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Cole Custer, driver of the No. 41 HaasTooling.com Ford Mustang, is coming off a 10th-place finish in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Dover International Speedway. Custer extended his stay at the Monster Mile to take part in a two-day test of NASCAR’s Next Gen car, which will be debuting in the 2022 season. Here is a transcript of today’s Ford Zoom call.

This Saturday night, August 29th, Michael McDowell and the No. 34 Front Row Motorsports team head to the Daytona International Speedway with one goal-to win and earn a playoff spot in the final regular season race of the NASCAR Cup Series.

I think this weekend at Daytona is going to be intense for sure. Everyone is going to be driving as hard as they can, making moves that they might not have at Talladega or the previous Daytona race, since it’s everyone’s last shot to get into the Playoffs.

Words and phrases that are guaranteed to be heard this week for the cut-off race for the 2020 NASCAR Playoffs – Saturday’s Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International Raceway – include: “Intense. Pressure-Packed.

Kevin Harvick swept the Dover Drydene 311 Sunday by sweeping the stages and winning his seventh race of the year. In addition, Harvick clinched the regular season NASCAR Cup Series championship and Ford Performance’s 700th NASCAR win.

Yeah, I totally did. And I actually had a little bit of hope thinking that it would work thinking clean air would be so important and we were so fast the run before. There were a lot of laps on those left-side tires and it just didn’t pan out.

The No. 34 Shield Cleansers | Digital Ally Inc. Ford Mustang of Michael McDowell took the green flag from the 25th position in Sunday's Cup race at Dover International Speedway.

Martin Truex Jr. (second) drove to his seventh consecutive top-three finish to lead Toyota in the Drydene 311 at the Dover International Speedway on Sunday afternoon.

Kevin Harvick won his seventh race of the season and 55th of his Cup career by winning today’s race at Dover. The win by Harvick marked the 700th all-time NASCAR Cup Series race win for Ford.

Following NASCAR’s new formula to determine starting lineup, John Hunter Nemechek took the green flag in the second NASCAR Cup Series race of the weekend at Dover International Speedway from the 27th position.