NASCAR News

This weekend's Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway will mark the end of an era for one of NASCAR's most enduring, popular and successful icons - the Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS.

Once again Robby Gordon will refuse to let the small matter of logistics spoil his racing fun as he goes for his fourth Baja 1000 victory next week.

Hall of Fame Racing has announced that it will switch marques for 2008, giving new recruit JJ Yeley the chance to run with Toyota and Toyota Racing Development [TRD].

Having had a lead of more than 850 points over his nearest rival at one point during the season there was no doubt that Carl Edwards would be crowned the 2007 NASCAR Busch Series Champion in the final year of the series with Busch as the title sponsor.

Moving into their third full time NASCAR Nextel (Sprint) Cup season Hall of Fame Racing will add a second car to their arsenal on seven occasions in 2008 for 19 year-old Brad Coleman.

Bill Davis has said that his NASCAR race team will be unaffected by the news that Bill Davis Trucking has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Driver-turned-team owner Rusty Wallace has revealed that son Steve will pilot his #66 car full-time in 2008, as the squad gears up to run two Chevrolet entries and four drivers in the soon-to-be-renamed NASCAR Nationwide Series.

He, like the rest of the Chase for the Championship contenders, may have been powerless to stop the Jeff Gordon/Jimmie Johnson freight train so far in this years Chase but outgoing Hendrick driver Kyle Busch was able to warm up for Sunday's Pep Boys 500 at the Atlanta Motor Speedway with a victor

David Reutimann has been confirmed as Dale Jarrett's replacement in the #44 Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota when Jarrett retires following the fifth race of the 2008 season.

While the on-track focus for Dale Earnhardt Inc.

NASCAR's decision to allow Jacques Villeneuve to make his Nextel Cup debut at the fearsome 2.66-mile Talladega Superspeedway may not have sat too well with some of the drivers in the Chase for the Championship but none can deny his outstanding talent after the Canadian driver qualified sixth fast

Outgoing NASCAR team boss Robert Yates has swapped his current replacement driver, veteran Kenny Wallace, for his older brother Mike ahead of this weekend's UAW-Ford 500 at Talladega as Ricky Rudd continues to recuperate from injury.

NASCAR veteran Ricky Rudd will miss a race due to injury for the first time in more than a quarter of a century this weekend after he separated his left shoulder in a hard crash during last Sunday's Aquos 500 at the California Speedway.

Joe Gibbs Racing has finally confirmed one of the worst kept secrets in NASCAR, after revealing that it will campaign Toyota Camrys in next year's renamed Sprint Cup Series.

Carl Edwards booked his place in the 2007 Nextel Cup 'Chase for the Championship' with his second win of the season in Saturday's Sharpie 500 at the Bristol Motor Speedway.

Kurt Busch's over-the-wall crew had two reasons to celebrate when they left Michigan International Speedway Tuesday.

Hugely popular veteran driver Kenny Wallace has parted company with the #78 Furniture Row Racing Nextel Cup team after nearly two full seasons trying to get the single car outfit into the top 35 in Nextel Cup owner points.

Kyle Petty has been ruled out of this weekend's 3M Performance 400 at the Michigan International Speedway after injuring his hand last weekend at Watkins Glen.

Martin Truex's #1 over-the-wall crew tallied its first Checkers/Rally's Double Drive-Thru Challenge win of the season by spending the least amount of time on pit road during Sunday's road-course event at Watkins Glen International.

Ron Fellows overcame a costly pit-road speeding penalty en-route to a fourth-place finish at Sunday's NASCAR Nextel Cup Series Centurion Boats at the Glen, giving the #96 DLP HDTV Chevrolet for Hall of Fame Racing its best finish in 14 months and its second-ever top-five result.

Ryan Newman's team took top honours in the Checkers/Rally's 'Double Drive-Thru Challenge' during Sunday's Nextel Cup event at Pocono Raceway.

The Nextel Cup race at Pocono on Sunday ran without Robby Gordon, who was suspended by NASCAR after an incident in the inaugural Busch Series race in Montreal on Saturday night.

NASCAR veteran Boris Said and rally legend John Buffum have received an 'at-large' slot for their BFGoodrich Tyres-sponsored Subaru Impreza WRX STI in the rally section of the forthcoming X Games extreme sports event.

Having endured eleven disappointments at Indy - six in NASCAR's Cup Series and five in the IRL IndyCar Series - before finally winning in a stock car at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2005, Tony Stewart only had to wait a year and 209 days to score his second victory in the Allstate 400