NASCAR News

1985 Pepsi Firecracker 400 winner Greg Sacks will attempt to make his first NASCAR Cup Series start in more than six years this weekend at the Chicagoland Speedway in a new team owned by James Wilsburg.

Although the Pepsi 400 victory went to Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Incorporated didn't leave the Daytona International Speedway winless after Michael Waltrip's #15 NAPA pit crew scooped the honours in the latest round of the McDonald's Drive-Thru Pit Championship fuelled by Powerade.

Double Daytona 500 winner Michael Waltrip announced this afternoon he will run the Las Vegas Marathon on January 30, 2005, and has made a commitment to raise $1 million benefiting Victory Junction Gang Camp in an effort called "Operation Marathon, Going the Distance for Kids."

Volatile NEXTEL Cup driver Tony Stewart has been fined $50,000, penalised 25 points and placed on probation until 18 August following his post-race altercation with fellow driver Brian Vickers at Infineon Raceway last Sunday.

Elliott Sadler's pit-crew pocketed its second victory in as many weeks by winning the McDonald's Drive-Thru Pit Championship fuelled by POWERade in Sunday's Dodge/Save Mart 350 at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma.

Chevrolet has confirmed that the popular Chevy Rock and Roll 400 will revisit Richmond International Raceway during the current NASCAR Nextel Cup season, revealing at the same time that legendary act KISS will be the first to be featured in the race.

Bill Elliott, Ray Evernham and Visteon's Greg Gyllstrom take questions about Elliott's return to NASCAR Nextel Cup action with Visteon backing in this year's Brickyard 400 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Former NASCAR Winston Cup Champion and perennial fan favourite Bill Elliott will make just his third points start of the season in August's Brickyard 400 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with backing from new NASCAR sponsors Visteon.

The pit crew for Casey Mears, which has been close many times in the McDonald's Drive-Thru Pit Championship fuelled by POWERade, can now lay claim to winning the weekly contest with a solid effort in Sunday's Pocono 500 at Pocono Raceway.

Russell Riggs will travel to Michigan International Speedway this weekend to watch his son, NASCAR Nextel Cup Raybestos Rookie of the Year contender, Scott Riggs try to give him the best Father's Day present imaginable, a win in Sunday's DHL 400.

Arnold Motorsports have announced that they will feature the NASCAR Day logo on their No. 50 Dodge Intrepid this weekend at Michigan International Speedway with driver PJ Jones.

Michigan International Speedway may not be the best NASCAR Nextel Cup venue for Ricky Craven to start a season-turnaround with the #32 PPI Motorsports Tide team for in 14 career NASCAR Cup starts at the two-mile venue, he has but one top five and two top ten finishes.

Legendary singer/songwriter Bob Weir will sing the national anthem at Infineon Raceway for the Dodge/Save Mart 350 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup event next weekend.

Kerry Earnhardt, elder brother of current NASCAR Nextel Cup points leader Dale Earnhardt Jr, will attempt to qualify for Sunday's DHL 400 at the Michigan International Speedway in a fourth Chevrolet Monte Carlo entered by Richard Childress Racing.

Tony Stewart's pit crew took home the $20,000 first-place cheque as a result of winning the McDonald's Drive-Thru Pit Championship fuelled by POWERade in Sunday's MBNA 400 'Salute to Heroes' event at Dover International Speedway.

1990 Daytona 500 winner Derrike Cope has lost his NASCAR Nextel Cup ride with the No.50 Arnold Motorsports team and will be replaced by Mike Wallace for this weekend's MBNA 400 at Dover International Speedway.

Dave Blaney will shift his NASCAR Nextel Cup focus to Jim Smith's No.7 Ultra Motorsports squad this weekend at the Dover International Speedway as the pairing attempt their second race of the season together.

Veteran team owner Junie Donlavey has announced that his famous No.90 Ford team will return to the NASCAR Nextel Cup with up and coming driver Kevin Ray this weekend at the Dover International Speedway with a co-primary sponsor that will certainly turn a few heads.

It's down with the old and up with the new at Dover International Speedway, as the circuit completes the installation is complete on a new scoring pylon in time for the forthcoming MBNA race weekend.

After struggling to reach the minimum 43 entries for some of its earlier races this year, NASCAR will have no such problem this weekend as the lure of the longest race on the Nextel Cup schedule has attracted a season-high entry of more than 50 cars.

On the heels of a highly competitive showing during last weekend's Nextel Open All-Star qualifying race, Dave Blaney and the No.23 Bill Davis Racing team will attempt to qualify for this weekend's gruelling Coca Cola 600 at the Lowe's Motor Speedway.

The prolonged and largely pointless 'field inversion' process during the middle segment of Saturday's Nextel All-Star Challenge may have gone down like a lead balloon with many in attendance at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Charlotte but one of this year's tweaks proved to be highly popular with fans

By Andrew Charman

It was a double victory for the #8 DEI team at Richmond International Raceway on Saturday as, not only did Dale Earnhardt Jr capture the Chevy American Revolution 400, but his pit-crew also claimed victory in the McDonald's Drive-Thru Pit Championship.