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DIBENEDETTO BY THE NUMBERS: In four Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series career starts at Indianapolis, Matt DiBenedetto has an average start of 32.0, an average finish of 29.0, and he’s completed 422 of 661 (63.8 percent) career laps at the Brickyard.

Southeastern Equipment & Supply, Inc., the unmatched leader in reconditioned and new floor scrubbers, will team up with Front Row Motorsports (FRM) and Matt Tifft at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday, September 8. Southeastern Equipment will serve as the primary sponsor of Tifft's No. 36 Ford Mustang, while Minuteman and Meijer will serve as associate sponsors.

Stenhouse has six Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) starts at IMS with an average starting position of 21.3 and average finishing position of 27.5.

The final race of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series regular season headlines this weekend’s activities at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway as the 16-driver field that will contend for the championship is set.  Five Ford drivers have clinched spots while three more are in contention for the final two positions.  Here’s a look at Ford’s Brickyard history in NASCAR.

Newman will make his 19th Cup start at Indy on Sunday. In 18 prior events, he has one win at The Brickyard with five top-10s, three top fives and an average finish of 16.4.

Sunday night was more than eventful for Ryan Newman and the No. 6 team in the Bojangles’ Southern 500, as Newman finished 23rd in his Oscar Mayer / Velveeta Ford Mustang in a race that ran well into the morning hours.

With Dog’s Most Wanted WGNA adorning his No. 17 Ford, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. worked his way inside the top-15 before being plagued with a mechanical issue forcing him to settle with a 33rd-place finish in Sunday’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) race at Darlington Raceway.

"I saw the 8 start to get loose like he blew a tire and chased it up the track. I was already on the bottom and I saw the 11 and a few other cars on the top and they were just trying to get down and we all kind of jumped on the brakes."

"This is just the night we needed at Darlington Raceway. My crew chief Danny Stockman and the team did a great job all night working on the handling of our No. 3 American Ethanol Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, and it paid off. The track loosened up a lot more than we expected tonight, so we had to adjust for that and figure out which groove on the track worked for us with that handling."

BRAD KESELOWSKI, No. 2 Miller Ford Mustang – “It was kind of a blue-collar top five. We just hung around fifth to tenth all day and was able to clear off a few cars there at the end and ended up fifth. We had really good short run speed with the Miller Ford, but we didn’t really have the long run speed and the long runs, you’ve got to have that.”