Dale Earnhardt Jr. won’t renew his membership in the Gillette Young Guns program next year as he seeks to refine his endorsement strategy, Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Daily reports.

ERIC MAUK: Thank you, and welcome everyone today to a Champ Car media teleconference, where we have the special opportunity to welcome two new drivers to the Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford. We have with us today a pair of drivers that will be making their Champ Car [...]

SIRIUS Satellite Radio announced that Daniel Norwood and Paul Pabst have joined the company as Executive Producers of SIRIUS NASCAR Radio, launching in 2007. They report to Steve Cohen, SIRIUS’ Vice President of Sports Programming.

Gerhard Berger has moved to cool speculation that Toro Rosso is on the verge of axing American racer Scott Speed after only a single season in F1.

Williams Toyota today confirmed that Kazuki Nakajima, the 21 year old race driver from the Aichi Prefecture in Japan, has been appointed as a team test driver.

Bridgestone’s director of motorsport has warned teams that a change of philosophy will be necessary for the 2007 season.
Hiroshi Yasukawa expressed regret that rival Michelin is pulling out of the sport, but said the early beginning of a monopoly situation would make supplying tyres in F1 starkly different in 2007 and beyond.

Mark Webber has hit out at Williams’ refusal to extend the role of the driver beyond the F1 cockpit.
After two bad years with the Grove based squad, the Australian racer’s parting shot before switching to Red Bull was to reveal that even Jaguar and Minardi - his former F1 employers - listened to his input.