NASCAR Cup Series

Ford Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series drivers Clint Bowyer, Joey Logano, Ryan Blaney and Aric Almirola all came into the Charlotte Motor Speedway infield media center on Friday morning to talk about their respective positions in the Playoff standings and Sunday’s debut race on the Roval. Here are transcripts from each Q&A session with the media.

JTG Daugherty Racing announced today a new driver to their two-car lineup, signing 27-year-old Ryan Preece in a multi-year contract. Preece will join JTG Daugherty Racing for his first full-time Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season starting in the 2019 DAYTONA 500 at Daytona International Speedway driving the No. 47 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1.

One of the best known names in motorsports, Darrell Waltrip, a three time NASCAR Cup Series champion and member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame plus a Fox TV personality will be a headliner at the Pioneer Pole Buildings Motorsports 2019 Race Car & Trade Show presented by Sunoco and distributed by Insinger Performance. The three day show, now in its 34th consecutive year, will take place January 18-20, 2019 at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, PA.

For most Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series teams, the Charlotte, North Carolina area is where they call home. Teams race and test at Charlotte Motor Speedway with ease, knowing exactly what they are getting themselves into, having been there for many years. This weekend, however, NASCAR's top teams will battle at Charlotte Motor Speedway in a different fashion: taking on the "roval". The roval is a 17-turn, 2.28 mile race course which utilizes portions of the familiar NASCAR oval and also the infield road course. The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Bank of America Roval 400 will be 109 laps, 248.52 miles, and will prove to be a test of both car and driver.

2XU, the world’s most technical sportswear company, has joined 12-time NASCAR Cup Series champions Hendrick Motorsports as the team’s Official Performance Apparel Partner through the 2021 racing season.

Race fans looking to wager on their favorite drivers during Dover International Speedway’s upcoming tripleheader weekend will have the convenience of placing their bets on-site on Oct. 6-7.

They thought Talladega was a wild card. Boy, something tells me that Charlotte’s Roval is going to test them like never before. This one makes the World 600 nothing more than a nice test, a rest in some ways, before the storm coming their way on Sunday.

With the experience that comes from 427 career starts and 12 full seasons on NASCAR’s elite Monster Energy Cup Series, Paul Menard generally has a good idea what’s ahead of him when he heads to a race track.

Ready to Roval: The Series makes their first-ever visit to the 17-turn Roval at Charlotte Motor Speedway this Sunday, Sept. 30, for the first cut-off race in the 2018 Playoffs. In 26 Cup Series road course starts between Sonoma and Watkins Glen, Hamlin has collected one win, six top-five and 11 top-10 finishes, notching four of those top-five finishes in his last six starts over the last three seasons. At the traditional Charlotte Motor Speedway oval, Hamlin has made 26 starts and earned nine top-five finishes, including five in his last six starts at the 1.5-mile speedway.

AmericanMuscle’s Hot Lap series is a monthly video installment featuring some of the most popular topics in the Ford Mustang landscape. This month’s AM Hot Lap features a tour of AWE Tuning to witness how AWE builds the highest quality Mustang exhausts on the market.