Kurt Busch qualified third, but his Dodge was later disqualified because his right rear shock did not meet NASCAR specifications. He will now start 42nd.

Starting Lineup:
Pos # Driver Sponsor Car
1 10 Scott Riggs Stanley Tools/Valvoline Dodge
2 9 Kasey Kahne Dodge Dealers/UAW Dodge
3 42 Casey Mears Texaco/Havoline Dodge

Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates (CGRFS) announced today it plans to have Juan Pablo Montoya test one of the team’s Nextel Cup Series Dodge Chargers at Homestead-Miami Speedway (HMS) on Oct. 17-18.

NASCAR will return to ESPN and ABC in 2007 with a powerful and experienced team of television and NASCAR championship veterans, led by host Brent Musburger, an accomplished and prominent sports commentator; Rusty Wallace, the 1989 NASCAR champion who made his debut as an analyst in 2006; and play-by-play announcer Jerry Punch, a veteran of [...]

The IndyCar® Series will return to Northern California in 2007 with the Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma County at Infineon Raceway, series and raceway officials announced. The race will be held on Sunday, Aug. 26 and will be one of three permanent road-course events for the IndyCar Series in 2007.

Indy-style racing will return to Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in 2007 when the IndyCar® Series stages its first event in Ohio on July 22.
The new IndyCar Series event will be contested on the 13-turn, 2.258-mile Mid-Ohio course in Lexington, Ohio.

Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1. M.Schumacher Ferrari (B) 1:15.688 104
2. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes (M) 1:16.811 73
3. Kubica BMW-Sauber (M) 1:17.015 98

Ricky Carmichael, considered the greatest motocross racer of all time, is moving to NASCAR. He will join the Bobby Ginn-owned MB2 Motorsports operation, which fields [#01,#13, #14] Nextel Cup teams for Joe Nemechek and Sterling Marlin.

Kevin Lepage will be finishing the 2006 Nextel Cup season in the #34 Chevy for Front Row Motorsports. Lepage joined Front Row Motorsports last week and is looking forward to driving the rest of the season with his new team.

It was a double victory for Brian Vickers’ #25 team Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway. Not only did the Hendrick Motorsports driver capture his first career Nextel Cup victory, the #25 over-the-wall crew also claimed its second win of the season in the weekly Checkers/Rally’s Double Drive-Thru Challenge.