Pos. No. (Car) Driver Make Time Speed
1. 38B David Gilliland 48.625 185.090
2. 36A Jeremy Mayfield 48.687 184.854
3. 24A Jeff Gordon 48.716 184.744
4. 40 David Stremme 48.720 184.729
5. 39B [...]

WARD BURTON, NO. 4 STATE WATER HEATERS MONTE CARLO SS:
YOU ARE BACK AT DAYTONA FOR THE FIRST FULL TIME SEASON SINCE 2004, TALK ABOUT THE 2007 SEASON “We’re excited about being with Morgan-McClure Motorsports and State Water Heaters. We’ve got an uphill battle ahead of us. The guys have been working really hard and hopefully [...]

David Stremme:
“The new Charger nose is helping us quite a bit. It’s the same car we qualified third with here in July. I think our team is a lot better. That nose has really helped and the engine shop is working hard. We’ll keep working at it and try to get faster. The good thing [...]

A top DEI official stated Monday afternoon that the company would be using Hoosier tires on at least one car they will test at Lakeland Speedway later this week. One of the burning questions since Goodyear started leasing, instead of selling, tires to race teams was where would the teams to get tires to test [...]

The second week of Nextel Cup testing was delayed by rain Monday morning at Daytona International Speedway. But the weather cleared, and a little before 11:00am/et, cars took to the 2.5-mile superspeedway.
The noon lunch break for today will be canceled, and the teams will test until 5 p.m. There are 33 drivers at the second [...]

Carl Edwards has apologized for his tirade against Tony Stewart for an incident at Pocono Raceway.
During the July 23 Pennsylvania 500, Stewart bumped Clint Bowyer, who spun and crashed into Edwards. After the race, Edwards said, among other things, that Stewart was a “jerk” and “spectacularly self-centered.”
“Let me just say this, if it weren’t for [...]

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Jan. 14, 2007) — Making the first telephone call to his new teammate — Mark Martin — took some self encouragement for Nextel Cup rookie Regan Smith. (pronounced Ree-gan)
“It took me a couple of days to get the nerve to call Mark and introduce myself,” recalled Smith, who will share the No. [...]

Faith Motorsports and #89-Morgan Shepherd did not attend NASCAR’s Pre-Season Thunder test session January 8-10 at Daytona. The team had registered and was scheduled to test at the first of two sessions, but does not have a speedway car ready to test and has not been able to obtain a car that is race ready [...]

It’s not too late.
NASCAR apparently has decided to expand the Chase for the Nextel Cup field from 10 to 12 drivers and to alter the points system only by giving the winner of each race an additional 10 points over what he gets now.
The additional points for a winner is a baby’s half-step in the [...]