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Toyota Racing today announced 'Racing For Awareness,' a friendly competition among women affiliated with the Toyota NASCAR program -- including wives, girlfriends, mothers and sisters, as well as one racer -- in support of breast cancer awareness. Nine women affiliated with the Toyota Racing program have each used their creativity and vision to design a T-shirt to recognize breast cancer awareness. Fans can vote for their favorite design at www.toyotaracing.com/RacingForAwareness from now through Oct. 4, 2012 at 12 PM (ET).

Today, Friday August 24th 2012, the #44 BanditChippers.com Toyota takes back to the Bristol Motor Speedway with Mike Bliss behind the wheel for some short track racing under the lights. The Black & Yellow Chipper paint scheme adorned the #44 at Bristol earlier this year, where Mike finished 15th. Bliss had 14th and 13th place finishes on the back to back NNS road races and currently sits firmly in 8th position in the NNS standings.

After two successful runs as the primary partner on the No. 01 Chevrolet of Mike Wallace with JD Motorsports w/Gary Keller, Tradebank has decided to be part of the upward momentum for another race.

“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.”