Wednesday brought the first day of Car of Tomorrow testing at Bristol Motor Speedway, along with the acknowledgement from NASCAR Nextel Cup Series director John Darby that the schedule to implement the COT for all Cup races might accelerate, if there’s consensus in the garage to support it. If NASCAR decides to race the COT [...]

Pos, Car, Driver, Team, Time, Speed, # Laps
1 *42 Juan Pablo Montoya # Texaco/Havoline/telcel Dodge 87.011 104.180 8
2 20 Denny Hamlin Rockwell Automation Chevy 87.755 103.297 16
3 22 Carlos Contreras Family Dollar Dodge 87.840 103.197 6
4 18 Brad Coleman # Carino’s Italian Grill Chevy 88.464 102.469 7
5 *4 Regan [...]

The press release that arrived Wednesday morning from Texas Motor Speedway didn’t come as much of a surprise. It started off with this announcement:
Due to a lack of title sponsorship, the International Race Of Champions (IROC) has canceled its event scheduled for Friday, April 13, at Texas Motor Speedway.
In January, IROC officials had announced [...]

Bill Davis Racing (BDR) announced today that Tommy Baldwin Jr. has assumed the role of interim crew chief for the #36 360 OTC Racing team and driver Jeremy Mayfield. Baldwin takes over those duties from Derrick Finley, who will remain with the team in an engineering capacity.

Pos, Car, Driver, Team, Time, Speed, # Laps
1 41 Scott Pruett Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit Dodge 88.674 102.226 9
2 20 Denny Hamlin Rockwell Automation Chevy 88.693 102.204 8
3 *42 Juan Pablo Montoya # Texaco/Havoline/telcel Dodge 89.025 101.823 13
4 22 Carlos Contreras Family Dollar Dodge 89.156 101.673 8
5 5 Adrian Fernandez [...]

Now that the Car of Tomorrow no longer can be called that, there is a terminology conundrum in covering NASCAR. What do you call these things? What can you call these taller (by 2 inches), wider (by 4 inches), boxier vehicles with their adjustable air “splitters” in front and their adjustable rear wings?
In sports-car racing, [...]

Super 8 Motels today announced that it has signed an agreement with Petty Enterprises to become the official lodging partner and associate sponsor of the Number 43 Cheerios/Betty Crocker Dodge driven by Bobby Labonte, a past NASCAR Nextel Cup Series™ champion.
Beginning with the 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series season, the Super 8® logo will be [...]

WHAT WERE THE MAJOR OBJECTIVES OF THE EVERNHAM MOTORSPORTS TEAMS COMING INTO THE BRISTOL AVENGER TEST? “Just to learn about the car getting ready for the race at Bristol and learn where we stack up against the other teams, what your cars look like compared to their cars and make sure we had no issues [...]

The Car of Tomorrow will be the Car of Today by the time the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series rolls into Martinsville Speedway for the Goody’s Cool Orange 500 on April 1.
But there will be at least one unanswered question before the COT rolls at Martinsville. How will the Car of Tomorrow’s “splitter” and Martinsville Speedway’s [...]

A U.S. District Court judge has approved a settlement in the wrongful death lawsuit of Hendrick Motorsports general manager Jeff Turner stemming from the Oct. 24, 2004, plane accident that killed 10 people on the way to the race in Martinsville, Va.
[Rick Hendrick pictured right]