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Full starting lineup for Sunday's EA Sports 500 at the 2.66-mile Talladega Superspeedway. Bud Pole Qualifying rained out - field set by Owners Points (1-35) - Previous winners (43) - Number of attempted races (36-42)

Complete opening practice session results for Sunday's EA Sports 500 at the 2.66-mile Talladega Superspeedway.

You won't see Santa's sleigh racing around Lowe's Motor Speedway on October 12th, 2002, but you will see the next best thing as Bobby Hamilton Jr and Team Rensi kick off the 2002 Toys for Tots campaign.

Sterling Marlin has been cruelly ruled out of the 2002 Winston Cup Championship title run-in after being diagnosed as having fractured a vertebrae following his hard wreck last Sunday in Kansas.

Jamie McMurray has been announced as the replacement driver for the No. 40 Coors Light Dodge and will drive in six of the final seven Winston Cup races this year before his full-time debut with the Chip Ganassi Winston Cup team in 2003.

Miller Lite Team Penske driver Rusty Wallace is calling this weekend's EA Sports 500 at Talladega Superspeedway the "most pivotal" of the seven races remaining on the 2002 NASCAR Winston Cup schedule.

Scott Wimmer, Bill Davis' NASCAR Busch Series driver, will drive the No. 23 Hills Bros. Coffee Dodge at Talladega Superspeedway this weekend.

Mike Skinner missed the inaugural Protection One 400 last year as he nursed knee and ankle injuries and he may wish that he had missed this year's race as well after yet more bad luck ruined his day behind the wheel of the #4 Kodak Chevy.

Sunday's crash-filled Protection One 400 at the Kansas Speedway took its toll on the five-strong Pontiac 'Wide Track' attack team with only Tony Stewart and Mike Wallace emerging unscathed.

Full results from Sunday's Protection One 400 at the 1.5-mile Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, round 29 of the 2002 NASCAR Winston Cup Series.

We're not expected to win the championship and I'm not expecting to win it by any means. The experience that Mark Martin, Sterling Marlin, Jeff Gordon, and even Tony Stewart - even everybody in the top 10 has a shot at it. But I like being the underdog right now.

Injured Winston Cup driver Bobby Hamilton is doing his best to get back behind the wheel of his No. 55 Chevrolet after suffering shoulder and wrist injuries in a Craftsman Truck Series crash at Richmond earlier this month.

There won't be anyone at Kansas Speedway this weekend more excited to be there than Lyndon Amick (pictured during 2001 Daytona 24hrs) who makes his return to the Busch Series in a third ppc Racing Ford Taurus.

"Talladega is coming up next week and that's a tough race. It will play big in the points race as far as the final outcome.

When the NASCAR Winston Cup Series returns to Kansas Speedway it's going to be like a first-time experience for Dale Jarrett who has few memories of the inaugural Protection One 400.

Hank Parker Jr has been hotly tipped to follow Busch Series rival Jamie McMurray into the Winston Cup next year but the driver of the #36 Jesel Motorsport Dodge says he is unsure of his situation with a lot hanging on his current sponsors GNC.

It's a homecoming of sorts for the Herzog Jackson Motorsports team this weekend as driver Todd Bodine and the rest of the Excedrin QuickTabs crew head to Kansas Speedway.

Full results from MBNA All American Heroes 400 at the one-mile Dover International Speedway in Dover Downs, Delaware, round 28 of the 2002 NASCAR Winston Cup Series.

There is still a long way to go for the #23 Bill Davis Racing team but Kenny Wallace's arrival as the driver of the Hills Bros. Dodge appears to have given the Philippe Lopez-led crew a much needed boost.

When a racer begins wishing for good luck you know things haven't been going too well of late and such is the case for Scott Riggs and the #10 ppc Nesquik Racing team as they approach this weekend's MBNA All American Heroes 200 at Dover.

The No. 25 Team Marines Busch squad and driver Bobby Hamilton Jr head to Dover International Speedway with one thing in mind - to get back into victory lane.

Vastly experienced Sportscar ace Hideo Fukuyama will attempt to become the first Japanese driver to qualify for a NASCAR Winston Cup event this coming weekend at Dover Downs International Speedway according to NASCAR's official website.

"The win won't set in for quite a while, I'm sure, but one of the coolest parts as well as my Dad being here and being able to enjoy it with him, was when I got the chequered flag every driver came by and congratulated me. That means a lot.

Hendrick Motorsports owner Rick Hendrick today named Peter Sospenzo as crew chief of the No. 25 UAW-Delphi Chevrolet through the remainder of the 2002 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season, replacing Brian Pattie.