NASCAR O'Reilly Series

This week Roush Fenway travels north to its ‘home track’ of Michigan International Speedway in the Sprint Cup Series and for road course action at Montreal in the Nationwide Series.

Patrick Carpentier will pilot RAB Racing chassis No. 54 in Saturday's NAPA AUTO PARTS 200 NASCAR Nationwide Series race. Purchased from Michael Waltrip Racing, Carpentier piloted this Toyota Camry to a 32nd-place finish at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve last August. Misfortune struck the Quebec native in the late-stages of the 74-lap contest when he was spun by another competitor which resulted in the less-than-desired finish.

Richard Childress Racing in the Motor City ... In 130 starts at Michigan International Speedway, RCR teams have earned three wins, two with Dale Earnhardt (June 1987 and June 1990) and the most recent with Kevin Harvick (August 2010). Additionally, RCR has claimed 17 top-five and 43 top-10 finishes with 10 different drivers including Richard Childress, a former driver in NASCAR's top division, who recorded top-10 finishes at MIS in June 1978 and August 1979. The Welcome, N.C.-based organization has an 18.5 average starting position, a 16.9 average finishing position, has completed 24,320 of the 25,729 contested laps (94.5 percent) and has led 677 laps in the Irish Hills.

While the No. 01 Chevrolet team of Mike Wallace makes their way to Circuit Gilles Villenueve for this weekend’s NASCAR Nationwide Series road course race, his teammate in Daryl Harr is looking forward to competing in his homeland of Canada.

If there was one race that Jason Bowles had circled on his calendar at the outset of the 2012 season, this was it. This weekend, Bowles returns to Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve for second time in his career racing in the NASCAR Nationwide Series for the NAPA Auto Parts 200. One year ago, Jason notched his career best finish in Montreal, recording a 13th place result.

Since things changed dramatically in the Penske Racing camp back in early July at Daytona, no one would have thought differently if Sam Hornish Jr.'s performance started to slip. The Nationwide Series driver quickly found himself going from worrying solely on his championship hopes to doing double duty for the past month. Sometimes flying from state to state, bouncing between cars and teams.

Bristol Motor Speedway’s upcoming triple header continues to be cause for added celebration for one locally owned and operated grocery chain. Twenty years ago, Food City signed on as the title sponsor of the March Food City 500 Sprint Cup event, as well as the August Food City 250 Nationwide Series race.

Victor Gonzalez, Jr. struggled with a multitude of handling issues throughout Saturday's Zippo 200 at Watkins Glen International, but persevered to bring his No. 99 Delta Commercial/IMCA Toyota Camry to the checkered flag in the 16th position.

Sadler leads the NASCAR Nationwide Series driver championship point standings over Ricky Stenhouse Jr., by 13 points. Sam Hornish ranks third, with Dillon fourth in the standings, trailing his teammate by 29 points.

Mike Wallace and the No. 01 Chevrolet team of JD Motorsports w/ Gary Keller twisted and turned their way to a top-20 finish in Saturday’s NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Watkins Glen International. His teammate for the weekend, Daryl Harr driving the No. 4 iWorld.com/Tradebank Chevrolet, gained eight spots from where he started to finish 30th.