NASCAR Cup Series

Chase Elliott's debut in the 2016 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup elevated the NAPA AUTO PARTS driver to sixth in the championship standings heading into this weekend’s race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

“We’re ready to rebound this weekend in New Hampshire. We ran better than where we finished here in July and I know that (crew chief) Matt (Puccia) will give me a really solid AdvoCare Ford that will give us a chance to get up front and see what we can do.”

Great Clips Inc. will continue its sponsorship of Hendrick Motorsports and the No. 5 Chevrolet SS team of driver Kasey Kahne in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series with a contract extension through 2018.

“Loudon is one of the more unique race tracks that we race at. It’s a little bit flatter one-mile race track. The thing I like about it is you can diamond the corner or run down on the apron a little bit and up the race track. It gives a lot of opportunities to pass even though it’s difficult.”

“We’ve had some success at New Hampshire in the past. We always look forward to racing at Fenway Sports Group’s home track. New Hampshire is a fast one-mile track with multiple grooves. We had a top-10 finish earlier this year so I look for another solid run in our Fastenal Ford this weekend.”

This trip to Loudon, N.H., will be Almirola's 12th start at the one-mile oval. He scored two Top-10 finishes, a fifth-place finish in 2013 and a sixth-place finish in 2014. Almirola ran one XFINITY race there and finished in the fifth position.

"I love Loudon. It's the site of my first-ever NASCAR start in the Camping World Truck Series in 2007. I feel like it was a good track for me in the XFINITY Series, and I'm looking forward to getting back there.

The second race in this year’s Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup is on tap for Sunday afternoon at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, where Ford has 13 victories overall including three in the Chase.

Atlanta Motor Speedway will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the 1992 Hooters 500 Cup Series race, known as one of the greatest NASCAR races of all time, in which racing legend and NASCAR Hall of Famer Richard Petty made his final career start, with a special ticket offer and exclusive race-day experience for the first 500 fans who take advantage.

You got to be good to be lucky and lucky to be good. That is how the old saying goes. I wonder what the saying is when you are good, but everything just gets flushed down the toilet? Kevin Harvick had a bad case of the swirls, as in down the drain, for his Chicago experience.