NASCAR owner Chip Ganassi pulled the plug on one of his three teams, closing the doors on the Dario Franchitti team, leaving Franchitti, a former Indy-car star, sidelined.

Deac McCaskill has finished second in the last three South Boston Speedway Late Model races

Michael Waltrip, now 45 and in his 23rd year on the stock-car tour, needs a good run at Daytona this week more than anyone else on the Sprint Cup series.

Now rival crew chiefs should be kicking themselves in the rear end for not playing the end game any smarter: rain coming, no question, late in the race, so why stop for gas?

In his second season on the NASCAR Sprint Cup tour, David Gilliland has become a solid driver, despite all the financial problems facing new team owner Doug Yates.

Tampa Bay area resident Scott Kalitta’s death Saturday at Englishtown, N.J., came only 15 months after Eric Medlen suffered fatal injuries while testing at Gainesville Raceway. In September, 14-time Funny Car champion John Force was nearly killed in a crash at Ennis, Texas.

Kyle Busch still leads the Sprint Cup tour heading into the race at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, but his lead has been trimmed considerably.

  Kasey Kahne continues a month-plus run to remember with another pole.

Montoya, although he’s the pre-race headliner in the San Francisco Bay area this weekend, needs to get things back on track.

Helton told the drivers that NASCAR is tired of hearing drivers complain about the winged car. And Helton reminded drivers that they make a good living in the sport—which is, after all, a family-owned business.

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.

After a two-year drought, any win is a good win for Dale Earnhardt, Jr. But even Earnhardt conceded that his win Sunday afternoon at Michigan International Speedway may need an asterisk — *Victory on gas mileage.

  Rain forces the Michigan Lifelock 400 to go to the point standings to set the field.

NASCAR chairman Brian France denied Wednesday that a former official complained to her supervisors about racial and sexual discrimination, claims she alleged led to her eventual firing.

Fox, ESPN and Speed, carrying the Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Truck series, respectively, all report a jump in TV ratings this season. Billy Wanger, the head of research and programming for FOX Sports, pointed proudly to NASCAR’s TV gains in big markets.

Designed from scratch and tested, modified and tweaked during a period of several years, NASCAR’s “car of tomorrow” was supposed to be the best race car ever built.
From a competition standpoint, it has not measured up.

Kyle Busch, 23, has won 10 races in NASCAR’s three national divisions this year, and he holds a commanding lead in the Sprint Cup standings entering Sunday’s Pocono 500. And 29-year-old Kurt Busch has practically become forgotten.

Hendrick is one of the most successful NASCAR team owners ever but this year has been week after week of zeroes.

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

Joey Logano reached the legal age to race at NASCAR’s national level just four days ago, and there’s still only one way to describe his Nationwide Series debut this weekend at Dover:  Long-awaited.

Smith was disqualified for a lead plate on the outside rail of his car, South Boston Speedway Chief Steward Gene Lawson said

A huge night of racing is on tap Saturday, May 31, at South Boston Speedway when America’s Hometown Track hosts the Strutmasters.com 150.

The exhaust fumes and reverberations have barely subsided from America’s grandest day of auto racin’, and you can’t tell the winners and losers without a postmortem scorecard

It’s been a tumultuous 48 hours for Speedway Motorsports Inc. and the company’s owner/chief executive officer wasted no time in talking about his desire to bring a Sprint Cup race to his newest property.

After a one-week break, the racing motors will be fired up once again on Saturday, May 24, at South Boston Speedway for the running of the Craftsman presents Charles Anderson Lawn Care Night NASCAR Whelen All American Series program

No yellows? “It’s unbelievable. I’m shocked, I’m absolutely shocked because I thought I was going to be the first caution in the first corner,“ Gordon said. “I’m pretty shocked there weren’t any cautions. But four 25-lap segments is a long way around this place, and you don’t have to be as aggressive to run 25 laps. So that might have contributed to it.“

Kasey Kahne made it into Saturday night’s Sprint All-Star race as the one driver voted in by fans. He parlayed that gift into a $1 million paycheck, winning the 24th edition of NASCAR’s biggest non-points race.

Baseball has a home run derby and basketball has a slam dunk contest. Now, NASCAR’s all-star event has its own short-attention-span, explosive sideshow.

All teams in Saturday night’s Sprint All-Star race will compete in what may seem to be something rather gimmicky, with buzzers and bells and guys pushing their cars the length of the arena to a finish line.
But the guys on the floor will be taking it all very seriously.

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.