Two days after the Daytona 500, some top Nextel Cup drivers continue to debate the timing of the yellow flag on the final lap of Sunday’s race.
Jimmie Johnson, who was out of the race by that time, says he sees both sides of the argument. In fact, he has changed his opinion about it after [...]

Sam Hornish will attempt his second Busch Series race of the season this weekend at California Speedway.
Hornish, who has won two Indy races at the track in Fontana but has never driven a stock car there, is competing part time for Penske Racing in the series this season.

Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire says International Speedway Corp. doesn’t have the political support necessary to put a track in Kitsap County and it needs to look at an alternate site in Washington.
ISC has submitted a bill in both houses of the state Legislature that would create a funding plan for a race track anywhere in [...]

The controversial finish in Sunday’s Daytona 500 has piqued the interest of racing fans 1,172 miles away from Daytona International Speedway.
Since Sunday’s season-opening race won by Kevin Harvick, Texas Motor Speedway has witnessed a significant increase in ticket sales from a year ago for its Samsung 500 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup race weekend scheduled for April [...]

Indianapolis 500 winner Jim Rathmann (1960) and NASCAR champion Bill Elliott (1988) will head the list of 2007 inductees to the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America, which will have its ceremony Aug. 15 in Detroit.

Former Indy Car, Indianapolis 500 and Formula One champion, Jacques Villeneuve, from Iberville, Quebec is close to getting started in NASCAR and will also race the famous Le Mans 24-hour event June 16-17 in France.

Team owner Bill Davis was upset with Jeremy Mayfield, who failed to qualify for the Daytona 500 despite fast times in testing and in practices at the track. Davis said Mayfield’s No. 36 car was good enough to post a top five or top six finish.

Plans to build a NASCAR track in New York City have moved to the back burner, but International Speedway Corp. officials still have high hopes to get a speedway approved in the Seattle area.
ISC is sending three NASCAR stars to Washington this week to meet with state and local officials in an effort to promote [...]

It will take more than record losses and massive staff cutbacks to push Ford out of NASCAR. After a company record $12.7 billion loss in 2006 and a planned staff reduction of 40,000 this year, racing boss Dan Davis admitted he was nervous about getting the estimated $20 million racing budget for nine full-time Cup [...]

XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. and Sirius Satellite Radio Inc., rivals in the fledgling satellite radio industry, have agreed to combine in a deal that investors hope will result in lower costs, assuming it overcomes significant regulatory hurdles.