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Not withstanding the terrible tragedy that claimed nine members of the Hendrick Motorsports team in October, Terry Labonte's final year as a full-time driver wasn't one of his more memorable, although he is predicting good things for the future of his now former #5 Kellogg's team.

America's newest reality based TV show centred on Motorsport; "America's Top Driver" will have triple NASCAR Champion Cale Yarborough serving as one of its directors.

Dale Earnhardt, Jr. continued to set standards among NASCAR fans nationwide in 2004. For the second straight year, fans voted Earnhardt, Jr. the Pillsbury Grands! Biscuits NMPA NASCAR Most Popular Driver.

The Jack Daniel Distillery announced Friday it has entered into a partnership with Richard Childress Racing (RCR) as the primary sponsor of the #07 Chevrolet Monte Carlo for the 2005 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series with veteran driver Dave Blaney and crew chief Philippe Lopez.

He may be the oldest regular on the NASCAR Nextel Cup tour but 63 year-old Morgan Shepherd isn't slowing down even though another long, tiring season has only just finished.

Kevin Harvick may have faltered in his bid to win the 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup title but the same can't be said for his truckie, Jim Baldwin, who has just scooped the 2004 Pilot Truck Driver Challenge.

Prospective Nextel Cup outfit Bang Racing have launched an innovative new race fan membership program as they attempt to graduate into NASCAR's highest echelon.

After guiding Dale Earnhardt Jr to his most successful NASCAR Nextel Cup season to date, Tony Eury Sr has stepped down from the role of crew chief of the #8 Budweiser sponsored DEI Chevrolet.

The 2004 Championship may be Kurt Busch's first since joining NASCAR's highest echelon, but its not the first NASCAR trophy on his mantelpiece and in the week following his Nextel Cup triumph, some of his rivals from his days in the 1999 NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Series offered their congratul

Considering the response he got after winning July's Tropicana 400 at the Chicagoland Speedway, Tony Stewart has done a remarkable job of converting fans back to his side in recent months, with his efforts rewarded by being named as NASCAR's fourth quarter 'person of the year.'

Raybestos have confirmed that Evernham Motorsports' Kasey Kahne is the 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup 'Rookie of the Year' after a record-breaking year that yielded everything except a win.

The pit crew for Tony Stewart captured the season title in the McDonald's Drive-Thru Pit Championship fuelled by POWERade. The #20 Home Depot/Joe Gibbs Racing crew will collect a $200,000 champion's bonus from McDonald's/POWERade, December 3 in New York City.

NASCAR Nextel Cup veteran Ricky Craven has joined 2004 Nextel Cup Championship winning team Roush Racing for an assault on the 2005 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Championship.

Hendrick Motorsports owner Rick Hendrick has announced key personnel changes affecting each of his organization's teams going into the 2005 NASCAR campaign in an effort both to bring all four full time teams and Terry Labonte's new team into line and to help replace some of the team members he lo

The driver was good and the car was good. But a broken arm to the left-front sway bar of the U.S. Army Chevrolet halted Joe Nemechek's march to the front in Sunday's season-ending Ford 400 Nextel Cup race at Homestead-Miami Speedway, resulting in a 27th-place finish.

Tony Stewart's fourth-place finish in the season-ending Ford 400 at the Homestead-Miami Speedway was a microcosm of his 2004 season.

Kurt Busch won his first, and the second straight NASCAR Nextel Cup Championship for car owner Jack Roush at Homestead on Sunday. As a result, Busch is now the third-youngest driver to win the championship at 26 years, 3 months and 17 days.

Dale Earnhardt Jr will go into possibly the most important race of his career witohut a familiar voice in his ear after NASCAR suspended his spotter Steve Hmiel.

NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series driver and former USAC champion Tony Stewart has purchased Eldora Speedway from legendary owner Earl Baltes.

Just like the Chase for the Nextel Cup, the McDonald's Drive-Thru Pit Championship fuelled by POWERade is also going down to the final race of the season.

On the same day that NASCAR announced one cost saving measure in the abolishment of Saturday practice, the series also confirmed that the two main pre-season 'tests in the west' will take place in the same week.

Evernham Motorsports have announced that former Busch Series veteran Elton Sawyer will lead their first full time NASCAR Busch Series effort as Team Director of the #6 Hungry Drivers Racing Dodge team with driver Paul Wolfe.

Dale Earnhardt Jr's pit crew captured the Phoenix round of the McDonald's Drive-Thru Pit Championship fuelled by POWERade. The victory lifted the #8 team into first place in the pit crew standings with two races remaining in the 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup schedule.

Ward Burton has finally left the Haas CNC Racing team after a season littered with disappointment and mechanical problems and will be replaced by former NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Champion Mike Bliss for the final two Nextel Cup races of the year.