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Chris Buescher will make his second NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) start at Darlington Raceway this Friday and his fifth NNS start overall. In 2011, Buescher finished 17th at the 1.37-mile track.

Despite a 22nd place finish last week at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway, the No. 43 Pilot Travel Centers team is headed to Darlington (S.C.) Raceway with a lot of momentum. The last two weeks, Reed Sorenson had strong runs with the potential of top-five finishes and consistently ran in the top-five during last week's race before getting caught up in an on-track accident among the leaders.

This Friday, Trevor Bayne will make his second NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) start at Darlington Raceway. He raced there once before in an NNS race and started ninth before finishing 16th. Bayne has not raced at Darlington during his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career.

Travis Pastrana will make his second NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) start at Darlington Raceway this Friday night. Last season, Pastrana made his second overall NNS start at the 1.37-mile track, finishing 17th.

Mike Wallace and the No. 01 G&K Services team was rewarded with their first top-10 finish of the 2013 season at Talladega. The race included a dramatic last lap crash that Wallace drove through en-route to a 7th place finish.

Following a successful outing during the series’ first plate rate of the 2013 season, Eric McClure headed to Talladega Superspeedway looking for another top-10 finish. Taking the green flag from the 23rd position, the Virginia native ran as high as sixth before being caught-up in an accident on lap 94. As a result, the Hefty®/Reynolds® Team finished the Aaron’s 312 as follows:

Travis Pastrana earned his first career NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) pole at Talladega Superspeedway this weekend, but finished 36th in the Aaron’s 312 after a mid-race accident took the No. 60 Ford Mustang out of contention.

The No.6 Cargill Beef Ford Mustang was again one of the fastest cars on the track at Talladega Superspeedway before Roush Fenway’s Trevor Bayne was caught up in the middle of a massive crash. Talladega is known for such multi-car accidents and Bayne was knocked out of Saturday’s NASCAR Nationwide Series race after 92 laps, landing in 28th place in the Aaron’s 312.

New to the No. 54 Monster Energy seat this week, Kyle Busch Motorsports driver Joey Coulter and the Joe Gibbs Racing NASCAR Nationwide Series team maintained their Owner’s Point lead despite a disappointing 21st-place finish, due to an accident just short of the race finish.

A potentially-strong run for Danica Patrick ended early when an issue with the tandem draft occurred. Patrick started the race on the outside of the second row in the fourth position and had high hopes for a strong finish for the AccuDoc Solutions/Go Daddy team. Just 14 laps into the Aaron's 312, Patrick was logging laps when she and her drafting partner lost contact, sending Patrick spinning in turn three. The damage to the No. 34 was to severe to repair, relegating the team to a 39th-place finish.