NASCAR News

Despite suffering a terrible year on and off the track in 2003, the #88 Robert Yates Racing UPS Ford team driven by Dale Jarrett will remain intact for another three seasons at least after the 1999 Winston Cup Champion signed a contract extension running until the end of the 2006 season.

The transformation at MB2/MBV Motorsport took another stride towards completion on Thursday with the news that current Busch Series driver Scott Riggs will replace veteran Johnny Benson behind the wheel of the #10 Valvoline Pontiac beginning with the 2004 season.

The pit crew for Michael Waltrip's #15 NAPA Auto Parts Dale Earnhardt Incorporated Chevrolet team moved one step closer to claiming the inaugural McDonald's Drive-Thru Pit Championship fuelled by POWERade and the $200,000 bonus that goes to the season champion.

Bill Davis Racing has entered its No. 27 Chevrolet into the Bass Pro Shops MBNA 500 NASCAR Winston Cup event this weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway with ARCA RE/MAX Series driver Shelby Howard behind the wheel.

As Jerry Nadeau continues to recover from a head injury he suffered in a May 2 accident at Richmond International Raceway, MB2 Motorsports have announced that Joe Nemechek will drive the No. 01 U.S.

Veteran Winston Cup team owner Travis Carter has signed a landmark deal with British-based motorsport outfit Torquespeed UK to form the first UK-based and funded NASCAR Winston Cup team.

Tony Stewart's victory in the UAW-GM Quality 500 at Lowe's Motor Speedway on Saturday night clinched the 2003 Manufacturers' Championship for Chevrolet in NASCAR's premier division.

Bobby Labonte, driver of the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Interstate Batteries Chevrolet Monte Carlo, and crew chief Michael McSwain were the guests in the weekly NASCAR Winston Teleconference prior to the UAW-GM Quality 500 at Lowe's Motor Speedway.

NetZero HiSpeed and Haas CNC Racing announced today that NASCAR veteran Ward Burton will be behind the wheel of the #O NetZero HiSpeed Pontiac during the 2004 Nextel Cup Series season.

After missing last weekend's Banquet 400 at the Kansas Speedway for personal reasons, James Ince has asked for, and been granted his release from crew-chief duties of Johnny Benson's #10 Valvoline MBV Motorsport Pontiac.

NetZero HiSpeed and Haas CNC Racing have announced an extension to their current deal that will once again see the #0 NetZero Pontiac on the NASCAR Nextel Cup circuit in 2004.

The #77 Jasper Motorsports NASCAR Winston Cup team has lost its manufacturer backing from Ford after driver Dave Blaney drove a Dodge Intrepid in last Sunday's EA Sports 500 at Talladega.

This week's NASCAR Winston Cup Series Teleconference featured Jimmie Johnson, driver of the No. 48 Lowe's Chevrolet Monte Carlo and his crew chief, Chad Knaus.

When Sunday's EA Sports 500 at Talladega Superspeedway was five laps old, Mike Skinner told himself, "We can win this race - this is one great race car."

It was an abbreviated afternoon in Talladega (Ala.) for David Green, bearer of the NetZero HiSpeed Racing decals on his Hendrick Motorsports entry, after an accident on Lap nine wreaked havoc on the aerodynamics of his Chevrolet and relegated him to a 35th-place finish Sunday.

Reigning NASCAR Winston Cup Series champion Tony Stewart has filed a lawsuit against Gary McColgin, a 45-year-old Florida native, accusing him of selling fake racing helmets and other non-licensed memorabilia featuring Stewart and his Winston Cup sponsor - The Home Depot.

#10 Valvoline Pontiac driver Johnny Benson's post-race interviews have lasted longer than his Talladega races in 2003. Wrecks have limited Benson to little more than 13 competitive laps. But, what makes it even more frustrating is neither wreck was of Benson's doing.

It was a combination of experience and no experience that won Saturday afternoon's Food World 300 ARCA race at Talladega Superspeedway for youngster Paul Menard and team boss Andy Petree.

Dale Earnhardt Incorporated teammates Dale Earnhardt Jr and Jason Keller both had their Bud Pole qualifying times disallowed at the Talladega Superspeedway after NASCAR officials found illegalities with the height of the rear quarter panels of their Chevrolet Monte Carlo's.

The NASCAR Winston Cup season is drawing to a close but there are still plenty of 'hot topics' being discussed in the garage. Jeff Burton, driver of the No. 99 Roush Racing CITGO Ford, and one of NASCAR's more outspoken drivers took some time to discuss several of these issues.

Kenny Wallace and the #23 Stacker 2 Bill Davis Racing operation haven't enjoyed the success they would have liked so far in 2003 although optimism is high as they prepare for this weekend's EA Sports 500 at the Talladega Superspeedway.

NASCAR officials announced today that NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. has received medical clearance to race this weekend at Talladega Superspeedway.

As part of NASCAR's new rules outlawing racing back to the yellow flag, it was also announced that the leading lapped car would get a lap back during each caution period.

Dale Earnhardt Jr and Joe Nemechek were lucky to escape with relatively minor injuries after a couple of hefty impacts book-ended the MBNA America 400 at Dover international Speedway on the weekend.