NASCAR Cup Series

When one of the legends in the sport leaves us, we remember. If a man is known simply by the company he keeps, Robert Yates did very well. As a team owner, he was the boss to such NASCAR luminaries as Davey Allison, Larry McReynolds, Ernie Irvan, Dale Jarrett, and Ricky Rudd.

In 160 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series starts at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Richard Childress Racing teams have earned eight points-paying victories (four wins with Dale Earnhardt, one with Jeff Burton,  two with Kevin Harvick and one with Austin Dillon) and four All-Star race victories (three with Earnhardt and one with Harvick), giving RCR 12 total Cup Series checkered flags at the Concord, N.C.-based track.

Almirola has 10 Monster Energy Series starts at Charlotte Motor Speedway where he scored a pole in 2012, one Top-10 and three Top-15 finishes. In his eight XFINITY and two Camping World Truck Series starts, he tallied one Top-Five, a fourth in the XFINITY race in 2007, and five Top-10 finishes.

Following the first cutoff race in the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs, Chevrolet has four drivers still in contention to take home this year’s championship title. Kyle Larson, Jimmie Johnson, Chase Elliott and Jamie McMurray will reset this weekend and begin their quest to advance from the Round of 12 to the Round of 8 taking on the challenges of Charlotte Motor Speedway this weekend, followed by Talladega Superspeedway and Kansas Speedway.

Roush Fenway Racing returns to Concord, N.C. for homecoming weekend as the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) prepares to race at home for the second time in the 2017 MENCS season at Charlotte Motor Speedway. A Roush Fenway Ford has visited victory lane at Charlotte on 20 different occasions across NASCAR’s three major touring series.

Following last Sunday’s race in Dover, Martin Truex Jr. said, “I am looking forward to the next round of the playoffs and feel good about where this Furniture Row Racing team is at right now.”

With the first NASCAR Playoffs hurdle cleared – transferring to Round 2 – Ryan Blaney and the Motorcraft/Quick Lane Racing team embark on the second leg of the championship journey, which begins Sunday with the Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Erik Jones views his last race at Charlotte Motor Speedway as a major step forward in his 2017 NASCAR Cup Series season and the driver of the No. 77 5-hour ENERGY Toyota sees Sunday’s Bank of America 500 as another opportunity to progress.

The Round of 12 begins this weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway with four Ford drivers from different organizations still in the championship hunt. Ryan Blaney (Wood Brother Racing), Kevin Harvick (Stewart-Haas Racing), Brad Keselowski (Team Penske), and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (Roush Fenway Racing) remain in contention. Here’s a look at where each stands going into Sunday’s event and how Ford has fared in this annual race.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. will join Brad Paisley at Paisley’s JR Nation Appreci88ion concert presented by Wrangler and Nationwide on Saturday night at zMAX Dragway; The concert is FREE to ticketholders for Sunday’s Bank of America 500