NASCAR Cup Series

With a little help from NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Martinsville Speedway announced Tuesday that the North Carolina State University Marching Band will perform the National Anthem prior to the Goody’s™ Headache Relief Shot™ 500 Powered by Kroger on October 27.

JTG Daugherty Racing welcomes back Bobby Labonte to the No. 47 BUSH’S Beans Toyota Camry at New Hampshire Motor Speedway after missing races due to three broken ribs from a cycling incident.

Biffle has 22 Sprint Cup career starts at Loudon, earning one win, one top-five and eight top-10 finishes.

No. 56 NAPA AUTO PARTS Toyota driver Martin Truex Jr. hopes to make it a Michael Waltrip Racing sweep this weekend at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. MWR teammate Brian Vickers won the July 14 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race on the Magic Mile.

No. 15 5-hour ENERGY Toyota driver Clint Bowyer plans to bring home more than just the trophy from New Hampshire Motor Speedway this weekend. Bowyer’s Michael Waltrip Racing team races at NHMS on Sunday but it marks his second trip to the “Granite State” in two weeks.

Marcos Ambrose and the No. 9 DEWALT Ford team will head back to New England for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series second stop at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway this weekend. They will do so with a nice run of momentum since August.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr., driver of the No. 17 Best Buy Ford Fusion, heads to New Hampshire Motor Speedway this weekend on a upswing of momentum following his second top-10 finish of the season last weekend in Chicago. Stenhouse talks about what he and the team have figured out, his own personal Chase, and how he will race those drivers in the actual Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.

Last weekend at Chicagoland Speedway, Harvick and the No. 29 Budweiser Designate a Driver team earned a third-place finish. Harvick is ranked fourth in the Chase for the Sprint Cup, just 15 points behind leader Matt Kenseth.

David Gilliland doesn't mince words when you ask how he feels about New Hampshire Motor Speedway. It's always been among his least favorite tracks on the circuit. But he credits crew chief Frank Kerr with changing his attitude about the 1.058-mile oval this season

If history repeats itself, the No. 34 Taco Bell team should be looking at another quality finish at New Hampshire Motor Speedway this weekend. David Ragan and crew earned a 19th-place finish in the Sprint Cup Series' first trip to the 1.058-mile oval this season, and they'll aim for a few spots better in the return trip.