XFINITY Series

“I don’t want to go too fast either. I want to learn things as I go. You can always step up but you can’t really take that step down and then step back up. So when I move to the next level I want to make sure that I’m doing it at the right time and that I’m ready to go.”

After leading Nationwide Series final practice, Brad Keselowski won the pole for Friday night's Food City 250 at the Bristol Motor Speedway.

David Ragan shot ahead of Carl Edwards in a green-white-checkered finish to win the NASCAR Nationwide Series Food City 250 Friday night by a 1.379-second margin.

In 47 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series starts at Kansas Speedway, Richard Childress Racing has four top-five and 13 top-10 finishes. RCR's best finish at Kansas was second in 2007 with Clint Bowyer. The Welcome, N.C.-based organization holds an average starting position of 20.9, an average finishing position of 15.8, has completed 12,208 of the 12,398 contested laps (98.5 percent) and has collectively led for 136 laps around the 1.5-mile race track.

Richard Childress is tied for second place for number of car owner victories at Chicagoland Speedway with Kevin Harvick's back-to-back wins in 2001 and 2002. In 38 starts at the 1.5-mile suburban Chicago tri-oval, Richard Childress Racing teams have a combined eight top-fives and 17 top-10 finishes; along with one pole award with Jeff Burton in 2006.