NASCAR News

Richard Petty is known as the King of NASCAR, and rightfully so. Over 25 years between 1960-84 Petty won 200 NASCAR races and seven championships. He started racing in 1958…

Johnson sets new NASCAR record Jimmie Johnson won an unprecedented fourth straight NASCAR championship in style at the Homestead-Miami Speedway on Sunday. Johnson qualified on pole, ran at the front,…

Mika Salo and Jarno Trulli each spent a day this week behind the wheel of one of Michael Waltrip Racing’s Toyota NASCAR Sprint Cup cars. Prior to their adventures at…

You have to give it to Jimmie Johnson. The guy is going after an unprecedented fourth consecutive NASCAR championship in the best possible way by racing to win and trying…

Over the last few weeks Jimmie Johnson has won three of the last seven Sprint Cup races and darn near everyone has been hailing Johnson as the first man to…

Defending NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson scored his sixth win of the year on Saturday night at the Charlotte Motor Speedway, pulling 90 points clear of closest challenger Mark…

Tony Stewart reminded NASCAR fans that he’s a serious contender for this year’s Sprint Cup championship when he scored a smart win in Sunday’s 400-mile race at the Kansas Speedway.…

NASCAR’s ‘Chase for the Cup’ begins on Sunday at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway. The 12 contenders for the premier Sprint Cup title were determined after Saturday night’s 300-mile race…

When Toyota arrived three years ago in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup series it signalled the beginning of big changes for American stock car racing. Led by enfant terrible Kyle Busch and…

The first NASCAR ‘Strictly Stock’ race: unruly gathering for 1949 Charlotte meet

NASCAR’s most popular driver is having a tough year. When Dale Earnhardt Jr is introduced before the start of any NASCAR Sprint Cup race he enjoys more raucous cheers than…

After Carl Edwards crashed into the fence at Talladega last month, with debris injuring seven spectators, the debate began about the state of safety on high-banked superspeedways. Edwards’ accident was…

The racing season is on full song these days and almost all the major American series were in action last weekend. At Talladega, the giant 2.66-mile superspeedway in Alabama, 25-year-old…

NASCAR takes a rare weekend off over Easter, its drivers and teams enjoying a short pause in the 36-race Sprint Cup championship. After seven rounds, four-time champion Jeff Gordon leads…

Defending NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson scored his first win of the season on Sunday. Johnson came through to win the sixth Sprint Cup race of this year, run on the…

Four of 36 NASCAR races down and the Sprint Cup is wide open. At this early stage four-time champion Jeff Gordon leads the series from Clint Bowyer and last weekend’s…

Matt Kenseth and Jack Roush’s Roush Fenway Ford team may have been the only happy people in Daytona on Sunday night. Kenseth scored both his and Roush’s first Daytona 500…