NASCAR News

Chip Ganassi Racing's Jamie McMurray has been tabbed as Mark Martin's long-term replacement in Jack Roush's #6 Ford, but his contractual obligations with Ganassi mean that he won't be taking the wheel of the #6 until 2007.

David Stremme, the driver who will replace Sterling Marlin behind the wheel of Chip Ganassi's #40 Dodge in 2006 will make his Nextel Cup Series debut in this Sunday's USG Sheetrock 400 at the Chicagoland Speedway.

NASCAR's favourite underdog Carl Long has been signed to drive for a new Nextel Cup team, Victory Motorsports, who are expected to make their Cup Series debuts later this year.

Less than one week following his first win of the 2005 season, Tony Stewart raced to his first Bud Pole award since Chicagoland 2003 on Friday at the Daytona International Speedway.

Kyle Petty's #45 Nextel Cup team will have a new look in 2006 after it was confirmed that current backers Georgia Pacific would not be returning next year.

Valvoline have announced an agreement in principle to end its NASCAR Nextel Cup Series team partnership with MB2 Motorsports at the end of the current season.

Tony Stewart finally broke Joe Gibbs Racing's 2005 victory duck as he claimed a hard fought win at the Infineon Raceway on Sunday.

Scott Pruett will once again drive a fourth Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates Dodge at the Infineon Raceway this weekend although, unlike the previous two years, he will be driving with Texaco Havoline colours.

The latest phase of Las Vegas Motor Speedway's expansion began in earnest last week with the demolition of the upper section one grandstand to make way for the new Petty Terrace.

Joe Gibbs Racing has hired two-time NASCAR Winston Cup Series champion Terry Labonte to pilot the #11 Chevrolet during the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series race weekend at Infineon Raceway. He replaces Jason Leffler, the #11 team's regular driver, for this one event.

While the on-track action at the Pocono Raceway on Sunday failed to ignite, the Nextel Cup garage area was positively sizzling with rumours as 'Silly Season 2005' kicked into high gear.

Sophomore Nextel Cup driver Scott Riggs will have a new crew chief for this Sunday's Pocono 500 after a major shake-up within the MB Motorsports organisation.

Sterling Marlin has given the broadest hint yet that he won't be returning to the #40 Coors Light Dodge next year as rumours of wholesale changes in the Ganassi camp come to the surface.

As all three of NASCAR's premier series descend upon Dover's 'Monster Mile' for the MBNA 'Racepoints' weekend, the Delaware situated venue is now entering its tenth season of racing with a concrete surface.

Dale Earnhardt Jr certainly didn't cover himself in glory during last Sunday's Coca Cola 600, wrecking himself and his DEI teammate Michael Waltrip and struggling to another disappointing finish in his #8 Budweiser Chevrolet.

Brian Vickers pushed Mike Bliss into a spin within sight of the chequered flag of Saturday's Nextel Open at Lowe's Motor Speedway, beating Bliss' broadside machine to the line by a matter of inches.

Current Roush Racing backers USG have acquired the sponsorship rights to the Nextel Cup race at the Chicagoland Speedway from previous sponsors Tropicana.

Roger Penske's Penske Performance Inc. have taken sole control of the Penske Racing South Nextel Cup operation previously co-owned by Penske, driver Rusty Wallace and Wallace's business manager Don Miller.

For the second straight season fans will have the opportunity to vote one driver into Saturday's Nextel All Star Challenge.

Eleven races in to the new season and two teams have already elected to make major changes to their roster as the #88 Robert Yates Racing team and the #37 R&J Racing outfit both drop their crew chiefs.

Miller Brewing Company and the High Life brand have announced that NASCAR racing legend Bill Elliot has joined its family of drivers for three events in the 2005 Busch Series season.

Michael Waltrip and Jeff Green could still face penalties from NASCAR after their simmering feud boiled over no less than three times during Saturday's Dodge Charger 500 at Darlington.

Allstate, the largest publicly-held personal insurance company in America, has confirmed two multi-year sponsorship agreements within the NASCAR operation, becoming the first backer of the annual Brickyard 400, as well as securing 'official insurance sponsor' rights to the Nextel Cup Series.

After having a miserable two weeks in the back to back short track races at Bristol and Martinsville, Mike Bliss is beginning to regain the form that saw him and the unfancied Haas CNC Racing team on the brink of the top ten in points after the first four races of the year.