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Entry No. Driver Sponsor
1 07 BJ McLeod ThunderExhaust.com Chevrolet
2 32 Tayler Malsam Outerwall Chevrolet
3 29 Ryan Blaney Cooper Standard Ford
4 17 Timothy Peters Red Horse Racing Toyota
5 57 Norm Benning Boedeker Construction Chevrolet
6 13 Jeb Burton Estes Toyota
7 98 Johnny Sauter Nextant/Curb Records Toyota
8 88 Matt Crafton Slim Jim/Menards Toyota
9 02 * Tyler Young # Standard Structures, Inc. Chevrolet
10 31 Ben Kennedy # Turner Scott Motorsports Chevrolet
11 0 * Ryan Ellis(i) Grimes Irrigation & Construction Chevrolet
12 20 Justin Lofton NTS Motorsports Chevrolet
13 30 Ron Hornaday Jr. Ruud Chevrolet
14 08 Jimmy Weller # Geneva Liberty Steel/Integrated Metal Products Chevrolet
15 63 Justin Jennings Randco/Young’s Building Systems Chevrolet
16 19 Tyler Reddick # DrawTite Ford
17 21 Joey Coulter Chevrolet
18 50 TJ Bell Electrical Linemen Chevrolet
19 8 Joe Nemechek smokeandsear.com Toyota
20 5 John Wes Townley Zaxby’s Toyota
21 51 Erik Jones Hiring Our Heroes/ToyotaCare Toyota
22 54 Darrell Wallace Jr. ToyotaCare Toyota
23 9 Brennan Newberry Qore-24 Chevrolet
24 99 Bryan Silas Chevrolet
25 10 Jennifer Jo Cobb Grimes Irrigation & Construction Chevrolet
26 35 Mason Mingus # Call 811 Toyota
27 77 German Quiroga Net 10 Wireless Toyota

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Two-time Texas winner Sauter posts fastest speed in first session

Final practice (Results)

Three-time Mexico Series champ German Quiroga led the final NASCAR Camping World Truck Series practice at Texas Motor Speedway on Thursday, posting a high speed of 176.476 mph.

Quiroga set that speed on his second of 29 laps.

Ryan Blaney, who was fifth-fastest in the opening practice, earned the second-quickest position in the final session on his second lap with a speed of 175.798 mph. 

Matt Crafton (175.747 mph), Johnny Sauter (175.490 mph) and Darrell Wallace Jr. (174.616 mph) rounded out the top five. 

No one touched Sauter’s top speed in the first practice of 177.247 mph.

In addition to Sauter and Blaney, Crafton and Wallace Jr. also finished in the top five of both Thursday practice sessions.

Joe Nemechek, John Wes Townley, Brennan Newberry, Ron Hornaday Jr. and Ben Kennedy completed the top 10 of Thursday’s final 90-minute session.

The WinStar World Casino and Resort 400 will take place Friday at 9 p.m. ET with coverage on FOX Sports 1.

Practice 1 (Results)

Johnny Sauter topped the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series’ first practice for the WinStar World Casino and Resort 400 at Texas Motor Speedway on Thursday.

Sauter, a two-time winner at the Texas track, posted a high speed of 177.247 mph on his second of six laps.

Second fastest was Darrell Wallace Jr. with a speed of 176.980 mph.

Matt Crafton (176.939 mph), defending race winner Jeb Burton (176.875 mph) and Ryan Blaney (176.759 mph) rounded out the top five. 

Truck Series points leader Timothy Peters posted the sixth-fastest lap of 176.655 mph.

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‘Smoke’ will compete against fans in winged karts for charity

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Tony Stewart will be racing in Iowa a year and a day after the three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion suffered a broken leg in a sprint car crash at Southern Iowa Speedway in Oskaloosa.
 
The three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion missed the final 15 races in 2013 due to injuries sustained in the accident. After months of rehabilitation, he returned to Cup competition when the 2014 season got underway in February.

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Fellow Cup drivers Jeff Gordon, Kasey Kahne and Kyle Larson will join Stewart Aug. 6 to compete against fans in winged karts at the Slideways Karting Center in Knoxville, Iowa. It’s part of the third annual Tony Stewart Kick-It Cup, a fundraising effort with proceeds earmarked for children’s cancer research.
 
Fifty fans will have the opportunity to race against the four Cup regulars in a series of eight heat races, a last-chance showdown and a 20-lap feature as part of the second annual Go-Kart Spectacular.
 
In addition to the karting experience, a seven-inning game of kickball featuring sprint car regulars going head-to-head will be held Aug. 8.
 
Both events are being held in conjunction with this year’s FVP Knoxville Nationals.
 
"I love going to the Knoxville Nationals and to be part of such a great event like the Kick-It Cup will make it even more fun to be there," Stewart said.
 
