Leave it to Bruton Smith to call NASCAR out.  And leave it to Smith, a modern-day Rockefeller in the big-money world of NASCAR, to lead the charge on a black-flag issue NASCAR needs to fix.  Now.

The 22-year-old driver will finish the season with Chip Ganassi Racing, where he began his NASCAR career at 18

It was classic theatre. Just call it the Vegas Kid versus Concrete Carl.

Edwards, from his first weeks on the tour a few years back, has raced with an attitude—and that old Dale Earnhardt approach to potentially controversial incidents: “Oops. ‘scuse me. Sorry.”

Two-time defending champ Tony Stewart has been replaced by an 18 year-old phenom.

Carl Edwards isn’t giving up anything to Kyle Busch and his domination of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season, especially when it counts the most.

A blatant attempt to fool NASCAR has Joe Gibbs Nationwide teams in hot water.

Richmond International Raceway is on a short list of tracks to host NASCAR phenom Joey Logano’s Sprint Cup debut

Emotions ran high throughout and after yesterday’s Allstate 400 at the Brickyard, with major tire problems turning one of this sport’s biggest events into the year’s most bizarre race

Shut up and race?  Well, maybe NASCAR’s Mike Helton wasn’t being quite so succinct in his Friday-morning meeting with drivers at Michigan International Speedway, in the wake of yet more complaints about NASCAR’s winged car.

NASCAR sent another message that teams simply cannot try to alter its new car---or face the consequences.

Jarrett’s newest ride as he heads into the next phase of his career around NASCAR racing will be in a TV booth for ESPN with fellow announcers Andy Petree and Jerry Punch, two old buddies from Newton. 

The result of Childress reaching deep into his bank account and a more strenuous testing program is likely to put all three drivers back in the Chase for the Sprint Cup, despite what looks like greater competition

Dale Earnhardt Jr. posted the fastest lap during today’s practice session for NASCAR Sprint Cup teams as they prepared for tomorrow’s 7:30 p.m. 400-lap race at Richmond International Raceway.

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Rusty Wallace found race didn’t always go to the swiftest

Parking the RV against the fourth-turn fence: $600.  Extra charge for infield wristbands: $105 each.  Fuel to get here: Think body parts.

Franchitti breaks his ankle and will miss Cup race Sunday.  Stewart hopes to follow this win with a victory in the Aaron’s 499.

The focus may be moving toward Tony Stewart coming to a track where he has never won - suddenly the issue is not about Victory Lane but rather his next NASCAR contract.

If Dale Earnhardt Jr. is getting frustrated by his long losing streak—next week it will be precisely two years since his last tour win—he’s hiding it well. 

Virginia native Elliott Sadler joins Newman on the front row after turning the second fastest lap Thursday. 

Kasey Kahne knows his way around Texas Motor Speedway. In his first Cup start there, he finished second to Emporia native, and future teammate, Elliott Sadler.  His third Cup victory came two years later on that same 1 1/2-mile surface, in the middle of his best season yet. He won six times that year. 

Hendrick drivers led 146, 135 and 90 laps--but none of the big three could manage to win the race.

Elliott Sadler is apparently incapable of sitting right now without extreme pain after a “sporting injury” suffered Wednesday. Because of that, Gillett Evernham Motorsports has lined up Craftsman Truck Series driver Dennis Setzer as a backup. 

NASCAR and moonshine legend Junior Johnson to sign autographs in Martinsville March 28th

Five races into the season, the team that won 18 of 36 races last year is still looking for its first victory. Yet to call it a Hendrick slump might be overstating what’s really going on right now in NASCAR.

Burton steals win at Bristol after Harvick wrecks Stewart with 3 to go

Clint Bowyer outraced Kasey Kahne and the rain to win the Nationwide Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway when it was stopped just past halfway.

After voicing his complaints about Goodyear over the weekend, Tony Stewart showed a lighter side selling tickets Wednesday at Martinsville.

Jimmie Johnson is off to a terrible start - for Jimmie Johnson, that is.  The two-time reigning NASCAR Sprint Cup champion simply isn’t used to being ordinary.