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Roush Fenway Racing’s Chris Buescher has a familiar face atop the pit box for the 2015 NASCAR XFINITY Series season. For the second year in a row, Scott Graves serves as the crew chief for the No. 60 team.

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS): Camry drivers Matt Kenseth (10th), Denny Hamlin (13th) and Clint Bowyer (15th) currently rank in the top-15 in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) point standings.

Straight out of Concord, Roush Fenway Racing returns to the Golden State for the third-leg of the West coast swing as the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) heads to the Auto Club Speedway (ACS) in Fontana, Calif. a track that has seen a Roush Fenway Ford visit Victory Lane 15 times.

Elliott Sadler will make his 11th NASCAR XFINITY Series (NXS) start at Auto Club Speedway (ACS) this Saturday afternoon in Fontana, CA. In Sadler’s previous 10 starts, he has one pole award, three top-five and six top-10 finishes at ACS. Sadler has also led 60 laps at ACS in the NXS.

This is the same chassis that Roush Fenway Racing teammate Ryan Reed raced last season at Auto Club Speedway (finishing 17th), Charlotte Motor Speedway (finishing 14th and 15th), Kentucky Speedway (finishing 17th) and Atlanta Motor Speedway (finishing 18th).

Chris Buescher makes his second NASCAR XFINITY Series start at Auto Club Speedway on Saturday. In his previous start, coming last season, Buescher started 19th and finished 14th.

Auto Club Speedway is the site of Dakoda Armstrong's second-career NASCAR XFINITY Series start, but that's not the only reason he's fond of the track. Armstrong likes Auto Club because of the multiple-groove racing it provides. Tire wear will come into play as well at the Two-mile track, but the No. 43 WinField team will look to reduce the correlating speed drop-off throughout the weekend.

Reed has competed at Auto Club Speedway (ACS) just once in the NASCAR XFINITY Series. In 2014, he finished in the 17th position after starting 15th and fighting loose conditions much of the day.

Richard Childress Racing's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series history at Auto Club Speedway ... In 76 overall NASCAR Sprint Cup Series starts at Auto Club Speedway, RCR Chevrolet teams have earned one win (Kevin Harvick - 2011), one pole award (Mike Skinner - April 2000), 10 top-five and 26 top-10 finishes. RCR has a 20.6 average starting position, a 16.5 average finishing position and has completed 17,565 of the 17,855 laps (98.4 percent) contested at the moderately-banked, D-shaped race track.

In the world of NASCAR, it’s the drivers who typically bask in the glory and fame. Casual fans rarely acknowledge the engineers, and mechanics who build the cars. And they certainly forget the people working in the pits rather quickly. The truth is that pit crews face as much danger as the drivers racing on the track.