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“I’m excited to go to Bristol this weekend. We had a tough time in Montreal, and I’m looking forward to putting that behind us and getting our momentum back on Friday night in Thunder Valley. We need to get back our streak of top-five finishes so we can gain some ground in the point standings."

Ryan Blaney will return to Tommy Baldwin Racing (TBR) this weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway (BMS). He will be making his NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) BMS debut in the No. 36 SealWrap Chevrolet. This weekend’s start will mark the rookie’s sixth start in the series.

Third in NNS championship standings, 22 points behind leader Elliott Sadler. Owns a series best 10 consecutive top-10 finishes - including five top fives in last six races.

Mike Wallace and the No. 01 Chevrolet team of JD Motorsports w/Gary Keller is hoping to take their top-10 finish momentum from last week’s Montreal event to race the high banks of Bristol Motor Speedway this Friday night.

When the NASCAR Nationwide Series last visited Bristol Motor Speedway back in June, it was Elliott Sadler who found himself in Victory Lane. But if you ask Joey Logano, it probably should have been the No. 18 Toyota that should have been doing celebratory donuts. Logano won the pole, led the first 67 laps, got a great pit stop from his team and led another 52 laps before eventually falling behind due to a bad set of tires.

FAST FACTS: TREVOR BAYNE will make his sixth start in the NASCAR Nationwide Series in 2012 at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Stenhouse, Jr. on racing at Bristol Motor Speedway: “I love racing at Bristol especially under the lights. They repaved the top groove of the track since we raced there last time so that creates some uncertainty for us. In the spring, our No. 6 Ford was stout. After two road course races I am ready to get back to an oval track. We have NOS on our Mustang this weekend so it would be ‘NOSsome’ to get them to victory lane.”

Kahne at Bristol Motor Speedway: By the numbers... In 16 NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) starts at Bristol Motor Speedway (BMS), Kahne has one win (2007), five top-five and five top-10 finishes. He has 132 laps led with an average start of 14.7 and an average finish of 18.4.

In the two races over the weekend at Michigan International Speedway, Toyota drivers earned a total of five top-10 finishes. Camry drivers Clint Bowyer (seventh) and Martin Truex Jr. (10th) registered top-10 finishes in Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race, while Dakoda Armstrong (third), Parker Kligerman (fourth) and Kurt Busch (ninth) earned top-10 results in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) race.

This Week's Zaxby's Toyota ... John Wes Townley will pilot RAB Racing with Brack Maggard Chassis No. 39 in Friday's Food City 250 at Bristol Motor Speedway. Zaxby's Returns ... RAB Racing'sToyota Camry will sport familiar colors this weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway when the red and yellow paint scheme of Zaxby's adorns the No. 99.