NASCAR Cup Series

This past weekend, while the stars of NASCAR battled in the Coliseum at Bristol, many on the east coast battled the effects of Hurricane Irene.

STEVE ADDINGTON (Crew Chief, No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Dodge Charger R/T): “It just makes a short week going to Richmond for our engineers, do some stuff to our Richmond cars on pull down rigs and things."

ROBBY GORDON (No. 7 SPEED Energy Dodge Charger R/T): HOW DIFFICULT IS IT TRYING TO QUALIFY EACH WEEK? “The reality is today I can’t find enough sponsors to run the whole race.

Clint Bowyer put his No. 33 Cheerios/Hamburger Helper Chevrolet, on the outside of the front row for tomorrow night's AdvoCare 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway with a lap of 29.819 seconds, 185.922 m.p.h. It is the best qualifying effort for Bowyer in 10 previous starts at the 1.5-mile speedway.

KASEY KAHNE, No. 4 Red Bull Toyota Camry, Red Bull Racing Team Starting Position: 1st How was your qualifying lap? "It was a good lap. Coming to the green I felt like I had a good car."

MARCOS AMBROSE – No. 9 Kwikset Ford Fusion – “We don’t want it to get too cool here because this track is so temperature sensitive. We’re really looking to start decent on Sunday night and give ourselves for that $3 million bucks."

Kasey Kahne won the pole for Sunday’s AdvoCare 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway with a lap of 29.775 seconds (186.196 mph). It was Kahne’s 22nd career pole and third at the speedway.

JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 48 LOWE'S CHEVROLET, met with members of the media at Atlanta Motor Speedway and discussed racing at Atlanta, the Chase, social media and other topics.

JEFF GORDON, NO. 24 DRIVE TO END HUNGER CHEVROLET, met with members of the media at Atlanta Motor Speedway and discussed his season to-date, the Chase, cycles of teams and drivers and other topics.

DENNY HAMLIN, No. 11 Charter Communications Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing What do you think about this weekend's race at Atlanta? "Atlanta has been a good track for me over these last few years and we've always had a car that can contend for a win.