NASCAR Cup PR

“We know we can run well at Talladega with our No. 34 Love's Travel Stops Ford Mustang. However, it’s important to be smart and patient in order to be in contention for the win. There's a lot of factors that you cannot control, but we know that people are going to be aggressive heading into the last 20 laps - especially those in the Playoffs - so we need to do everything we can to stay focused and get a good result for our partners at Love's.”

When Eddie Wood, Paul Menard and the other members of the No. 21 Menards/Tarkett Flooring team arrive at Talladega Superspeedway for this weekend’s 1000Bulbs.com 500 they might need a map to find their way around.

The two-time Xfinity champion has 12 career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) starts at Talladega with an average finishing position of 11.8.

Newman will make his 36th Cup start at Talladega on Sunday. In 35 prior races, Newman has an average finish of 19.2 with 14 top-10s and six top-fives.

The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series are in action this weekend at Talladega Superspeedway as the playoffs reach the halfway point.  Ford had its seven-race MENCS winning streak at the track snapped last spring, but comes into the weekend having won five straight Talladega playoff events.  Here’s a look at where Ford stands in both series, along with some of those key wins from past seasons.

DIBENEDETTO BY THE NUMBERS: In nine Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series career starts at Talladega Superspeedway, Matt DiBenedetto has an average start of 32.6 and an average finish of 27.8.  He’s completed 1,578 of 1,712 (92.2 percent) career laps and has led for 21 laps at the 2.66-mile high-banked track.

Envision USA - a full service retail experience agency that delivers transformational store designs, branded environments and digital experiences to some of North America's best known brands - has joined forces with Front Row Motorsports (FRM) and David Ragan for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway on Oct. 13.

Brad Keselowski scored an 11th-place finish in the Drydene 400 Sunday afternoon at Dover International Speedway. The driver of the Wurth Ford Mustang leaves Dover sixth in the NASCAR Cup Series point standings, 43 points behind leader Martin Truex Jr. and 20 ahead of the eighth-place cutoff position.

With very few cautions in Sunday’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) race at Dover International Raceway, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. battled for 400-laps in his Fastenal Ford to earn a 16th-place finish.

In the return to Dover International Speedway for the second time this season, Ryan Newman drove his Acronis Ford to a 22nd-place finish.