NASCAR O'Reilly Series

Erik Jones made a clean sweep of Thursday's NASCAR XFINITY Series practices, pushing atop the leaderboard in the final session at Texas Motor Speedway.

DANIEL SUAREZ, No. 19 Juniper Networks Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - How are you looking forward to this weekend’s race at Texas Motor Speedway? “It’s a tough race track. I won’t say that it’s been the best race track for us so far, but it’s one of those race tracks that we’re looking forward to it. This is almost like my home race track."

The internet exploded this week when NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. posted a picture of his favorite sandwich – banana and Hellmann’s mayonnaise on bread. The post trended social media for 24 hours and cycled through numerous national news outlets, including ABC’s “Good Morning America”, NBC’s “TODAY”, and CNN’s “Morning Express with Robin Meade.”

JR Motorsports (JRM) and Dale’s Pale Ale, the first craft beer to be featured in a can, have announced a multi-year extension that will see the brand sponsor JRM’s No. 88 Chevrolet in three NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) races in 2016-17. The No. 88 Dale’s Pale Ale Chevrolet will make its season debut on Aug. 19 at Bristol Motor Speedway with Regan Smith returning to JRM to drive in the event.

The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and XFINITY Series travel to Texas Motor Speedway this weekend while the Camping World Truck Series is off. Please check below for the complete schedule of events.

It’s another round of introductions for Ryan Preece this weekend as the rookie will make his first career run at Texas Motor Speedway.

Although he remains relatively new to the NASCAR Xfinity Series, Ross Chastain is virtually a veteran driver at Texas Motor Speedway, site of Friday night’s O’Reilly Auto Parts 300, the sixth race of the season.

Texas Motor Speedway will be the next stop on Garrett Smithley’s Xfinity Series rookie tour. Smithley will race for the first time at TMS Friday night in the O’Reilly Auto Parts 300 Xfinity race.

The NASCAR XFINITY Series is well rested and ready to get back to racing, as the No. 43 J. Streicher team and Jeb Burton head to Texas this weekend for the third intermediate track on the schedule.

Wallace will make his third career NASCAR XFINITY Series start at Texas Motor Speedway on Friday night.