NASCAR News

Kevin Harvick was a frustrated man after Sunday's Crown Royal 400 at Richmond International raceway, believing that he and the #29 team had thrown away a chance of ending Hendrick Motorsports' domination of the Car of Tomorrow events.

Denny Hamlin may be well placed in the race to make the end-of-season Chase for the Championship, but that does not prevent him from being frustrated by the current run of success being enjoyed by Hendrick Motorsport.

The Nextel Cup's most successful driver of the year offer rare praise for the Car of Tomorrow after taking his fourth win of the year, at Richmond, with the new-for-2007 technology.

Persistent rain has forced NASCAR to postpone the Crown Royal 400 at Richmond until Sunday after just eleven caution flag laps were run.

Former Petty Enterprises driver John Andretti has been named as one of two replacements for Kyle Petty when the driver of the #45 Dodge steps out of the driving seat and into the TV booth for five races.

Crew chief Matt Borland has left Michael Waltrip Racing after just nine races at the helm of Dale Jarrett's #44 UPS Toyota team.

It wasn't the result that the tens of thousands of Dale Earnhardt fans had wanted but very few could deny that Jeff Gordon had the strongest car for much of the day as he drove to his second Cup Series win in two weeks in the Aaron's 499.

Kyle Busch stamped his place in the record books as the first driver to win with NASCAR's 'Car of Tomorrow' by claiming victory in the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Ryan Newman earned a record-tying seventh career pole position at Atlanta Motor Speedway after posting a lap of 193.124mph during Friday's Georgia Power Qualifying Night session.

NASCAR's stance on telecommunications sponsors has led to AT&T filing a lawsuit against the series over the status of Cingular Wireless' sponsorship of Jeff Burton's #31 Richard Childress Racing team.

Contrary to a number of recent reports emanating from a media release issued by Huddle House earlier this month, former NASCAR Cup champion Bill Elliott has not agreed to a three-race deal that would put him in the #37 Dodge for the Kobalt Tools 500, Aaron's 499 and Coca-Cola 600 this season.

Sterling Marlin has said that the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, which hosts the third round of the Nextel Cup this weekend, is now a totally different place to the circuit where he claimed his ninth career win back in 2002.

Juan Montoya insists that he feels bad about bumping Chip Ganassi Racing team-mate Scott Pruett out of the lead of the Busch Series Telcel Motorola Mexico 200 on Sunday, but admitted that it felt good to get a first NASCAR win under his belt.

Juan Montoya won his first race in NASCAR by triumphing in Sunday's Telcel Motorola 200 at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez road course in Mexico City but his spectacular come-from-behind victory was tainted by a controversial incident that saw the Colombian tip team-mate Scott Pruett into a spin

NASCAR road race ringer Scott Pruett will be chasing a brace of victories when the Busch Series heads south of the border to Mexico City this weekend, pulling double-duty in the Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates Grand-Am and NASCAR line-ups.

Joe Nemechek overcame two unlucky breaks during green-flag pit stops to post a 14th-place result in the Auto Club 500 at Fontana and remain seventh in the Nextel Cup standings.

NASCAR veteran Mark Martin has insisted that leading the Nextel Cup standings after two rounds won't convince him to go back on plans to only run a partial season in 2007.

Having successfully put both its cars into Sunday's Daytona 500, Haas CNC Racing have announced that Comcast Corporation has joined lead driver Jeff Green's #66 Best Buy Chevrolet team as an associate backer.

Team Australia's Marcos Ambrose will make his NASCAR Busch Series debut when he races the Aussie Vineyards-backed #59 Kingsford Charcoal Ford Fusion in the Orbitz 300 at Daytona International Speedway in Florda this Saturday.

Kyle Petty's sponsorship quandary improved for the second week running when he confirmed that Wells Fargo would return to provide primary backing for his #45 Dodge for twelve races this year.

The Nextel Cup Series schedule has evolved over time, and with the influence of television, NASCAR has opted to begin many of its races later in the afternoon or early evening hours.

New Hendrick Motorsports recruit Casey Mears has been handed a last minute crew chief change just days before the season opening Daytona 500 with news that Darian Grubb will replace Lance McGrew.

Chip Ganassi Racing's Nextel Cup sophomore David Stremme and his #40 Dodge team were dealt a blow on Friday when their 2006 co-primary sponsor Lone Star Steakhouse ended their relationship with the team.

Ginn Racing has finally announced the identity of the primary sponsor for Joe Nemechek's first Nextel Cup campaign in the #13 Chevrolet, with the CertainTeed Corporation coming on board for 18 races, beginning with next weekend's Daytona 500.