NASCAR Cup Series

NASCAR levied L1-level penalties against the No. 2 car of Team Penske and the No. 4 car of Stewart-Haas Racing in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series on Wednesday following Sunday's race at Phoenix Raceway.

27th in Points: Coming in to the Auto Club 400 this weekend, Matt DiBenedetto and the No.32 Can-Am/Kappa Riding team sit 27th in points just four races into the season.

Despite placing fourth on Sunday, no Ricky Stenhouse Jr. No Dale Earnhardt Jr. Neither Austin Dillon or Ty Dillon. No Danica Patrick. A.J. Allmendinger was third at Daytona, outside the Top Twenty ever since. One can have the name, the equipment, the marketing, but results are what matters and for some those results just have not been there just yet.

Rookies in the Spotlight… Toyota drivers Daniel Suárez and Erik Jones earned their career-best Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) finishes of seventh and eighth, respectively, at Phoenix International Raceway on Sunday.

Kyle Larson has ascended to the top of the points standings following his third consecutive runner-up showing last Sunday at Phoenix. It’s the latest in the season a Chip Ganassi Racing car has led the standings since Sterling Marlin’s Coors Light Silver Bullet led the field in 2002.

After a scoring a Top-15 finish in Vegas, the No. 43 Smithfield team looks forward to another intermediate race this weekend at Auto Club Speedway. Aric Almirola is 17th in the Championship Points and looking for a solid finish this weekend. The team continues to work on their program looking for results and consistency this season and California

Learning from experience, good and bad, is critical for the future success of a young race team. That process has helped create the foundation Erik Jones and Furniture Row Racing’s No. 77 Toyota Camry team continue to build on early in the 2017 NASCAR Cup Series season.

California native and seven-time Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson, is the all-time wins’ leader at the 2-mile Auto Club Speedway with six victories. Johnson is also the only driver in the 20-year history of the track to win the race from the pole, a feat he completed in 2008.

Michael McDowell and Leavine Family Racing (LFR) are excited to unveil a special paint scheme for the Auto Club 400, as the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) finishes out the West Coast swing of the 2017 season.

Straight out of Concord, Roush Fenway Racing would like to welcome everybody to the “Wild, Wild, West” as the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) returns to the Golden State for the third leg of the West coast swing at Auto Club Speedway (ACS) in Fontana, Calif. a track that has seen Roush Fenway “cruisin’ down the street” in their Fords to victory lane 15 times.