The surge of layoffs among NASCAR teams continues, and some of the sport’s most storied teams are among those making cuts.

Johnson clinched the 2008 Sprint Cup title with a 15th-place finish in the Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

With a little more than a week left in the season, Dale Earnhardt Inc. has four teams in the top 35 and three good drivers, including promising Aric Almirola and Regan Smith … but only one sponsor.

The Sprint Cup tour will stop at Texas Motor Speedway this weekend for Sunday’s Dickies 500. This is the track where Earnhardt notched his first tour victory, in the spring of 2000, and this has been his kind of track - he was on the pole here for the April race.

  Jimmie Johnson continues to earn the “Mr. Martinsville” label after yet another dominating performance in Southwest Virginia.

Rain washes out qualifying.  Jimmie Johnson will be on the pole.

The former Chesterfield County resident expects to compete in Saturday night’s Bank of America 500 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway

Little “E” triggered a six-car accident when his left rear tire blew while he was leading a pack of cars

Biffle has won the first two races in the Chase for the Sprint Cup, enabling him to narrow Carl Edwards’ Chase lead to 10 points.

If Kyle Busch is to prove he’s got what it takes to dethrone two-time defending Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson, now might be the time to strut his stuff

The merger terms had called for Gordon to sell his team at the end of this season for $23.5 million

Matt Kenseth is the only driver besides Jimmie Johnson to qualify for every Chase, but unlike Johnson, he doesn’t have a championship under the format.

The money be used to build better exhibits, increase the building’s energy efficiency and pay for unexpected construction costs.

It was the first on-track test for a Nationwide car that will have significant chassis, body and engine changes

Darian Grubb received a multi-year deal

The NASCAR Angels reality television show presented Army Spc. Josh Grant with his totally refurbished Ford F-150 pickup today.

Southern Virginia, particularly the area from Interstate 95 west, could see rain Friday night, and virtually all of Virginia could get doused Saturday, the National Weather Service said.  Richmond International Raceway is scheduled to hold NASCAR races this weekend, including the Chevy Rock & Roll 400 Saturday at 8:00 p.m.

    It should be a turbulent night in Richmond, both on the track with the final positions in the Chase hanging in the balance—and with the possibility of bad weather.

Rick Hendrick was NASCAR’s hot ticket car owner the last two seasons, winning championships back-to-back with Jimmie Johnson, Sunday night’s winner here in a duel with Greg Biffle.

Richmond International Raceway officials said today they are monitoring Tropical Storm Hanna but the weekend’s NASCAR events, including the Chevy Rock & Roll 400 Saturday at 8:00 p.m.

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.

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.”

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.