NASCAR Cup Series

WEST COAST SWING: 2019 marks the fifth consecutive year that the NASCAR schedule has taken the series on a ‘West Coast Swing’ visiting Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Phoenix International Raceway and Auto Club Speedway in succession. Chevrolet has been the most successful manufacturer by earning six victories of the 12 races in the past three seasons that the series has made this mecca. One manufacturer is yet to sweep the “West Coast” swing in its current configuration.

Coming off a promising weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Roush Fenway Racing heads to the second straight 1.5-mile track on the circuit in Las Vegas Motor Speedway this weekend. RFR boasts 16 wins all-time in the Entertainment Capital of the World, having finished in the top-10 at more than half of the races it has competed in at the track.

Earlier today, Team Penske released the first video of the 2019 series of The Penske Games, which returns for its third season after achieving critical acclaim and impressive viewership totals in 2017 and 2018. The multi-episode social media series will be distributed online throughout the course of the 2019 racing season. The new season launched today with the Team Penske drivers playing a version of the popular party game, Minute to Win It, pitting NASCAR and Supercars drivers against their INDYCAR and IMSA counterparts.

JTG Daugherty Racing’s revolutionary sponsorship strategy will ramp-up at Las Vegas Motor Speedway with a sweepstakes beginning today. The first theme, Flavor Fill Up, will be prominently featured on the No. 37 Camaro ZL1 driven by Chris Buescher beginning at ISM Raceway and wrap up at Auto Club Speedway.

Richard Childress Racing's Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series History at Las Vegas Motor Speedway ... In 64 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series starts at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Richard Childress Racing Chevrolets have earned 10 top-five and 21 top-10 finishes with eight different drivers - Clint Bowyer, Jeff Burton, Austin Dillon, Dale Earnhardt, Kevin Harvick, Ryan Newman, Paul Menard and Mike Skinner.

Michael McDowell on Las Vegas - 10 Starts, Best Finish: 18th“I think that Vegas is going to be really different from Atlanta. There are obviously things that we learned in Atlanta that will apply, but the speeds and the smoothness of the track and just the amount of grip at Vegas, I think that teams are going to approach things quite a bit differently."

Newman will make his 20th MENCS start at Las Vegas Motor Speedway this weekend. In 19 prior starts Newman has an average finish of 15.5 with nine top-10 and four top-five finishes.

DIBENEDETTO BY THE NUMBERS: In four Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series career starts at Las Vegas, Matt DiBenedetto has an average start of 30.8 and an average finish of 25.8 with his best finish of 22nd in last March’s event. He’s completed 1,061 of 1,073 (98.9 percent) career laps at the 1.5-mile track.

Stenhouse has seven-career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) starts at Las Vegas with an average starting position of 15.7 and average finishing position of 23.3.

Fresh off its first Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series victory, the all-new NASCAR Ford Mustang will look to extend Ford’s winning streak at Las Vegas Motor Speedway to three in Sunday’s scheduled Pennzoil 400. Kevin Harvick and Brad Keselowski posted victories at the 1.5-mile track, which hosted two series events in the same season for the first time in 2018.