NASCAR O'Reilly Series

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.

Dakoda will be making his fifth career NASCAR XFINITY Series start at Texas Motor Speedway to go along with three previous starts in the Camping World Truck Series. Armstrong has a best XFINITY Series finish of 10th at the Fort Worth, Texas track which occurred during the 2014 season.

Richard Childress Racing's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series history at Texas Motor Speedway ... In 91 starts at Texas Motor Speedway dating back to 1997, RCR has recorded one win (Jeff Burton, April 2007), eight top-five and 30 top-10 finishes with drivers Burton, Clint Bowyer, Dale Earnhardt, Kevin Harvick, Jeff Green, Paul Menard and Ryan Newman.

Matt will be making his first career NASCAR XFINITY Series start at Texas Motor Speedway. This event will be Tifft's third career XFINITY Series start and the second one this season after piloting the No. 24 Toyota in the season opener in Daytona.

Reed has competed at Texas Motor Speedway (TMS) four times in the NASCAR XFINITY Series. His top finishes at the track came in 2015, finishing 15th in both the Spring and Fall races. In 2014, Reed recorded 20th- and 17th-place finishes in the two events at TMS.

Cole Custer, driver of the No. 00 Haas Automation Chevrolet Silverado in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) for JR Motorsports (JRM), will compete in five NASCAR Xfinity Series events this season, the team detailed today. Haas Automation will sponsor Custer in four of the five races with Cessna receiving primary branding at Kentucky Speedway.

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