Category: NASCAR Cup Series

The NASCAR Sprint Pit Crew Challenge presented by Craftsmen will take place on May 14 at the Time Warner Cable Arena at 7:00pm and will be aired at 9:00pm that … Read More

The NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race will have a different format in 2009, Lowe’s Motor Speedway President Marcus Smith confirmed Friday, but he declined to elaborate. Following a news conference to … Read More

Talladega Superspeedway is encouraging race fans traveling to Alabama for the Aaron's Dream Weekend to bring their golf clubs and hit the links on the legendary Robert Trent Jones Golf … Read More

The frontstretch grandstands at Lowe's Motor Speedway will be open next Tuesday and Wednesday for fans to watch a Goodyear tire test featuring four NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers. Richard Petty … Read More

Watkins Glen International officials announced Friday that Heluva Good! will sponsor the track’s Aug. 9 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race, which will be called the Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips … Read More

UPDATE NASCAR Sprint Cup Racing on Fox earned a final 5.5/12 (8.9 million viewers) on Sunday for the Kobalt 500 from Atlanta. NASCAR ranked as the highest-rated and most-watched sports … Read More

Richard Childress Racing's Kevin Harvick is not in favor of NASCAR returning a second race date to historic Darlington Raceway – nor, for that matter, seeing a second race at … Read More

Jeff Byrd, president and general manager of Bristol Motor Speedway, would not say how many tickets remained nor how many had been sold for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Food … Read More

Doug Yates is a second-generation engine builder who now operates the family racing team — Yates Racing. Doug currently builds engines for Roush Fenway Racing as well as his own … Read More

How closely will NASCAR watch for "start and park" teams in this time of less than fully funded fields in Cup races? And how harshly will NASCAR deal with them? … Read More

The No. 33 Richard Childress Racing team of driver Clint Bowyer won the Tissot Pit Road Precision Award for Sunday's Kobalt Tools 500 Sprint Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway. … Read More

UPDATE Jimmy Watts, a crew member for the #47 team in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, has been suspended from the next four Sprint Cup Series events (until April 22) … Read More

Big patches of empty seats under the Atlanta Motor Speedway press box on Sunday prompted Jeff Gordon to say he was "a little baffled.'' "I know there's a lot of … Read More

Roush Fenway Racing President Geoff Smith should only be negotiating to renew the one NASCAR Sprint Cup sponsorship he has open – the #17 Ford and DeWalt – for 2010. … Read More

Ryan Newman ran solidly in the top-15 for most of Sunday’s Kobalt Tools 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Ga., but engine issues during the final 100 laps of … Read More

PPG Automotive Refinish announced they are assisting Penske Racing in converting their state-of-the-art, racecar painting facility in Mooresville, NC to the environmentally-friendly PPG Envirobase High Performance waterborne coatings system. The … Read More

Three people believed to be en route to Sunday's race were killed in a plane crash near Carrollton, Ga., AGC.com reported. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution quoted Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen … Read More

The tires Goodyear has supplied for Sunday's Kobalt Tools 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway were supposed to have more grip than they did last year, according to the spec sheet … Read More

While none of the drivers for Sunday’s Kobalt Tools 500 seem particularly satisfied with the tire they’ll be racing, none of them seem eager to point the finger at Goodyear, … Read More

UPDATE Martin Truex Jr. has a small kidney stone but is not expected to miss the Kobalt Tools 500 on Sunday at Atlanta Motor Speedway, a team spokesman said Saturday … Read More

UPDATE #3 So far, so good for Toyota Racing Development engines at Atlanta Motor Speedway. TRD, plagued by engine issues prior to race day the last two weeks, did not … Read More