NASCAR News

Former NASCAR Winston Cup Champion and perennial fan favourite Bill Elliott will make just his third points start of the season in August's Brickyard 400 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with backing from new NASCAR sponsors Visteon.

Bill Elliott, Ray Evernham and Visteon's Greg Gyllstrom take questions about Elliott's return to NASCAR Nextel Cup action with Visteon backing in this year's Brickyard 400 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Kerry Earnhardt, elder brother of current NASCAR Nextel Cup points leader Dale Earnhardt Jr, will attempt to qualify for Sunday's DHL 400 at the Michigan International Speedway in a fourth Chevrolet Monte Carlo entered by Richard Childress Racing.

Legendary singer/songwriter Bob Weir will sing the national anthem at Infineon Raceway for the Dodge/Save Mart 350 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup event next weekend.

Michigan International Speedway may not be the best NASCAR Nextel Cup venue for Ricky Craven to start a season-turnaround with the #32 PPI Motorsports Tide team for in 14 career NASCAR Cup starts at the two-mile venue, he has but one top five and two top ten finishes.

Arnold Motorsports have announced that they will feature the NASCAR Day logo on their No. 50 Dodge Intrepid this weekend at Michigan International Speedway with driver PJ Jones.

Russell Riggs will travel to Michigan International Speedway this weekend to watch his son, NASCAR Nextel Cup Raybestos Rookie of the Year contender, Scott Riggs try to give him the best Father's Day present imaginable, a win in Sunday's DHL 400.

The pit crew for Casey Mears, which has been close many times in the McDonald's Drive-Thru Pit Championship fuelled by POWERade, can now lay claim to winning the weekly contest with a solid effort in Sunday's Pocono 500 at Pocono Raceway.

Tony Stewart's pit crew took home the $20,000 first-place cheque as a result of winning the McDonald's Drive-Thru Pit Championship fuelled by POWERade in Sunday's MBNA 400 'Salute to Heroes' event at Dover International Speedway.

Dave Blaney will shift his NASCAR Nextel Cup focus to Jim Smith's No.7 Ultra Motorsports squad this weekend at the Dover International Speedway as the pairing attempt their second race of the season together.

1990 Daytona 500 winner Derrike Cope has lost his NASCAR Nextel Cup ride with the No.50 Arnold Motorsports team and will be replaced by Mike Wallace for this weekend's MBNA 400 at Dover International Speedway.

Veteran team owner Junie Donlavey has announced that his famous No.90 Ford team will return to the NASCAR Nextel Cup with up and coming driver Kevin Ray this weekend at the Dover International Speedway with a co-primary sponsor that will certainly turn a few heads.

It's down with the old and up with the new at Dover International Speedway, as the circuit completes the installation is complete on a new scoring pylon in time for the forthcoming MBNA race weekend.

On the heels of a highly competitive showing during last weekend's Nextel Open All-Star qualifying race, Dave Blaney and the No.23 Bill Davis Racing team will attempt to qualify for this weekend's gruelling Coca Cola 600 at the Lowe's Motor Speedway.

After struggling to reach the minimum 43 entries for some of its earlier races this year, NASCAR will have no such problem this weekend as the lure of the longest race on the Nextel Cup schedule has attracted a season-high entry of more than 50 cars.

The prolonged and largely pointless 'field inversion' process during the middle segment of Saturday's Nextel All-Star Challenge may have gone down like a lead balloon with many in attendance at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Charlotte but one of this year's tweaks proved to be highly popular with fans

By Andrew Charman

Dave Blaney has confirmed that he will drive the for Bill Davis Racing #23 Finish Line Dodge in this weekend's Nextel All-Star Challenge, having secured backing from the car dealership for this weekend's big race.

It was a double victory for the #8 DEI team at Richmond International Raceway on Saturday as, not only did Dale Earnhardt Jr capture the Chevy American Revolution 400, but his pit-crew also claimed victory in the McDonald's Drive-Thru Pit Championship.

Joe Nemechek said he had an awesome car and that it was time for him to lead the race at Richmond but, as he was moving into second place at the midway point of the event, he and Jamie McMurray got tangled, sending both of the cars crashing into the wall.

DALE EARHNARDT JR #8 Budweiser Chevrolet (1st): "I was real loose on new tires. But it turned and didn't get tight. We really like this place. We've won five or six races here. This is a good car. This is a good set-up. We like the track and the new pavement. We could run up top. It was great.

Tony Stewart was only five laps into Sunday's 250-lap Auto Club 500 at California Speedway when his race began to unravel - but he insists that what followed with Rusty Wallace was no more than a racing incident - contrary to the views of his peers.

Richard Childress Racing has confirmed the hiring of veteran crew chief Gary Cogswell to head up the #33 Bass Pro Shops Chevrolet Monte Carlo of Kerry Earnhardt in the NASCAR Cup Series, as well as the all-star cast of the #29 Employer Support of Guard and Reserve [ESGR] Chevy in the Busch Series

GM Goodwrench driver Kevin Harvick appears to be cursed when it comes to Cup Series racing at Fontana's California Speedway - even though outsiders would think that the 'Golden State gods' would be looking out for one of their own.