Goodyear’s left front tire, which Goodyear mandated to help slow speeds that are soaring because of the new track surface and banking at Las Vegas, got more criticism than a fixed poker game.
“It [stinks],” he said. “You think a company like Goodyear can do a lot better job than what they’re doing. Especially for a [...]

Pos, #, Driver, Sponsor, Car
1 9 Kasey Kahne Dodge Dealers/UAW Dodge
2 40 David Stremme Coors Light Dodge
3 19 Elliott Sadler Dodge Dealers/UAW Dodge
4 42 Juan Pablo Montoya Texaco/Havoline Dodge
5 31 Jeff Burton Cingular Wireless Chevrolet

Kasey Kahne won the pole Friday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, leading a parade of Dodges as Chargers took five of the top seven spots in qualifying.
Kahne posted a lap of 184.856 mph around the revamped track, enough to nudge David Stremme off the pole. Stremme ran a lap at 184.193. Elliott Sadler, Kahne’s teammate [...]

Pos., No., Driver, Time, Speed, Lap #, # Laps, -Fastest, -Next
1 9 Kasey Kahne 29.840 180.965 23 25 —.— —.—
2 38 David Gilliland 29.921 180.475 14 16 -0.081 -0.081
3 1 Mark [...]

The NASCAR Nextel Cup Series banquet will return to New York City for the 27th consecutive year in December, NASCAR Vice President Jim Hunter confirmed Friday. With rumors swirling about the possibility of the banquet being moved from New York to Las Vegas, Hunter was adamant that the annual awards ceremony will return to New [...]

Rep. Larry Seaquist said he has no problem with NASCAR fans, despite having been quoted earlier as saying: “These people are not the kind of people you would want living next door to you. They’d be the ones with the junky cars in the front yard and would try to slip around the law.”
Seaquist, interviewed [...]

Jeff Burton’s key to success at Las Vegas Motor Speedway this weekend? Driving in the Busch Series race before tackling Sunday’s UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400 Nextel Cup event.
With the altered Vegas track, Burton says that the impact of competing in Saturday’s Sam’s Town 300 Busch Series race in his No. 29 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet cannot be [...]

This Saturday on ESPN2, SpeedFreaks will bust out the chosen profession of one Mr. Dale Earnhardt Jr. before he even thought about paying the mortgage on that little ‘ol race shop. It may have been by design that he became the most popular driver in NASCAR.