The g-force impact during David Reutimann’s crash Sunday at California Speedway is among the hardest ever recorded, NASCAR officials told ESPN.com on Monday.
NASCAR doesn’t disclose exact figures.

JACK ROUSH - Roush Fenway Racing
“It speaks to the depths of the team, the effort they’ve made all winter, to be able to have two cars, a Busch car and a Cup car that was able to perform so good here. It’s a pleasure to have a chance to win here, which is the [...]

MATT KENSETH COMPLETES BUSCH-NEXTEL CUP SWEEP AT CALIFORNIA
* Matt Kenseth’s victory in the Auto Club 500 at California Speedway was the 15th of his career.
* Kenseth also won the NASCAR Busch Series race on Saturday.

* Kenseth now has two Cup wins and four Busch wins at California Speedway. His other Cup win at the track [...]

NASCAR officials announced that three Nextel Cup Series crew chiefs have been fined for rules violations at Daytona International Speedway.
Lee McCall, crew chief of the BAM Racing No. 49 Dodge and driver Mike Bliss, and Randy Seals, crew chief of the Front Row Motorsports No. 34 Dodge and driver Kevin Lepage, have each been fined [...]

Dale Earnhardt Jr. and the No. 8 Budweiser team began yesterday’s Auto Club 500 at California from a best-ever starting position of fifth place, but their day went awry on lap 20 with a flat right front tire. After recovering from falling a lap down, the team suffered major engine problems on lap 67. After [...]

Two Toyota Camrys started the Auto Club 500 in the top-15, with Dave Blaney qualifying 14th and Brian Vickers starting in the 15th position.
Vickers ran in the top-10 for the better part of the 500-mile, 250-lap race and finished 10th in his first race of the season.
This was the first top-10 finish for a Toyota [...]

KURT BUSCH (No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger) — finished 7th, top Dodge
“We’re not concerned about the aerodynamics right now. We feel like we need to advance our front end geometry. We’ve done a lot over the off season. I’d say on a scale of 1-10 we chopped off five points and we need five [...]

Alltel Corp. could fetch a price tag of $25 billion to $31 billion from private equity firms or other U.S. mobile service providers looking to expand in rural markets, analysts said Tuesday [Feb 20th]. Alltel, the top rural U.S. wireless provider, fueled merger speculation when it said during an earnings conference call Tuesday that it [...]

JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 48 LOWE’S MONTE CARLO SS - finished 3rd:
“It wasn’t a bad day. A mysterious debris caution cost us and then we had some issues on pit road. But it was solid. We had the speed. We just had a stop at the end that kind of hurt us.
“It’s good to get some [...]