Topic: Ricky Stenhouse

Austin Dillon sped around 1.5-mile Texas Motor Speedway in 28.081 seconds (192.301 mph) in the final round of Friday's knockout qualifying session.

Martin Truex Jr.'s ouster from the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup didn't affect his qualifying prowess.

TALLADEGA, Ala. -- Joey Logano repeated as winner of the Hellmann's 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway.

Martin Truex Jr. gave himself as much of a cushion as possible.

This is the third straight Sprint Cup event at Dover for which qualifying has been cancelled because of rain.

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service

By Reid Spencer

What is now NASCAR's annual rules package experiment for the Sprint Cup became the equivalent of a trapeze act without a net at the Kentucky Speedway on Saturday night. More than a quarter of the field found the wall due to a reduction of 500 pounds of downforce.