NASCAR Cup Series

Ryan Blaney and the No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane team showed Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway that despite a disappointing 12th-place finish they’re capable of being a major player in NASCAR’s Monster Energy Cup Series.

Recap: Brad Keselowski and the No. 2 Miller Lite Ford Fusion team nearly extended their streak of top-five finishes to six before finishing sixth in Sunday’s 500-mile race at Texas Motor Speedway. One week after winning at Martinsville Speedway in Team Penske’s 1000th Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race, Keselowski began Sunday’s race in the fifth position.

Jimmie Johnson took his seventh Texas Motor Speedway victory and his first victory of 2017 on Sunday, holding off Kyle Larson by 0.340 seconds to win the O'Reilly Auto Parts 500. Johnson, who has struggled mightily in the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season, also earned his second top-10 of the season.

Trevor Bayne, driver of the No. 6 Performance Plus Motor Oil Ford Fusion, rebounded after having to go to a backup car following an incident in final practice on Saturday to earn a 13th-place finish in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) event at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday afternoon. The result is Bayne’s fifth top-15 finish in the first seven races of 2017.

Despite the newly repaved surface, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. drove his Ford Performance Ford to a 14th- place finish in Sunday’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) race at Texas Motor Speedway scoring two top-10 and three top-15 finishes in his past three starts.

RYAN BLANEY (No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion) - Finished 12th “That last pit stop was pretty discouraging. We got back in that third debris caution. I don’t know what it was there at the end of segment two and that made everybody have split strategies and we got in the back and couldn’t pass anybody."

After dominating the early stages of the O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 at Texas Motor Speedway, winning the first two stages, miscues on pit road pushed the Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion back to a 12-place finish.

JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 48 LOWE’S CHEVROLET SS – RACE WINNER - THEY SAY EVERYTHING IS BIGGER IN TEXAS. HOW BIG WAS THIS WIN? “I guess I remembered how to drive; and I guess this team remembered how to do it! I’m just real proud of this team."

Today, Dell EMC announces that, for the first time ever, the company is sponsoring a NASCAR team, JTG Daugherty Racing. Through this partnership, Dell EMC is working with JTG Daugherty Racing to help provide a competitive edge through the implementation of technology within the racecar, on the track and at the shop.

Kevin Harvick topped the leaderboard in all three rounds of Coors Light Pole qualifying, circling Texas Motor Speedway in the final round at 198.405 mph to earn his 19th career pole. The Stewart-Haas Racing driver is also the first repeat pole-sitter this season, having earned the top qualifying spot at Atlanta Motor Speedway in March.