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Seven different teams populate the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series top 12, the most after 18 races since the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup expanded to 12 teams in 2007.

Worth noting: The final quarter of the race starts with a caution on Lap 122, when David Ragan makes contact with Busch and Ragan goes spinning onto the grass in the backstretch.

The infamous Coca-Cola "brand managers" have returned to the race track, unleashing their latest attempt to sabotage Coke Zero and the NASCARA drivers who promote the brand's REAL Coke taste and zero calories.

"These guys never give up, the guys at RCR and the ladies," Childress said. "They just dig and dig.

Several NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers stepped carefully around the Jeremy Mayfield question Thursday.

Editor's Note: It's a merry-go-round this today, as Amy Henderson fills in for Tom Bowles on his column - who is himself filling in for Matt McLaughlin.

217 from the Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stable in this weekend's Coke Zero 400.

The Frontstretch: Frontstretch Fantasy Insider: There's Magic in This Here Mile by Bryan Davis Keith and Mike Neff -- Thursday June 25, 2009 While the configurations between Sonoma's road course and Loudon's oval are about as far apart as race tracks come, there are some similarities.

When he heard New Hampshire Motor Speedway was to become a piece of the Speedway Motorsports empire, Jeff Burton had his concerns.

255 from the Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stable. Built new for 2008, this is the same Chevy Impala SS Burton drove to a 21st-place finish at Pocono last August where a late-race pit road penalty cost him a potential top-five finish.

This year's streak of fuel economy finishes is a reminder that it's not always the fastest car that wins the race.

Compared to the past three Sprint Cup seasons, Richard Childress Racing has been mired in a slump.

The battle to be--or stay--in the top 12 is becoming a weekly event. Jeff Burton finished 34th Sunday at Infineon and is outside the top 12 for the first time since Atlanta, the fourth race of the season.

It has been a rough season for Richard Childress Racing, but the developments of the past week have been especially troublesome.

Jeff Burton doesn't know what to expect. Juan Pablo Montoya does and is worried.

The recreational vehicles that were lining up on Friday night began rolling at 6 a.m. yesterday morning into the camping lots, setting up shop at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

Jeff Burton, driver of the No. 31 Caterpillar Impala SS, met with members of the media at Infineon Raceway and discussed the struggles of RCR as a whole, using the double-file restart this week, what style of braking he uses and much more.

NASCAR official Jerry Hines holds the template used to check a car's front end as Kasey Kahne's car is pushed into the inspection area after practice March 23, 2007, for the Food City 500 in Bristol.

At Richard Childress Racing, all the pieces seemed to be in place. After two years of qualifying three cars for NASCAR's year-end playoff system -- yet still left searching for that first championship since 1994 -- there was hope in the preseason that they could finally close the deal.

The Car of Tomorrow has become the Car of Today. What hasn't changed about the race car running in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series since 2007 is that it's difficult to drive.