NASCAR News
NASCAR news and updates. Read the latest NASCAR news, stories and highlights.

Harvick to continue with #29 in 2010.
Despite speculation to the contrary, Kevin Harvick will drive Richard Childress Racing's #29 Shell-Pennzoil Chevrolet Impala SS in the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup campaign, his tenth in the top tier of NASCAR competition.

Daytona solves 2010 Super Bowl conflict
Yes, NASCAR, there is a Super Bowl - other than the Super Bowl of stock car racing. Daytona International Speedway found a creative way to deal with a scheduling conflict between qualifying for the 2010 Daytona 500 and the February 7, 2010 NFL Super Bowl in Miami.

Furniture Row announces full campaign.
Furniture Row Racing has announced that it will run the full 36-race NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule in 2010. The race team also announced that Regan Smith will continue to drive the No. 78 Chevrolet Impala SS next season.

Bowyer needs strong Michigan finish
Clint Bowyer was wearing the logo of a breakfast cereal on his uniform following the July 4th weekend Sprint Cup race at Daytona, but he must have felt more like toast.

Is the 'ringer factor' still relevant to NASCAR?
How do you flesh out the entry list for a NASCAR Sprint Cup race? Hold it on a road course. On the circuits where right turns won't necessarily get you in trouble, you'll routinely see drivers who rarely appear on the staple of stock car racing - the ovals.

Petty not downsizing.
Richard Petty Motorsports has categorically denied reports that the organisation will downsize to three teams and release driver Reed Sorenson in the process.

Truck: Malsam discovers racing is his niche
By the age of 16, Tayler Malsam had played football and baseball and found neither appealing.

Steve Wallace makes gains in the face of unknowns
Steve Wallace continues to improve as a driver, only to have his future on the track clouded by a difficult economy.

RCR plans to keep Shell, Harvick
If team owner Richard Childress has his way, Kevin Harvick won't be walking. Rather, he'll be driving the #29 Shell-Pennzoil Chevrolet for RCR at least through the 2010 season, according to a statement Wednesday from Richard Childress Racing.

Mayfields stepmother claims he used meth
Lisa Mayfield, stepmother of suspended Sprint Cup driver Jeremy Mayfield, says she saw Mayfield use methamphetamine on at least 30 occasions dating to 1998, including once before a race in 1999, according to an affidavit that accompanied a NASCAR filing in federal court Wednesday.

Montoya: Truex departure has no affect on #42 team.
Juan Pablo Montoya has claimed that Martin Truex's departure from the Earnhardt Ganassi Racing will have no affect on his own assault on the end-of-season Chase for the Championship.

Tackling the seventh-inning stretch.
You'll never see a book titled How To Win Friends and Influence People in Chicago under Jeff Gordon's byline, especially as Chicago Cubs fans still remember - with revulsion - the four-time NASCAR champion's off-key rendition of Take Me out to the Ballgame from May 2005.

Busch: Stewart 'dumped' me
A week may have passed since the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona, but Kyle Busch remains far from happy with the incident on the final lap of the race which saw him lose out on victory to Tony Stewart.

Famous Earnhardt car for Goodwood
The Richard Childress Racing #3 GM Goodwrench Chevrolet Monte Carlo that seven-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Dale Earnhardt earned his 76th and final victory in will participate in this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed.

Vickers ready for 100th Nationwide start
Brian Vickers has endured several near misses this season for a long-awaited return to victory lane in the Nationwide Series. He'll try to complete the journey Saturday in his 100th start in the series in the Camping World RV Sales 200 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

Mayfield denies drug taking in court papers
Suspended owner/driver Jeremy Mayfield denies he has taken methamphetamines and says because NASCAR has indefinitely suspended him for a failed drug test he has lost the sponsorship of his racecar and had to lay off ten employees, according to documents filed in US District Court on Thursday.

Childress denies General Motors lawsuit
Richard Childress has denied allegations that his team has filed a lawsuit against General Motors after the ailing manufacturer announced it was to cut support for teams in the Sprint Cup.

Petty enjoys victory lane wine
Winning car owner Richard Petty got his first taste of victory lane in ten years, and he savoured it, right down to the red wine.

Wood Brothers to assist Said
Boris Said may have more under his hood than he showed in Friday's qualifying session, and he'll have some extra help on pit road, thanks to an assist from the Wood Brothers.

Back off Busch
Enough, already. Kyle Busch didn't paint a moustache on the Mona Lisa. He didn't burn the flag. He didn't scratch himself, a la Roseanne Barr, during the national anthem.

Carpentier to sub for Waltrip in Sonoma
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.

Johnson calls for pit light rethink.
A pit-road penalty that was all but unavoidable helped spoil a promising run by three-time defending Cup champion Jimmie Johnson in the Pocono 500, having a long-term effect on his result.

Prelude rained out, rescheduled
Heavy rain drenched the dirt racing surface at Eldora Speedway and forced postponement of Wednesday's scheduled fifth running of the Prelude to the Dream charity late model event to Wednesday 9 September.

Long suspension upheld.
Carl Long has said that he is disappointed with the ruling of a NASCAR appeals board that he says limited his recent twelve-week suspension to the Sprint Cup garage, but kept the $200,000 fine for an engine that was deemed too large during practice for the Sprint All-Star Race.