NASCAR News

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.

Having become well know for giving the odd 'flavourful' quote to the media, Tony Stewart has now put his name to a new range of barbeque sauces.

Robby Gordon has said that he is pleased with the progress that engine tuners Menard are making for his #7 Nextel Cup programme even though he is still facing a weekly battle to make it through Bud Pole qualifying.

Robert Yates Racing teammates Elliott Sadler and Dale Jarrett may be each other's biggest supporters away from the track but on Saturday at the Phoenix International Raceway the two drivers will be on opposing sides of one of the biggest rivalries in cinematic history.

Tony Stewart's late race engine failure in Sunday's Samsung/RadioShack 500 left the former Champion with first degree burns on his thigh and elbow but will not stop him from competing next weekend in Phoenix.

Nextel Cup team Haas CNC Racing has revealed that the Coastguard will serve as primary sponsor on Mike Bliss' #0 Chevrolet in the Samsung/Radio Shack 500 at Texas Motor Speedway next weekend.

Martinsville Speedway has always been a big deal to Rusty Wallace. His seven Nextel Cup wins on the difficult half-mile are proof of his passion for Martinsville.

Elliott Sadler broke Ryan Newman's stranglehold on pole position at the Bristol Motor Speedway with the quickest lap in Friday's Bud Pole qualifying session for Sunday's Food City 500.

Fast food giants McDonald's have expanded their 2005 sponsorship deal with Evernham Motorsports to include associate sponsorship of Kasey Kahne's #9 machine.

Despite his years of experience in the lower tiers of the NASCAR ladder, Mike Bliss will be making only his 40th career Nextel Cup start this week at the Bristol Motor Speedway and one can forgive him for being somewhat nervous.

In the midst of rumours surrounding a potential future Nextel Cup event at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal, Jeff Gordon has stated that Canada is the next natural place for the Nextel Cup to expand to, but that he wants to see a Canadian oval race, not a road course event.

Defending NASCAR Busch Series Champion Martin Truex Jr emerged victorious in the first Busch Series event in Mexico on Sunday, beating many of the best road racers Mexico had to offer in the process.

As NASCAR rolls into Las Vegas, more than a dozen drivers will put themselves up for auction for the benefit of Speedway Children's Charity.

A rib and sternum injury suffered in his Gatorade Duel crash at Daytona nearly two weeks ago could sideline Kevin Harvick from the inaugural Busch Series race in Mexico this weekend.

NASCAR continued to hand out fines aplenty at the California Speedway with three more Nextel Cup crew chiefs getting hit where it hurts the most, in the back pocket.

The founder of the three-quarter mile Richmond International Raceway, Paul Sawyer, died on Saturday aged 88.

Ricky Rudd's Wood Brothers team was the subject of one of the most novel methods of communication in NASCAR's history last weekend, as crew chief Michael 'Fatback' McSwain called the Auto Club 500 from his North Carolina home, more than 2000 miles from the race itself.

Phoenix International Raceway along with Banner Desert Health and the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community (SRPMIC) will work together to send three local children to the Victory Junction Gang Camp in Randleman, North Carolina.

General Motors has announced that Mark Kent will be taking over as its new director of racing. Kent, who replaces the outgoing Doug Duchardt, will oversee engineering and marketing activities for all of General Motors motorsports programmes, which includes the IRL, NASCAR and Grand Am.

With 12 caution periods and a total race time of nearly four hours, there weren't many of the 43 starters who crossed the finishing line with all four fenders intact at the conclusion of Sunday's Daytona 500.

Mike Bliss didn't survive Sunday's Daytona 500 unscathed, but was still able to score a lead-lap, top 20 finish for the #0 Hass CNC Racing team.

After his emotional declaration on Thursday that his back-up car couldn't win the Daytona 500, Mark Martin's Roush Racing crew put in a mammoth effort to rebuild the primary #6 Viagra Ford that was all but destroyed in Martin's Gatorade duel clash.

Complete starting line-up for the 2005 Daytona 500 at the Daytona International Speedway.

Tony Stewart averted a multi-car crash and a charging Jeff Burton to win the second of two Gatorade Duel NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series Daytona 500 qualifying races at Daytona International Speedway.