NASCAR Cup Series

A total of 17 Team Chevy drivers will start the AdvoCare 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at Atlanta Motor Speedway

Michael Waltrip Racing has never placed one their cars in the Sprint Cup Series Chase for the Championship, they've never had a driver finish in the top 10 in points. But after Sunday night’s race at the Atlanta Motor Speedway, the AdvoCare 500, MWR could check one of those off their list by having both of their full-time drivers locked into the 2012 playoffs.

David Gilliland will being driving his No.38 Ford Fusion at Atlanta this Labor Day during the Advocare 500 with special attention to a local business and the US Military, both having ties to local towns just outside of Raleigh, NC.

Greg Biffle, driver of the No. 16 3M Ford Fusion, was the highest Ford Racing qualifier for tomorrow night’s AdvoCare 500. Biffle, who is scheduled to start second, led the first practice session on Saturday at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Atlanta is one of those tracks where I really respect the drivers for hanging it all out there and really being on the edge of disaster at all times. Its aging surface lacks grip giving drivers with a background in dirt racing a competitive advantage over the field. It reminds me of the days of watching the DIRT modified's circle 'D-Shaped Dirt Demon' at my hometown track, the 3/8th-mile in Brewerton, NY.

Danica Patrick announced Saturday at Atlanta Motor Speedway that she will pilot a special hot pink race car at the Oct. 12 Dollar General 300 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in honor of October’s Breast Cancer Awareness month. A line of pink racing memorabilia will also be sold, and a portion of the proceeds will benefit the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

Each race weekend, SRT Motorsports provides insight on the ‘Keys for Success’ for the upcoming race. This week SRT Motorsports engineer Howard Comstock discusses the AdvoCare 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

From a distance, the scene on the infield grass in Atlanta Motor Speedway’s turn four ballfield looked like any ordinary game of kickball. But get a little closer, and it was easier to tell that this group of NASCAR drivers, wives, media and young kids -- many wearing kerchiefs over bald heads, a universal badge of honor for cancer warriors – weren’t assembled for a carefree sporting event.

September is an important month in the childhood cancer community. It recognizes the patients, survivors and fighters who fall victim to pediatric cancer. Jeff Gordon, Jeff Gordon Children's Foundation and Kick-It have honored this special month by hosting a kickball game at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

It’s fitting that Trevor Bayne’s first Atlanta Motor Speedway start as a Sprint Cup driver will come in a No. 21 Ford Fusion painted with new colors – the red and blue of Good Sam and Camping World on the top and sides, and the yellow stripe of a rookie on the rear bumper.