The Dodge Avenger, which joins the Dodge Charger in Nextel Cup competition this season, makes its racing debut Sunday in the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway – the first NASCAR Car of Tomorrow (COT) race.
Preparing for NASCAR’s 16 COT races in 2007 has kept the candle burning at both ends for most Nextel [...]

A man suspected of opening fire on a crowd at California Speedway during NASCAR [Busch Series] races last month was arrested Monday by sheriff’s deputies.
Ramon Luis Caraballos, 30, of San Bernardino was booked into Central Detention Center on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies said. Deputies from the Fontana [...]

Ginn Racing is finalizing a deal that is expected to put Ricky Carmichael’s chief Supercross sponsor, Monster Energy Drink, on the car for his first stock car race this weekend.

There has been rumblings that the #36 360 OTC Toyota team of Bill Davis Racing, that Jeremy Mayfield drives for, could shut down soon, and that the team would not run Bristol.
Jeremy Mayfield, however, has refuted those claims and said they are going nowhere.

Matt Kenseth, driver of the No. 17 DeWalt Ford Fusion, has registered three straight top-five finishes and finds himself fifth in the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series point standings going into this weekend’s Car of Tomorrow debut race at Bristol Motor Speedway. Kenseth, who has finishes of first (California), fourth (Las Vegas) and third (Atlanta) in [...]

Ben Leslie has been the NASCAR Field Manager for Ford Racing Technology since 2004 and manages Ford’s development in the Nextel Cup, Busch and Craftsman Truck Series. Leslie spoke about the debut of the Car of Tomorrow and how Ford teams are prepared going into Sunday’s debut race at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Condolences to Kerry Earnhardt on the death of his stepfather Jackie Lynn Key last Thursday. Survivors include his wife, Latane Brown Key of the home; a daughter, Janene “J.J.” Key of Davidson; one son, Kerry Earnhardt and wife, Rene, of Mooresville; three sisters, Judy James and husband, Danny, of Kannapolis, Cathy Grooms and husband, Robert, [...]