NASCAR News

NASCAR veteran Tony Raines has been handed a full-time deal with Hall of Fame Racing next season that will see the 42-year old driver contest the entire Nextel Cup schedule with a fully sponsored team for the first time in his career.

It is safe to say that Jeremy Mayfield and Ray Evernham won't be sending one another cards this Christmas as the dispute between the two parties continues to rumble on.

Dale Earnhardt Jr had to endure something that he rarely has to put up with after Saturday's Carfax 250 Busch Series race as he claimed a very un-popular victory with the Michigan crowd.

The unheralded David Gilliland, who shot to prominence thanks to his shock Busch Series victory at Kentucky Speedway earlier this year, has been named as the driver of Robert Yates' #38 Ford for this weekends race at Michigan.

As expected Elliott Sadler has been confirmed as the driver of Evernham Motorsports' #19 Dodge with immediate effect.

Jamie McMurray and Robby Gordon completed a trouble free two-day tyre test at the Atlanta Motor Speedway this week at the behest of Goodyear.

Todd Parrott, the man who help guide Dale Jarrett to his 1999 NASCAR Cup title, has returned to the struggling Robert Yates Racing team after Petty Enterprises confirmed that he was leaving his current role as Bobby Labonte's crew chief.

Jeff Burton and Richard Childress Racing continued their season-long renaissance on one of the Nextel Cup Series' grandest stages on Saturday by winning the pole for the 13th Allstate 400 at the Brickyard at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Bill and Bob Riley, the men behind the currently dominant Riley Grand Am chassis and many other successful projects are set to move into the world of NASCAR racing next year.

Kelly Rowland, a member of super-group Destiny's Child, will sing the national anthem before the start of the 13th Allstate 400 at the Brickyard on Sunday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

There has been a change of owner at MB2 Motorsports, which fields Nextel Cup entries for Joe Nemechek and Sterling Marlin, with real estate developer Bobby Ginn purchasing all shares owned by majority stakeholder and founding partner Nelson Bowers.

Kevin Harvick managed to avoid the carnage of 19 caution periods on Saturday afternoon to capture the Goody's 250 NASCAR Busch Series race at Martinsville Speedway.

Michael 'Fatback' McSwain will return to the Nextel Cup pit box with the famous #21 Wood Brothers team this weekend, replacing David Hyder as Ken Schrader's crew chief.

Robert Yates has confirmed that Elliott Sadler will be leaving the #38 M&M's team at the end of the 2006 season following four relatively disappointing seasons.

Tony Raines and the #96 Hall of Fame Racing DLP HDTV team toughed out a respectable 22nd place finish in Sunday's Lenox Industrial Tools 300 at the New Hampshire International Speedway.

Darrell Waltrip has enough grandfather clocks signifying Martinsville Speedway victories to stock a clock store, but Saturday's Goody's 250 isn't about first-place hardware for the veteran/retired driver.

No Fear Incorporated, the California-based action sports lifestyle brand, will contest a four-race schedule in the 2006 Nextel Cup Series with driver Boris Said starting next weekend at the Infineon Raceway.

Hendrick Motorsport have confirmed that Casey Mears will replace Brian Vickers in the #25 GMAC Chevrolet next season.

Casey Mears will not be returning to drive Chip Ganassi Racing's #42 Texaco/Havoline Dodge in 2007 with the word at the Pocono Raceway on Sunday linking him to Brian Vickers' old seat at Hendrick Motorsport.

Jimmie Johnson may have seen his Nextel Cup winning streak at the Lowe's Motor Speedway end on Sunday night when Kasey Kahne beat him to the chequered flag in the Coca Cola 600 but his #48 Hendrick Motorsports pit crew did get a victory.

Michael Waltrip will race in Sunday's Coca Cola 600 at the Lowe's Motor Speedway despite failing to qualify his #55 Waltrip-Jasper Racing Dodge.

The 2005 Coca Cola 600 witnessed one of the most galling losses of Joe Nemechek's Nextel Cup career to date as a late race puncture robbed the driver of the #01 MB2 Motorsports Chevrolet of a near certain victory.

NASCAR Busch Series driver Spencer Clark has died following a road traffic accident on Sunday night.

Tony Stewart was a contender in the early part of Saturday night's Nextel All-Star Challenge non-points event at the Lowe's Motor Speedway, but a contentious crash with Matt Kenseth on lap 72 sent Stewart to an early exit.