NASCAR News

Denny Hamlin's #11 Joe Gibbs Racing team has been heavily penalised by NASCAR for a technical infraction at Indianapolis on Sunday.

Carl Edwards is to leave Roush Fenway Racing at the end of the current season while Greg Biffle has re-signed, the team confirmed at Indianapolis.

The winning truck in last weekend's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race has been penalised for failing a post-event technical inspection.

Jimmie Johnson let slip at Dover that he underwent surgery for a hernia after the end of the 2013 Sprint Cup Series season.

Illness forced Denny Hamlin to withdraw from Sunday's Auto Club 400 in Fontana, California just minutes before the start of the Sprint Cup race.

Two multi-car accident during mid-week qualifying for the Daytona 500 have seen seven drivers including Joey Logano and Brian Vickers resorting to back-up cars.

Former Williams F1 chief engineer Mike Coughlan has been appointed technical director for the Richard Childress Racing team in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

Martin Truex Jr. will leave Michael Waltrip Racing at the end of 2013 and take over from Kurt Busch at Furniture Row Racing next year, according to media reports on Thursday.

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.

NASCAR sought to rebound from a week of criticism and crisis management by introducing new rules for future events that seek to counter the possibility of team orders affecting race outcomes.

Michael Waltrip Racing has confirmed that Martin Truex Jr. broke his right wrist in an accident at Bristol Motor Speedway on Saturday, but that he will attempt to race this weekend.

Veteran racer Max Papis will take over the seat of the #14 Stewart-Haas Racing car at Watkins Glen this week, as Tony Stewart heads for more surgery on the leg he broke in a race accident.

NASCAR has decided not to hand down any penalties for illegal roof flap spacers commandeered from multiple teams at Daytona last weekend.

Persistent showers in Kentucky meant that there was no opportunity to get the Quaker State 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race underway on Saturday evening as planned.

NASCAR driver Jason Leffler has been killed in a racing accident during a mid-week dirt track event at Bridgeport Speedway in New Jersey.

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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.

Veteran Cup driver Mark Martin is to move into the Joe Gibbs Racing #11 Cup race seat while Denny Hamlin recovers from his compression fracture.

Kyle Busch has signed a multi-year extension to his current contract with Joe Gibbs Racing, meaning that the controversial driver will continue with the team at least through 2015.

A new approach to drying tracks after wet weather could slash rain delays by as much as 80 per cent, NASCAR estimated in a major pre-season announcement on Wednesday.

Here's the line-up of events that will comprise the 2013 NASCAR season, including Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series

Team bosses admit that going up against NASCAR finale is unfortunate for USGP, but agree that F1 needs to make Austin event work for it in future years.

Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve is to lose its annual NASCAR Nationwide Series race, after the promoters failed to get a Sprint Cup race added to the venue's itinerary.

Kyle Busch has issued a public apology for comments he made after the end of a disappointing Cup race last weekend at Dover in which he heavily criticised engine suppliers Toyota.