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The No. 17 Cargill Beef Ford Fusion will feature a special Sam’s Club paint scheme this weekend at Richmond International Raceway. Cargill Beef first featured a Sam’s Club scheme in 2011 during Ricky Stenhouse Jr.’s first championship season in the NASCAR XFINITY Series. In 2012, Stenhouse drove the Cargill Beef/Sam’s Club Ford to victory lane in Kansas for his sixth win en route to his second XFINITY Series title. The Sam’s Club scheme will also run on the No. 17 Cargill Beef Ford at Phoenix International Raceway in November.

Brett Moffitt | No. 34 Dockside Logistics Ford "Richmond has been pretty good to me. I've got a win in the K&N Series there. I look forward to going back. It's a fun racetrack. It's actually a really tough short track, though. It can be frustrating if your car is off, but if you hit it, it's going to be good."

Roush Fenway Racing’s Chris Buescher will make his fifth NASCAR XFINITY Series start at Richmond International Raceway this Friday night. In his four previous starts, Buescher has two top-10 finishes, with his best finish of seventh coming in the spring of 2014. Buescher has completed all but five laps in his four starts at Richmond.

Roush Fenway Racing’s Bubba Wallace will make his third NASCAR XFINITY Series start at Richmond International Raceway on Friday night. In his previous two races at the .75-mile track, Wallace’s best start is 11th (2015) and his best finish is 10th (2012).

Fresh off of a Top-20 finish at the track "Too Tough To Tame", Dakoda Armstrong and the No. 43 WinField team will compete this weekend at Richmond International Raceway (RIR). The track is a personal favorite of Armstrong's and was the site of his best performance of his rookie year, where he finished seventh in the fall race in 2014. Armstrong appears to have finally broke his streak of bad luck and looks to better last year's efforts.

This weekend's race marks the return of Ryan Truex to the NASCAR XFINITY Series. Richmond International Raceway (RIR) will be the site of the first of three scheduled starts of the 2015 season for the young New Jersey driver. It's also the site of his first start for Biagi DenBeste Racing.

Reed has competed at Richmond International Raceway (RIR) five times in the NASCAR XFINITY Series. He made his first career NASCAR XFINITY Series start at the track in 2013, earning a 16th-place finish. His best career finish at the track came in September 2013 when he finished ninth. In his last appearance at the track in April, Reed finished 21st.

American Diabetes Association® Youth Ambassador Eli Hopkins will ride along with Roush Fenway Racing driver Ryan Reed during Friday night’s NASCAR XFINITY Series race at Richmond International Raceway (RIR). The West Point, Va. native will have his name featured on a decal above the passenger-side window on the No. 16 Lilly Diabetes American Diabetes Ford Mustang for the second time this season.

Ford Performance is bringing back the successful Ford Nation Sweepstakes for 2015 in which one fan will win a new 2015 Mustang GT.

Richard Childress Racing's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series history at Richmond International Raceway ... Richard Childress has nine NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victories as a car owner at Richmond International Raceway - five with Dale Earnhardt, three with Kevin Harvick and one with Clint Bowyer.