BROADCAST INFORMATION: Sunday’s race at Texas Motor Speedway will air live on FOX at 1:30 p.m. ET. Can’t make it to a television? The race can be heard live on PRN and Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Below is the broadcast schedule for the remainder of the weekend.
Friday, April 7
12:00 p.m. ET: NASCAR Cup Series practice, FOX Sports 1
6:15 p.m. ET: NASCAR Cup Series qualifying, FOX Sports 1
Saturday, April 8
9:30 a.m. ET: NASCAR Cup Series practice, FOX Sports 1
12:00 p.m. ET: NASCAR Cup Series final practice, FOX Sports 2
Sunday, April 9
1:30 p.m. ET: NASCAR Cup Series race, FOX
THIS WEEKEND’S PAINT SCHEMES: Kasey Kahne will drive the No. 5 Farmers Insurance Chevrolet SS, Chase Elliott will pilot the No. 24 NAPA AUTO PARTS Chevrolet SS and Jimmie Johnson will man the No. 48 Lowe’s Chevrolet SS while Dale Earnhardt Jr. will be behind the wheel of the No. 88 Axalta Chevrolet SS.
HENDRICK MOTORSPORTS AT TEXAS: Hendrick Motorsports has earned eight wins, 35 top-five finishes, 62 top-10s, six pole positions and has led 2,255 laps at Texas Motor Speedway. Johnson most recently visited Victory Lane at the track for the organization in 2015, when he swept both races
KAHNE AT TEXAS: In just his fourth start at Texas, Kahne swept the April 2006 weekend. He started the weekend off strong by earning the pole with a speed of 190.315 mph. After leading 63 laps in the race, he took the checkered flag with a 5.299-second margin of victory over Matt Kenseth. In his NASCAR Cup Series career at Texas, the 36-year-old has led 224 laps over five races, which ranks him ninth among active drivers.
ELLIOTT’S LONE STAR STATE STATS: In Elliott’s two previous NASCAR Cup Series starts at Texas, he collected top-five finishes in both races. The 21-year-old driver averages a starting position of 7.5 and finishing position of 4.5 at the track. Elliott collected his first career NASCAR XFINITY Series victory at the 1.5-mile speedway in April 2014. In his five XFINITY Series starts there, he has accumulated three top-five finishes and five top-10s, led 38 laps and completed 100 percent of the 1,000 possible laps while averaging a starting position of 10.4 and finishing position of 5.0
JOHNSON A TEXAS SHOWMAN: Johnson has won five of the last nine races at Texas Motor Speedway. In total, Johnson has won six times at the track and led 1,023 laps in the process, both of which are the most all-time at Texas. His most recent win at the track came on November 8, 2015, when he started eighth and led only six laps en route to his sixth win at the 1.5-mile speedway.
EARNHARDT STRONG AT TEXAS: Dale Earnhardt Jr. hasn’t finished outside of the top six in the last four races he has run at Texas Motor Speedway. While the driver of the No. 88 Axalta Chevrolet SS hasn’t been to Victory Lane since winning his first NASCAR Cup Series race in his first start at the Fort Worth, Texas, track on April 2, 2000, at age 25, he earned a runner-up finish in his most recent trip to the speedway in last year’s spring race. The 42-year-old driver has two poles at the Lone Star State track, earning the top starting spot in April 2001 and in April 2008, his first pole with Hendrick Motorsports.