CONCORD, N.C. — Brad Keselowski was the only non-Cup driver to finish among the top 13 in Saturday night’s Carquest Auto Parts 300. Marcos Ambrose and Mike Bliss were the next two non-Cup drivers, finishing 14th and 15th, respectively.

• Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and Vice Admiral Mark Ferguson, chief of Naval Operations, enlisted the first 10 recruits into the U.S. Navy’s new Dale, Jr. Division prior to Saturday afternoon’s qualifying. The enlistment occurred at the No. 88 U.S. Navy Chevrolet’s hauler in the Nationwide Series garage.

• Joey Logano already has the respect of his Joe Gibbs Racing teammates, who have watched him develop with JGR.
Logano, who turned 18 on Saturday, will make his Nationwide Series debut next week at Dover Int’l Speedway, a coming-out party that has the  attention of Denny Hamlin, one of three JGR drivers who has driven the No. 20 Toyota Camry Logano will race next week to victory lane, won’t be treating Logano like a run-of-the-mill rookie.
“If I’m going to win Dover, I think he’s one of the guys I’m going to have to beat,” said Hamlin. “If any other rookie was getting in the car, I wouldn’t even consider them a factor.”

• As part of the USO Salute The Troops Program this past weekend at Lowe’s Motor Speedway, Nationwide Series drivers Cale Gale and Brad Keselowski welcomed current and retired members of the U.S. armed forces.
Keselowski, in the JR Motorsports U.S. Navy Salute the Troops Chevrolet, was joined by several ranking Navy officers.
Gale, driving the Kevin Harvick, Inc. VFW Salute the Troops Chevrolet, was joined by VFW Adjutant General Allen F. “Gunner” Kent and Michael G. Penney, VFW director of National Military Services.
Also, 10 Iraqi War veterans who are recovering from their injuries at Walter Reed Hospital were guests of the USO Salute the Troops program Saturday and Sunday.

• Brian Vickers, making the final qualifying run of the afternoon in the  No. 10 ABF U-Pack Moving Toyota Camry, knocked David Ragan off the pole for the Carquest Auto Parts 300. Vickers turned in a time of 30.016 seconds (179.904 miles per hour) to eclipse Ragan (30.085 seconds, 179.491 mph) in the No. 6 Discount Tire Ford.