NASCAR News

Tony Raines and the #96 Hall of Fame Racing DLP HDTV team toughed out a respectable 22nd place finish in Sunday's Lenox Industrial Tools 300 at the New Hampshire International Speedway.

Darrell Waltrip has enough grandfather clocks signifying Martinsville Speedway victories to stock a clock store, but Saturday's Goody's 250 isn't about first-place hardware for the veteran/retired driver.

No Fear Incorporated, the California-based action sports lifestyle brand, will contest a four-race schedule in the 2006 Nextel Cup Series with driver Boris Said starting next weekend at the Infineon Raceway.

Hendrick Motorsport have confirmed that Casey Mears will replace Brian Vickers in the #25 GMAC Chevrolet next season.

Casey Mears will not be returning to drive Chip Ganassi Racing's #42 Texaco/Havoline Dodge in 2007 with the word at the Pocono Raceway on Sunday linking him to Brian Vickers' old seat at Hendrick Motorsport.

Jimmie Johnson may have seen his Nextel Cup winning streak at the Lowe's Motor Speedway end on Sunday night when Kasey Kahne beat him to the chequered flag in the Coca Cola 600 but his #48 Hendrick Motorsports pit crew did get a victory.

Michael Waltrip will race in Sunday's Coca Cola 600 at the Lowe's Motor Speedway despite failing to qualify his #55 Waltrip-Jasper Racing Dodge.

The 2005 Coca Cola 600 witnessed one of the most galling losses of Joe Nemechek's Nextel Cup career to date as a late race puncture robbed the driver of the #01 MB2 Motorsports Chevrolet of a near certain victory.

NASCAR Busch Series driver Spencer Clark has died following a road traffic accident on Sunday night.

Tony Stewart was a contender in the early part of Saturday night's Nextel All-Star Challenge non-points event at the Lowe's Motor Speedway, but a contentious crash with Matt Kenseth on lap 72 sent Stewart to an early exit.

The ambitious Team Australia umbrella has been expanded to include a new partnership that guarantees backing for ex-pat Australian Marcos Ambrose's NASCAR Craftsman Truck campaign in the United States.

Kevin Harvick has finally signed a contract extension with Richard Childress Racing that should see him driving the #29 GM Goodwrench Chevrolet for another three years at least.

Nextel Cup rookie Denny Hamlin will compete in this weekend's pair of races at the Richmond International Raceway with stitches in his left hand after a post-test competition between his #11 Joe Gibbs team went wrong at the Lowe's Motor Speedway.

In a move to discourage the overly-aggressive bump drafting that has raised many issues and resulted in many accidents during restrictor-plate races, NASCAR has modified the front bumper for Sunday's Aaron's 499 at Talladega.

Oil Company Pennzoil will return to the Nextel Cup Series as a primary sponsor for the first time in several years with Roush Racing and new driver Todd Kluever later this season.

Kurt Busch's crew-chief Roy McCauley will miss this weekend's race at the Phoenix International Raceway after surgery to alleviate chest pains earlier this week.

Kevin Harvick maintained the Nextel Cup's one hundred percent record in the Busch Series this year as he won Saturday's Pepsi 300 at the Nashville Superspeedway.

One of the main talking points of the Samsung/RadioShack 500 weekend was the on-track collision between Kurt Busch and Greg Biffle followed by the off-track confrontation between the girlfriends of the two driver.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers will perform a live show during the intermission between the segments of this year's Nextel All Star Challenge.

The Great Clips Racing programme has added Jason Leffler to its driver line-up, alongside Braun Racing team-mate and rookie of the year contender AJ Foyt IV.

After jumping straight from the Craftsman Truck Series to the Nextel Cup with Jack Roush, Kurt Busch had never driven in a NASCAR Busch Series race until this weekend at the Texas Motor Speedway.

Jeff Gordon has been fined ten thousand dollars for shoving Matt Kenseth at the conclusion of last weekend's Food City 500 at the Bristol Motor Speedway but has not lost any driver or owner points.

For the second week in a row, Tony Stewart's pit crew secured the weekly Checkers/ Rally's Double Drive-Through Challenge competition by spending the least amount of time on pit road in Sunday's Food City 500 at the Bristol Motor Speedway.

Raybestos Rookie of the Year candidate Brent Sherman has been replaced by veteran Jimmy Spencer for this weekend's DirecTV 500 at the half-mile Martinsville Speedway.