NASCAR News

The normally spotless Budweiser No. 8 car carried a lipstick stain into Sunday's UAW DaimlerChrysler race, as Dale Earnhardt Jr received some special pre-race visits.

Whilst a finish down in sixteenth place is hardly something to shout about, Dale Earnhardt Jr's no 8 Chevrolet did manage to make a brief appearance at the head of the field.

Todd Bodine's spectacular record setting Pole Position at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway has handed the driver of the No.66 Haas Carter Motorsports Ford a one race sponsorship lifeline with Checker Auto Parts.

When the Chevrolet Monte Carlo teams arrive at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway this weekend for the third race of the 36-event 2002 Winston Cup Series season, and only the fifth-ever Cup race on this track, they'll be aiming for a repeat performance of the brand's win here last year.

For years now, when NASCAR racers have been asked about racing at Dover Downs, they usually just referred to the track as 'Dover'.

Andy Houston's second race of the 2002 NASCAR Busch Series season began much like his first after a qualifying run on Friday left him lined up on the starting grid in 36th place. Despite a spin on the backstretch that could have resulted in disaster, Houston and the crew brought the No.

Jimmy Spencer will make the cross-country trek to Las Vegas this weekend, and he'll have the #1 Yellow Racing team by his side.

It's only fitting that five drivers, with Tony Stewart being one of them, have the opportunity to cash in on a $1 million bonus if they win Sunday's NASCAR Winston Cup Series race in the town that invented big cash bonuses.

Hank Parker Jr. was a man on a mission during the opening laps of Saturday's NASCAR Busch Series (NBS) event at North Carolina Speedway in Rockingham.

Kenseth slips by for Rockingham win. Matt Kenseth had the strongest car for most of Sunday's Subway 400 but he still needed a little luck and a contentious ruling in order to secure his second career NASCAR Winston Cup victory.

Roy McCauley, team engineer for Ricky Craven and the No. 32 Tide Taurus, has been with Cal Wells since he started his NASCAR Winston Cup operation in 2000.

Former NASCAR Late Model Champion Nick Woodward is confident enough about his skill level to know that if given a chance in one of NASCAR's premiere series, he will produce positive results on the track. That chance may finally be just around the corner.

Winston Cup Raybestos Rookie of the Year candidate Carl Long (pictured in 2000) failed to qualify for the second weekend in a row after scraping the outside wall on his Bud Pole Qualifying run yesterday leaving his Mansion Motorsports team with another early ride back to base.

One week ago, Ricky Craven started 43rd and last for the NASCAR Winston Cup season opener at Daytona in his No.32 Tide sponsored PPI Motorsports Ford Taurus.

Military appreciation is set to be the overriding theme during the UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400/Sam's Town 300 NASCAR Weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Complete Bud Pole Qualifying results for Sunday's Subway 400 at the North Carolina Speedway in Rockingham, North Carolina.

Sammy Potashnick, a driver from the mid-west who competes in NASCAR's Winston West Series, was arrested in Daytona during Speedweeks. The 27 year old was driving a car in possession of crack cocaine and prescription drugs without being prescribed them.

At North Carolina Speedway this weekend, NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver Rick Mast will strap into what is undoubtedly the sharpest looking car ever to exit the Donlavey Racing shop. Seemingly overnight, the No. 90 Duke's Ford underwent a facelift since Speed Weeks.

Hut Stricklin goes into the Subway 400 this weekend to make his 19th start at the North Carolina Speedway. In that time he's been on pole once, way back in October 1995. This time he enters the race on the back of the success of the Bill Davis Racing win at Daytona last weekend.

Bobby Hamilton Jr had one of his best finishes of the 2001 season a year ago at Rockingham, where he posted one of his two top-five finishes of the year. This year, in the team Rensi Motorsports Freedom car, he will be looking for another good performance.

Joe Nemechek, driver of the No. 26 Kmart School Spirit Taurus, will be trying to make it two straight wins at the North Carolina Speedway this weekend.

On Monday February 9th 1945, US Marines stormed the sands of Iwo Jima in Japan. Little did those men realise that 57 years later their battle would be commemorated in a NASCAR paint scheme.

If you had to describe no. 10 Valvoline Pontiac driver Johnny Benson's 2002 Daytona 500 in a single word it would be this: survival. Or maybe it should be two words: survival and exhilaration.

The Daytona 500 saw mixed fortunes for the Chevrolet Monte Carlo drivers.