Dale Earnhardt Jr. spoke and Texas Motor Speedway listened. TMS will announce Thursday that it is repairing the dip in the track that Earnhardt complained about before and during the Dickies 500 last November. TMS sent out a release Wednesday saying it would announce a track reconstruction, which sources say is the dip between the [...]

Jack Roush says his deal with the Fenway Sports Group is not complete, but his Roush Racing team has scheduled a “BIG” announcement Feb. 14 at Jackie Robinson Ballpark in Daytona Beach. That would be an appropriate place for Roush to announce that he has partnered with FSG, the marketing arm of Boston Red Sox [...]

Team owner Richard Childress is still hopeful a solution can be reached that will allow him to keep his sponsor on his #31 Nextel Cup car. Cingular is the current sponsor, but that company has been bought by AT&T. The AT&T brand cannot be put on the car because of Nextel’s agreement to sponsor NASCAR’s [...]

Kyle Petty: “I’ve talked to the TNT people about numerous options. I did four or five races for them last year in the Busch Series. We had talked a month or so ago and obviously with Benny’s passing and with the way things have gone there hasn’t been a lot of communication lately. If I [...]

As the 2007 NASCAR season begins, the Wrangler brand is strapping in with Dale Earnhardt Jr. and DEI’s #8 Budweiser Chevy once again. Earnhardt Jr. has re-signed as an endorsee for Wrangler and its Wrangler Jeans Co. TM line.

NASCAR’s greatest drivers are about to get their first look at the sport’s newest race track. A record 47 drivers are scheduled to take part in NASCAR Preseason Thunder Las Vegas on Monday, Jan. 29 and Tuesday, Jan. 30. For most of those drivers, it will be their firstt look at Las Vegas Motor Speedway’s [...]

Office Depot announced that it has extended its sponsorship of NASCAR as the sport’s Official Office Products Partner. Office Depot’s exclusive relationship with NASCAR began in 2005 and has been supported by the successful sponsorships of the #99 Office Depot Ford, Roush Racing and driver Carl Edwards.

Dale Earnhardt, Jr comes to stepmother’s defense
Kevin Harvick knows the odds of Dale Earnhardt Jr. leaving the company his father built for the company his father raced for are very long. But Harvick would understand if NASCAR’s most popular driver left Dale Earnhardt Inc. for Richard Childress Racing after the 2007 season if contract [...]

A 2-year-old grandson of Washington Redskins head coach [and President of Joe Gibbs Racing] Joe Gibbs has been diagnosed with leukemia and is currently undergoing chemotherapy, a development that has been “devastating” to the Hall of Fame coach.
According to Gibbs’ personal Web site, Zachary Taylor Gibbs — the son of NASCAR executive J.D. Gibbs — [...]

The 2005 Indy Racing League champion, an Englishman who lives in St. Petersburg, would need it for his first test in a stock car, perhaps as early as next week in Las Vegas. If all goes well, he said, he might eventually follow Montoya, a former CART champion and Formula One driver, to NASCAR’s highest [...]