The 2015 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup has rolled out of Martinsville, Va., for the twelve-hundred-mile trek to Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth –site of Sunday’s Triple-A Texas 500. It’s the second race of the three-week Eliminator Round, during which the field of eight remaining drivers will be trimmed to four.

Chase participants have won this race in nine of the ten years it’s been run as part of NASCAR’s “post-season” format. Tony Stewart, in 2006, is the only non-Chase competitor to claim victory in the fall race at T-M-S … There are forty-five drivers on the preliminary entry list for Sunday’s race led by current Chase points leader Jeff Gordon and defending race winner Jimmie Johnson.