NASCAR News

Nineteen year old Regan Smith will contest this year's NASCAR Busch Series with Bost Motorsports beginning this weekend at the North Carolina Speedway despite the lack of a primary sponsor.

"I don't really know how it could be any more competitive than what we saw last season. With the teams and the amount of people they have, it's going to be extremely hard. Even James Ince can tell you that he's working day and night trying to keep our team as competitive as possible.

A racesuit worn by none other than pop sensation Britney Spears is amongst the memorabilia on offer in this year's Speedway Children's Charities NASCAR Driver auction in Las Vegas.

Tony Stewart scored a career best Daytona 500 finish of seventh in Sunday's rain-shortened affair at the Daytona International Speedway. The defending Winston Cup Champion left the 2.5-mile Speedway with mixed feelings however, wondering what might have been had the race not stopped early.

NASCAR passed its first major safety exam of the 2003 season with flying colours as Penske Racing's Ryan Newman walked away from a spectacular flip in front of the main grandstand at the 2.5-mile Superspeedway.

NASCAR fans in the United Kingdom will be able to watch today's Daytona 500 live for the first time in four years providing they have signed up to the Digital North American Sports Network channel (NASN).

Complete results from the 45th annual Daytona 500 at the 2.5-mile Daytona International Speedway. Race called after 109 of 200 laps due to rain

Dale Earnhardt Jr scored his third win in as many races at Daytona this year in Saturday's Koolerz 300 Busch Series race as drivers starting in Sunday's Daytona 500 swept the top six positions.

Former CART Champion Jimmy Vasser was cleared by doctors at Daytona International Speedway's infield medical centre following his part in a hard penultimate lap wreck in Saturday's Koolerz 300 Busch Series event.

NASCAR Winston Cup Series veteran Mark Martin captured his eleventh career True Value International Race of Champions [IROC] victory last night, in the 2003 series' opener at Daytona International Speedway.

McDonald's, 'the official Drive Thru of NASCAR,' and POWERade, the official sports drink of NASCAR, have teamed to sponsor an award program that celebrates the unsung heroes in NASCAR's three major racing series - NASCAR Winston Cup, NASCAR Busch Grand National and NASCAR Craftsman Truck.

Toyota's much rumoured move into the world of NASCAR was finally confirmed this week when the firm announced plans to compete in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series from 2004 ahead of what many believe will lead to an eventual Winston Cup assault.

Wednesday's announcement of a sold-out grandstand for the March 2 UAW DaimlerChrysler 400 has convinced officials of Speedway Motorsports, the parent company of Las Vegas Motor Speedway, to add more seats before next year's race.

Former NASCAR Busch Series Champion Jeff Green completed the biggest feat of his Winston Cup career to date as he toppled the previously dominant Dale Earnhardt Jr off pole position for next weekend's Daytona 500.

NASCAR Winston Cup driver John Andretti has been granted permission to return to his open-wheel roots in 2003 and is set to attempt the Memorial Weekend double: a 1100 mile racing marathon starting with the Indy 500 and ending with the Coca Cola 600.

Several American sources are indicating that tobacco company RJ Reynolds is considering pulling its Winston brand away from NASCAR's premier division after more than 30 years as the series title sponsor.

Nineteen drivers comprising all the 2002 Bud Pole winners, as well as previous winners of the race, will battle it out in the 2003 Budweiser Shootout this Saturday night at Daytona International Speedway.

Jerry Nadeau will be surrounded with nothing but newness when he arrives this week at Daytona International Speedway to begin preparations for NASCAR's season opener - the 45th running of the Daytona 500.

"My number one goal is to have fun this year. I've had more fun leading up to the season over the winter than I've had in a long time. I'm probably the best prepared I've ever been to go out and start racing again.

Winston Cup veteran Ken Schrader made a winning return to the NASCAR Winston West Series last weekend, as he emerged victorious in the season-opening Bosch Spark Plug 150 at Phoenix.

Johnny Benson and the rest of the NASCAR Winston Cup fraternity are just days away from going back to Daytona and beginning the 2003 season.

Team Rensi Motorsports, Bobby Hamilton Jr's Busch Series team, have added footwear company Timberland as an associate sponsor for the 2003 season alongside primary backers The United States Marine Corp.

Chronic and acute carbon monoxide poisoning has led to Winston Cup driver Rick Mast's early retirement from the sport, nine months after he was forced to leave his 2002 drive with Junie Donlavey Racing.

Current Winston Cup star Jeff Green and his racing brother Mark have orchestrated a blockbuster charity event to be held at the Wachovia Atrium in Charlotte on the evening of February 19, 2003.