NASCAR Cup Series

KASEY KAHNE, NO. 5 FARMERS INSURANCE CHEVROLET SS, WAS THE GUEST ON THIS WEEK’S NASCAR TELECONFERENCE BELOW IS THE TRANSCRIPT:

Auto Club Speedway has hosted 23 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races with 14 race winners and 15 pole winners. Bobby Labonte has competed in all events collecting four top-five, five top-10 and one pole (2001).

Biffle has 18 Sprint Cup Series starts at Bristol, earning one win, four top-five and six top-10 finishes. He has an average starting position of 14.0 and finishing position of 17.2 at the track.

Stenhouse on Auto Club: “We are bringing the same car that we tested with at Las Vegas. We had a lot of speed during the test so I feel confident going into this weekend."

Bristol Recap: Denny Hamlin led a race-high 117 laps Sunday at Bristol Motor Speedway, but a cut tire with less than 10 laps remaining forced him to limp to the checkered flag in the #11 FedEx Freight Toyota, finishing 23rd in the event won by Kasey Kahne.

Need a new Toyota? Give Clint Bowyer a call. Before the No. 15 5-hour ENERGY Toyota driver travels to Auto Club Speedway for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race, Bowyer spent a few days in his hometown of Emporia, Kan. opening the new Clint Bowyer Autoplex.

Marcos Ambrose, driver of the No. 9 Mac Tools Ford Fusion for Richard Petty Motorsports, goes into this weekend's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Auto Club Speedway in 15th-place after four events. Ambrose and crew chief Drew Blickensderfer have high hopes for this season and while they admit the start to 2013 has been quiet, they don't expect it to remain that way.

Four-time Emmy® Award-winning producer Mark Burnett and his wife, actress Roma Downey, who together co-produced the hit cable miniseries The Bible, will serve as Co-Grand Marshals for the STP® Gas Booster™ 500 at Martinsville Speedway on April 7 (FOX, 1 p.m. ET).

RCR in SoCal ... In 69 overall NASCAR Sprint Cup Series starts at Auto Club Speedway (ACS), RCR Chevrolet teams have earned one win (Kevin Harvick - 2011), one pole award (Mike Skinner - April 2000), 10 top-five and 24 top-10 finishes.

Chip Ganassi Racing Teams (CGRT) and PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC) have formed a strategic sponsorship for the 2013 race season. The relationship, which includes assets across the CGRT’s IndyCar, NASCAR and Grand-AM programs, will be focused around key motorsports events for each series in the Indianapolis market.