"I love racing, whether I’m driving a Cup car, a winged sprint car or a go-kart. Being able to race against fans at Slideways … and help out the Jeff Gordon Children’s Foundation at the same time is a win-win for everyone."
 
For more information about this year’s karting program, click here

Information on the kickball game and auction can be found here.

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Brett Moffitt to drive No. 66 car at Michigan; Burton will run at New Hampshire in July

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Brett Moffitt will make his second career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series start on June 15 at Michigan International Speedway, Michael Waltrip Racing announced Thursday.

Jeff Burton was originally scheduled to run in that event, but he will now race in the July 13 Sprint Cup Series event at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. In 38 starts at the 1-mile track, Burton has four wins, which is the most at one track in his Cup career and also the most of any driver at the track.

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"Our No. 66 team was originally scheduled to run some new components at Michigan with Jeff, but those plans were delayed last week, causing us to debate running Michigan at all," MWR co-owner Michael Waltrip said in a release. "However, after the great effort we saw with Brett in his debut at Dover, we decided to move forward with Michigan, allowing Brett more seat time and to work toward his NASCAR eligibility on bigger tracks."

Moffitt made his debut last week at Dover International Speedway, where he finished 22nd while driving the No. 66 car. The 21-year-old has been a test driver for MWR the past two seasons.

"It seems like this is all happening very fast, but I feel like we have been working toward this kind of opportunity for a long time," Moffitt said.

Burton has made one start this season for MWR — a 17th-place finish at Las Vegas — in his role as a part-time driver for the team. Burton has also tested for the team, most recently at Pocono Raceway. He is set to move to the television booth as part of NBC’s broadcast team in 2015.

"When the testing plans for Michigan changed and the ability to run New Hampshire became available, I jumped at the opportunity," Burton said. "This gives Brett a chance to get some well-deserved race time and the ability for me to race at one of my favorite race tracks. This is a win for all of us at MWR."

A partnership between Jay Robinson Racing and MWR allows the No. 66 to run in all Sprint Cup Series races.

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Four-time Cup champion discusses watching his daughter get behind the wheel

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There isn’t a lot that scares Jeff Gordon. When one makes his or her living driving 190-mph rockets nearly every week in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series, that’s not exactly a revelation.
 
But it seems there is one thing that can put the four-time champion a bit on edge — watching his 6-year-old daughter, Ella Sofia, climb behind the wheel of a quarter midget kart and turn laps on the track.
 
Gordon spoke about his daughter’s first effort, which took place April 20, while testing this week with Hendrick Motorsports teammates Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kasey Kahne at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

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"It terrified me," he said. "From a parent’s standpoint, it’s kind of tough to watch them go around there and not have any control of what’s going on and know that it’s all on them now.
 
"It’s amazing the focus they can have at such a young age, to go on and do that, but at the same time you know all the things that can go wrong and that’s kind of scary."
 
Jeff Gordon began his racing career as a 5-year-old, eventually progressing through the open-wheel ranks in USAC. He made his NASCAR debut, in what is now known as the Nationwide Series, in 1990 as a 19-year-old. His 89 career wins in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series is most among active drivers and is third on NASCAR’s all-time list.
 
"I wouldn’t say she’s gotten the bug," Gordon said of his daughter. "She’s around it so much that it’s hard for her not to be influenced by it and we don’t want to keep her away from it if she wants to (race).
 
"But living in my house, horseback riding, gymnastics, soccer or whatever, there’s just stuff going on all the time and driving the race car, so far, has been the same as those other things. It’s not like it stands out, but it was fun from the sideline and we’ll see if it continues."
 
Gordon and his wife, Ingrid, also have a son, 3-year-old Leo.
 
Following in the footsteps of a successful, well-known parent carries with it a certain amount of expectations and pressure, in addition to the "positives that come with it," Gordon said.
 
Such concerns might need to be addressed at a later time. For now, Gordon said he and his family are willing to let Ella determine her level of interest.
 
"Honestly I think the only reason she’s interested in it is because I’m her dad and she just wants to please me and wants to do something that I do," he said. "And again, that’s not all bad. It can be good as well.
 
"It’s just how you handle it and how you go about it. You have to handle it properly because it could go really good or it could go really bad."

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‘Your Hero’s Name Here’ initiative honors U.S. Army Sergeant John Wayne Walding

This year’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway has been named the Crown Royal Presents the John Wayne Walding 400 at the Brickyard Powered by BigMachineRecords.com.
 
The announcement was made during Wednesday night’s CMT Music Awards program.
 
Walding, a native of Little Elm, Texas, is an Army veteran. During his 12 years of active service, he completed tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. He lost part of his right leg while involved in a firefight in 2008.
 
He has been awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart and Combat Infantry Badge.

