NASCAR Cup Series

McMurray at New Hampshire: Jamie McMurray has 21 previous starts at the NHMS in NSCS competition. McMurray’s best start of third came in 2003 and his best finish of third came in 2010. He has four top-10 and two top-five finishes with an average start of 21.6 and average finish of 22.8. McMurray has completed 5877 of 6270 (93.7%) laps of competition and has led 32 laps in the Granite State. On his first visit to NHMS this season, McMurray qualified 11th and finished 12th.

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to today's NASCAR Cam teleconference. We are joined by Kurt Busch, driver of the No. 78 Furniture Row/Denver Mattress Chevrolet for Furniture Row Racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Busch is 6th in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup standings with nine top 5 and 14 top 10 finishes. He has three wins and 11 top 10 finishes at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, the site of Sunday's Sylvania 300.

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.