NASCAR Cup Series

Austin Dillon stretched his gas mileage and ended the race on fumes, earning his first career MENCS victory on Sunday night, capturing the checkered flag in the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

It all began early Sunday morning along the coast of Monte Carlo and the Monaco Grand Prix. I am not a big fan of driving fast and little passing, but Monaco is a different breed. Fabulous architecture and big expensive craft that fill the marina are the background for a street race that has the competitors driving just a bit above the recommended speed limit for you and I. Simply put, they go fast on a road not built to go fast, be it alone or among 20 other speed demons.

Chastain is scheduled to make his debut in the Cup Series in the AAA 400 Drive for Autism Sunday at Dover International Speedway. He also will drive in Saturday’s OneMain Financial 200 Xfinity Series race and the Friday’s Bar Harbor 200 Camping World Truck Series race, both also at Dover. His vehicles in all three events will carry sponsorship from the OHS in support of safe driving.

Martin Truex Jr. said that not winning Sunday night’s Coca-Cola 600 had a stinging effect. But there was a silver lining for the Furniture Row Racing driver with his third-place outcome in NASCAR’s longest race (400 laps, 600 miles).

Gutsy Fuel Strategy Call in Coca-Cola 600 Helps Austin Dillon Earn Career-First Victory in No. 3 Dow Chevrolet in front of Hometown Crowd "I feel like we did our jobs. We took a car that was capable of running fifth to eighth, and we took it to Victory Lane. The pit crew did an amazing job. I had a really good restart and an okay restart that hurt us a little but."

A good measure of a race team is how it responds to adversity. Ryan Blaney and the Motorcraft/Quick Lane team lived up their sponsor’s name, “Quick Lane Tire and Auto Center” by giving a good account of themselves in Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. They rebounded from a broken axle and finished 24th, which dropped them just one position to 12th in the championship standing.

Austin Dillon won his first career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race in a fuel-mileage runto the finish in the rain-delayed Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway; Dillon crossed the finish line early Monday morning and held off Kyle Busch, Martin Truex Jr., Matt Kenseth and Denny Hamlin; Dale Earnhardt Jr. finished 10th in his final Coca-Cola 600 start

Martin Truex Jr. came close to giving Furniture Row Racing another victory in the Coca-Cola 600, but the overall picture Sunday night for the two-car race team out of Denver, Colo. provided many highlights.

Recap: Joey Logano and the No. 22 Shell-Pennzoil Ford Fusion team started 23rd and finished 21st in Sunday night’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Logano and the team struggled to find speed for most of the weekend, despite running the 10th fastest time in final practice on Saturday afternoon; those struggles continued in the early stages of the 600-mile event Sunday. On the opening run of the race, Logano battled a car that was tight and it built tighter throughout the run.

At the same track that he made his first Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENSC) start at in 2011, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. drove his Fastenal Ford to a 15th – place finish in Sunday night’s rain delayed Coke 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.