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I guess I had so much fun, or maybe the team had enough fun at Bristol, that they brought me back for Atlanta. Once again, no practice and probably starting near the back.

We are headed to Atlanta Motor Speedway. This track has an old, rough surface – something that we really don’t see when we go to mile-and-a-halves, so it’s different.

Michael Annett will seek a third top-10 finish of the season on 1.5-mile ovals this weekend at Atlanta. He was seventh at both Las Vegas and Charlotte.

Brandon Jones (third) and Harrison Burton (fourth) led Toyota with top-five finishes at the NASCAR Xfinity Series event at Bristol Motor Speedway on Monday evening.

Austin Cindric and the No. 22 ODYSSEY Ford Mustang team finished the Cheddar’s 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway in the 36th position after an early crash caused the team to retire the event early. Due to the finish, the Mooresville, N.C. native drops from second to sixth-place in the NASCAR Xfinity Series driver standings, 56 markers behind leader Chase Briscoe.

CHASE BRISCOE, No. 98 -- HighPoint.com Ford Mustang -- YOU GET TO RUN FOR $100,000 NEXT WEEK AT ATLANTA. “I’m super-excited to go run for an extra 100-grand. Thanks to XFINITY. We were just a fifth to sixth-place car it seemed like most of the night and just was really tight."

NASCAR heads to Tennessee where the NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) and NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) will compete at Bristol Motor Speedway. Toyota drivers have experienced quite a bit of success at the half-mile short track.

We are headed to Bristol in Tennessee. It’s the world’s fastest half mile. It’s a concrete oval, which suits my driving style so well growing up on short tracks all over the country.

Joe Gibbs Racing driver Brandon Jones was made available to media via videoconference prior to the Cheddar’s 300 this Monday:

Monday night prime time at Bristol! The Cup race got delayed at Charlotte, so we’re going to get to run Monday night – not Saturday. Make sure you remember that.