NASCAR News

NASCAR title sponsors Nextel have merged mobile-telecommunications rivals Sprint in a deal worth an estimated $35 Billion in stocks and shares.

Frank Kimmel, perhaps the only driver in recent Nextel Cup memory to bring sponsorship from 'Pork - The other white meat,' has tied the record for the most Championship victories in the ARCA Series with his sixth straight title win.

With the fight for dates on the Nextel Cup tour showing no signs of easing up, two current venues are doing their best to ensure that their dates remain in concrete by adding further seating in preparation for the 2005 season.

Mike Bliss will be the full-time driver of the #0 NetZero sponsored Haas CNC Racing Chevrolet in 2005 after the driver himself confirmed his new role at last weekend's NASCAR Busch Series banquet.

Robby Gordon's latest venture into team ownership has netted him the assistance of no less than three separate sponsors for the 2005 season with news that Harrah's, Fruit of the Loom and Menards will all provide backing for Team Gordon's 2005 Nextel Cup campaign.

Former Busch Series Champion Greg Biffle will drive for Brewco Motorsports in next year's Championship with sponsorship from Duraflame.

Penske-Jasper Racing has announced that 2003 NASCAR Truck Series champion Travis Kvapil will be drive the #77 Kodak EasyShare Dodge Charger in next year's NASCAR Nextel Cup, replacing Brendan Gaughan.

Jeff Gordon will market a series of upscale wines under a label bearing his own name, starting with a 2004 Carneros Chardonnay, which will be available in October, 2005.

Scott Wimmer will have a new crew chief for his sophomore NASCAR Nextel Cup season in 2005 with the news that Bill Davis Racing has named Derrick Finley as the crew chief for the #22 Caterpillar Dodge.

Not withstanding the terrible tragedy that claimed nine members of the Hendrick Motorsports team in October, Terry Labonte's final year as a full-time driver wasn't one of his more memorable, although he is predicting good things for the future of his now former #5 Kellogg's team.

America's newest reality based TV show centred on Motorsport; "America's Top Driver" will have triple NASCAR Champion Cale Yarborough serving as one of its directors.

Dale Earnhardt, Jr. continued to set standards among NASCAR fans nationwide in 2004. For the second straight year, fans voted Earnhardt, Jr. the Pillsbury Grands! Biscuits NMPA NASCAR Most Popular Driver.

The Jack Daniel Distillery announced Friday it has entered into a partnership with Richard Childress Racing (RCR) as the primary sponsor of the #07 Chevrolet Monte Carlo for the 2005 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series with veteran driver Dave Blaney and crew chief Philippe Lopez.

He may be the oldest regular on the NASCAR Nextel Cup tour but 63 year-old Morgan Shepherd isn't slowing down even though another long, tiring season has only just finished.

Kevin Harvick may have faltered in his bid to win the 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup title but the same can't be said for his truckie, Jim Baldwin, who has just scooped the 2004 Pilot Truck Driver Challenge.

Prospective Nextel Cup outfit Bang Racing have launched an innovative new race fan membership program as they attempt to graduate into NASCAR's highest echelon.

After guiding Dale Earnhardt Jr to his most successful NASCAR Nextel Cup season to date, Tony Eury Sr has stepped down from the role of crew chief of the #8 Budweiser sponsored DEI Chevrolet.

The 2004 Championship may be Kurt Busch's first since joining NASCAR's highest echelon, but its not the first NASCAR trophy on his mantelpiece and in the week following his Nextel Cup triumph, some of his rivals from his days in the 1999 NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Series offered their congratul

Considering the response he got after winning July's Tropicana 400 at the Chicagoland Speedway, Tony Stewart has done a remarkable job of converting fans back to his side in recent months, with his efforts rewarded by being named as NASCAR's fourth quarter 'person of the year.'

Raybestos have confirmed that Evernham Motorsports' Kasey Kahne is the 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup 'Rookie of the Year' after a record-breaking year that yielded everything except a win.

The pit crew for Tony Stewart captured the season title in the McDonald's Drive-Thru Pit Championship fuelled by POWERade. The #20 Home Depot/Joe Gibbs Racing crew will collect a $200,000 champion's bonus from McDonald's/POWERade, December 3 in New York City.

NASCAR Nextel Cup veteran Ricky Craven has joined 2004 Nextel Cup Championship winning team Roush Racing for an assault on the 2005 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Championship.

Hendrick Motorsports owner Rick Hendrick has announced key personnel changes affecting each of his organization's teams going into the 2005 NASCAR campaign in an effort both to bring all four full time teams and Terry Labonte's new team into line and to help replace some of the team members he lo

The driver was good and the car was good. But a broken arm to the left-front sway bar of the U.S. Army Chevrolet halted Joe Nemechek's march to the front in Sunday's season-ending Ford 400 Nextel Cup race at Homestead-Miami Speedway, resulting in a 27th-place finish.