a mission.

MATT KENSETH, No. 20 Dollar General Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - Are you happy to be back at Charlotte? "Glad to be here at Charlotte. I was really looking forward to getting here after how good we ran in the spring. We were off yesterday and really didn't qualify very fast -- kind of struggled in qualifying trim. Looking forward to getting in the car here in about 45 minutes and hopefully getting it dialed in for tomorrow."

Richard Childress Racing and Germain Racing have agreed to form a technical alliance in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series competition, beginning with the 2014 season.

Roush Fenway Racing announced today that Ryan Reed will drive the No. 16 American Diabetes Association Drive to Stop Diabetes Presented by Lilly Diabetes Ford Mustang full-time in 2014 on the NASCAR Nationwide Series circuit. Reed, who will be running for the series championship and rookie of the year honors, was part of a press conference today to talk about the deal.

As the green flag falls Saturday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway there are only six races left in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship. Not only will the Bank of America 500 be a vital race to the thirteen drivers in contention for the championship, but it will be a monumental race in the NASCAR careers of Kyle Larson and Brain Scott, who will be making their NASCAR Sprint Cup Series debuts.

NASCAR’s ten time most popular driver celebrated his 39th birthday Thursday, and will be making his 500th Sprint Cup Series start under the lights Saturday at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

The last four qualifiers each held the pole position for a few minutes, but Jeff Gordon is the only one who gets to keep it. As the night’s final qualifier, Gordon knew the pole was up for grabs as speeds climbed higher as Bojangles’ Pole Night Qualifying Thursday at Charlotte Motor Speedway went on, and he answered with a blazing lap in 27.791 seconds (194.308 mph).