At the ripe age of 20, Brian Vickers (pictured right) became the youngest-ever NASCAR title holder in winning the 2003 Busch Series driver’s championship. Likewise at 20, Doug Richert became the youngest crew chief to win NASCAR’s elite Cup Series championship back in 1980, the first of Dale Earnhardt’s seven titles. As of today, Brian [...]

Lowe’s Companies, Inc. announced it will sponsor Nextel Cup Champion Jimmie Johnson in both Grand-Am Rolex Series races at Daytona International Speedway in 2007. Johnson will team with Riley-Matthews Motorsports for the Jan. 27 Rolex 24 At Daytona as well as the July 5 Brumos Porsche 250, both on the Daytona road course.

Although Jimmie Johnson needed an almost unprecedented comeback to win his first Nextel Cup series championship, he dominated the voting for the 2006 Driver of the Year. Johnson, a native Californian, won some of NASCAR’s most prestigious races along with his title. He took the checkered flag at the Daytona 500, the Allstate 400, the [...]

When the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame opened last year, it included a NASCAR exhibit with a Ricky Rudd race car. Monday, the Hall added the driver. Rudd, a Chesapeake native, joined five other sports figures and one media member in the announcement of the 2007 induction class.

NASCAR HotPass will debut on DirecTV at the Daytona 500 in February and offer fans at home the opportunity to watch a race from a driver’s vantage point. Subscribers will have access to five channels dedicated to individual drivers, who will change every week. Each channel will have up to six cameras and two isolated [...]

Reports are that Juan Pablo Montoya will exploit his new-found liberty to race with a run in the Daytona 24 Hours at the wheel of one of Chip Ganassi’s Riley-Lexus GrandAm sportscars.

Portland’s Len Sutton, one of the greatest race car drivers of his generation and the second-place finisher in the 1962 Indianapolis 500, died in his sleep Monday morning at his Portland home. He was 81, and his wife Anita, the love of his life for 59 years, was close by.

Claire B. Lang, the celebrated on-air host currently on XM’s NASCAR Radio channel, has entered into a new, multi-year agreement with XM.
Claire’s fans will continue to hear her daily, three-hour racing show each weekday afternoon on XM. Claire will anchor her show on XM Channel 144 from 4-7 p.m. ET daily. Starting in January 2007, [...]

Renault rookie Heikki Kovalainen is betting on Kimi Raikkonen, not Fernando Alonso, to win the 2007 F1 Drivers’ Championship.

Formula One team bosses have scheduled talks for this Friday to discuss whether Super Aguri and Scuderia Toro Rosso’s plans for 2007 cars are a breach of the sport’s regulations, this week’s Autosport reveals.