NASCAR News

Ryan Newman earned a record-tying seventh career pole position at Atlanta Motor Speedway after posting a lap of 193.124mph during Friday's Georgia Power Qualifying Night session.

Contrary to a number of recent reports emanating from a media release issued by Huddle House earlier this month, former NASCAR Cup champion Bill Elliott has not agreed to a three-race deal that would put him in the #37 Dodge for the Kobalt Tools 500, Aaron's 499 and Coca-Cola 600 this season.

Sterling Marlin has said that the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, which hosts the third round of the Nextel Cup this weekend, is now a totally different place to the circuit where he claimed his ninth career win back in 2002.

Juan Montoya insists that he feels bad about bumping Chip Ganassi Racing team-mate Scott Pruett out of the lead of the Busch Series Telcel Motorola Mexico 200 on Sunday, but admitted that it felt good to get a first NASCAR win under his belt.

Juan Montoya won his first race in NASCAR by triumphing in Sunday's Telcel Motorola 200 at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez road course in Mexico City but his spectacular come-from-behind victory was tainted by a controversial incident that saw the Colombian tip team-mate Scott Pruett into a spin

NASCAR road race ringer Scott Pruett will be chasing a brace of victories when the Busch Series heads south of the border to Mexico City this weekend, pulling double-duty in the Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates Grand-Am and NASCAR line-ups.

Joe Nemechek overcame two unlucky breaks during green-flag pit stops to post a 14th-place result in the Auto Club 500 at Fontana and remain seventh in the Nextel Cup standings.

NASCAR veteran Mark Martin has insisted that leading the Nextel Cup standings after two rounds won't convince him to go back on plans to only run a partial season in 2007.

Having successfully put both its cars into Sunday's Daytona 500, Haas CNC Racing have announced that Comcast Corporation has joined lead driver Jeff Green's #66 Best Buy Chevrolet team as an associate backer.

Team Australia's Marcos Ambrose will make his NASCAR Busch Series debut when he races the Aussie Vineyards-backed #59 Kingsford Charcoal Ford Fusion in the Orbitz 300 at Daytona International Speedway in Florda this Saturday.

Kyle Petty's sponsorship quandary improved for the second week running when he confirmed that Wells Fargo would return to provide primary backing for his #45 Dodge for twelve races this year.

The Nextel Cup Series schedule has evolved over time, and with the influence of television, NASCAR has opted to begin many of its races later in the afternoon or early evening hours.

New Hendrick Motorsports recruit Casey Mears has been handed a last minute crew chief change just days before the season opening Daytona 500 with news that Darian Grubb will replace Lance McGrew.

Chip Ganassi Racing's Nextel Cup sophomore David Stremme and his #40 Dodge team were dealt a blow on Friday when their 2006 co-primary sponsor Lone Star Steakhouse ended their relationship with the team.

Ginn Racing has finally announced the identity of the primary sponsor for Joe Nemechek's first Nextel Cup campaign in the #13 Chevrolet, with the CertainTeed Corporation coming on board for 18 races, beginning with next weekend's Daytona 500.

NASCAR's 'official burger and drive-thru' restaurant, has agreed to back Jay Robinson Racing for eleven races in this season's Busch Series, beginning with the Orbitz 300 at Daytona next weekend.

Furniture Row Racing and Front Row Motorsports will both return to the 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series on a full time basis with single car outfits for Kenny Wallace and Kevin Lepage respectively.

Elliott Sadler will join Scott Riggs and primary driver Kasey Kahne for a 23-race Busch Series campaign behind the wheel of the #9 Ultimate Chargers Dodge.

Ginn Racing has revealed that Panasonic Broadcast will act as primary sponsor on Sterling Marlin's #14 Chevrolet at twelve of the year's Nextel Cup races.

David Gilliland and Juan Montoya had the honour of topping the times as week two of NASCAR's Pre-season Thunder schedule got underway at Daytona.

Mike Wallace will attempt to make the Daytona 500 with James Finch's #09 Phoenix Racing team.

Half way through the traditional pre-season test at Daytona, Jeff Green stands atop the time charts with his Hendrick powered #66 Haas CNC Racing Chevrolet.

The renamed Ginn Racing operation (formerly MB2 Motorsports) have announced that former championship winning crew chief Gary DeHart has joined their expanding roster of staff as director of shop operations.

Juan Pablo Montoya joined fellow NASCAR runners Elliott Sadler and Kurt Busch at the Detroit Motor Show to take the wraps off Dodge's latest addition to the stock car ranks, as the US marque unveiled the Avenger model which will contest the 'Car of Tomorrow' events from 2007.