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Denny Hamlin (fourth) was the highest-finishing Toyota driver in Friday night's NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) race at Texas Motor Speedway.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. won his fourth career NASCAR Nationwide Series race and his first at Texas Motor Speedway.

Sam Hornish Jr. (No. 12 Würth Dodge Challenger R/T) Finished 11th IT LOOKED TO BE A SOLID NIGHT BEFORE THE CAR GOT TIGHT LATE IN THE RACE: “I think that we started picking up enough speed from the track cooling off and the air getting cooler that we started to get down on the splitter a bit.

Michael Annett started the 200-lap NASCAR Nationwide Series event at Texas Motor Speedway from the 18th position. Annett finished the O’Reilly Auto Parts 300 as follows:

Mike Wallace and the No. 01 G&K Services Chevrolet team of JD Motorsports had a tough route to their finish at Texas Motor Speedway on Friday night.

25 worthy nominees, only five of whom will be inducted as the NASCAR Hall of Fame's Class of 2013. Of them, I would think three would be rather easy decisions if I had the vote.

On April 11th, NASCAR announced the 25 nominees for the 2013 NASCAR Hall of Fame Class. The 25 nominees will be broken down to five via the NASCAR Hall of Fame Voting Panel and they will become the fourth group to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Elliott Sadler, the NNS point leader, says it’s great see a wide open field and that NNS drivers have worked hard to better understand their cars. Sadler has won twice thus far, at Phoenix and Bristol.

TOYOTA TIDBITS TEXAS TWO STEP: Two years ago (2010), Camry driver Denny Hamlin swept both NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) races at Texas Motor Speedway. In 13 career starts at the 1.5-mile oval, the Virginia-native has five top-five finishes, eight top-10 results and has run all but 13 laps

Annett has six career starts in the Nationwide Series at Texas Motor Speedway Annett enters Texas in seventh-place in the Nationwide Series driver point standings Annett’s best finish (11th) came in 2009 at the 1.5-mile speedway