NASCAR Cup Series

While running in second place with five laps remaining in Stage 1, Martin Truex Jr. saw his day cut short when his car exited Turn 4 and went directly into the wall due to a flat tire.

JAMIE MCMURRAY, NO. 1 CESSNA CAMARO ZL1 – Finished 3rd - ON HIS RUN: “Yeah, it was basically just a really good day for us from the start of the race. The car was pretty good, especially on the long runs. And then fortunate to miss a lot of the wrecks that happened and survived and then had good pit stops. So, all around just a pretty solid day for our team.”

Out of his car and flag in hand, Kyle Busch performed his trademark bow to a mixed reaction of cheers and jeers from the...

JAMIE MCMURRAY, NO. 1 CESSNA CAMARO ZL1 – Finished 3rd - ON HIS DAY: “We just had a really good car and were able to miss some of those accidents. The off-weekend couldn’t have come at a better time for us. We had such a horrible season going and it’s awesome to run as good as we did today at a 1.5-mile. We have so many of these and I feel like we have been a little bit behind on the 1.5-miles but had a really good run today.”

KEVIN HARVICK, No. 4 Busch Light Ford Fusion - Finished: 2nd - YOU OVERCAME AN AWFUL LOT THROUGH THE COURSE OF THE DAY TODAY: “We did overcome a lot. That was unfortunate. We had a pathetic day on pit road, two days on pit road because of pit guns. When you have a pit gun problem like we have multiple times and been able to overcome it and then today we couldn’t overcome it. Time after time you can’t get the lug nuts tight because the pit guns don’t work.”

Kurt Busch, Kevin Harvick and Clint Bowyer will start in the top-3 positions Sunday, a sweep for Stewart-Haas Racing. Team Penske’s Ryan Blaney starts 4th, one of five Fusions in the top-10.

Inclement weather halted qualifying for Sunday’s O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway, and the field will be set per the results of the first session.

ERIK JONES, No. 20 Reser’s Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - Talk about being back at Texas Motor Speedway for the race here this weekend. “Texas has always been a place that I’ve enjoyed from really everything I’ve ran here from trucks to Xfinity and now in Cup. The repave changed it a lot here last year and you know made it quite a bit different than what it was."

RYAN BLANEY, No. 12 Menards/Richmond The Water Heater Experts Ford Fusion -- CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THE SEASON SO FAR? “It’s been a good year for our team. I think Ford, in general, obvious has a ton of speed. It’s nice to be in that camp. We’d like to get a win on the Penske side. When Ford is winning it’s helping everybody. We’re really close. We just need to close that little bit of a gap to beat the best cars out there. We’re getting there. I thought we had potential in first practice today. We’ll see where we’ll qualify. Yeah, this a fun race track. It’s aging well. It seems to be winding out a little bit more. I think that will be even better in the race. It’s just a matter of time and the tire dragging deal. We’ll see what we have for ‘em on Sunday. Hopefully we’ll be competitive and have a shot.”

Clint Bowyer, the most recent race winner in the NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series, visited the media center at Texas Motor Speedway after posting the second fastest time in the opening practice session of the weekend.