Appeals for the penalties passed out to the Nextel Cup teams of Kasey Kahne, Elliott Sadler and Scott Riggs before the Daytona 500 were filed on Wednesday by owner Ray Evernham.
Roush Fenway Racing filed an appeal on the penalties against Matt Kenseth’s team on Saturday.
Evernham said before Sunday’s race he was most concerned about the [...]

Steve Wallace’s crew chief has been fined $1,000 for rules violations discovered before the season-opening Busch Series race at Daytona International Speedway, NASCAR announced Wednesday.

On last night’s edition of his weekly SIRIUS NASCAR Radio show “Tony Stewart Live,” Stewart looked back at his performance in Sunday’s Daytona 500 and the crash with Kurt Busch in lap 153 that knocked him out of the race.
Host, Tony Stewart: “It didn’t finish up quite like we wanted by any means. But we’re [...]

National cable network HDNet will re-air Nextel Cup Series races, beginning with the 2007 Daytona 500, this Thursday February 22nd, 9:30pm/et.
This Nextel Cup Series coverage comes as the network extends their relationship with NASCAR, including a renewed agreement to air races from the NASCAR Grand National Division in 2007. This national race re-air is available [...]

Fresh on the heels of their second second-place run in the Daytona 500, Mark Martin and Ginn Racing have announced that Martin will run the Pepsi 400 on July 7 at Daytona International Speedway. The addition puts Martin’s limited 2007 Nextel Cup schedule at 23 for the season. Rookie Regan Smith is slated to drive [...]

Just because ESPN’s Dr. Jerry Punch decided to swap his stethoscope for a microphone doesn’t mean the medical degree he earned at Wake Forest hasn’t been useful over the years. Twice while working races as an ESPN announcer Punch has been called on to aid seriously-injured drivers.

SPEED has teamed with JR Motorsports to develop SPEED 1, a fleet of race-ready demonstration cars to give viewers an unprecedented inside look at how cars will actually behave at each Nextel Cup Series event in 2007.

Team Cingular jackman Josh Yost will undergo surgery to his left ankle Thursday at Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, N.C. During a routine pit stop in last Sunday’s Daytona 500, Yost’s left Archilles tendon ruptured.
Adam North, the jackman for the #29 Holiday Inn NBS team, will fill in for Yost beginning this weekend at California.
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