NASCAR Cup Series

Follow EGR on Twitter: Continue to follow Earnhardt Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates (EGR) on their official team Twitter page. Find in-race updates and weekly news on the No. 1 and No. 42 teams throughout the 2012 season by following “@EGRTeams”.

Mud run, qualifying run and race run. Those three competitions are consuming 100 percent of Kurt Busch’s focus as he heads to Texas Motor Speedway for a memorable weekend at the mega “No Limits” motorsports facility.

In a joint announcement today at the 2012 AAPEX Conference and Exhibition in Las Vegas, Florida-based Green Earth Technologies (GET) joined the stable of Official NASCAR Green Partners. GET’s G-CLEAN® pressure washers and environment-safe cleaning products and degreasers for concrete, home siding and outdoor mold and mildew stain removal, will offer NASCAR fans a green alternative to use on their homes.

No. 15 5-hour ENERGY Toyota crew chief Brian Pattie is bringing two proven race winning chassis to the racetrack over the next two weeks as he tries to close the gap on the points leaders. Bowyer is third in the point standings trailing leader Jimmie Johnson by 26 points with three races remaining.

Stenhouse, Jr. on racing at Texas Motor Speedway: “Racing under the lights at Texas always brings excitement. You can race the entire track from top to bottom and the track gets really fast at night. This is NOS Energy Drink’s final paint out of the year so it would be great to get them into victory lane. We are down to the final three races so I have to do my job inside the car, and my No. 6 team has to execute on pit-road. It would be awesome to sweep both Nationwide races at Texas this year.”

This Week's Toyota "Let's Go Places" Toyota ... Kenny Wallace will pilot RAB Racing with Brack Maggard chassis No. 42 in Saturday's NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Texas Motor Speedway. A workhorse of the RAB Racing stable, this Toyota Camry has raced 10 times in 2012, at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and Auto Club Speedway in March, at Texas Motor Speedway in April, at Charlotte Motor Speedway in May, at Michigan International Speedway and Kentucky Speedway in June, at Iowa Speedway in August, and at Richmond International Raceway and Kentucky Speedway in September.

Nearly every day the 53-year-old driver of the No. 55 Aaron’s Dream Machine Toyota logs on to www.weighttraining.com under the name 55markmartin and posts the weight, sets, and repetitions he did in the gym.

John Wes Townley will pilot RAB Racing with Brack Maggard chassis No. 48 in Friday's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Texas Motor Speedway. This Toyota Tundra has raced eight times in 2012, at Kansas Speedway in April, at Charlotte Motor Speedway in May, at Texas Motor Speedway and Kentucky Speedway in June, at Chicagoland Speedway in July, and at Pocono Raceway and Michigan International Speedway in August. Most recently, this chassis raced at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in September.

Something else that is getting bigger in Texas? The groove at Texas Motor Speedway, according to Jeff Gordon. It has been feast or famine for the driver of the No. 24 Drive To End Hunger Chevrolet at the Texas track. In 23 starts, Gordon has one win (2009), two poles, eight top-fives and 11 top-10's. He also has seven finishes of 25th or worse.

Ron Hornaday competed in the inaugural NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) event at Texas Motor Speedway on June 6, 1997