Ricky Rudd set the quickest time today as testing wraps up until next week’s test session:
Pos., No., Driver, Time, Speed
1. 88B Ricky Rudd 48.282 186.405
2. 26A Jamie McMurray 48.541 185.410
3. 29 Kevin Harvick 48.611 185.143
4. 10B Scott [...]

The 2007 Daytona 500 will have the latest start time in the race’s history and could lead to the Great American Race finishing under the lights at Daytona International Speedway.

Two-time NASCAR Cup champion Tony Stewart is no fan of expanding the field for the Chase For The Nextel Cup, but he does like proposals that would increase the number of points given for race victories.
The Joe Gibbs Racing driver, who won his 2005 championship under the format, criticized reports that the Chase could expand [...]

Carter-2-Motorsports, a new full time professional race team set to launch a championship effort in the ARCA RE/MAX Series this season announced today the team has extended their busy schedule by planning to compete in at least four NASCAR Nextel Cup (NNC) series races towards the end of the season.
Roger Carter, II who is running [...]

Kerry Earnhardt will join Dale Earnhardt Inc. as a full-time employee next week, serving as a liaison between the Nextel Cup and Busch programs and driving in a handful of races.
“Teresa and Richie have been talking to me about coming there for several years,” Kerry said of team owner/stepmother Teresa Earnhardt and director of motorsports [...]

Las Vegas Motor Speedway wishes to respond to statements attributed to NASCAR driver Greg Biffle regarding his crash Dec. 7 while he was conducting a Goodyear Tire test at LVMS.
“We were surprised and shocked that Mr. Biffle would make - almost five weeks later - critical remarks about the response of our fire and safety [...]

Plans are finalized for an exciting first event for the one and only NASCAR Hall of Fame and NASCAR Plaza Office Tower.
The groundbreaking will be the ‘grand finale’ of the annual NASCAR Nextel Cup Media Tour hosted by Lowe’s Motor Speedway on Thursday, January 25, 2007 at 3:00pm/et at the site of the new NASCAR [...]

Ginn Racing announced that former championship crew chief Gary DeHart has joined the organization as director of shop operations. DeHart, who spent nearly the past 20 years at Hendrick Motorsports, will oversee shop employees and assist in managing the company’s growth during the NASCAR team’s expansion, according to Jay Frye, Ginn Racing’s CEO and general [...]

Plans for 2007 have Carl Long taking on NASCAR with a different approach than years past. Long has decided to focus his efforts in the Busch Series division of NASCAR. Long has already scheduled a few races to run with the Long Brothers Racing team in the coming season, as well as a continued partnership [...]

TRUEX JR.: “We were kind of sad to see the end of the season come around because things were going well. But obviously the season didn’t go the way we wanted to. We had a lot of things happen that were out of our control. And we made a lot of mistakes as a team. [...]