Bill Elliott says he is within a couple of weeks of deciding what he’ll do next season. The semi-retired former series champion, who won this race in 2002 and is at the Brickyard this year driving Michael Waltrip’s No. 00 Chevrolet, has been courted by several teams, including some that plan to field Toyotas [...]

Team owner Chip Ganassi said former Formula One driver and Champ Car champion Juan Pablo Montoya, once he is contractually free, will make one of his first stock car tests at USA Speedway in Lakeland before a scheduled Nextel Cup campaign in 2007.
Montoya is under contract with the McLaren F1 team, though he has been [...]

Sources have indicated that Mark Martin may well return for another full time season driving the #6 AAA Ford Fusion for Roush Racing.
We’re hearing that Roush Racing Busch Series driver Todd Kluever is quite ready for a full-time ride in the Nextel Cup Series.

INDIANAPOLIS (Aug. 5, 2006) – NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series crew chief Chad Knaus has signed a contract extension that will keep him with Hendrick Motorsports through the 2010 racing season, mirroring the organization’s recent agreements with driver Jimmie Johnson and team sponsor Lowe’s. Financial terms were not disclosed.
“Chad is one of the great young minds [...]

DaMatta’s car withdrawn from Grand Prix of Denver
LOVELAND, Colo., Aug. 5, 2006, 2:30 pm EDT – Champ Car World Series driver Cristiano da Matta (#10 RuSPORT Ford-Cosworth / Lola / Bridgestone) remains in intensive care at Theda Clark Medical Center in Neenah, Wisc., as he recovers from a head injury he suffered after colliding with [...]

Jeff Burton and rookie Clint Bowyer gave Richard Childress Racing a sweep of the front row Saturday in qualifying for the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard. Burton, who has driven in each of the 12 previous NASCAR races at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway without qualifying higher than 16th, made an early lap of [...]

Ferrari’s Ross Brawn has hit out at Stewards’ inconsistency after Michael Schumacher was handed a wounding two-second penalty for qualifying in Hungary. The Italian team’s Technical Director said he was ‘frustrated’ that the FIA representatives penalised his German driver, who overtook two cars under red flags on Saturday morning, with the same penalty as [...]

BUDAPEST, Aug 5 (Reuters) - McLaren’s Kimi Raikkonen snatched pole position at the Hungarian Grand Prix on Saturday after penalty-hit title contenders Fernando Alonso and Michael Schumacher failed to make the top 10.
Raikkonen, last year’s winner in Hungary, seized his second pole in a row in the final seconds to dash Brazilian Felipe Massa’s hopes [...]

With Fernando Alonso facing a most difficult afternoon after being charged with dangerous driving and receiving a two-second penalty in each qualifying session today, Michael Schumacher has also been handed the same penalty.
AFP France reports that the Ferrari driver, fastest in practice this morning, passed another car after the red flags had been deployed to [...]

Flavio Briatore has branded Renault contender Fernando Alonso’s two-second qualifying penalty as the ‘joke of the year’. “Soon we can just forget the championship,” the Italian fumed.
His comments coincided with a rant in the Italian media that, with the mass damper saga, the FIA is artificially manipulating the outcome of the title fight.
But Red [...]