NASCAR News

Kyle Petty's sponsorship quandary improved for the second week running when he confirmed that Wells Fargo would return to provide primary backing for his #45 Dodge for twelve races this year.

The Nextel Cup Series schedule has evolved over time, and with the influence of television, NASCAR has opted to begin many of its races later in the afternoon or early evening hours.

New Hendrick Motorsports recruit Casey Mears has been handed a last minute crew chief change just days before the season opening Daytona 500 with news that Darian Grubb will replace Lance McGrew.

Chip Ganassi Racing's Nextel Cup sophomore David Stremme and his #40 Dodge team were dealt a blow on Friday when their 2006 co-primary sponsor Lone Star Steakhouse ended their relationship with the team.

Ginn Racing has finally announced the identity of the primary sponsor for Joe Nemechek's first Nextel Cup campaign in the #13 Chevrolet, with the CertainTeed Corporation coming on board for 18 races, beginning with next weekend's Daytona 500.

NASCAR's 'official burger and drive-thru' restaurant, has agreed to back Jay Robinson Racing for eleven races in this season's Busch Series, beginning with the Orbitz 300 at Daytona next weekend.

Furniture Row Racing and Front Row Motorsports will both return to the 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series on a full time basis with single car outfits for Kenny Wallace and Kevin Lepage respectively.

Elliott Sadler will join Scott Riggs and primary driver Kasey Kahne for a 23-race Busch Series campaign behind the wheel of the #9 Ultimate Chargers Dodge.

Ginn Racing has revealed that Panasonic Broadcast will act as primary sponsor on Sterling Marlin's #14 Chevrolet at twelve of the year's Nextel Cup races.

David Gilliland and Juan Montoya had the honour of topping the times as week two of NASCAR's Pre-season Thunder schedule got underway at Daytona.

Mike Wallace will attempt to make the Daytona 500 with James Finch's #09 Phoenix Racing team.

Half way through the traditional pre-season test at Daytona, Jeff Green stands atop the time charts with his Hendrick powered #66 Haas CNC Racing Chevrolet.

The renamed Ginn Racing operation (formerly MB2 Motorsports) have announced that former championship winning crew chief Gary DeHart has joined their expanding roster of staff as director of shop operations.

Juan Pablo Montoya joined fellow NASCAR runners Elliott Sadler and Kurt Busch at the Detroit Motor Show to take the wraps off Dodge's latest addition to the stock car ranks, as the US marque unveiled the Avenger model which will contest the 'Car of Tomorrow' events from 2007.

Bobby Hamilton, the 2004 Craftsman Truck Series champion and owner of the Bobby Hamilton Racing team, has lost his battle with cancer at the age of 49.

BAM Racing have signed a deal with Evernham Motorsports for the supply of engines in 2007, a move that could propel the #49 team back into the top 35 in owner points.

Rocked by Larry Carter's decision to defect to Roush Racing, Michael Waltrip has elected to bring in the largely unheralded Frank Kerr as David Reutimann's crew chief for the 2007 season.

NASCAR veteran Mike Skinner has landed a ride for the Daytona 500 with a third Bill Davis run Toyota Camry, the same team that he has gone to Daytona with for the last two years.

Just weeks after being announced as David Reutimann's crew chief for the 2007 season, Larry Carter has left Michael Waltrip Racing and joined Roush Racing as Jamie McMurray's new crew chief.

NASCAR veteran Ricky Rudd will be back on the Nextel Cup grid full-time in 2007, having agreed to fill the seat at Robert Yates Racing vacated by Toyota-bound Dale Jarrett.

Dale Earnhardt Inc has appointed top music executive Max Siegel as its new president of global operations.

Despite failing to qualify for 16 of the 27 races they attempted in 2006 and only recording two actual race finishes, veteran Derrike Cope and his McGlynn Motorsports team have vowed to return to the tracks in 2007.

The pit crew for newly-crowned Nextel Cup champion Jimmie Johnson has claimed the season-long Checkers/Rally's Double Drive-Thru Challenge competition.

Despite his third straight win at Homestead being lost amongst the hubbub surrounding Jimmie Johnson's maiden Nextel Cup triumph, Greg Biffle insists that it is a sign of things to come from the #16 team.