NASCAR News

It was a double win for the #20 Home Depot/Joe Gibbs Racing team on Sunday at Watkins Glen International, as not only did Tony Stewart capture the win on the 2.45-mile road course, but his pit crew also came away with a victory, taking top honours and $20,000 in the weekly McDonald's Drive-Thru P

In an effort to contain team costs and further enhance competition, NASCAR has revealed that it will implement a gear rule for its three senior series - the Nextel Cup, NASCAR Busch and Craftsman Truck - beginning from next season.

Sprint car star JJ Yeley will attempt to make his NASCAR Nextel Cup Series debut this weekend, as he races the Vigoro/Home Depot Chevrolet for the first time in the GFS Marketplace 400.

The last two NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series races have been major momentum builders for Kevin Harvick and his #29 GM Goodwrench racing team.

Sterling Marlin produced the TV quote of the week at Watkins Glen when he called Greg Biffle a 'bug-eyed dummy' live on NBC after the former Daytona 500 winner found himself unceremoniously nerfed into the wall by an impatient Biffle early on in Sunday's Sirius at the Glen.

Michael Waltrip's 20th-place finish in the Sirius at The Glen on Sunday was not the road course finish he and his DEI team anticipated after a pleasing final practice and first half of the race, not to mention finishing fourth in June's race at Infineon Raceway.

It was gut check time for Tony Stewart in Sunday's Sirius At The Glen NASCAR Nextel Cup Series race at Watkins Glen International - literally.

Less than half way into Sunday's 90-lap Sirius at the Glen, Tony Stewart's #20 Joe Gibbs Racing crew had Boris Said sitting in Stewart's back-up Home Depot Chevrolet to see if the versatile road course ace could squeeze his lanky frame into the cockpit of the #20 machine should an increasingly il

Factory Corvette driver Ron Fellows has been confirmed in the #1 Nutter Butter/Nilla Wafers Chevrolet Monte Carlo in this weekend's NASCAR Nextel Cup event at Watkins Glen.

Roush Racing has revealed that Carl Edwards will replace the RCR-bound Jeff Burton at the wheel of the #99 Roush Racing Ford for the remainder of the 2004 season, starting from next weekend's Michigan GFS Marketplace 400.

Richard Childress Racing has signed Jeff Burton to a multi-year agreement to drive its #30 America Online Chevrolet, beginning at next week's GFS Marketplace 400 at Michigan International Speedway.

Elliott Sadler's pit crew took first place honours in Sunday's Brickyard 400, scoring its fourth win of the season in the McDonald's Drive-Thru Pit Championship fuelled by POWERade.

In the midst of another dire season, NASCAR's most famous team, Petty Enterprises, have had a major shake-up prior to this weekend's Sirius at the Glen that will result in both Jeff Green and Kyle Petty having new crew chiefs.

Scott Riggs was a victim of the biggest accident in Sunday's Brickyard 400 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and his resulting failure to finish mathematically eliminate him from the inaugural 'Chase for the Championship.'

Jeff Gordon earned an unprecedented fourth Brickyard 400 victory on Sunday with a dominating performance in a wild, tumultuous race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Casey Mears continued the Indianapolis Motor Speedway success story of the Mears family with pole position for Sunday's Brickyard 400 NASCAR Nextel Cup race. Casey's uncle, Rick holds an enviable record of six pole positions and four Indy 500 wins at the track.

Richard Childress Racing has named Greg Erwin as the new team engineer for the #31 Cingular Wireless program for the rest of the season. Erwin first joined the team in 2002 as a multi-team engineer and he says that he is looking forward to working with driver Robby Gordon.

Two of NASCAR's elder statesmen will attempt to debut new teams this weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway as Geoffrey Bodine and former Daytona 500 winner Derrike Cope both make a run at the Brickyard 400.

Ward Burton looked set to score his best result of the year and the best ever for his second year Hass CNC Racing outfit in Sunday's Pennsylvania 500 at the Pocono Raceway before a late race transmission failure ended their day.

Joe Nemechek dominated the opening 30 laps of Sunday's Pennsylvania 500 in a manner that only eventual winner Jimmie Johnson was able to replicate during the remaining 170 tours of the 2.5-mile Pocono Raceway before 'Front Row Joe' discovered that he only had third gear at his disposal.

Dale Earnhardt Jr lasted until lap 52 of 200 in Sunday's Pennsylvania 500 before a combination of cramp in his recently burned leg and a virtually undriveable racecar saw him reluctantly hand the controls of his #8 Budweiser Chevrolet over to relief driver John Andretti.

US racing veteran Eddie Cheever has spoken out on the debate that followed Dale Earnhardt Jr's fiery accident in an American Le Mans Series race two weeks ago.

Tony Stewart is on a roll. With three straight top-five finishes that included a win at the Chicagoland Speedway, the driver of the #20 Home Depot Chevrolet for Joe Gibbs Racing is settling nicely into his traditional second-half surge.

Dale Earnhardt Jr drove through the pain barrier for 60 laps in Sunday's Siemens 300 at the New Hampshire International Speedway before the first of 12 caution periods allowed him to hand the #8 Budweiser Chevrolet over to Busch Series driver Martin Truex Jr.