NASCAR Cup Series

While Roush Fenway Racing has posted a NASCAR record 309 wins during its “25 Winning Years” of NASCAR racing, the team has also finished in second place an additional 278 times. And while some may point out that the runner up is only the first loser, any racing enthusiast knows that in order to take home the checkered flag; you first have to be in position to do so.

In Thursday testing at Kansas Speedway in anticipation for the race this weekend, Denny Hamlin would suffer a hard crash that would have him feeling dizzy. During testing on Thursday, Hamlin lost control in turn one during the first hour of testing and hit the turn two wall.

Brad Keselowski (No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger R/T) CAN YOU TALK ABOUT BEING HERE AT KANSAS AND LEADING THE POINTS AND WHERE WE ARE IN THE CHASE AND HOW THINGS ARE LOOKING FOR YOUR GUYS? "Sure. You know, just every week it's just another opportunity to get ourselves that much closer to having a realistic shot at the championship."

The elite teams of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series will be making their second trip of the season to the Kansas Speedway for Sunday's running of the Hollywood Casino 400. The NASCAR Chase for the Sprint Cup championship is now 50% complete and we're seeing a clearer picture regarding who's in and who's out in the title run. We'll also be watching the drivers compete on the "new Kansas Speedway."

The Toyota Racing Dream Build Challenge -- a vehicle-modification build competition where fans will determine the winner among four Toyota Racing drivers who are competing for charity -- is giving fans a chance to win too when they finally get to see the completed vehicles unveiled on the Dream Build website this Saturday, Oct. 20.

Trevor Bayne, driver of the No. 21 Motorcraft Ford Fusion, and Matt Kenseth, driver of the No. 17 Best Buy Ford Fusion, both came into the Kansas Speedway infield media center after testing yesterday. Bayne was driving the new 2013 NASCAR Fusion while Kenseth was in the current model preparing for this weekend’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race. Following is a transcript of their comments:

For the Oct. 21 race in Kansas City, Montoya’s No. 42 Target racecar will be painted “Red”—not the color, but the highly anticipated, deluxe album from six-time GRAMMY-Award winning artist Taylor Swift.

Trevor Bayne and the Wood Brothers race team return to Kansas Speedway this weekend. This race is particularly unique in that Bayne arrives for the first time in a Sprint Cup car and the first time since a Nationwide Series appearance last year and the Woods for the first time since 2010.

Clint Bowyer’s No. 15 Pink Lemonade 5-hour ENERGY Toyota returns to Kansas Speedway for Sunday’s 400-mile race - the sixth stop in the 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup.

So what will come of all those notes Jeff Gordon’s No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports team accumulated over the last 12 years at Kansas? Into the recycling bin they go.