NASCAR Cup Series

The beating and banging of Martinsville Speedway and Richmond International Raceway mirror the short-track action Friday and Saturday nights that we all grew up on, and really take me back to some of my best times as a race fanatic.

Kevin Harvick led the way for Team Chevy in today’s NASCAR Sprint Cup qualifying session at Richmond International Raceway by putting his No. 29 Jimmy John’s Chevrolet on the on the inside of row two, in third place, with a time of 21.067 seconds and 128.041 mph for Saturday’s Capital City 400 Presented by Virginia is for Lovers.

A.J. Allmendinger (No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Dodge Charger R/T) Qualified 4th ARE YOU HAPPY WITH THAT LAP? “Yeah, I’m really happy with that. You know, the lap times here are so close and this place is so tough to get a lap in and be smooth but overall just really happy with it. "

CARL EDWARDS, No. 99 Ford EcoBoost Ford (Qualified 2nd) “We haven’t been very good in qualifying for about the last month and Jack (Roush) said he has quit giving me advice because he thought that was part of it. But he hasn’t said anything in about a month and I asked if he had any advice and he said, ‘No sir, I am not saying anything.’ But he is happy."

JEFF GORDON, NO. 24 DUPONT CHEVROLET met with media and discussed racing conditions at Richmond, upcoming track changes at Bristol, the need to improve when qualifying, how warm weather could affect the racing at Talladega, segment times, and more.

Mark Martin qualified late and captured the pole for Sunday’s Sprint Cup Series Capital City 400 at Richmond International Raceway with a lap of 128.327 MPH (21.04 secs).

Casey Weston, Nashville-basedrecording artist and former finalist on the popular TV show, “The Voice,” will perform the National Anthem for the NASCAR Sprint Cup SeriesBojangles’ Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway on Saturday, May 12.

FAS Lane Racing is proud to announce that The Faith and Freedom Coalition (FFC) will sponsor the team’s No. 32 Ford driven by Reed Sorenson in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race this Saturday, April 28th, at Richmond International Raceway.

As part of Zest’s sponsorship of driver Matt Kenseth, they have launched a “Race to Get Zestfully Clean with the No. 17” Facebook contest for NASCAR fans.

NASCAR Sprint Cup driver AJ Allmendinger recently announced that he was establishing a scholarshipdesigned to give one young deserving racer the opportunity to run a full karting season.