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In its continued efforts to evolve the safety of its sport, NASCAR announced Friday that it will add a rule that addresses on-track incidents as part of its race procedures. The rule, listed as Section 9-16, will be an addendum to the NASCAR rule book and will apply to all of its racing series, effective immediately.

When the checkered flag waves at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Saturday, one driver will be especially hoping the experience has been a sweet treat worthy of his car for the day.

The road-racing skills of Jeffrey Earnhardt will be tested for the second straight week this weekend as the Nationwide Series visits the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course for the Nationwide Children’s Hospital 200.

After failing to finish last week’s road-course race at Watkins Glen International because of suspension issues, Landon Cassill hopes to bounce back this weekend at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.

After posting a track-best finish of 20th at the season's first road course event, Eric McClure had high hopes coming into Saturday's Zippo 200 at Watkins Glen International, his last road course race of the season. Despite qualifying 29th and struggling with transmission issues for the second weekend in a row, the Virginia driver was still able to post a track-best finish of 24th.

Jeff Green will pilot the No. 14 Hefty®/Reynolds Wrap® Camry this weekend for the final road course event of the 2014 season. This will be his 3rd scheduled race of five that he will pilot the car for the No. 14 team. Green competed in the inaugural Nationwide Series event at Mid-Ohio one year ago for the Hefty®/Reynolds Wrap® team and he was on-track to earning a top-15 finish when he was involved in an accident on the final lap.

Mike Bliss is looking forward to returning to Mid-Ohio this weekend, where he will make his 700th career NASCAR start. With over 30 starts on road courses, you can call Bliss a road course warrior. Although he only has one start at Mid-Ohio, he has an average starting position of 30.0 and an average finishing position of 17.0.

Carlos Contreras will continue to be behind the wheel of the No. 44 38 Special/Ingersoll Rand/Voli Camry this weekend for the third and final NNS road course race of the 2014 season. This will be Contreras's first start at the 2.4-mile, 15-turn road course, but it will be his eighth career NASCAR road course start. Earlier this season, Contreras finished 15th at Road America in the No. 44 Camry and finished 23rd last weekend at Watkins Glen.

It only happens a few weekends a year, and only twice at a road course, this weekend the NASCAR Nationwide series takes the spotlight at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. While the Sprint Cup series, heads to another oval, the Nationwide Series will head to its third and final road course race of 2014.

On the Road Again...James Buescher and the NASCAR Nationwide Series head to the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course for the series' final road course race of the season. The Nationwide Children's Hospital 200 will mark Buescher's first start at the 13-turn, 2.258-mile Mid-Ohio Sport Car Course. Buescher is coming off a solid 11th-place finish last week at Watkins Glen International.