Kyle Busch has been fined $50,000 and put on probation, Rick Hendrick is released from a six-day hospital stay, and Brad Keselowski worries about fuel injection and Phoenix.
Clint Bowyer won a last lap shoot out with his Richard Childress Racing team mate Jeff Burton at Talladega, in a race that proved costly for a number of Chase contenders.
No one had any answer for Brad Keselowski at Kansas Speedway in Saturday's Nationwide Series race, and the Chase contender will be hoping his form transfers over to Sunday's Cup event.
Jimmie Johnson and Kurt Busch are both in the Chase, but after their on- and off-track clashes at Richmond it's starting to look as if it may not be big enough for the both of them.
Red Bull Racing put both drivers onto the front two rows at Atlanta Motor Speedway, with Kasey Kahne claiming pole ahead of Clint Bowyer, Kyle Busch and team mate Brian Vickers.
Jimmie Johnson and Kurt Busch had a furious row in pit road after the race at Pocono, with the five-time champion taking exception to the Penske driver's tactics
Penske Racing's Brad Keselowski wrote off his #2 Blue Deuce car in a major accident in testing at Road Atlanta on Wednesday, and was taken to hospital for evaluation.
Carl Edwards won the Saturday night Nationwide Series race at Nashville Superspeedway when polesitter Brad Keselowski developed an engine problem after dominating the first half of the race.
After several days of refusing to confirm or deny whether he would make his Nationwide Series d?but this weekend, Kimi finally breaks his silence - and hits the track.
'Special K' is right up there near the top of the list of over-used sports nicknames, but it's a tag that probably will stick, sooner than later, to Brad Keselowski.
The yellow line at Talladega might as well have been a brick wall - that was the mind-set of occasional Sprint Cup competitor Brad Keselowski, who pulled off a Sunday surprise in the Aaron's 499.