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Hamlin set a track record Friday with a lap at 129.991 mph to earn the top starting spot.

By PaddockTalk.com Staff Writers Denny Hamlin and his No. 11 FedEx Freight Toyota won the Coors Light Pole Award for the 54th Annual Food City 500 with a track qualifying record lap of 14.761 seconds, 129.991 mph.

Danica Patrick had to go to a backup car early at Bristol after tagging the wall in the first practice.

At a rate of $349 for 5 laps, you can also hire Sonny's expertise! Photo by Blake Z. Rong.

In 10 Nationwide starts at Bristol, Bayne has scored three top-10 finishes, including a sixth-place run here last August.

Michael Shank Racing with Curb/Agajanian driver Ozz Negri will have a busy stretch of racing once again, as the Rolex 24 Champion is set to return to his native Brazil to compete in the hugely popular Brazilian Stock Car Series next weekend.

Last weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway the No.99 team showed the rest of the garage that they could 'run' with the best of them when they hosted Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil as an honorary crew member.

Kyle Busch Motorsports driver Darrell Wallace Jr . has a fan and friend in 2012 NHRA Top Fuel dragster champ Antron Brown .

Mortal Kombat: Teenager in coma after taking deadly pill wakes up and tells his mum 'I'm sorry and I love you' Jack Blades, 16, is thought to have taken a red Mortal Kombat tablet like those linked to the death of schoolgirl Regane MacColl.

The four-time Sprint Cup series champion has won races at the track "Too Tough To Tame," in March, May, August and September and is ready for Darlington's latest schedule shift when the Southern 500 takes place April 12th.

The inaugural TUDOR United SportsCar Championship season continues this weekend with the Twelve Hours of Sebring at historic Sebring International Raceway.

Daniel Suarez has won his first three races of the season in the NASCAR N&N East Pro Series.

Roush Fenway Looks To Turn Up the Heat at "Thunder Valley" After two weeks out west, Roush Fenway Racing rolls into the hills of eastern Tennessee where it will look for its 18th and 19th victories at the fast and furious half-mile of Bristol Motor Speedway.

Brad Keselowski once blew a tire while leading the final lap of this same Nationwide Series race, so he knew he couldn't get excited about a victory in Vegas until he actually crossed the line.

But he is being chased furiously in the points by 2012 Cup champion Brad Keselowski, who inherited the victory at Las Vegas Motor Speedway last Sunday when Junior ran out of gas coming off Turn 2 on the final lap and had to coast to the finish line from there.

There were no lights, there were no high banks; there was, as yet, no need to blow the top off a nearby mountain to accommodate a seating expansion.

Aug. 4, 2013: Scott Dixon, of New Zealand, greets fans during driver introductions at the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio in Lexington, Ohio.

NASCAR stars Kyle Busch and Matt Kenseth are joining host Denny Hamlin as headliners for the Denny Hamlin Short Track Showdown scheduled April 24 at South Boston Speedway.

It puts him in the new version of the Chase , which means he doesn't have to spend any more time answering questions about how he didn't make the Chase last year as the defending series champion.

Weekend Statistics and Notes Dakoda Armstrong will have a new look this weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway.