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Race Fast Facts – Texas Motor Speedway:

#22-Joey Logano won the 18th Annual Duck Commander 500, his fourth victory in 190 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races. This is his first victory and fourth top-10 finish in 2014. This is his first victory and fourth top-10 finish in 12 races at Texas Motor Speedway. #24...

2014 Sprint Cup Driver Chase Championship Points Standings:

[after Texas, race 7 of 36] 1) #24-Jeff Gordon, 259 2) #20-Matt Kenseth, 255, -4 3) #99-Carl Edwards [1 win], 247, -12 4) #22-Joey Logano [1 win], 235, -28 5) #18-Kyle Busch [1 win], 231, -28 6) #88-Dale Earnhardt Jr. [1 win], 228, -31 7) #48-Jimmie Johnson, 228, -...

Current 2014 Sprint Cup Driver Chase Seeding:

[after Texas, race 7 of 36 if Chase seeding started after this race] 1) #99-Carl Edwards, 1 win, 3rd in points 2) #22-Joey Logano, 1 win, 4th 3) #18-Kyle Busch, 1 win, 5th 4) #88-Dale Earnhardt Jr., 1 win, 6th 5) #2-Brad Keselowski, 1 win, 8th 6) #41-Kurt Busch, 1 ...

Earnhardt Jr. comments on his lap 12 wreck at Texas:

on lap 12 of the Duck Commander 400 Sprint Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway, #88-Earnhardt Jr. went low on the front stretch, getting into the grass, which was wet. The left front of the car buckled and the left front tire blew sending the #88 up the track and...

Bud Moore recovering:

NASCAR Hall of Famer Bud Moore suffered a mild heart attack over the weekend and is recovering in a hospital near his home in Spartanburg, S.C. 'He had a procedure done and is doing fine. He will be in the hospital a few days and is expected to be released later this...

Updated Race Coverage

of the Duck Commander 500 Sprint Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway has been re-scheduled for Monday, April 7, 2014. Television (TV): FOX at 12:00 pm/et; Pre-Race show on FOXSports1 at 11:30 am/et; green flag approx. 12:15pm/et Radio: Performance Racing Network...

Teams could use the ‘Big Hoss TV’ for strategy:

It sits on the backstretch, dwarfing the facility's standard-sized billboards as it rises up against the Texas sky. At 94.6 feet tall and 218 feet wide, 'Big Hoss TV,' the largest High-Definition LED video board in the world, personifies the attitude here at Texas...

Dillon to standby for Dillon at Texas UPDATE:

Rookie of the Year contender, #3-Austin Dillon, is feeling a little under the weather. His brother, Nationwide Rookie of the Year candidate and past Texas race winner in the Camping World Truck Series, Ty Dillon, ran a few laps in the #3 DOW Chevy during Happy Happy...

Haas’s US team to be given green light into F1 by next year UPDATE:

Bernie Ecclestone has revealed that a new team run by an American businessman is on track to join Formula One next year. It will become the sport's 12th team and the first from America since the 1980s. Formula One has not had an American driver since 2007. The team...

Rain could be an issue on Sunday:

The Duck Commander 500 Sprint Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway, with a green flag scheduled for 3:16pm/et, could be affected by rain. The National Weather Service forecast for the Fort Worth, TX area on Sunday, April 6th is a chance of showers and thunderstorms...

Stewart wins the Texas pole

for the Duck Commander 500 Sprint Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway is over, after the five minutes final round. #14-Stewart wins the pole with a third round lap of 195.454mph for his first pole of 2014 and 15th of his career. Stewart has won from the pole twice...

Seven races, seven different pole winners in 2014:

#14- Tony Stewart won the Coors Light Pole at Texas, making it seven different pole winners in the first seven races. That hasn't happened since 1998 [qualifying canceled, driver does not win the pole]....

Qualifying Fast Facts – Texas:

#14-Tony Stewart won the Coors Light Pole Award for the 18th Annual Duck Commander 500 with a lap of 27.628 seconds, 195.454 mph. This is his 15th pole in 528 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races. This is his first pole and third top-10 start in 2014. This is his second ...

Second Round of Qualifying

for the Duck Commander 500 Sprint Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway is being over, after 10 minutes. No driver ran faster than the track record of 196.299mph, set by #18-Kyle Busch last April. #16-Biffle 196.235 #14-Stewart 195.787 #4-Harvick 195.702 #2-Keselowski...

First Round of Qualifying

for the Duck Commander 500 Sprint Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway is over, after 25 minutes. eight drivers broke the track record of 196.299mph, set by #18-Kyle Busch last April. #4-Harvick 198.282 #21-Bayne 197.477 #99-Edwards 196.915 #3-Dillon 196.850 #31...

Happy Hour practice

for the Duck Commander 500 Sprint Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway is over, after 90 scheduled minutes, the top five, slowest and notes: #41-Busch 194.630 (in the backup car) #99-Edwards 194.616 #4-Harvick 194.328 #16-Biffle 194.014 #43-Almirola 193.979 slowest...

Dillon to standby for Dillon at Texas:

Rookie of the Year contender, #3-Austin Dillon, is feeling a little under the weather. His brother, Nationwide Rookie of the Year candidate and past Texas race winner in the Camping World Truck Series, Ty Dillon, ran a few laps in the #3 DOW Chevy during Happy Happy...

Billy Standridge ill:

former NASCAR driver Billy Standridge has cancer and is seriously sick but is in good spirits. Billy made 23 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series starts from 1993-1999 with a best finish of 14th in the 1995 Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. See more and leave a well wish / ...

Latest on tires at Texas:

Tires remained the hot topic at Texas Motor Speedway, where NASCAR and Goodyear took the unprecedented step of discussing the compound selected for Sunday's race before a single lap had been turned. Goodyear's multi-zone tread tire is making its season debut at Texas...

First Graders Wish Truex Luck :

A first-grade class in Canada is doing all it can to help Martin Truex Jr. change his luck this season. After a flat tire caused Truex to crash in practice last month at Auto Club Speedway - one in a series of early-season misfortunes that have him 28th in the points...