Mark Martin
Team: No. 6 AAA Ford Fusion
Crew Chief: Pat Tryson
Chassis: RK-231 Finished 19th in its last run at Pocono in July.
RK-231 was caught up in an accident while leading this year's All-Star race.
Has been one of Martin's strongest cars in recent years, and is nicknamed the "Batmobile," after running special Batman paint schemes at Michigan in '04 and '05.

Martin on racing at Texas Motor Speedway:
"Texas is a great race track. It's the type of place that suits my driving style. I've always done pretty well on the 1.5-mile tracks and Texas has been pretty good for us in that mix. We won the second race there and we've been pretty good there ever since. We finished ninth there in the spring and we competed for the win there last year in a second-place finish.

"Our luck has really taken a turn for the worse in the last few races, but all we can do is just keep doing what we've been doing and keep moving forward. We've had really good cars and we've ran well in the Chase, it's just hard to come back from three straight weeks of that kind of luck and wrecks. Still that takes nothing away from this team and the outstanding job of Pat Tryson and the No. 6 AAA Team."

Crew Chief Pat Tryson on racing at Texas Motor Speedway:
"We really like going to Texas. Mark is always fast there and it is one of his best tracks. We led the race late there last fall and finished second to Carl (Edwards). We were top 10 in the spring and hopefully we can go there this weekend and build off of that and hopefully we can compete down the stretch for the win. Mark has done a great job driving the cars and the team had been really good in the pits the last few races. We haven't had the luck we needed, but we haven't given up just yet. We just have to keep giving Mark the cars that he needs to get the job done and we just have to keep pushing on. Our goal this week will be to go there and try to win the race."