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Vickers has started all 18 Sprint Cup races, the kind of run that's a given for stars like Jimmie Johnson or Jeff Gordon.

Which means Sunday's race, the Camping World RV Sales 301, could mean an increaded importance on strategy, track position and fuel mileage.

Joey Logano, already safely in the Chase, is the top-starting Ford driver for Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

Ricky Taylor and Jordan Taylor have put Wayne Taylor Racing on top of the Prototype standings in the Tudor United SportsCar Championship.

He and Compass360 Racing co-driver Ryan Eversley took the No. 75 Honda Civic Si Cure NF with Jack/ CTF/ HPD to victory lane two weeks ago and look to carry that momentum into this weekend's Mobil 1 SportsCar Grand Prix Presented by Hawk Performance.

Joe Garone, at Furniture Row Racing's Denver headquarters, got his first taste of NASCAR in 1989.

Erik Jones continued Kyle Busch Motorsports' dominance this season and kept Toyota's winning streak alive in the Camping World Truck Series by winning Friday night's American Ethanol 200 at Iowa Speedway.

He certainly did on Friday, setting a track qualifying record on his way to winning the pole for Sunday's Camping World 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

The goals of the RTA include lowering costs for NASCAR teams and creating one voice on issues facing the teams.

The series upped the number of Chase participants from 12 to 16 this year and is rewarding race winners like never before.

This is a May 17, 2014 file photo showing Jack Hawksworth, of England, posed for a photo after his qualification run on the first day of qualifications for Indianapolis 500 IndyCar auto race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis.

Organizers of the fourth annual Pinto Stampede aren't talking about horses - or even that much horsepower - to raise money for the Wounded Warriors Project.

Like many other drivers last week at Daytona International Speedway, Kasey Kahne crashed.

Carson Kvapil is in his first full year of racing a Bandolero. He finished at the top of the Concord Speedway's Beginner Bandits standings for the track's spring series and has produced top-five finishes in his Summer Shootout Series events.

There will be pressure on Fort Kent's Austin Theriault Saturday afternoon, when he will drive his second of three NASCAR Nationwide Series races for Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s JR Motorsports team at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

Mike Helton, president of NASCAR walks through the garages during a rain shower prior to the Sprint Cup series auto race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla., Saturday, July 5, 2014.

The Chase math is shrinking, getting skinny for those winless teams seeking a precious win to catapult their efforts this year.

"I love driving race cars, I love driving next to sharks more dangerous than these," said Brendan Gaughn as he was in the middle of the shark tank at the Tennessee Aquarium.

THOSE ATTENDING Sunday's Pocono IndyCar 500 witnessed the fastest Indy-car race ever: The average speed was 202.402 mph.

Coke Zero 400 Aric Almirola celebrates in the rain in Victory Lane after winning the rain-shortened Coke Zero 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach on Sunday, July 6, 2014.