Matt Kenseth and the No. 17 team’s 11th-place qualifying effort for next Sunday’s Daytona 500 was disqualified by NASCAR on Sunday after officials found one of the wheel wells on the car improperly sealed during post-qualifying inspection. As a result, Kenseth will start one of Thursday’s Gatorade Duels, the two qualifying races to determine the [...]

Crew chiefs of Elliott Sadler and Scott Riggs also suspended for 2 races
NASCAR suspended two prominent Nextel Cup crew chiefs, both of whose drivers made the Chase For The Nextel Cup in 2006, for four weeks Tuesday for failing post-Daytona 500 qualifying inspections. Two other crew chiefs were suspended for two weeks.
Evernham Motorsports driver Kasey [...]

Efforts to sell tickets for Sunday’s Daytona 500 shifted into high gear this week at the Daytona International Speedway. Ticket offices not only have extended their hours, they’re offering two-day packages that include Saturday’s Busch Series race.
Sellouts used to be easy at Daytona. And while the first race of the stock car season probably will [...]

Unlike his father and grandfather before him, Brian France brings a marketing background steeped in college and seasoned real world experience to NASCAR.
He is a man more comfortable in delegating responsibilities instead of ruling with unquestioning authority. He is a man more at ease talking to a board of directors than chatting up a star [...]

Denver is one step closer to hosting top-level NASCAR stock car racing today, with the announcement that a subsidiary of the International Speedway Corporation is looking at land for a track in Adams County. The two parcels being evaluated are near Denver International Airport and close to the Front Range Airport.

More than three months have passed without points racing in the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series, but the wait is over. And clearly, the old adage “good things come to those who wait” has never rung truer than this time of year.
The reward is the Daytona 500 — the pinnacle of auto racing.

Yesterday on “The Morning Drive” on SIRIUS NASCAR Radio / channel 128, hosts Marty Snider and David Poole interviewed Robin Pemberton, NASCAR’s Vice President of Competition about the rules violations found on the race cars of matt Kenseth and Kasey Kahne this weekend.
Host, David Poole: “The #17 and the #9 car. Tell us what you [...]

After speculation that Robbie Reiser would step off the Nextel Cup Series pit box sooner, rather than later, and take a higher-level position with Roush Racing, the driver’s crew chief said Friday he has signed a three-year contract extension to maintain his crew chief position with the #17 team.
“The other position that everyone was talking [...]

Huddle House, a 420-unit nationwide family restaurant franchise with deep ties to the South, along with Front Row Motorsports, the owner the #37 Dodge driven by NASCAR legend Bill Elliott, have announced a partnership for the Daytona 500 uniting two Georgia homegrown icons into a powerful force for the opening of NASCAR season.
Elliott drove The [...]

ESPN analyst Andy Petree says he expects Roush Racing driver Carl Edwards to be the man to beat for the 2007 NASCAR Busch Series driving championship and that Toyota’s new entry will be “formidable” in competition on the series. Petree will be part of ESPN’s broadcast booth as it televises the entire NASCAR Busch Series [...]