Almirola heads to the .546-mile track confident with the Billy Ballew Motorsports team and the short track program they have built this season. His statistics show the proof after posting a fourth-place finish in Memphis, a third-place finish at ORP and a sixth-place finish at Bristol. Almirola has two prior Camping World Truck Series starts at Martinsville. He has four career Sprint Cup Series starts and led 53-laps in 2008. - Billy Ballew Motorsports

In two previous starts this season for KHI, Bires earned one top-five (4th at Nashville) and two top-10 (Nashville and 10th at Kentucky) finishes. His fourth-place finish at Nashville marked his career-best finish in NASCAR's top three series of competition. In two previous starts at Memphis, Bires has earned a 14th and 18th-place finish. - Kevin Harvick Inc.

Montoya started the No. 42 Lysol Chevrolet 18th in the lineup for Saturday night's race. He was running near the front for most of the first 160 laps but suffered some damage on a restart. He then spun a few laps later and had to repair the damaged rear quarter panel. His race ended with a 35th place finish, 4 laps down to the leaders. He dropped 3 spots to 6th in the 12-driver Chase standings.

The award ($5,000) is given to the winner of the race or the next-highest finishing driver displaying the Mobil 1 decal. Montoya earned the award for his 9th place finish in the Sprint Cup NASCAR Banking 500 at Lowe's Motor Speedway. The driver of the No. 1 Guitar Hero / DJ Hero Chevrolet moved up 2 spots to 23rd in the 2009 Sprint Cup point standings after this race.

The O'Reilly Auto Parts "People, Service and Performance" award recognizes the team effort made both on the track and in the pits. The Cup driver who records the fastest lap time and lowest cumulative pit stop time of the event and finishes on the lead lap wins the award. Kenseth's team posted a cumulative time of 305.296 seconds.

The Tissot "Pit Road Precision Award" is given to the eligible driver who has spent the least amount of time on pit road and has finished on the lead lap. Gordon earned $5,000 and a Tissot watch since the No. 24 clocked a time of 271.888 seconds and finished on the lead lap in 4th. Gordon moved up two spots to 3rd in the 2009 Sprint Cup point standings after this event.

The No. 9 Budweiser Dodge driver started 3rd, led the most laps (67 of 334) of the drivers eligible to earn the WIX "Lap Leader" award. Kahne finished 3rd. He move up 2 spots to 9th in the 2009 Sprint Cup point standings after this race.