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BRAD KESELOWSKI, No. 22 Discount Tire Ford Mustang – Finished 19th “Our day was long. It was a long day. We just missed it at the start of the race and didn’t get it close to being right until the end and at that time it was too late. We had to race for strategy and it just didn’t fall our way today.”

At the end of final practice for the Nationwide Series, it'd be last year's rookie of the year Austin Dillon topping the charts with a lap of 40.728 seconds. Dillon is looking to rebound after finishing 11th last week at Bristol Motor Speedway. He finished fifth at Auto Club Speedway last year.

NEMCO-JRR Motorsports is proud to announce that MaddiesPlaceRocks.com will be the primary on the #87 NEMCO-JRR Toyota for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Auto Club 400 race on FOX this Sunday and an associate partner on the #87 NEMCO Toyota for Royal Purple 300 NNS race on ESPN this Saturday.

In an 11th hour agreement, Bebida Beverage Company (BeBevCo.) announced today that investors of the KOMA Unwind® Liquid Relaxation (@KOMAUnwindNews) brand and supporters of NASCAR driver Carl Long have agreed to sponsor the No. 23 Ford Mustang in tomorrow’s Royal Purple 300 at Auto Club (Calif.) Speedway.

JD Motorsports w/Gary Keller is pleased to announce they have recently inked a deal with San Diego based- Above All Advertising as a marketing partner for the 2013 season. The deal will begin at Auto Club Speedway, as an associate sponsor on the No. 01 Flex Seal Chevy of Mike Wallace, and the No. 4 iWorld Chevy of Daryl Harr.

This weekend, Kevin Swindell and the No. 98 Biagi-DenBeste Racing team head to California looking to make their 2013 NASCAR Nationwide Series debut in the Royal Purple 300 at Auto Club Speedway.

After a difficult finish in Bristol, TN last Saturday at Jeff Foxworthy's Grit Chips 300, Hal is ready to head back out west to compete in the Royal Purple 300 at Auto Club Speedway. This will be Martin's first time competing at this venue and he and his No.44 American Custom Yachts Toyota Camry team are fired up and ready for the event.

After a wild weekend at Bristol full of beating, banging, and tempers flaring, the Sprint Cup Series and Nationwide Series heads back out west to take on the fifth race of the season at the two mile Auto Club Speedway of Southern California.

In February of 2004, Roush Fenway accomplished one of the hardest feats in NASCAR, sweeping all three events at California Speedway. Mark Martin won in the truck series on Friday, followed by wins by Greg Biffle and Matt Kenseth in the Nationwide and Sprint Cup Series. Despite the degree of difficulty, RFR went on to accomplish the feat twice more in 2006 at Bristol and Homestead.

In 2010, Pastrana found a different kind of success in California, breaking the world record for a rally car jump. On New Year’s Eve, the driver jumped a rally car off the Pine Avenue Pier, 269 feet onto a floating barge in Rainbow Harbor. To celebrate the feat, Pastrana did a backflip into the harbor.