NASCAR News

NASCAR's decision to allow Jacques Villeneuve to make his Nextel Cup debut at the fearsome 2.66-mile Talladega Superspeedway may not have sat too well with some of the drivers in the Chase for the Championship but none can deny his outstanding talent after the Canadian driver qualified sixth fast

Outgoing NASCAR team boss Robert Yates has swapped his current replacement driver, veteran Kenny Wallace, for his older brother Mike ahead of this weekend's UAW-Ford 500 at Talladega as Ricky Rudd continues to recuperate from injury.

NASCAR veteran Ricky Rudd will miss a race due to injury for the first time in more than a quarter of a century this weekend after he separated his left shoulder in a hard crash during last Sunday's Aquos 500 at the California Speedway.

Joe Gibbs Racing has finally confirmed one of the worst kept secrets in NASCAR, after revealing that it will campaign Toyota Camrys in next year's renamed Sprint Cup Series.

Carl Edwards booked his place in the 2007 Nextel Cup 'Chase for the Championship' with his second win of the season in Saturday's Sharpie 500 at the Bristol Motor Speedway.

Kurt Busch's over-the-wall crew had two reasons to celebrate when they left Michigan International Speedway Tuesday.

Hugely popular veteran driver Kenny Wallace has parted company with the #78 Furniture Row Racing Nextel Cup team after nearly two full seasons trying to get the single car outfit into the top 35 in Nextel Cup owner points.

Kyle Petty has been ruled out of this weekend's 3M Performance 400 at the Michigan International Speedway after injuring his hand last weekend at Watkins Glen.

Martin Truex's #1 over-the-wall crew tallied its first Checkers/Rally's Double Drive-Thru Challenge win of the season by spending the least amount of time on pit road during Sunday's road-course event at Watkins Glen International.

Ron Fellows overcame a costly pit-road speeding penalty en-route to a fourth-place finish at Sunday's NASCAR Nextel Cup Series Centurion Boats at the Glen, giving the #96 DLP HDTV Chevrolet for Hall of Fame Racing its best finish in 14 months and its second-ever top-five result.

Ryan Newman's team took top honours in the Checkers/Rally's 'Double Drive-Thru Challenge' during Sunday's Nextel Cup event at Pocono Raceway.

The Nextel Cup race at Pocono on Sunday ran without Robby Gordon, who was suspended by NASCAR after an incident in the inaugural Busch Series race in Montreal on Saturday night.

NASCAR veteran Boris Said and rally legend John Buffum have received an 'at-large' slot for their BFGoodrich Tyres-sponsored Subaru Impreza WRX STI in the rally section of the forthcoming X Games extreme sports event.

Having endured eleven disappointments at Indy - six in NASCAR's Cup Series and five in the IRL IndyCar Series - before finally winning in a stock car at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2005, Tony Stewart only had to wait a year and 209 days to score his second victory in the Allstate 400

Jason Leffler gave Toyota its first NASCAR Busch Series win on Saturday night at the Indianapolis Raceway Park as the Busch Series regulars inflicted a rare defeat on the visiting Cup drivers.

Dale Earnhardt Inc has strengthened its standing in NASCAR after concluding a deal to merge with Ginn Racing, starting with next weekend's round at Indianapolis.

The NASCAR Nextel Cup will be rebranded as the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series from 2008 onwards. Nextel's parent company Sprint takes over from their subsidiary as the title sponsor four years after arriving in NASCAR to replace long-time series sponsor Winston.

Tony Eury Sr has announced that he has left Dale Earnhardt Incorporated and will join Dale Earnhardt Jr's JR Motorsport team as its new Director of Competition.

Joe Nemechek is looking forward to his return to a happy hunting ground this weekend, as the NASCAR Nextel Cup heads to the New Hampshire International Speedway for round 17 of the 2007 campaign.

Aric Almirola and Denny Hamlin made history at the Milwaukee Mile on Saturday night as they combined to win the NASCAR Busch Series AT&T 250.

Current Nextel Cup points leader Jeff Gordon earned his fourth win of the 2007 season in rather fortuitous fashion in a delayed, shortened Pocono 500 on Sunday.

The decision allowing Cingular branding to be swapped for AT&T on Jeff Burton's #31 Chevrolet may prompt a copycat move as another of the Nextel Cup communications industry sponsors seeks a similar remedy.

Brian Vickers is convinced that he could have Toyota its first Nextel Cup race win in Sunday's Coca-Cola 600 had luck just run his way for longer.

Martin Truex Jr and Johnny Sauter took the top two finishing positions in a wreck-filled Nextel Open and will go forward into the million-dollar All Star Challenge main event.