NASCAR Cup Series

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series veteran driver Michael McDowell is eager to return to Sonoma Raceway, a track that brought him early success in his racing career, with the hopes of continuing those achievements behind the wheel of the No. 95 K-LOVE Radio Chevrolet this weekend.

Brian Scott adds a new look to the No. 44 Ford Fusion in the team's first road course race of the season. Blue-Emu, an over-the-counter muscle and joint cream, will be a co-primary partner with Safeway on the No. 44 Ford Fusion at Sonoma Raceway this weekend.

After a weekend off to recharge in North Carolina, Richard Petty Motorsports is ready to take the No. 43 Smithfield Ford out west to Sonoma Raceway.

Richard Childress Racing in Wine Country ... In 63 starts at the 10-turn stadium course, Richard Childress Racing owns two wins, with Dale Earnhardt in the 1995 Save Mart Supermarkets 300 and with Robby Gordon in the Save Mart 350 in 2003, one pole award (Earnhardt, 1995), 14 top-five and 25 top-10 finishes. The Welcome, N.C.,-based team has led 137 laps at Sonoma, completed 6,564 of the 6,610 laps contested (99.3 percent) and recorded just one DNF (Did Not Finish) over that stretch (1989-2016).

SONOMA STATS: Sonoma Raceway is the first of two stops this season at a road course for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. In Kasey Kahne’s 12 starts at the 10-turn track, he’s earned the pole position twice – 2008 and 2010. Kahne won in only his sixth event at the 1.99-mile track after starting from the fifth position and leading 37 laps.

Stenhouse Jr. has three NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) starts at Sonoma Raceway with an average starting position of 33.7 and average finishing position of 26.0.

Trevor Bayne will make his second NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) start at Sonoma this weekend.

Heading into this weekend's event at Sonoma Raceway, the No.32 Can-Am/Kappa team will head westward to the "Golden State" with Patrick Carpentier behind the wheel for the first of two road course events in 2016.

Ryan Blaney and the No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane team get a big test this weekend as they head to the road course at Sonoma Raceway. It’s a track the rookie Blaney has never raced on before, and it’s a place the Wood Brothers team hasn’t competed at since 2008.

Biffle has 13 Sprint Cup career starts at Sonoma, earning two top-five and six top-10 finishes.