NASCAR News

Tony Stewart's fourth-place finish in the season-ending Ford 400 at the Homestead-Miami Speedway was a microcosm of his 2004 season.

Kurt Busch won his first, and the second straight NASCAR Nextel Cup Championship for car owner Jack Roush at Homestead on Sunday. As a result, Busch is now the third-youngest driver to win the championship at 26 years, 3 months and 17 days.

Dale Earnhardt Jr will go into possibly the most important race of his career witohut a familiar voice in his ear after NASCAR suspended his spotter Steve Hmiel.

NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series driver and former USAC champion Tony Stewart has purchased Eldora Speedway from legendary owner Earl Baltes.

Just like the Chase for the Nextel Cup, the McDonald's Drive-Thru Pit Championship fuelled by POWERade is also going down to the final race of the season.

On the same day that NASCAR announced one cost saving measure in the abolishment of Saturday practice, the series also confirmed that the two main pre-season 'tests in the west' will take place in the same week.

Evernham Motorsports have announced that former Busch Series veteran Elton Sawyer will lead their first full time NASCAR Busch Series effort as Team Director of the #6 Hungry Drivers Racing Dodge team with driver Paul Wolfe.

Dale Earnhardt Jr's pit crew captured the Phoenix round of the McDonald's Drive-Thru Pit Championship fuelled by POWERade. The victory lifted the #8 team into first place in the pit crew standings with two races remaining in the 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup schedule.

Ward Burton has finally left the Haas CNC Racing team after a season littered with disappointment and mechanical problems and will be replaced by former NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Champion Mike Bliss for the final two Nextel Cup races of the year.

After an extended review of its sponsorship policies, NASCAR has announced that distilled spirits, (hard liquor) products will be allowed as sponsors from the start of next season.

Michael Waltrip overcame a practice accident to finish 17th in Sunday's 500-mile race at Phoenix International Raceway.

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Perseverance by Scott Riggs paid off Sunday as the Valvoline team battled through adversity to pick up a 14th-place finish at the Phoenix International Raceway.

Smith & Wesson, the legendary 152-year old firearms manufacturer, has announced a new, multi-year partnership with SKI Motorsports to campaign a NASCAR Busch Series entry in 2005.

Thin windshield or not, Dale Earnhardt Jr was quite simply the class of the field in Sunday's Checker Auto Parts 500 at Phoenix, a fact reflected by his mood in the post race press conference where he admitted that passing Jeff Gordon for the win was a special moment.

Boris Said will enter the final Nextel Cup race of the season at the Homestead-Miami Speedway, driving the #36 USG Durock Brand Chevrolet for MB2 Motorsports.

Robby Gordon will continue to run the alternative blue and orange Cingular Wireless paint scheme on his #31 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet after a strong outing with the scheme last week in Atlanta.

Dale Earnhardt Jr laid the blame for Sunday's clash with Carl Edwards at his own feet as a golden opportunity to take the NASCAR Nextel Cup points lead went begging at the Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Rusty Wallace has apologised to those who may have been upset by his comments about the airport that the ill-fated Hendrick Motorsports flight was bound for last Sunday but has refused to stand down from his belief that both the Blue Ridge Airport in Martinsville and the Talladega Airport are in

Amidst the tragedy that has enveloped the NASCAR world this past few days, team owner Richard Childress has confirmed that Robby Gordon will not return to the #31 Cingular Wireless team for a fourth season in 2005.

Nextel Cup frontrunner Tony Stewart is in mourning for his helicopter pilot Scott Lathram, who was amongst the ten people killed when a plane belonging to Hendrick Motorsports crashed on route to Martinsville Speedway on Sunday.

Dale Earnhardt Jr used his sole Nextel Cup Chase 'Mulligan' in Sunday's Subway 500 when a clash with Kyle Petty finally ended what had already been a dismal day for the driver who entered the race second in the points table.

Ten members of top NASCAR team Hendrick Motorsports, including the son, twin nieces and brother of team owner Rick Hendrick, were killed in a plane crash en route to the race at Martinsville on Sunday. Hendrick driver Jimmie Johnson won the race before learning of the tragedy.

Rusty Wallace has revealed his own fears about the approach to the airport that Sunday's ill-fated Hendrick Motorsports flight was bound for when it crashed in dense fog, killing all ten people on board.