NASCAR Cup Series

Chef, restaurateur, New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award-winning television host Guy Fieri will serve as Grand Marshal of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Pennsylvania 400, Sunday, July 31 at Pocono Raceway.

'We had a fast car the last time we raced at Pocono Raceway," crew chief Randall Burnett said. "I wasn’t there for that one. Ernie (Cope, competition director) and the guys did a great job making the car good for that race.

It’s been simultaneously a good and a bad week for Matt Kenseth, the driver and owner of the Joe Gibbs racing No. 20 team. While they won the race in question at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, there were no celebrations following the victory.

Pocono Raceway will always hold a special fondness for Martin Truex Jr., who overcame professional and personal setbacks when he scored an emotional victory at the 2.5-mile triangular track in June of 2015.

Ryan Blaney and the Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion have been riding a roller coaster for the last six races and are due for an up cycle after a late-race wreck in Indianapolis pushed them to a 36th-place finish.

Busch started on the pole at Indianapolis and led 149 of 170 laps in winning the Combat Wounded Coalition 400. It was Busch’s third win of the season.

MILESTONE FINISH AT INDY: When the No. 48 Lowe's Red Vest Chevrolet SS crossed the finish line in third at the Brickyard last weekend, Jimmie Johnson gave Hendrick Motorsports its 1,000th top-five result since the team was founded by Rick Hendrick in 1984.

Bayne makes his fourth career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) start at Pocono Raceway on Sunday afternoon.

Greg Biffle was saving fuel and was in good shape to pull off a top-10 finish at Pocono Raceway when a flat tire under green sent him to pit road with just a few laps remaining. The untimely stop cost him a lap to the leaders and resulted in a 26th-place finish for the No. 16 Ford.

Richard Childress Racing at Pocono Raceway ... In 148 starts at Pocono Raceway, RCR team owner Richard Childress has two wins, both with Dale Earnhardt, who won on July 19, 1987 and July 18, 1993. Additionally, RCR has earned one pole award, 16 top-five and 54 top-10 finishes with 604 laps led at the uniquely-shaped three-turn track. Childress, a former driver in NASCAR's top division, contributed two of those top-10 finishes under the RCR banner.