NASCAR Cup Series

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.

Ryan Newman is known for his talent of winning poles, and today in qualifying for the Sylvania 300, he did just that with a record-setting lap of 27.904 seconds/136.497 m.p.h. It is his second pole of the 2013 season, and the seventh time the driver of the No. 39 Quicken Loans Chevrolet SS will lead the field to the green flag at New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS). In 2002 and again in 2011, Newman started on the pole at NHMS and won the race.

Flat-track ace Ryan Newman stole the show in Cup qualifying with a blistering lap of 27.904 seconds....a new track record! Kasey Kahne will accompany Ryan on the front row with another pair of Chevy's taking up row 2 with Jeff Gordon and Kurt Busch. Martin Truex Jr. was the highest qualifying non-chaser in 5th and Carl Edwards has the worst starting spot among chasers in 26th.

MARTIN TRUEX JR., No. 56 NAPA Auto Parts Toyota Camry, Michael Waltrip Racing - Starting Position: 5th - How was the qualifying lap?"I wish I could do it over again to, be honest with you. We were good in practice, but we weren't great. We needed to make some adjustments and the guys did just an awesome job on the race car."

RYAN NEWMAN, NO. 39 QUICKEN LOANS CHEVROLET SS – POLE WINNER - ON HIS NEW TRACK RECORD:"I've told you before that this track is the birthplace of track position and qualifying great with our Quicken Loans Chevrolet is extremely important obviously for where we are in the points and this time of year. It is really difficult to pass. Having a good pit selection; having all those things we've had so many times before... "

JOEY LOGANO – No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Ford Fusion – “That was faster than I thought it felt, that’s for sure. It didn’t feel great, but Todd’s given me a really fast car, so that made up for a lot of the handling there. We’ll see where it hangs in there, but going out this early is definitely a disadvantage when you come here to Loudon, so we’ll have to wait and see. There are a lot of cars left still, so we’ll ride it out and hopefully it’s in the top five or seven and go from there.”