Brian Vickers will miss the remaining races of the Cup and Nationwide Series after being placed on medication for a blood clot discovered in his right leg.
Tony Stewart made his first media appearance since his season-ending accident last month in Iowa and spoke about his recovery and the signing of Kurt Busch by co-owner Gene Haas.
Mark Martin will replace Denny Hamlin in the Joe Gibbs Racing #11 for one race only, with Brian Vickers taking over the seat for the rest of Hamlin's absence.
David Reutimann will be starting the Daytona 500 next week, after signing up with the new team BK Racing that has bought up the assets of Red Bull Racing.
NASCAR is reeling from the news that Red Bull is set to pull the plug on its Sprint Cup team, but some pundits are starting to wonder if this may be the chance Danica's been waiting for.
Former McLaren and Williams F1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya initially couldn't believe fellow NASCAR competitors would be so nice in helping him learn the ropes in stock-car racing.
Body-slamming and bump-drafting were the order of the day at Chicagoland Speedway and 50-year old Mark Martin was the last man standing in a wild LifeLock.com 400.
Jeff Burton says he isn't surprised to see former Roush Racing team-mate Mark Martin secure a full-season with Hendrick Motorsports for the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup season.
After failing to win a NASCAR Sprint Cup pole for eight years, Mark Martin now has three in one season, despite being the ninth driver to make a qualifying attempt at the one-mile Phoenix International Raceway on Friday.
After topping the speed chart in Friday's practice, Mark Martin blistered Atlanta Motor Speedway with a 29.640-second lap to win the pole for Sunday's Kobalt Tools 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at the 1.54-mile track.
Martin Truex Jr and Mark Martin are the two men who know where they'll start next Sunday's Daytona 500, having snared the top two times in qualifying for the blue riband event.
Dale Earnhardt Inc. has secured Steak-umm Company LLC as a primary sponsor on its #8 and #01 Chevrolets for selected races during the 2008 NASCAR campaign.
Although 2005 marks his final season as a fulltime Nextel Cup Series competitor, don't expect Mark Martin to cruise through it collecting tributes and parting gifts as he continues to drive for that elusive Nextel Cup Championship.
On the eve of the start of his final NASCAR Nextel Cup season, Mark Martin knows that he has just one more chance to capture two things that have eluded him during his long and storied career to date: A win in the Daytona 500 and a Nextel Cup title.