NASCAR & Auto Racing

This week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race: Duck Commander 500

Joey Logano, driver of the No. 22 Ford, is the defending champion of the NASCAR Sprint Cup series Duck Commander 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.
Joey Logano, driver of the No. 22 Ford, is the defending champion of the NASCAR Sprint Cup series Duck Commander 500 at Texas Motor Speedway. Chris Graythen (Credit too long, see caption)

Duck Commander 500

What: 334 laps, or 501 miles.

Where: Texas Motor Speedway, a 1.5-mile banked, paved quad-oval located in Forth Worth, Texas.

When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

TV: Fox.

Radio: Performance Racing Network.

Last year’s winner: Joey Logano.

Also this week: O’Reilly Auto Parts 200, Xfinity Series, Texas Motor Speedway, 8:30 p.m. Friday, Fox Sports 1.

Worth mentioning: William Byron, a 17-year-old from Charlotte, picked up his first win in NASCAR’s K&N Pro Series East last Saturday, leading every lap in a dominating victory at Greenville-Pickens (S.C.) )Speedway. Byron, a former Legends cars national champion, also drives late models for JR Motorsports this year and is a student at Charlotte Country Day School.

Jim Utter

This story was originally published April 9, 2015 at 5:09 PM with the headline "This week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race: Duck Commander 500."

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