NASCAR News

After Saturday's Nationwide Series race at Dover, an emotional Tony Eury Sr talked about the toll the pressure of trying to function as Dale Earnhardt Jr's crew chief had taken on his 36-year old son, Tony Eury Jr.

Tommy Baldwin Racing has named former Camping World Truck Series champion Mike Skinner and Patrick Carpentier to replace Scott Riggs in the #36 Toyota in the Sprint Cup Series, the team announced Monday.

Persistent rain forced the postponement of NASCAR's Coca-Cola 600 from its scheduled Sunday start, causing motorsport's biggest day to end in something of a damp squib.

The NASCAR Media Group is not even two years old, but nowhere is the sanctioning body spending more money or more carefully plotting its future.

Though a consensus among NASCAR drivers favours disclosure of substances that produce positive drug tests and subsequent suspensions, Dale Earnhardt Jr. differs from the majority of competitors who have expressed opinions on the subject.

Avoiding mistakes on pit road has been a key to victory in NASCAR Sprint Cup competition this season.

If the record-setting #83 Red Bull Toyota team is to repeat as champions of Thursday night's Sprint Crew Challenge in Charlotte, the men that service Brian Vickers' Camry in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series will have to do so with a new cast of characters.

Heluva Good! and Autism Speaks have teamed up to sponsor the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Dover International Speedway later this month in a bid to raise awareness of the condition.

Police are investigating the death of former NASCAR driver Kevin Grubb, after the 31-year-old's body was discovered in a motel room in Henrico County.

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.

The future business model of troubled merchandise giant Motorsports Authentics will be decided soon after its owners explore ways to turn around the company.

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.

Eight fans have been injured after a final-lap wreck during the Aaron's 499 at Talladega, which saw the #99 of Carl Edwards get airbourne into the safety fencing on the final lap.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. thought he and Ryan Newman were going to settle Sunday's Aaron's 499 Sprint Cup race at Talladega Superspeedway between them.

Richard Petty Motorsports duo Kasey Kahne and AJ Allmendinger were trying something different with their engine set-ups at Talladega. It didn't work.

As soon as Jimmie Johnson heard the news of Friday's acquittal, on tax charges, of IndyCar Series driver Helio Castroneves, the Brazilian's sister and business manager Katuicia and Michigan motorsports attorney Alan Miller, he and crew chief Chad Knaus tried to call the 71-year old, who has also

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.

Let's see, which way does the nozzle go?

The tired NASCAR axiom of 'Win on Sunday, sell on Monday' has been outdated for the past decade, if not longer, but the executives who run Rick Hendrick's NASCAR team and auto dealerships brought it back to life last month at Daytona.

Martin Truex Jr spent most of Saturday night in the emergency room of an Atlanta hospital, waiting to pass a kidney stone that had begun to cause him considerable discomfort during Cup practice earlier in the day.

The Kobalt Tools 500 had eleven cautions during its eventual 330-lap duration, but none was more bizarre than that thrown to cover the actions of Jimmy Watts, gas man on the #47 Toyota driven by Marcos Ambrose.

What has three-time defending Cup champion Jimmie Johnson done differently this year? For one thing, he's sporting a full beard. For another, he's 19th in the Cup standings, the worst points position he's occupied three races into a season since 2004, when he also was 19th.

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.

DuPont, long recognised as the leader in hospitality among NASCAR sponsors, is dramatically reducing its program this year as part of its companywide cost cutting.