Pos., No. (Car), Driver, Time, Speed
1. 11B Denny Hamlin 15.779 121.605
2. 66A Jeff Green 15.804 121.412
3. 9B Kasey Kahne 15.823 121.267
4. 5A Kyle Busch 15.824 121.259
5. 11 Denny Hamlin [...]

NASCAR officials won’t rule out the possibility that the “car of tomorrow” might run full time in 2008 instead of another partial Nextel Cup season. With more than 50 Nextel Cup teams testing at Bristol Motor Speedway today in preparation for the new model’s debut in the 2007 race, talk about the difficulty of teams [...]

Toyota team officials say that they hope the “car of tomorrow” being tested today at Bristol Motor Speedway can help the new manufacturer catch up to existing teams.
Andy Graves, senior manager for Toyota Racing Development, thinks that the new model to be raced at 16 Nextel Cup events this year could level the playing field [...]

NASCAR Busch Series Rookie driver Brad Coleman is used to being the youngest driver on the track in every racing series he has ever competed. For the seventh consecutive year, the Houston native will start his season as the youngest gun on the grid when he gets behind the wheel of the No. 18 Carino’s [...]

DAY 1 AM Speeds
Pos, car#, Driver, Manu, Time (seconds), Speed (mph)
1 11B Denny Hamlin Chevy 15.706 122.170
2 16B Greg Biffle Ford 15.793 121.497
3 16A Greg Biffle Ford 15.794 121.489
4 17A Matt Kenseth Ford 15.799 121.451
5 48A Jimmie Johnson Chevy 15.820 121.290

Due to a lack of title sponsorship, the International Race Of Champions (IROC) has cancelled its event scheduled for Friday, April 13 at Texas Motor Speedway, and speedway President Eddie Gossage announced today that the race will be replaced with a special viewing party of the much-anticipated motion picture, ‘Dale.’

After falling thousands of seats short of a sellout once again, you have to wonder if California Speedway deserves two Nextel Cup dates.
The 92,000-seat facility is relatively small compared to some NASCAR tracks, but not all of those seats have been filled in the second-largest market in the country.
No wonder L.A. doesn’t have an NFL [...]

Michel Jourdain, Jr. will make his NASCAR Busch Series season debut this weekend at his hometown venue of Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City. Jourdain, who has competed in the two previous Mexico City events, will make his first start at the 2.518-mile road course behind the wheel of a Roush Fenway Ford Fusion [...]

While there is a break in the Nextel Cup Series schedule this weekend, a project that has been seven years in the making will have the opportunity for a full scale “walk-through” this week at Bristol Motor Speedway. Fifty Nextel Cup teams are scheduled to test their Car of Tomorrow models this Wednesday-Thursday at Bristol [...]

It’s early, but Richard Childress Racing is the most impressive team in Nextel Cup right now. All three RCR drivers rank in the top six in the standings — Jeff Burton is second, Kevin Harvick is fourth and Clint Bowyer is sixth.
Harvick might be 2-for-2 in the win column if not for a flat tire [...]