The 2014 Sprint Cup race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, scheduled for July 27, will be the third Cup event at the track to be sponsored by Crown Royal and named in honor of a member of the military. From 2007 through 2011, the brand was involved in a similar initiative at Richmond International Raceway.
 
"The fact that Crown Royal cares enough to say ‘thank you’ for what I’ve done is a true validation for my sacrifice," Walding said following the announcement. "The magnitude of those two words goes above and beyond."
 
Walding became the first amputee to graduate the Special Forces Sniper School, and competed in the Army 10 miler as well as the Boston Marathon (the latter in 2009 while utilizing a hand cycle). He is the founder of Five Toes Custom, which produces handcrafted precision rifles and provides support and direction for wounded veterans.
 
He and his wife, Amy, have four children.
 
Joining Walding as this year’s five finalists were James Bailey (Pamplin, Virginia); Bryce Boyer (Wanship, Utah); Tara Hulett (Albany, New York); and Tyler Whisenhunt (Gentry, Arkansas).
 
Nominations for the annual program were submitted to CrownRoyalHeroes.com with the winner determined by consumer vote.
 
"The sacrifices that have been made by John Wayne Walding and countless heroes across the country serve as an inspiration to all of us at Crown Royal," said Abby Wise, Brand Director for Crown Royal.
 
In addition to taking part in various pre-race activities, Walding will present the trophy bearing his name to the winner of this year’s race in Victory Lane.

New teammate Sauter calls 21-year-old a ‘ball of fire’

FORT WORTH, Texas — The veteran tandem of Matt Crafton and Johnny Sauter has been a constant at ThorSport Racing since their initial full-time pairing in 2009. Enter into the mix a young buck in Jeb Burton and the chemistry naturally changes. 

But to hear Burton tell it, the foundation for the new partnership was laid even before their three-truck merger officially began.

"Me, Matt and Johnny raced like we were teammates last year," Burton said Thursday from Texas Motor Speedway, site of Friday night’s WinStar World Casino and Resort 400 (9 p.m. ET, FOX Sports 1). "We never had a fender touch each other, so we’ve got respect all of us together. Our personalities are a little bit different off track, but on track we’ve got the same goals — race each other clean, share notes and be good teammates. We’re still getting better every week, but hopefully we keep getting better, we can start winning some races."

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A solid starting point would be in the Lone Star State, site of Burton’s breakthrough victory in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series last June. That win came under different circumstances, during Burton’s time with the Turner Scott Motorsports team in a successful rookie season in which Burton topped the qualifying board seven times. 

But when sponsorship woes left Burton empty-handed in the offseason, he found a soft landing place with ThorSport — first on a race-by-race basis, then full time with an infusion of sponsorship at the end of May. Though Burton was not on the sidelines long, the sudden shift to uncertainty was a reminder of his father, Ward, and how his racing career unfolded. 

"He didn’t have to warn me really, because I saw the things that happened with him and his racing career," the 21-year-old Burton said. "He was with some good teams and was really loyal to some car owners and he didn’t get the same thing back. I know how the sport is — it can eat you up and spit you out. I know kind of what the deal is, and I just try to treat people like I want to be treated." 

Thus far, Burton’s treatment has been an open-arms welcome from the Ohio-based team. Instead of upsetting the comfort of the Crafton-Sauter dynamic, Burton’s eager attitude has meshed well with his veteran teammates in a mutually beneficial relationship of information sharing and feedback. 

"Jeb’s a really good dude," Sauter said. "Obviously, you see guys at the race track and you talk to them, but you don’t really get an opportunity to know them until they’re a teammate. I’ve been teammates with Matt now for five years or so, so I pretty much know the ins and outs of how all that works as far as working together at the race track. But Jeb’s been, he’s a ball of fire, there’s no question. He’s a pretty motivated young man, which is cool. I don’t know that he totally reminds me of myself, but I feel like I thought about things a lot the way that he does, 10 years ago. 

"It’s cool to see. He adds some enthusiasm to the organization, there’s no doubt, and I look for the rest of the season to be pretty fun." 

The first order of business is the return to the 1.5-mile Texas track, which brings back fond memories for the former NASCAR Next driver. Burton took command on the final restart and fended off Ty Dillon‘s last-ditch charge in the final laps to score his first national series win. 

Since then, victories have been hard to come by, but Burton said he knew even then on that memorable night that there was more work to be done. 

"Right when I left this chair last year, I knew I needed to win some more," Burton said from the front-and-center seat on stage in the Texas Motor Speedway media center. "That’s been a frustrating part of what happened with the sponsor leaving, but the way I look at it is that everything happens for a reason. If that would have never happened, I wouldn’t be with this new sponsor in Estes Express Lines, which is a great company and I’m excited for the future with them. But … winning one time doesn’t get the job done. I need to get better as a driver and win some more races."

