NASCAR Cup Series

This Week's Nexium® 24HR Chevrolet SS at Texas Motor Speedway... Ty Dillon will pilot chassis No. 491 for this weekend's Duck Commander 500. This chassis was prepared by Richard Childress Racing and was raced last season by the No. 31 team with driver Ryan Newman at Pocono Raceway and Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Martin Truex Jr.’s Texas Motor Speedway weekend has a number of fun elements to it, but the most important for the Furniture Row Racing driver will be Saturday night’s Duck Commander 500 Sprint Cup Series race.

Stenhouse has six NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) starts at Texas Motor Speedway (TMS) with an average starting position of 20.8 and average finishing position of 23.5.

TOP-10 PROWESS: Elliott has earned three top-10 finishes in the 2016 season, and he will look to add to that total this weekend at Texas Motor Speedway. The 20-year-old driver secured his first top-10 finish of 2016 at his home track, Atlanta Motor Speedway.

After an engine failure caused by a rare part malfunction left Aric Almirola and the No. 43 team with a 40th-place finish leaving Martinsville, the team is looking to make strides this weekend in the Lone Star State. Almirola will have a full weekend of racing as he competes in both Friday night's XFINITY race and Saturday night's main event.

While Brian Scott's first Sprint Cup Series start at Martinsville Speedway may not have gone as planned, Scott and the No. 44 Albertsons/Tom Thumb team has confidence heading into the first night race of the season at Texas Motor Speedway. Texas is a familiar track to Scott in both the XFINITY and Cup Series, and one that Scott performed well in past years.

Trevor Bayne makes his 12th career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) start at Texas Motor Speedway this weekend. In 11 previous starts at the 1.5-mile oval, Bayne has recorded a best finish of 17th three times (Nov. 2010, April 2011 and Nov. 2011).

NASCAR fans once again have the power to put a driver of their choice in the 2016 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race. The Sprint Fan Vote is now open, and will send one of 30 drivers into the annual star-studded event on May 21 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The race will be broadcast live at 7 p.m. ET, on FS1, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.

Richard Childress Racing's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series history at Texas Motor Speedway ... In 91 starts at Texas Motor Speedway dating back to 1997, RCR has recorded one win (Jeff Burton, April 2007), eight top-five and 30 top-10 finishes with drivers Burton, Clint Bowyer, Dale Earnhardt, Kevin Harvick, Jeff Green, Paul Menard and Ryan Newman.

Any race fan who has been around the sport for the past 20-plus years knows who Smokey Yunick was. He was a genius on top of the pit box and under the hood. He was a brilliant inventor, a crass scoundrel, a blunt straight-shooting American who loved racing.