NASCAR Cup Series

It's time to put a nice little bow on everything that went down in the Valley of the Sun.

Cars speeding around the oval at lethal speeds draws the crowd into the speedway and the drivers' strategies and near-misses keep them coming back.

Dale Earnhardt Jr., driver of the No. 88 Nationwide Chevrolet, benefitted from some smart pit stop strategy and the return of rain to win an abbreviated Quicken Loans Race for Heroes 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Phoenix International Raceway on Sunday night.

Dale Earnhardt Jr., No. 88 Nationwide Chevrolet SS, captured the victory in a rain-shortened NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at Phoenix International Raceway (PIR). This was Earnhardt’s 26th career victory, his third win of the 2015 NSCS season, and third NSCS win at PIR.

Martin Truex Jr. is going to NASCAR's Big Dance. The Furniture Row Racing driver will be one of the four finalists in the Chase playoffs vying for the Sprint Cup championship next Sunday (Nov. 22) at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

BRAD KESELOWSKI – No. 2 Miller Lite Ford Fusion – “It was a long day for everybody and to have it end like that wasn’t surprising. We kept adjusting on it, but it’s a short race and who knows? Maybe that last run we would have had something, but that’s not the way it played out. The highest we can get is fifth in points now, so I’d like to pull that off and take advantage of that opportunity when we get to Homestead next week.”

DALE EARNHARDT, JR., NO. 88 NATIONWIDE CHEVROLET SS – RACE WINNER - YOU HAD A FAST CAR, BUT YOU WERE ALSO IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME. TELL US ABOUT THAT PIT CALL: “We had an idea that the rain was in the area, but all the circumstances that played out at the end of the race are just kind of luck I think."

Dale Earnhardt Jr. scored his third win this season and his 26th career victory in the No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet after the Quicken Loans Race for Heroes 500 race. The event was red-flagged early after completing 219 of the scheduled 312 laps at Phoenix International Raceway.

Kevin Harvick is showing why he was a 9/4 favorite at the halfway mark of the race. The driver of the No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet has already led over 100 laps and is looking to both score his eighth win at Jeff Gordon Raceway and punch his ticket to the championship battle next Sunday at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Kurt Busch was busted for jumping the initial start of the Quicken Loans Race for Heroes 500 at Phoenix International Raceway.