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Cole Whitt - “I feel like our TaxSlayer team has been steadily improving as a group. Until Talladega, we just hadn’t had much luck through an entire race. It’s good to finally get a finish that our team deserved. There were a few races where I feel our finish didn’t show how well we were running."

DODGE QUOTES: “Everybody accepts the fact that you’re going to get into the wall, that you’re going to have a Darlington stripe, but you don’t want it to lead you into problems. Almost everybody is going to have excitement at the end of the race, but you don’t want to do it on lap one or in practice."

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series star Carl Edwards will move from the cockpit of his race car to the broadcast booth as he becomes an analyst for ESPN on two upcoming telecasts of NASCAR Nationwide Series races.

As a result of illegal upper bumper covers on their cars at Talladega Superspeedway, Jeremy Bullins (No. 22) and Chad Walter (No. 12) have been placed on probation till December 31 and fined $10,000 by NASCAR. Additionally, car chiefs Thomas Clavette (No. 22) and Raymond Fox (No. 12) – have been placed on NASCAR probation until Dec. 31.

NASCAR announced today that two NASCAR Nationwide Series crew chiefs had been fined and placed on probation for violations during this past weekend’s event at Talladega Superspeedway. In addition, the teams’ respective car chiefs have also been placed on probation for the remainder of the year.

Stenhouse, Jr. on racing at Darlington Raceway: “I really enjoy racing at Darlington. We were running really strong there last year, passing for third late in the race and got in the wall which messed up our race but we were really fast."

Hendrick Motorsports will host a fan appreciation day on Friday, May 25 during Charlotte Motor Speedway race weeks. The Hendrick Motorsports Fan Fest will be held at the team’s Concord facility and feature an array of family-friendly activities, including scheduled appearances by NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers Kasey Kahne, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson and Dale Earnhardt Jr.

If there was ever a team needing to avoid a “Lady in Black” right now, it would be the No. 01 Restaurant.com Chevrolet team of Mike Wallace and JD Motorsports.

If you pick Darlington Raceway to run in just your second NASCAR Nationwide Series race it’s only natural you turn to someone who’s fared pretty well at the 1.366-mile South Carolina track.

Kahne at Darlington Raceway: By the numbers... In nine NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) starts at Darlington Raceway, Kahne is credited with one top-five and four top-10 finishes with a total of 46 laps led.