NASCAR Busch Series fans will have a new television destination in 2007. Beginning Feb. 17, ESPN2 will be the new home of the NASCAR Busch Series with select races to air on ESPN on ABC.

Roush Racing announced today the 2007 racing schedule for the #26 Ford driven by Jamie McMurray. Next year’s roster will include 28 races with Crown Royal and 10 races with IRWIN Industrial Tools on the #26 Ford. The first race for Crown Royal will be the season-opening Daytona 500. IRWIN Industrial Tools will run its [...]

The Arby’s brand will be the primary sponsor of 13 races on Matt Kenseth’s #17 Ford Busch Series entry beginning with the season opener at Daytona.

On the heels of winning the 2006 Craftsman Truck Series championship, Todd Bodine (pictured right) and Germain Racing have announced that they will take their success to the Nextel Cup Series in 2007. In what will be Toyota’s inaugural season of Nextel Cup racing, Bodine, Toyota’s first ever NASCAR champion, will pilot the #03 Toyota [...]

MacDill Air Force Base’s immensely popular air show, which draws as many as 750,000 people to South Tampa over two days, will return this spring after a one-year hiatus, Air Force officials said Wednesday.
The free AirFest event, scheduled for March 31 and April 1, will feature the Navy’s Blue Angels and dozens of other ground [...]

DAVIDSON, N. C. (Dec. 7, 2006) – A special “Impact Athlete Award” presentation by 2004 NASCAR champion Kurt Busch to popular veteran driver/humanitarian Kyle Petty was among the highlights of Wednesday night’s 2006 Southern Sports Awards. The two-hour made-for-TV ceremony was held at the Duke Family Performance Hall here at Davidson College.

Mike Nelson, a race engineer for Penske Racing since 2000, has been named crew chief of the #12-Alltel Dodge team that competes in the Nextel Cup Series. Nelson, who served as the team’s interim crew chief for the 2006 season’s final two races, assumes his role immediately.

The acknowledgments continue for 2006 Nextel Cup Series Champion Jimmie Johnson, who was honored during last week’s annual Champion’s Week festivities in New York City. Johnson, who drives for Hendrick Motorsports, is among the candidates listed for the 2006 United States Sports Academy Athlete of the Year presented by USATODAY.com and MSNBC.com.

Basketball fans know Brad Daugherty as an accomplished and well-known NBA and college basketball star, but few may know of Daugherty’s lifelong passion of NASCAR racing. Daugherty’s racing interests date back to his childhood when he met Richard Petty at the Daytona International Speedway in 1977. Daugherty would later choose to wear Petty’s number – [...]

Michael Schumacher, Germany’s retired seven-time Formula One champion, admits he regrets the controversial manoeuvre he used on Canadian Jacques Villeneuve to try and win the 1997 world championship.
“That was something I would do different today,” Schumacher told television broadcaster RTL.