NASCAR Cup Series

After a tire issue left him floundering mid-pack for much of Sunday’s TUMS Fast Relief 500, Edwards delivered a gutsy charge to the front late in the race. He salvaged a ninth-place finish and maintained his points lead, which is now eight over Tony Stewart.

As the boys moved on from Martinsville en route to Texas, the Chase has come down to essentially a two man race. Carl Edwards went to Virginia hoping to avoid disaster, which would have been to maintain his average of 16th place finishes there.

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After a wild race on the short track of Martinsville, Roush Fenway travels west to Texas Motor Speedway to one of its best tracks on the circuit, where the team boasts 15 wins in NASCAR competition, including two this season.

Biffle on Texas: “I love racing at Texas. We had a couple of chances to win there last year and just had things go wrong. We led over 200 laps there last fall and had a shifter problem that took us out of contention for the win. Based on how fast our cars have been at mile-and-a-half tracks this year, I feel confident that we can go back to Texas and compete for a win if we don’t have anything go wrong.”

Burton was the top finishing non-chase driver at Martinsville Speedway on Sunday with his sixth place finish. This is his second consecutive top-10 in a row after finishing second in the Good Sam Club 500 at Talladega Superspeedway.

Martinsville Recap: Denny Hamlin drove the No. 11 FedEx Ground Toyota to a fifth-place finish Sunday at Martinsville Speedway, leading 58 of the 500 laps en route to his fifth top-five finish of the season. With the result, Hamlin remains 11th in the Chase standings with three races remaining.

Dodge's Kurt Busch qualified eighth and finished 14th at Martinsville. He remains eighth in the NSCS driver standings, 58 points behind the leader.

Roush Fenway Racing moves into this weekend’s NASCAR showdown at Texas Motor Speedway not only holding the point lead in both the Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series standings, but looking to close the deal on its 300th NASCAR win.