NASCAR News

Ron Fellows overcame a costly pit-road speeding penalty en-route to a fourth-place finish at Sunday's NASCAR Nextel Cup Series Centurion Boats at the Glen, giving the #96 DLP HDTV Chevrolet for Hall of Fame Racing its best finish in 14 months and its second-ever top-five result.

Ryan Newman's team took top honours in the Checkers/Rally's 'Double Drive-Thru Challenge' during Sunday's Nextel Cup event at Pocono Raceway.

The Nextel Cup race at Pocono on Sunday ran without Robby Gordon, who was suspended by NASCAR after an incident in the inaugural Busch Series race in Montreal on Saturday night.

NASCAR veteran Boris Said and rally legend John Buffum have received an 'at-large' slot for their BFGoodrich Tyres-sponsored Subaru Impreza WRX STI in the rally section of the forthcoming X Games extreme sports event.

Having endured eleven disappointments at Indy - six in NASCAR's Cup Series and five in the IRL IndyCar Series - before finally winning in a stock car at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2005, Tony Stewart only had to wait a year and 209 days to score his second victory in the Allstate 400

Jason Leffler gave Toyota its first NASCAR Busch Series win on Saturday night at the Indianapolis Raceway Park as the Busch Series regulars inflicted a rare defeat on the visiting Cup drivers.

Dale Earnhardt Inc has strengthened its standing in NASCAR after concluding a deal to merge with Ginn Racing, starting with next weekend's round at Indianapolis.

The NASCAR Nextel Cup will be rebranded as the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series from 2008 onwards. Nextel's parent company Sprint takes over from their subsidiary as the title sponsor four years after arriving in NASCAR to replace long-time series sponsor Winston.

Tony Eury Sr has announced that he has left Dale Earnhardt Incorporated and will join Dale Earnhardt Jr's JR Motorsport team as its new Director of Competition.

Joe Nemechek is looking forward to his return to a happy hunting ground this weekend, as the NASCAR Nextel Cup heads to the New Hampshire International Speedway for round 17 of the 2007 campaign.

Aric Almirola and Denny Hamlin made history at the Milwaukee Mile on Saturday night as they combined to win the NASCAR Busch Series AT&T 250.

Current Nextel Cup points leader Jeff Gordon earned his fourth win of the 2007 season in rather fortuitous fashion in a delayed, shortened Pocono 500 on Sunday.

The decision allowing Cingular branding to be swapped for AT&T on Jeff Burton's #31 Chevrolet may prompt a copycat move as another of the Nextel Cup communications industry sponsors seeks a similar remedy.

Brian Vickers is convinced that he could have Toyota its first Nextel Cup race win in Sunday's Coca-Cola 600 had luck just run his way for longer.

Martin Truex Jr and Johnny Sauter took the top two finishing positions in a wreck-filled Nextel Open and will go forward into the million-dollar All Star Challenge main event.

Denny Hamlin may be well placed in the race to make the end-of-season Chase for the Championship, but that does not prevent him from being frustrated by the current run of success being enjoyed by Hendrick Motorsport.

Kevin Harvick was a frustrated man after Sunday's Crown Royal 400 at Richmond International raceway, believing that he and the #29 team had thrown away a chance of ending Hendrick Motorsports' domination of the Car of Tomorrow events.

The Nextel Cup's most successful driver of the year offer rare praise for the Car of Tomorrow after taking his fourth win of the year, at Richmond, with the new-for-2007 technology.

Persistent rain has forced NASCAR to postpone the Crown Royal 400 at Richmond until Sunday after just eleven caution flag laps were run.

Crew chief Matt Borland has left Michael Waltrip Racing after just nine races at the helm of Dale Jarrett's #44 UPS Toyota team.

Former Petty Enterprises driver John Andretti has been named as one of two replacements for Kyle Petty when the driver of the #45 Dodge steps out of the driving seat and into the TV booth for five races.

It wasn't the result that the tens of thousands of Dale Earnhardt fans had wanted but very few could deny that Jeff Gordon had the strongest car for much of the day as he drove to his second Cup Series win in two weeks in the Aaron's 499.

Kyle Busch stamped his place in the record books as the first driver to win with NASCAR's 'Car of Tomorrow' by claiming victory in the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway.

NASCAR's stance on telecommunications sponsors has led to AT&T filing a lawsuit against the series over the status of Cingular Wireless' sponsorship of Jeff Burton's #31 Richard Childress Racing team.