There’s going to be something in store for all race fans this weekend as NASCAR’s top 3 will race at 3 different tracks in 3 days!

photo credit: Todd Warshaw/Getty Images (Pocono June 7, 2009)

From Texas Motor Speedway to Nashville Superspeedway to Pocono Raceway, three uniquely different tracks are featured on the schedule for NASCAR’s top touring series this weekend.

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series:

The Camping World Truck Series gear up for racin’ under the lights at Texas Motor Speedway for this Friday night’s WinStar World Casino 400.

Todd Bodine is the defending race winner. Bodine currently leads the series standings by just 2 points over 2nd place, Aric Almirola.

“We were in the points lead and then we came out of Martinsville with the one finish we’ve had this year outside the top five and that finish, 30th, cost us the points lead,” Bodine said. “This Germain Racing team has been working hard. Like at Dover, we didn’t have a truck to win the race, but we still got a fifth. That’s how you win points championships is to take a truck that can’t win but still finish in the top five. Then at Charlotte we had a good truck and finished second.”

Bodine holds the best record at Texas with five truck wins there.

Austin Dillon won his first Camping World Truck Series pole award Thursday night.

For the WinStar World Casino 400 starting line-up, click here (nascar.com)

TV coverage begins at 8:30 on SPEED.

NASCAR Nationwide Series:

The Nationwide Series will hit the 1.333-mile D-shaped concrete oval of Nashville Superspeedway for this Saturday night’s Federated Auto Parts 300.

Joey Logano is the defending race winner. He isn’t entered in this Saturday night’s race at Nashville. Actually, that will be the theme for the evening. The 2nd and 3rd place drivers in the point standings, Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick, aren’t entered to race either. It’s great news for the series regulars as they won’t have to compete with many of the ‘moon-lighting’ Cup drivers, but they’ll still have to contend with series points leader, Brad Keselowski as well as Carl Edwards. The two rivals will be the two drivers to watch for. Keselowski scored his first Nationwide win at Nashville while Edwards won three consecutive races there from 2006-2007. Both run well at concrete tracks. Keselowski has won three times on a concrete surface to Edwards’ five wins. Edwards sits 4th in points, 257 points Keselowski.

For the complete entry list, click here (nascar.com)

For the Federated Auto Parts 300 starting line-up, click here (nascar.com)

TV coverage begins at 8 on ESPN2.

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series:

The “Tricky Triangle” is on the schedule for the Sprint Cup Series this Sunday. Momentum can mean everything in the sport and there’s no denying the fact Kurt Busch, his younger brother Kyle and Kyle’s teammate, Denny Hamlin have all been a hot streak. They’ve won the past five cup races and 5 of the last 6 points paying races.

Kurt Busch is a two-time winner at Pocono. His last win came for Penske Racing in 2007. Busch has scored 7 top-5 and 9 top-10 finishes in 18 tries. If momentum is king, Busch is coming off of two consecutive wins. Can he go three-in-a-row?

“I like our chances with the way that our team’s clicking,” Busch said. “For us, our game right now, this team’s clicking on all eight cylinders. We have to keep going, finding new things to make our Dodges faster. If I had to say who had the better chance, I love Pocono. Right now we’ve been doing good on tracks that I struggle on. I’m going to say I struggle on all the racetracks coming up so we don’t beat ourselves.”

Kurt Busch is currently 6th in the point standings.

Kyle Busch will reach a milestone after starting Sunday’s race. It’ll mark his 200th career Sprint Cup Series start. Out of the three mentioned drivers, Kyle’s stats at Pocono are the weakest. In his 10 races there, he has scored just 2 top-10 finishes. His best finish, 4th, was in the July 2005 race. He has also only lead 2 laps there.

“Kurt is a lot better at Pocono than I am,” Kyle said about his older brother. “I wish him the best of luck next weekend at being able to win that one. Hopefully we can get a solid run and get a top 10, if we can get one.”

Kyle Busch is currently 2nd in the standings.

We can’t forget about Denny Hamlin. He won the last cup race there in August, but his Pocono stats are impressive. In 8 races, Hamlin has won 3 times with 5 top-5 and 6 top-10 finishes. He has led a combined 391 laps and boasts the best average finish (9.5) of all the drivers in Sunday’s field at Pocono.

“Of course we like going to Pocono but there are no guarantees,” Hamlin said. “We expect to be competitive because we have some history there and I think as a team we are bringing really good cars to the race track every week – but we don’t expect anything these days.”

Denny Hamlin is 5th in the point standings.

Tony Stewart is the defending race winner. He won from the pole in this race last year. The two-time champion isn’t having the season we’ve typically seen from him. Stewart is 16th in the standings after the first-half of the “regular season”. The good news for Stewart is: he is just 27 points outside of the coveted top-12 that will get locked into the Chase for The Sprint Cup. A 27 point deficit can be eliminated with just one great race run.

For the complete entry list, click here (nascar.com)

For the Gillette Fusion ProGlide 500 starting line-up, click here (nascar.com)

TV coverage of the Gillette Fusion ProGlide 500 presented by Target starts at Noon this Sunday on TNT.