NASCAR Cup Series

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.

Trevor Bayne, driver of the No. 6 Ford EcoBoost Ford Fusion, overcame damage sustained in a Lap 245 incident and utilized fuel strategy in the closing laps of the rain-marred Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) event at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Sunday night to record a 16th-place finish.

Six hundred miles and 400 laps around Charlotte Motor Speedway was a marathon, not a sprint, for Austin Dillon and the No. 3 Dow Salutes Veterans Chevrolet SS team throughout the Coca-Cola 600 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race, the sports longest test of man and machine. This was Dillon’s first career victory in 133 NASCAR Cup Series starts and the first time the iconic No. 3 made its way back to Winner’s Circle since Dale Earnhardt, Sr. won at Talladega Superspeedway in the fall of 2000.

After breaking an axle during a Stage 2 pit stop, Ryan Blaney and the Motorcraft/Quick Lane Racing team rebounded to finish in the top 25 in the rain-delayed Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Camry driver Kyle Busch (second) was the highest-finishing Toyota driver in Sunday night’s Coca-Cola 600. He led 63 laps.