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Brian Vickers has been medically cleared to return to racing and will be back in the Michael Waltrip Racing #55 at Las Vegas on March 8.

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.

After winning his first Cup race since 2007, Martin Truex Jr. spoke to the media at Sonoma Raceway along with his crew chief Chad Johnson and car owner Michael Waltrip.

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.

Toyota Racing Development has unveiled the new-look Camry that will be the basis of the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race car.

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.

Clint Bowyer has finally confirmed weeks of speculation that he is heading to Michael Waltrip Racing for the next three years of NASCAR Sprint Cup competition.

Camping World Truck Series driver Shane Sieg suspended; Wallace crew chief apologises for pulling Steve Wallace's hair; Richard Childress Racing releases pit crew coach.

X Games superstar daredevil Travis Pastrana has pulled out of all his Nationwide appearances in 2011 following the leg and ankle injuries he received last week in competition.

NASCAR team Michael Waltrip Racing is suing Williams Grand Prix Engineering and their newly-appointed chief engineer Mike Coughlan over accusations of breach of contract, say reports.

The teams have had one last practice outing, ahead of tomorrow's Daytona 500, with Duel 2 winner Jeff Burton topping the timesheets with an identical time to Clint Bowyer.

With two days to go to the Daytona 500, two more practice sessions were available to the drivers and teams now that the Gatorade Duels have set all the starting positions for the main race on Sunday.

Owner/driver Michael Waltrip's 'tweet' coincided with his team's announcement Tuesday that Patrick Carpentier would replace the veteran in the #55 Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota for the Sprint Cup race at Infineon Raceway on 21 June.

If anyone in the Sprint Cup garage has a love affair with the camera, it's owner/driver Michael Waltrip, but even the veteran is about to enter new territory.

Amazingly enough, Michael Waltrip is in his 25th Cup season.

Michael Waltrip enters this weekend's EA Sports 500 as the defending race Champion and although luck has rarely been on the side of the highly entertaining veteran driver this year, Sunday could be Waltrip's turn to have some good luck for a change.

Michael Waltrip's 20th-place finish in the Sirius at The Glen on Sunday was not the road course finish he and his DEI team anticipated after a pleasing final practice and first half of the race, not to mention finishing fourth in June's race at Infineon Raceway.

It has been confirmed that Michael Waltrip and primary sponsors NAPA will return to Dale Earnhardt Incorporated for the 2005 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series after a series of strong races by the double Daytona 500 winner.

Double Daytona 500 winner Michael Waltrip announced this afternoon he will run the Las Vegas Marathon on January 30, 2005, and has made a commitment to raise $1 million benefiting Victory Junction Gang Camp in an effort called "Operation Marathon, Going the Distance for Kids."

Although the Pepsi 400 victory went to Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Incorporated didn't leave the Daytona International Speedway winless after Michael Waltrip's #15 NAPA pit crew scooped the honours in the latest round of the McDonald's Drive-Thru Pit Championship fuelled by Powerade.