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Heeee'ssss Baaaccckkk! After five weekends off because of a shoulder and wrist injury, Schneider Electric driver Bobby Hamilton is back in black for this weekend's UAW-GM Quality 500 at Lowe's Motor Speedway.

With the #30 America Online Chevrolet sporting a new look this weekend, Winston Cup driver Jeff Green will welcome his friend, country singer Neal McCoy as part of the Warner Bros. Records Inside Traxx promotion during the UAW-GM Quality 500 at Lowe's Motor Speedway.

Dale Earnhardt Jr, scored his seventh NASCAR Winston Cup victory in 105 races, and the 10th victory for Chevrolet in 2002 with a fine display of brute power and good fuel consumption last Sunday at the Talladega Superspeedway.

There's a celebration going on at General Nutrition Centres (GNC Live Well) retail stores, and NASCAR Busch Series (NBS) driver Hank Parker Jr. is proud to join the festivities.

Full results from Sunday's EA Sports 500 at the 2.66-mile Talladega Superspeedway, round 30 of the 2002 NASCAR Winston Cup Series.

Complete Happy Hour practice session results for Sunday's EA Sports 500 at the 2.66-mile Talladega Superspeedway.

Complete Saturday morning practice session results for Sunday's EA Sports 500 at the 2.66-mile Talladega Superspeedway.

Full starting lineup for Sunday's EA Sports 500 at the 2.66-mile Talladega Superspeedway. Bud Pole Qualifying rained out - field set by Owners Points (1-35) - Previous winners (43) - Number of attempted races (36-42)

Complete opening practice session results for Sunday's EA Sports 500 at the 2.66-mile Talladega Superspeedway.

You won't see Santa's sleigh racing around Lowe's Motor Speedway on October 12th, 2002, but you will see the next best thing as Bobby Hamilton Jr and Team Rensi kick off the 2002 Toys for Tots campaign.

Sterling Marlin has been cruelly ruled out of the 2002 Winston Cup Championship title run-in after being diagnosed as having fractured a vertebrae following his hard wreck last Sunday in Kansas.

Jamie McMurray has been announced as the replacement driver for the No. 40 Coors Light Dodge and will drive in six of the final seven Winston Cup races this year before his full-time debut with the Chip Ganassi Winston Cup team in 2003.

Miller Lite Team Penske driver Rusty Wallace is calling this weekend's EA Sports 500 at Talladega Superspeedway the "most pivotal" of the seven races remaining on the 2002 NASCAR Winston Cup schedule.

Scott Wimmer, Bill Davis' NASCAR Busch Series driver, will drive the No. 23 Hills Bros. Coffee Dodge at Talladega Superspeedway this weekend.

Mike Skinner missed the inaugural Protection One 400 last year as he nursed knee and ankle injuries and he may wish that he had missed this year's race as well after yet more bad luck ruined his day behind the wheel of the #4 Kodak Chevy.

Sunday's crash-filled Protection One 400 at the Kansas Speedway took its toll on the five-strong Pontiac 'Wide Track' attack team with only Tony Stewart and Mike Wallace emerging unscathed.

Full results from Sunday's Protection One 400 at the 1.5-mile Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, round 29 of the 2002 NASCAR Winston Cup Series.

We're not expected to win the championship and I'm not expecting to win it by any means. The experience that Mark Martin, Sterling Marlin, Jeff Gordon, and even Tony Stewart - even everybody in the top 10 has a shot at it. But I like being the underdog right now.

Injured Winston Cup driver Bobby Hamilton is doing his best to get back behind the wheel of his No. 55 Chevrolet after suffering shoulder and wrist injuries in a Craftsman Truck Series crash at Richmond earlier this month.

There won't be anyone at Kansas Speedway this weekend more excited to be there than Lyndon Amick (pictured during 2001 Daytona 24hrs) who makes his return to the Busch Series in a third ppc Racing Ford Taurus.

"Talladega is coming up next week and that's a tough race. It will play big in the points race as far as the final outcome.

When the NASCAR Winston Cup Series returns to Kansas Speedway it's going to be like a first-time experience for Dale Jarrett who has few memories of the inaugural Protection One 400.

Hank Parker Jr has been hotly tipped to follow Busch Series rival Jamie McMurray into the Winston Cup next year but the driver of the #36 Jesel Motorsport Dodge says he is unsure of his situation with a lot hanging on his current sponsors GNC.

It's a homecoming of sorts for the Herzog Jackson Motorsports team this weekend as driver Todd Bodine and the rest of the Excedrin QuickTabs crew head to Kansas Speedway.