NASCAR Cup Series

EXPRESS NOTES: Pocono Recap: Denny Hamlin finished fifth in Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Pocono (Pa.) Raceway, overcoming early miscues to drive through the field for his seventh top-five result of the 2012 season.

TOYOTA TIDBITS POLE TO PODIUM AT POCONO: In Sunday afternoon's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at Pennsylvania's Pocono Raceway, Joey Logano earned his second career NSCS victory and his first of the 2012 season.

The improving Furniture Row Racing team is looking for hotter results as the pre-summer stretch run continues this weekend at Michigan International Speedway, site of Sunday's Quicken Loans 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race.

It doesn’t take much to get the Wood Brothers excited about racing at Michigan International Speedway. The two-mile oval is home territory for the team’s long-time backer, Ford Motor Company, and the Woods are tied with fellow Ford owner Jack Roush for all-time Sprint Cup victories there with 11 apiece.

Jeff Gordon Children's Foundation and Kick-It will be teaming up on the kickball field by challenging supporters to kick cancer out of every childhood once and for all.

Ford Motor Company will introduce the latest version of the F-150, part of America’s best-selling truck lineup, on Sunday when Ford’s President of The Americas Mark Fields leads the field to green for Michigan International Speedway’s NASCAR Sprint Cup series race in the new 2013 F-150.

What a beautiful track. What greenery. What a nice day. What good announcers, who were both informative and entertaining even when the race on TNT might not have always been.

June 16th – Johanna Long will visit the Team Chevy stage at 10:00 a.m. followed by defending NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Tony Stewart at 12:30 p.m. Danica Patrick will visit the Team Chevy stage for a question and answer session at 1:20 p.m. followed by James Buescher at 2:30 p.m.

It wasn't that many years ago when the arrival of driver Joey Logano to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, and Joe Gibbs Racing, was being heralded as "the best thing since sliced bread."

No. 56 NAPA AUTO PARTS driver Martin Truex Jr. might not know who will be on top of his pit box Sunday at Michigan International Speedway, but he knows whomever it will be will have one goal in mind — continue the seventh-place team’s momentum in 2012.