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MICHAEL ANNETT, No. 43 Pilot Travel Centers Ford Mustang (Finished 5th) – “This was a great run for Richard Petty Motorsports. We came back at Charlotte after the injury and just had the worst racing luck I’ve had since I’ve been in the Nationwide Series. We haven’t been getting the finishes that we deserve. Finally nothing stupid happened and we kept our nose clean and brought home a top-five and now we are eligible for the Dash for Cash at Chicago next week.”

Kevin Harvick Inc. (KHI) has inked a sponsorship agreement with Morton Buildings on behalf of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers Jeff Burton and Kevin Harvick.

After celebrating the Fourth of July weekend on the high banks of Daytona International Speedway, the three national NASCAR series head to short, flat tracks in separate parts of the country this weekend. New Hampshire Motor Speedway will host the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and NASCAR Nationwide Series, while the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series heads to Iowa for a standalone weekend of their own.

Alex Bowman will pilot RAB Racing Chassis No. 044 in the CNBC Prime the Profit 200 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. This chassis last saw action at Dover International Speedway in June when Bowman secured the fourth-place starting position and drove this Toyota Camry to a 17th-place finish.

Chad Hackenbracht is boiling over with anticipation and excitement, as he approaches his NASCAR Nationwide Series debut this weekend in the CNBC Prime’ s The Profit 200 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Hackenbracht, who was supposed to make his debut last month at Iowa Speedway but instead made his first Camping World Truck Series start in Texas, is geared up and ready for his debut in the Granite State.

This weekend marks Trevor Bayne’s third start at New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS); a track he hasn’t raced at in nearly two years. Bayne has a top-five finish at NHMS in 2010, and a 13th-place finish in 2011.

New Hampshire Motor Speedway is a deceptive place, Mike Wallace says. “When you walk around it, it has banking, but when you’re in a car it’s like, where did the banking go?” Wallace said.

Travis Pastrana made his first NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) start at New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS) last year, finishing 31st after he was involved in an accident.

At Daytona, I sat and watched Cup qualifying for a couple hours. I watched each car get up to speed, run their two laps and then pull to the apron while the next car exited pit road. It's a procedure repeated 43 times every weekend and it is, for lack of a better term, boring.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Matt Kenseth can add another Daytona victory to his resume. Pushed by James Buescher on a green-white-checkered finish, Buescher pushed Kenseth...