NASCAR Cup Series

The roar of NASCAR Sprint Cup engines will be filling the air at Martinsville Speedway this fall long before the green flag falls on the Goody’s® Headache Relief Shot® 500 Powered by Kroger on October 27.

With finishes of second and third in the last two events at Dover International Speedway, Jeff Gordon has come close recently to securing another win at the one-mile track. If the four-time track winner visits Victory Lane for a fifth time here Sunday in the AAA 400, it could go Miles toward Gordon's goal of a fifth championship.

Matt Kenseth is the man to beat in the 2013; there is no doubt about that. He has now won both chase races with his teammate, Kyle Busch finishing 2nd just like Chicagoland last weekend.

GREG BIFFLE – No. 16 3M Ford Fusion – “It was a miracle. We didn’t pass anybody in the pits, we passed them all on the race track. I feel really good about how far the team has come. We had great pit stops, but we just got good at the end and our car really, really took off. "

Kurt Busch salvaged a 13th-place finish in Sunday's Sylvania 300 Sprint Cup Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

Jimmie Johnson, No. 48 Lowe's Chevrolet SS, finished fourth in the Sylvania 300 to lead four Team Chevy drivers to top-10 finishes. Today's run at New Hampshire Motor Speedway was the five-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion's second consecutive top-five finish in the 2013 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. With two of 10 races in the books, Johnson is third in points, just 18 points down to the leader.

Michael Waltrip Racing might have lost more than just a sponsor. The team that has exceeded all expectations since their inception in 2007, is about to go backwards instead of forwards.

The NASCAR silly season continues on to New England this week (I mean the 2013 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup) as we head to New Hampshire Motor Speedway for the second time this season. The biggest news yet again this week is what is happening off-track rather than the second race of this 2013 season full of parody and certainly, DRAMA.

Fasten your seat belt's because the National Weather Service is predicting precipitation Sunday in New Hampshire.

Joey Logano (6th) and Greg Biffle (10th) qualified in the top 10 for tomorrow’s scheduled running of the Sylvania 300 while Carl Edwards (26th) will have to work his way through traffic to get to the front. Ford Racing spoke with the crew chiefs for all three Chase drivers before Saturday’s practice and got their thoughts on where they’re starting and what they have to do to be successful on race day.