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On the afternoon of April 19, 2002, NASCAR Hall of Fame team owner Jack Roush was celebrating his 60th birthday with friends, flying airplanes from a small air strip in south Alabama. Roush’s celebration ended in near tragedy when the small plane he was piloting stuck a power line and went down in lake outside Troy, Alabama. Former United States Marine Larry Hicks was sitting nearby, recovering from a recent bout with cancer and taking in the warm Friday afternoon on his porch. From there Hollywood could not have sculpted a more dramatic moment of fate.

DIBENEDETTO BY THE NUMBERS: In nine Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series career starts at Michigan, Matt DiBenedetto has an average start of 31.6, an average finish of 30.0, and he’s completed 1,645 of 1,676 (98.2 percent) career laps at the 2.0-mile track in Brooklyn, Michigan.  DiBenedetto’s best finish at the track is 21st which he achieved in June’s event earlier this season.

Newman will make his 37th Cup start at the 2-mile Michigan International Speedway this weekend. In 36 prior events, Newman has two wins, 10 top-10s and six top fives. He has an overall average finish of 16.1 and starting spot of 13.6 with one pole.

Stenhouse Jr. has 13 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) starts at Michigan International Speedway with an average starting position of 18.7 and average finishing position of 21.2.

Michigan (Consumers Energy 400) Preview: The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series heads back to the Irish Hills of Michigan on Sunday, Aug. 11, for a 400-mile event at Michigan International Speedway. Hamlin and team earned an 11th-place finish earlier this season at the two-mile oval and will be seeking the team’s fourth win of the 2019 Cup Series.

Visiting Darlington Raceway today to support the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Bojangles’ Southern 500, Darrell “Bubba” Wallace, Victory Junction and Richard Petty Motorsports unveiled the No. 43 Chevy that Wallace will drive in the race on September 1.

Milestone Martin… Martin Truex Jr. makes his 500th career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) start on Sunday at Michigan International Speedway (MIS). Since rejoining the Toyota family in 2016, Truex has 20 wins, 56 top-fives and 78 top-10 finishes. Truex scored Toyota its second-ever Cup Series driver’s championship in 2017.

Seventy-four of the original class of 78 Ford and Lincoln Senior Master Technicians in the U.S. will attend the Consumers Energy 400 at Michigan International Speedway (MIS) as special guests of Ford and Wood Brothers Racing.

All three of NASCAR’s top series will be on track this weekend as the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series serves as the Sunday finale at Michigan International Speedway. That will follow the final regular-season race for the Gander Outdoors Truck Series, scheduled for Saturday afternoon.

With a strong showing in every category throughout the two-day Go Bowling at The Glen Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race (MENCS), Chase Elliott capped the weekend in his No. 9 NAPA Auto Parts Camaro ZL1 by capturing his second victory of the 2019 season.