NASCAR O'Reilly Series

Harvick backed up that time in the following two rounds of qualifying to score the pole for the O’Reilly Auto Parts 300 at Texas Motor Speedway. Harvick scored his first Texas Motor Speedway Nationwide Series pole with a lap of 29.195 seconds. It marks Harvick’s 25th career Nationwide Series pole.

Texas Motor Speedway is among the NASCAR trail’s fastest tracks, and that’s a plus for Jeffrey Earnhardt, who’ll drive the Flex Seal Chevrolet for JD Motorsports with Gary Keller in Friday night’s O’Reilly Auto Parts 300 Nationwide Series race at the 1.5-mile track.

Cassill, who is 14th in Nationwide Series driver points, will be looking for another solid finish in Friday night’s O’Reilly Auto Parts 300. In a bit of unusual scheduling, the TMS Nationwide race is being held on Friday night instead of Saturday to avoid conflict with the NCAA Final Four basketball tournament, which is scheduled in Dallas.

Richard Petty Motorsports Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series teams will adorn a decal for Autism Awareness for the month of April to support Gray, son of No. 43 Crew Chief Trent Owens. With April being Autism Awareness month and April 2 Global Autism Awareness Day, the team, led by NASCAR Hall of Famer Richard Petty, will join the campaign to raise awareness for autism.

“Anytime that I get to go home and race is nice. I really like Texas Motor Speedway and have run thousands of laps around the smaller tracks there. I have one NNS race under my belt at Texas and think we can improve upon that run this weekend in our Roush Performance Mustang.”

With five Nationwide Series starts under his belt, Chase Elliott is off to a good start this year with JRM Motorsports as he has posted four top 10 finishes, highlighted by a fifth at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

The NASCAR Nationwide Series experienced its first off weekend of the 2014 season. After spending three of the last four weekends on the west coast, the Virginia driver used the off-weekend to relax and spend time with his family, celebrating two of his daughters' birthdays.

"Texas is a different track. It's one of those places that is kind of hard to hit. I've had some good runs there and some not so good runs there. It wears out tires pretty quickly on long runs, so the grip goes away after a few laps, but it's also very, very fast.

“Texas is one of the fastest places we go to, and I have never been there. I am sure it will be a big learning experience. Roush Fenway has always had good results there, so hopefully I can lean on my teammates and have a good run.”

Elliott Sadler and the No. 11 OneMain Financial team look forward to the sixth race of the 2014 NASCAR Nationwide Series season at Texas Motor Speedway. In 12 Nationwide Series starts at Texas, Sadler has three top-five and six top-10 finishes with 40 laps led.