He staved off a brief challenge from points leader Jimmie Johnson when the race resumed with 34 laps to go, but held on to snap a 25-race winless streak.

First, Carl Edwards heard his car vibrating. Later, his crew didn’t get the lug nuts on tightly. Then his car stalled, leaving him stranded in the pits.

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

Witnesses said Edwards and Harvick scuffled Thursday in the Nationwide Series garage at Lowe’s Motor Speedway after Edwards walked into Harvick’s garage stall and the two engaged in a heated argument.

Tony Stewart had victory in sight with a five-second lead and three laps to go in his last race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway.

Although Stewart was jubilant Sunday after the AMP Energy 500, crew chief Greg Zipadelli was quite emotional. The two have been virtual brothers in racing for 10 years, and now they’re down to their last days together. 

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

Dozens who work in NASCAR-related industries, including drivers Biffle, Matt Kenseth and Kyle Busch and owners Rick Hendrick and Ray Evernham, brought their personal hot rods and street cars to the track. 

Now Dale Earnhardt Jr. and crew chief Tony Eury are nearly 200 points down after the first three races of the Chase for the Championship. And even if they do something big this weekend at Talladega it probably will be too little too late. 

Hal Hamrick, part of the team that broadcast the first Daytona 500 in 1959, died Sunday

That pending departure—not of Kyle Petty’s own doing—is the stunning word from Patti Petty, Kyle’s wife. 

It came down to the final four laps of the 40-lap feature to decide the 2008 championship

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

Suddenly the title picture looks as if Jack Roush’s Carl Edwards and Greg Biffle will be facing off against Rick Hendrick’s Jimmie Johnson with Kyle Busch, the season-long leader, suddenly a question mark. 

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.

What has happened to NASCAR’s once-soaring TV ratings? It appears that they’ve crashed and burned over the summer.

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

Clint Bowyer dominates, but ‘slip-up’ makes him settle for third

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.”