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As owner, Negre gave Dale Earnhardt his first Cup start

Ed Negre, the NASCAR owner/driver credited with giving a young Dale Earnhardt his first Cup ride, died Wednesday.

Negre, 86, made 338 starts in NASCAR’s premier series between 1955 and 1979.

A resident of Longview, Washington, Negre earned three of his four career top-five finishes while racing out west.

In 1956, he finished a career-best fourth at the 0.5-mile Portland (Oregon) Speedway and then fifth at the same track just less than one month later.

The following year, he scored another fifth-place finish, this time at Eureka Speedway in Eureka, California.

It would be more than a decade before he earned his final top-five, finishing fifth in the Nashville 420 at the old Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway.

Negre, one of several independent drivers of his era, relocated to the Charlotte, North Carolina, area and began running the majority of the races by the late-1960s.

By the end of his racing career, his top-10 total had reached 26 — on tracks from Bristol, Tennessee, to Riverside, California.

In 1975, he fielded a second car for the series’ longest race, then known as the World 600, at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Earnhardt, 24, drove the No. 8 Dodge to a 22nd-place finish in his Cup debut; Negre, driving a No. 2 Dodge whose listed owner was fellow owner/driver Dave Marcis, finished 32nd.

(Side note: That year’s World 600 weekend also saw driver Joe Frasson attack his own car with a jack handle after failing to qualify. He was subsequently fined $100 for his conduct.)

"I wasn’t going to put him in my car," Negre told the (Longview) Daily News in a 2002 interview. "People said I was crazy. But the more they talked against him, the more determined I was to let him drive.

"I knew that he was going to be a good driver. He’d fall behind, but kept charging to the front."

Earnhardt went on to win 76 races and become the second driver to capture seven NASCAR Cup championships.

Negre left racing at age 50 and returned to the Longview area with his wife, Faye, where he operated a trucking business until 1999.

A military veteran, he served two years in the South Pacific during World War II.

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# Car Driver Team
1 22 Joey Logano Shell Pennzoil Ford
2 42 Kyle Larson # Target Chevrolet
3 9 Marcos Ambrose Stanley Ford
4 2 Brad Keselowski Redd’s Ford
5 5 Kasey Kahne Great Clips Chevrolet
6 10 Danica Patrick GoDaddy Chevrolet
7 31 Ryan Newman Wix Filters Chevrolet
8 24 Jeff Gordon Drive to End Hunger Chevrolet
9 66 Timmy Hill Land Castle Title Toyota
10 98 Josh Wise Phil Parsons Racing Ford
11 7 Michael Annett # Pilot Flying J Chevrolet
12 78 Martin Truex Jr. Furniture Row Chevrolet
13 43 Aric Almirola Nathan’s Famous Ford
14 51 Justin Allgaier # BRANDT Professional Agriculture Chevrolet
15 83 Ryan Truex # Burger King Toyota
16 16 Greg Biffle 3M Military Salute Ford
17 27 Paul Menard Moen/Menards Chevrolet
18 26 Cole Whitt # Burger King Toyota
19 48 Jimmie Johnson Lowe’s/Kobalt Tools Chevrolet
20 17 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Zest Ford
21 13 Casey Mears GEICO Chevrolet
22 15 Clint Bowyer RK Motors Charlotte Toyota
23 1 Jamie McMurray Cushman/Cessna Chevrolet
24 47 AJ Allmendinger Clorox Chevrolet
25 36 Reed Sorenson Theme Park Connection Chevrolet
26 77 Dave Blaney Amy R Fochler Veterans Law Attorney, LLC/www.valor4vets.com Ford
27 44 JJ Yeley(i) All City Leasing & Warehousing Chevrolet
28 34 David Ragan Taco Bell Ford
29 38 David Gilliland Long John Silver’s Ford
30 3 Austin Dillon # Dow Chevrolet
31 18 Kyle Busch M&M’s Peanut Butter Toyota
32 40 Landon Cassill(i) Newtown Building Supplies Inc. Chevrolet
33 14 Tony Stewart Mobil 1/Bass Pro Shops Chevrolet
34 11 Denny Hamlin FedEx Ground Toyota
35 99 Carl Edwards Kelloggs/Cheez-It Ford
36 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. National Guard Chevrolet
37 4 Kevin Harvick Budweiser Chevrolet
38 33 Alex Kennedy Dream Factory Chevrolet
39 23 Alex Bowman # Dr.Pepper Toyota
40 41 Kurt Busch Haas Automation Chevrolet
41 20 Matt Kenseth Dollar General Toyota
42 32 Travis Kvapil Corvetteparts.net Ford
43 55 Brian Vickers Aaron’s Dream Machine Toyota

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