NASCAR Cup Series

It has been a few days since the GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway and listening to all the criticisms about the race reminds me of, well, me. I’ve never liked plate racing and still don’t. All that rage and anger over the result of the carnage has either fallen on deaf ears or the cheers from the assembled crowd have drowned out all of that.

Brand names, especially strong memorable ones, can truly make an event stand out. The Daytona 500, the Southern 500, and the Brickyard 400 have meaning or should, with proper marketing. The Firecracker 400, Old Dominion 500, Mason-Dixon 500 all had a ring to them, not the ka-ching ring they were tossed aside for.

Carolina Panthers kicker Graham Gano has booted a football through uprights in stadiums across the country, but his Wednesday-afternoon kickoff to the Motorsports Month of May at Charlotte Motor Speedway saw Gano convert field goals from an entirely new location: pit road.

Overall, Roush Fenway has started 144 races across the NSCS, NASCAR XFINITY Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS), earning a total of nine wins, 41 top-five finishes, 71 top-10 finishes and has an overall average finish of 12.9.

The 2016 Ford Championship Weekend will mark the 15th year that Ford Motor Company has been the entitlement sponsor for NASCAR’s championship races at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Ten races into the season, 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series wins leader Joey Logano is still searching for his first victory. He’ll get his next shot at a checkered flag in Saturday’s Go Bowling 400 at Kansas Speedway (7:30 p.m. ET on FS1) – a track where he’s won two of the last three races, including last fall’s Chase contest.

Reflecting on last season, Motorcraft/Quick Lane Racing team crew chief Jeremy Bullins said he was more impressed with driver Ryan Blaney’s seventh place in the fall Kansas race than his fourth in the Talladega spring race.

Circle Sport-Leavine Family Racing will strive to make improvements on its intermediate program this weekend with Michael McDowell behind the wheel of the No. 95 WRL General Contractors Chevrolet SS. The team will compete at Kansas Speedway in the second night race of the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series regular season.

Talladega Recap: Denny Hamlin finished 31st in Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway after a being involved in multi-car accident with just 28 laps left in the race won by Brad Keselowski.

Heading into this weekend's event, the No.32 Sparks Energy Go Fas Racing(GFR) team will travel to the "The Sunflower State" with Cedar Rapids, IA native Joey Gase for the 6th annual GoBowling.Com 400 at the Kansas Speedway, in Kansas City, KS.