NASCAR News

"Last year we were running well and competing for wins, but we didn't expect to win that soon or that early into the season. We had hoped that by the end of the year we were going to be a contender for race wins.

Kenny Wallace will return to his hometown track, St Louis' Gateway International Raceway, to compete in the NASCAR Busch Series event on May 10th sporting the colours of local Major League Baseball team the St. Louis Cardinals.

H.B Bailey, the first driver to ever make an official NASCAR Winston Cup qualifying attempt at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, has died in his native Texas aged 66.

Italian Max Papis completed his long awaited second test behind the wheel of a Winston Cup car yesterday (Wednesday) when he got behind the wheel of the #91 Dodge owned by Ray Evernham at the 1.5-mile Kentucky Speedway.

Ken Schrader and the #49 BAM Racing team have spent the first quarter of 2003 proving their respective critics wrong with a series of competitive drives that culminated in last weekend's tenth place finish at Martinsville, the type of result many thought neither the driver nor team were capable o

The Virginia 500 at Martinsville Speedway marked the first time a tiebreaker criteria was needed to determine the race winner of the McDonald's Drive-Thru Pit Championship fuelled by POWERade.

The standard "Big Wreck" came early at Talladega Superspeedway Sunday, when on just lap four of the Aaron's 499, a cut tyre on the #12 Dodge of Ryan Newman triggered a massive accident, collecting 27 of the 43 cars involved in the race.

Mike Wallace and Phoenix Racing have landed a starting spot in Sunday's Aaron's 499 at the Talladega Superspeedway after Hendrick Motorsports driver David Green had his Bud Pole qualifying time disallowed following a rules infraction.

In a long, drawn-out Bud Pole qualifying session at the Talladega Superspeedway Jeremy Mayfield emerged as the surprise polesitter for Sunday's Aaron's 499 with his first Pole Position in more than two full seasons.

The date may be April 1st but according to British tabloid newspaper The Daily Mirror , there may be romance in the air between defending Winston Cup Champion Tony Stewart and Pop Star Britney Spears.

Hermie Sadler, brother of Robert Yates Racing's Elliott Sadler, will return to the NASCAR Winston Cup Series this weekend with help from Dale Earnhardt Incorporated as Sadler tries to promote Autism Awareness during the Aaron's 499.

Complete Bud Pole qualifying results and starting lineup for Sunday's Samsung/Radio Shack 500 at the 1.5-mile Texas Motor Speedway.

Former Busch Series outfit Team Amick Motorsports are planning a return to the series later this year with Lyndon Amick behind the wheel and former BGN Champion crew chief Harold Holly assuming control of the crew.

The incentives are there every week, but for United States Army NASCAR driver Jerry Nadeau the inspiration to do well has reached another level. The reason is obvious for the feisty and competitive Nadeau, who feels a special kinship to the U.S. troops engaged in the war with Iraq.

When the green flag falls at Richmond International Raceway on Saturday evening May 3rd, Johnny Benson plans to fly his new Eagle One Wax-As-U-Dry paint scheme to the front of the field around the classic three-quarter-mile D-shaped oval.

Tony Stewart is on record as saying that Bristol Motor Speedway is his favourite racetrack, but that was before Sunday's Food City 500.

Bristol Motor Speedway might be the toughest track on the NASCAR Winston Cup Circuit. Between the high speeds, high banks, and 42 competitors beating and banging on the half-mile track, survival quickly becomes the key to any success at Bristol.

The NASCAR Winston Cup event at Las Vegas Motor Speedway will continue to be referred to as the UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400 for at least one more year after the two partners and the Speedway came to an agreement earlier this week. The race name remains the UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400.

Civil Air Patrol, which sponsors the #46 Busch Series Chevrolet Monte Carlo driven by Ashton Lewis Jr has announced that its members are fully prepared to support Operation Liberty Shield.

Complete Bud Pole qualifying results and Starting lineup for Sunday's Food City 500 at the 0.533-mile Bristol Motor Speedway.

Todd Berrier has been appointed as crew-chief to Kevin Harvick's #29 GM Goodwrench sponsored Richard Childress Racing outfit beginning this weekend at Bristol with former chief Gil Martin moving to the post of team manager.

There are two loves in the life of NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver Elliott Sadler, and each has its own season.

NASCAR Silicon Motor Speedway's proprietary simulated racing experience is expanding outside its own racing centres for the first time in company history.

The third largest prize fund in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series has increased in size ahead of this years Samsung/RadioShack 500 and the O'Reilly 300 NASCAR Busch Series races.