NASCAR Cup Series

Hendrick Motorsports executive vice president and general manager Doug Duchardt will leave the organization later this summer. He will remain in his role through the end of June.

Stenhouse Jr. will take on a new role Saturday afternoon as a pit-road reporter during the live broadcast of the NASCAR XFINITY SERIES race. The race will be called entirely by active Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series drivers. Tune in at 1 pm ET.

KEYS TO BEING SUCCESSFUL AT POCONO: "Pocono (Raceway) is a tough place," Buescher said. "All three corners are so different, and it’s just a unique race track. It’s challenging. I love going there. We were able to pull off the win there last year and pull off a little bit of strategy and that’s always going to be a big part of Pocono and racing in general."

JONES AT POCONO RACEWAY: Erik Jones will make his first-career NASCAR Cup Series start this weekend at Pocono Raceway in the Pocono 400 on Sunday, June 11. While this will mark Jones first-career Cup Series start at “The Tricky Triangle,” he has competed at the track in the NASCAR XFINITY Series (NXS), NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) and the Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA). His most recent start at the track came last season in the XFIINITY Series where he started from the pole and finished second. Jones also has a second-place finish in ARCA competition. His worst finish at the track among his five starts in the three series is 12th, earned in an ARCA race in 2014.

Darrell Wallace Jr., driver of the No. 43 Smithfield Ford Fusion, will be making his Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series debut this weekend at Pocono Raceway, filling in for Aric Almirola. He was part of a NASCAR Teleconference earlier today in which he spoke about the opportunity.

1. Jimmie Johnson: Johnson started at the rear of the field due to a gear change and charged to the front to win the AAA 400, his 11th career win at Dover and 83rd career Cup victory, tying Cale Yarborough.

When it comes to extraordinary television, sit on the edge of your seat excitement, Dover under green will not exactly get your heart racing. In fact, Sunday’s race was more of a cautionary tale. When the yellow waved, the interest spiked.

On Monday, RPM made an historical selection for a more permanent replacement as they announced that Darrell “Bubba” Wallace Jr. will fill in for Almirola and take the seat behind the wheel of the #43 Smithfield Ford Fusion for the Pocono 400 this Sunday at Pocono Raceway.

The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series heads to Pocono Raceway for the first time this weekend and there will be a new face behind the wheel of the No. 43 Ford Fusion for Richard Petty Motorsports as Darrell Wallace Jr. makes his debut filling in for the recovering Aric Almirola. Ford has 22 Cup wins at Pocono, including the circuit’s last visit in August when Chris Buescher captured the first win of his career.

Richard Petty Motorsports announced today that NASCAR XFINITY Series regular Darrell "Bubba" Wallace Jr. will pilot the No. 43 Ford while Aric Almirola recovers from his injuries. Wallace brings five years of NASCAR experience in both the XFINITY and Camping World Truck Series and has been a member of the Ford Performance team since 2015. Wallace, a graduate of NASCAR's Drive for Diversity program and inaugural member of NASCAR Next, will make his first Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series start at Pocono Raceway this weekend.