NASCAR Cup Series

Talladega Recap: Denny Hamlin edged Kurt Busch for third place by 0.006 seconds in Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway to advance to the Round of 8 in the Chase via a tiebreaker with Austin Dillon in a thrilling final lap in the 500-mile event won by Joey Logano.

NAPA AUTO PARTS: This will be the 23rd and penultimate primary paint scheme weekend of the year for NAPA AUTO PARTS on board Chase Elliott’s No. 24 Chevrolet SS for Hendrick Motorsports. NAPA will also be displayed on the hood in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Novembe

Roush Fenway Racing returns to the .526-mile paper-clip shaped oval of Martinsville Speedway for the second time in the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup (NSCS) season this weekend. The organization has previously earned six victories across the three major touring series at the famed short track.

In 13 starts on short tracks in the NSCS, Bayne has earned a best finish of fifth at Bristol Motor Speedway in the spring 2016 event at the half-mile speedway.

Stenhouse has seven NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) starts at Martinsville with an average starting position of 21.9.

Richard Petty Motorsports announced today that the American Red Cross, one of the nation's premier humanitarian organizations, will be featured as the primary partner on the No. 44 Ford Fusion driven by Brian Scott this weekend at Martinsville Speedway.

Biffle has 27 Sprint Cup Series starts at Martinsville. In those starts he has earned five top-10 finishes, two of which came in 2013 with back-to-back top-10 finishes.

The Round of 8 begins this weekend at Martinsville Speedway, a place where Ford has won 26 times overall but never as part of The Chase. Joey Logano will try to change that after advancing to this round for the third straight year by virtue of his win at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday. Here’s a look at some of Ford’s past success at Martinsv

Talladega had everything on Sunday a race fan or adrenalin junky could desire. It provided incredible action, with leaders driving looking at their mirrors rather than out the windshield, running at close to 200 miles per hour just inches apart.

Johnson finished 23rd in the Hellman’s 500 and will head to Martinsville as the favorite to win the first race of the next round of the Chase.