NASCAR Cup Series

Trevor Bayne, driver of the No. 6 Performance Plus Motor Oil Ford Fusion, met with media members Friday afternoon after posting the 13th fastest practice time on the newly reconfigured and repaved Texas Motor Speedway.

CHASE ELLIOTT, NO. 24 NAPA CHEVROLET SS – Involved in a single-car accident during the first Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series practice at Texas Motor Speedway - WHAT EXACTLY LED TO YOUR IMPACT? “Just got out of the groove there off (Turn) 2 and got too high and got the wall. Then had too much wheel in it going the other way, so just a mistake on my end. I hate it. I thought our car was pretty good, so hopefully this one will be just as good if not better.”

JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 48 LOWE’S CHEVROLET SS, met with members of the media at Texas Motor Speedway and discussed the newly repaved and reconfigured Texas Motor Speedway, slowing the cars down for better racing and many other topics.

CHRIS BUESCHER, NO. 37 SCOTT PRODUCTS CHEVROLET SS met with media and discussed driving the newly-paved Texas Motor Speedway in the pace car and shooting video, coming to his hometown track, and more.

DANIEL SUÁREZ, No. 19 STANLEY Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - How was your last weekend at Martinsville Speedway? "Well, talking a little bit about last week, just happy to get that week over because it was a lot going on in that week and weekend and it was a lot of work and a lot of rush and a lot going on and I'm just glad that we got that behind, and now we are working on what we have to do here in Texas. Texas normally has been a pretty good place for me. Now with the new Texas, I am happy to get the same result. Looking forward to seeing the racetrack shortly."

CLINT BOWYER (No. 14 Haas Automation Ford Fusion) -- SO MANY XFINITY RACERS HAVE SAID THEY ARE THANKFUL YOU ARE PRACTICING FIRST HERE BECAUSE THEY WILL BE WATCHING. “Yeah, I was hoping they would pack the track for us. I don’t know. Eddie (Gossage) needs to know. That is short-track 101, you have the sport classes pack the track for you. What the hell?”

NASCAR has always been a sport where teams push the envelope. Whether that’s a team trying to squeak something by inspection or a team trying to get the slightest advantage in the gray area of the rule book, innovation and outside the box thinking has always been something teams have tried.

Michael McDowell and Leavine Family Racing (LFR) are thrilled to return to the LFR team owners’ home track of Texas Motor Speedway.

This weekend the Monster Energy NASCAR Truck Series heads to Texas Motor Speedway for the O’Reilly Auto Parts 500. With his victory at Martinsville, Brad Keselowski became the first driver to grab multiple wins this season. But did you know that Hendrick Motorsports and Joe Gibbs Racing, the two most successful active teams in NASCAR, are winless after six races?

This weekend the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series and the XFINITY Series.travel to Texas Motor Speedway. The drivers will practice on the newly repaved track for the first time Friday, April 7 in preparation for Saturday’s NXS My Bariatric Solutions 300 race and Sunday’s O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 event. Both races will be televised on FOX.