NASCAR Cup Series

AJ ALLMENDINGER, NO. 47 KROGER/HUNGRY JACK/CRISCO CHEVROLET SS, met with members of the media and discussed the off weekend, his outlook for the first road course race of the season at Sonoma, the 2016 season thus far and many other topics.

CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW YOU GOT INTO THE FIELD OF AERODYNAMICS? “Straight out of college I started work for GM on production car stuff. I actually designed bumpers. They sent all of us new hires up to Detroit for like three days of seminars telling us about different parts of the company."

Pocono Recap: Denny Hamlin finished 14th in Monday's rain-delayed NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Pocono Raceway, battling a tight #11 FedEx Ground Toyota throughout the 160-lap event won by Kurt Busch.

The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and XFINITY Series travel to Michigan International Speedway this weekend while the Camping World Truck Series heads to Texas Motor Speedway. Please check below for the complete schedule of events.

A new aero package combined with reduced down and side force should mean more passing at Michigan this weekend, as well as at Kentucky later in the year. Wonderful, just wonderful. Now all that needs to happen is that it actually happens.

Greg Biffle heads to his favorite track this weekend, Michigan International Raceway, with a new lower downforce package that suits his driving style at the 1.5-mile track. Biffle has four wins at Michigan, the most recent in 2013 where he claimed the 1,000th win for Ford Racing. No other driver has more wins at Michigan than Biffle and he ranks second in laps led at 593.

Michigan International Speedway is Roush Fenway owner Jack Roush’s ‘home track.’ Located about an hour drive from Roush Industries in Livonia, Michigan has been one of the organization’s most successful tracks, earning a total of 23 victories across the three major NASCAR touring series.

The inaugural NASCAR race at Michigan International Speedway, on June 15, 1969, was appropriately named the “Motor State 500.” Held in the home state of the major U.S. automakers, the race has been from the beginning an event that participating automakers want to win, for many reasons, including local bragging rights.

“Let’s just call Michigan an adopted home track and state,” said Truex, who usually arrives early to Michigan for an annual fishing trip. “We have a blast each time we go to Michigan, catch a lot of fish -- and please don’t ask where because I am not giving away any secrets where the fish are biting.”

Superman Hall of Heroes inductee Jimmie Johnson is a racing icon. Throughout his career in motorsports, he has able to win at every level. At the highest level in NASCAR, Johnson has accumulated six championships and 77 wins, third and seventh respectably.