May 16, 2009
CONCORD -- Jimmie Johnson will start on the pole for tonight's NASCAR Sprint All-Star race at Lowe's Motor Speedway. It's Johnson's first pole in the all-star race. Drivers completed three laps and had a four-tire pit stop. The quickest overall time dete...
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May 15, 2009
CHARLOTTE — Former champion Kurt Busch and Ryan Newman are among drivers who say they want to see a list of banned substances with NASCAR's drug testing policy, and Newman wants to know what caused Jeremy Mayfield to fail his test. "This is a b...
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May 13, 2009
What has gotten into NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers? A week after a record-tying number of cautions at Richmond, the Cup gang had a record-breaking number of cautions at Darlington on Saturday night. The 17 cautions at Darlington broke the track record of 15 s...
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May 11, 2009
DARLINGTON, S.C. -- Mark Martin relishes what he calls his "second childhood" at age 50. Winning and driving for car owner Rick Hendrick will change anyone's outlook, even someone once known as much for pained expressions and a pessimistic attit...
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May 10, 2009
DARLINGTON, S.C. -- Saturday night's Southern 500 didn't go well for Hendrick Motorsports at the beginning but the finish was something to talk about. Mark Martin held off Hendrick teammate Jimmie Johnson to win his second Southern 500 and second NASCAR S...
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DARLINGTON, S.C. -- Jeremy Mayfield became the first Sprint Cup driver to be suspended for violating NASCAR's toughened substance-abuse policy when series officials announced his penalty Saturday. Mayfield is suspended indefinitely as a driver and a car o...
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May 9, 2009
DARLINGTON, S.C. -- Others might have had doubts about how well Tony Stewart would do in his first year as an owner/driver, but Rusty Wallace wasn't one of them. "When you first looked at that thing getting ready to happen, you would say, this should...
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DARLINGTON, S.C. -- Kyle Busch's flat tire with two laps left gave Matt Kenseth his first Nationwide Series victory of the season Friday night at Darlington Raceway. Busch led 143 laps, but a late collision between Scott Legasse Jr. and Joe Nemechek broug...
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May 6, 2009
Lead changes have increased by nearly 10 per race in the last four races, and Saturday's NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Darlington also could provide fans with similar action. Lead changes often are viewed as a barometer in defining how competitive races are.
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May 4, 2009
RICHMOND, Va. — Jeff Gordon said he didn't want to lose it this past weekend. Kyle Busch found it. And Tony Stewart continues to harness it. Momentum. In a mechanical sport that can be dictated by the smallest parts -- a fallen lug nut for example......
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May 3, 2009
RICHMOND, Va. — Kyle Busch did what teammate Denny Hamlin couldn't Saturday. Busch won. A night after Busch won the Nationwide race at Richmond International Raceway, he captured Saturday night's Sprint Cup race. And did it on his 24th birthday. As...
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RICHMOND, Va. — The U.S. Army will pay Stewart-Haas Racing $11.6 million to sponsor Ryan Newman's car for 23 races this season and the Army official who oversees it says the money is worth it. Army and National Guard (Dale Earnhardt Jr.) were the on...
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May 2, 2009
RICHMOND, Va. -- Colleen Lenzer loves NASCAR and Dale Earnhardt Jr., but that's not enough to watch an entire Sprint Cup race on TV anymore. She's found something else to do: Folding laundry. The 42-year-old Lenzer watches the start of the races but a spo...
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RICHMOND, Va. -- Carl Edwards met with NASCAR officials Thursday to discuss his Talladega crash and fellow drivers offered their opinion Friday on what could be done to try to prevent another car from soaring into the catchfence. Edwards was joined by car...
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May 1, 2009
Place a pair of headphones over your ears, but be aware of what you're about to hear. You're entering a world where few sports outside racing want you to venture. You can't eavesdrop on football coaches as they debate plays. You can't listen to basketball...
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April 29, 2009
Dale Earnhardt Jr. says NASCAR officials don't need to be stricter with penalties for aggressive driving. Earnhardt made his comments Tuesday, a day after NASCAR officials said they might start calling penalties more closely for blocking and aggressive dr...
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April 28, 2009
A day after Carl Edwards' car careened into the fence at Talladega, injuring seven fans and leading Edwards and other drivers to question the racing at that track, NASCAR officials explained the changes they'll make. Not much. Series officials have examin...
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April 27, 2009
TALLADEGA, Ala. — NASCAR drivers have pleaded with series officials for years to change the racing at Talladega Superspeedway, but Sunday's finish -- overshadowing Brad Keselowski's first career Sprint Cup victory — might alter what fans event...
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TALLADEGA, Ala. — Brad Keselowski isn't running a full-time NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule. His car owner brings his team to the race track when he can. They're the perfect combination at Talladega, a track known for rewarding underdogs. Sunday, Keselow...
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April 26, 2009
TALLADEGA, Ala. -- Cars in front. Cars behind. Cars all around. A bobble, an erratic move or an antsy driver will turn this collage of colors into a smoky mess that resembles a demolition derby. Many drivers hate racing at Talladega Superspeedway, where t...
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TALLADEGA, Ala. -- This time, Juan Pablo Montoya's first pole counts. Montoya won the pole for today's NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Talladega Superspeedway with a lap 188.171 mph. Montoya won the pole at Kansas last fall but the time was later disallowed aft...
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April 25, 2009
TALLADEGA, Ala. — Car owner Richard Childress said he couldn’t wait any longer before he made changes to the teams of Kevin Harvick and Casey Mears.Now that Childress has flip-flopped the crews for both drivers — the move takes place aft...
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April 22, 2009
NASCAR has placed drivers Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Casey Mears on probation for six races for their postrace actions Saturday at Phoenix.Contact between the two drivers' cars sent Earnhardt's car into the wall in the closing laps. Earnhardt spun Mears' car...
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April 18, 2009
We're talking about glue. Not your basic Elmer's, mind you, but still an everyday adhesive you can find on store shelves. Hard as it may be to fathom, in a sport of high-powered motors, high-priced drivers and high-pressure decisions, a recent NASCAR Spri...
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April 8, 2009
The economy continues to impact NASCAR Sprint Cup races, as International Speedway Corp., reported that admission revenue was down about 15 percent in the first quarter for races at Daytona and Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif.
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