NASCAR News

Moments after their impressive runner-up finish in Sunday's Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway, Miller Lite Dodge driver Rusty Wallace and crew chief Larry Carter were staring at each other eye-to-eye on pit road.

Sterling Marlin's pit crew won the McDonald's Drive-Thru Pit Championship fuelled by POWERade in Sunday's Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway, earning $20,000 for the victory and becoming the sixth different winner in the first six races of the 2004 season.

NASCAR Nextel Cup driver John Andretti is working on a deal to race twice at Indianapolis in 2004 - combining a NASCAR run in the Brickyard 400 in August with a return to the famed Indianapolis 500, now a round of the Indy Racing League, on May 30.

Greg Biffle's pit-crew claimed first prize and the $20,000 weekly cheque for winning the McDonald's Drive-Thru Pit Championship fuelled by POWERade in last Sunday's Carolina Dodge Dealers 400 at Darlington Raceway.

When U.S. Army driver Joe Nemechek navigates his way through the maze of cars on the high-banked, half-mile oval at Bristol Motor Speedway, he will largely depend on Roman Pemberton, the team's spotter, who will be perched on top of the stadium-like facility for Sunday's Food City 500.

Multiple NASCAR Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon took a hard hit during Sunday's Carolina Dodge Dealers 400 at Darlington, causing him to ponder whether the so called 'field fillers' should be allowed to take part.

Scott Riggs's regular Valvoline livery will make way for a new look as his team pays tribute to the 'flash and dash' of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball squad with a specially prepared red, white and blue #10 Chevrolet at the 28 March Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway.

The #31 pit crew of Robby Gordon squeaked by Dale Earnhardt Jr's line-up to capture the McDonald's Drive-Thru Pit Championship fuelled by POWERade in Sunday's 500-mile Nextel Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Dale Earnhardt Jr led when it mattered on Sunday, adding the Golden Coral 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway to his emotionally-charged victory in the season-opening Daytona 500.

When Kevin Harvick won the Brickyard 400 from the pole last August, he claims it helped him slip out from the under the 'shadow you'll never get rid of'.

NASCAR is poised to eliminate opportunities for occasional racers to make the field in Nextel Cup Series events, following a sub-standard turn-out at last weekend's Rockingham round.

"Racing at The Rock was disappointing," declared Michael Waltrip after his 33rd-place finish in Sunday's Subway 400 at North Carolina Speedway, adding to the disappointment of his dramatic Daytona exit.

It may only have been the second event of the 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup season, NetZero Chevrolet driver Ward Burton has already put his name in the Haas CNC Racing record books.

Race fans attending the UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway will get a rare treat when the United States Air Force Thunderbirds do a Delta Formation flyover prior to the March 7 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series event.

GM Goodwrench driver Kevin Harvick is coming off of two hard weeks of racing at Daytona International Speedway. All he wants to do right now is relax, but he knows that's not going to happen because the 2004 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series season has only just begun.

Ricky Craven, driver of the #32 Tide Chevrolet, returns to North Carolina Speedway this weekend - the track where he made his very first NASCAR Cup start on October 20, 1991. Craven has scored one pole, six top-fives and nine top-10s in 18 starts at the 1-mile track.

Daytona International Speedway's victory lane became a stable for Clydesdales on Sunday, as Dale Earnhardt Jr., and the #8 Budweiser team won the Great American Race, the Daytona 500.

The only other time Tony Stewart was ever satisfied with a second-place finish was on October 6, 2002, when his runner-up effort to Dale Earnhardt Jr., at Talladega vaulted him into the NASCAR Winston Cup Series point lead, and eventually, the championship.

The 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series will be screened on NASN - the North American Sports Network - starting with live and exclusive coverage of the Daytona 500 this Sunday.

Paul Menard embarks on his first full season of NASCAR Busch Series racing as driver of the #33 Menards Chevrolet this weekend, as the year opens with the Hershey's Kisses 300 at Daytona International Speedway.

With the cost of competing continuing to rise in the Nextel Cup, rival manufacturers are continually looking for ways to contain their outgoings.

NASCAR Busch Series driver David Stremme has been added to the cast of SPEED Channel 's new reality series NBS 24/7 , joining Casey Atwood, Kasey Kahne, Tim Fedewa and two-time series champion Randy LaJoie as the programme debuts with back-to-back half-hour shows on 16 February.

Morgan-McLure Motorsports opened the Daytona Speedweeks NASCAR party with news that it had secured sponsorship from YOKE TV.com for the #4 Nextel Cup entry of Kevin Lepage.

Dale Jarrett's Ford may have come out on top of the season-opening Budweiser Shootout at Daytona over the weekend, but Chevrolet drivers completed the top three, with Dale Earnhardt claiming second and last lap leader Kevin Harvick third. Q: How was your race tonight?