NASCAR Cup Series

Two to Go...Michael Annett and his No. 46 Pilot Flying J team venture west of the Mississippi River for the second consecutive weekend, heading to Phoenix International Raceway for the penultimate race of the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season.

Final West Coast Stop...This weekend's race at Phoenix International Raceway (PIR) is the final short-track race of the 2015 season. While Allgaier has a penchant for short tracks, PIR hasn't been so kind to him in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS).

Biffle has 23 Sprint Cup Series starts at Phoenix, earning five top-five and eight top-10 finishes. He has led a total of 389 laps at the one-mile track.

The No. 17 Cargill Beef Ford Fusion will feature a special Sam’s Club paint scheme this weekend at Phoenix International Raceway. Cargill Beef first featured a Sam’s Club scheme in 2011 during Ricky Stenhouse Jr.’s first championship season in the NASCAR XFINITY Series. In 2012, Stenhouse drove the Cargill Beef/Sam’s Club Ford to victory lane in Kansas for his sixth win en route to his second XFINITY Series title.

Atlanta Motor Speedway will install additional SAFER barrier to both its inside and outside retaining walls prior to the 2016 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 Weekend, scheduled for Feb. 26-28.

LAST RACE OF THE ELIMINATOR: The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) now moves to Phoenix International Raceway for the final event of the ‘Eliminator 8’ round of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup championship playoff. After Phoenix, only four racers will remain to compete for the NSCS championship at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Sunday, Nov. 22.

Texas Recap: Denny Hamlin finished 38th in Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway, after a failure in the fuel system forced the #11 FedEx Office Toyota to the garage for lengthy repairs early in the race won by Jimmie Johnson.

Daytona International Speedway today announced a multi-year partnership extension with The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR), one of the world’s largest retailers. As part of the partnership, Kroger will serve as the presenting sponsor of DAYTONA 500 Qualifying Day and conduct in-store consumer activation programs across multiple grocery store locations to promote the DAYTONA 500.

Martin Truex Jr. continues to be a force in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship with eight of 10 playoff races completed.

While Jimmie Johnson is a champion, six-times in fact, as well as the race winner from this past weekend at Texas Motor Speedway, he and his wife Chandra are also champions off the track with their foundation’s funding of local school initiatives.