ON HIS EMOTIONS AFTER TODAY’S RACE:
“Well it was near as good as we had hoped for. I knew our car was a little bit too loose in practice yesterday. We made some changes on it but we didn’t make near enough I guess. I didn’t realize Rick was going to give me a car so [...]

Dale Earnhardt Jr. overcame strep throat, sore joints, and contact with the wall halfway through the race to finish sixth in the Dickies 500 Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway. It was Junior’s 16th top-10 this season, third in the last four races, and seventh in nine career races at Texas Motor Speedway. More importantly it [...]

UPDATE from Forsythe: The team will NOT withdraw Tracy’s car after all. David Martinez will replace him for Mexico City.
Indianapolis, Indiana – November 6, 2006 – Forsythe Championship Racing announced today that Paul Tracy will not compete in the Gran Premio Telmex Presented by Banamex due to an injury suffered during an [...]

ON HIS RUN:
“It was a good day for us. We fought our car all day long just a little bit just trying to make it better. We got track position there and wound up making something out of what we needed to at this time of the year. We just kept at it and kept [...]

With a dominating win in Sunday’s Dickies 500 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Tony Stewart scored back-to-back victories for the sixth time in his eight-year Nextel Cup career.

As for the Robert Yates Racing’s #88 Ford Fusion, team owner Robert Yates insists it will race next year, with a sponsor announcement likely by the season-ending race in two weeks at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The car owner hinted strongly that he’s looking at a novel approach to multiple primary sponsors for the #88:

Emotions definitely flowed over to the postrace activities as the guys walked to the garage area.
After the Dickies 500, the No. 10 and the No. 29 teams were coming down the entrance way to the garage area where all of the teams bring their pit boxes. There was an altercation between the No. 10 team [...]

NASCAR will not adopt a separate points system for the drivers in the Chase for the Nextel Cup next year, according to Chairman Brian France, who was on hand Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway for the running of the Dickies 500. What is likely to change, France said, is the 400-point threshold for drivers outside [...]

Robert Yates was back in the Nextel Cup garage at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday, a weekend after health concerns kept him home from the Bass Pro Shops 500 at Atlanta. Instead of being at the track, Yates made a pair of hospital visits back in North Carolina, being treated for stress.

Lewis Hamilton sounded confident at the weekend as he appraised his prospects of lining up alongside Fernando Alonso at McLaren next year.