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Joey Logano (No. 20 GameStop/Hitman Absolution Toyota): “It was good enough to get the pole. And I feel like it was good in race trim. Hopefully, my guys will make the right adjustments to try to make it happen later on in this race."

TRAVIS PASTRANA, No. 99 Boost Mobile Toyota Camry, RAB Racing What is your outlook for the Charlotte race? "Definitely looking forward -- this is going to be the fastest course that I've really ran. Darlington was pretty quick. It was definitely a lot more narrow."

Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. (TMS) and TRD, U.S.A. (Toyota Racing Development) formally introduced the new 2013 Toyota Camry that will compete in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) at TRD's Salisbury, N.C. facility on Tuesday.

“Our 88 team has made some strong gains over the past few races and hopefully we can carry that into this weekend. We have Ingersoll Rand on the car this week and we want to get a good run. They’re headquartered right up the road in Davidson (N.C.), so they’re going to have a lot of guests at the race and I think we can perform well for them."

For the second consecutive year, Iowa Speedway is pleased to announce the Enlist™ Weed Control System from Dow AgroSciences as the presenting sponsor of the U.S. Cellular® 250 on Saturday, Aug. 4.

“Charlotte has been one of my favorite places to race at since I’ve been running stock cars. You can run a lot of different lines there and it’s probably the smoothest of the mile-and-a-half tracks. We ran really well there last year. Our pit crew is so much better this year."

NASCAR announced today the 2013 class of inductees into the NASCAR Hall of Fame. The five-person class, which will be officially inducted in a ceremony on Friday, Feb. 8, 2013 at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, N.C., consists of Buck Baker, Cotton Owens, Herb Thomas, Rusty Wallace and Leonard Wood.

Annett has six career starts in the Nationwide Series at Charlotte Motor Speedway Annett enters this weekend’s event in sixth-place in the Nationwide point standings Annett’s best finish (13th) at the 1.5-mile superspeedway came in 2009

Stock car racing veterans Mike Greci and Scott Zipadelli serve as an integral part of No. 99 Boost Mobile Toyota driver Travis Pastrana’s introduction to NASCAR.

Kahne is no stranger to Charlotte Motor Speedway's victory lane... In 18 NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) starts at Charlotte Motor Speedway (CMS), Kahne has one win and one pole to his credit in addition to four top-10 finishes with 140 laps led.