Matt Kenseth refused to take the blame for an accident involving Dale Jarrett last weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway, despite some heated comments from Jarrett after the race.
Friday at Martinsville Speedway, Kenseth said he understood Jarrett’s anger but has yet to talk to Jarrett this weekend.

Denny Hamlin won the pole for Sunday’s Goody’s Cool Orange 500 Nextel Cup race at the Martinsville Speedway. Driving the “Car of Tomorrow” for the second week in a row the No.11 Joe Gibbs Racing Chevrolet circled the 0.528-mile Virginia short track in 19.911 seconds (95.103 m.p.h.).
The pole victory was Hamlin’s first of the season [...]

Drivers are expressing concern with the front splitter on the car of tomorrow, saying the aerodynamic device may have some unintended consequences.
Reigning Nextel Cup champion Jimmie Johnson said the splitter, a shelf that sits close to the race track on the nose of the car, could cut easily down tires of other competitors.

Court documents can say the most amusing things. What’s wrong with this sentence?
“We can only view AT&T’s and Cingular’s continued attempt to jeopardize NASCAR’s relationship with NETEL [sic] as tortuous [sic] interference with this agreement.”
Here you’ve got two big corporations, AT&T and NASCAR, going at it in a federal lawsuit with maybe $1 billion in [...]

1 1 Martin Truex Jr. 19.905 95.132 19 34 —.— —.—
2 24 Jeff Gordon 19.923 95.046 21 21 -0.018 -0.018
3 29 Kevin Harvick 19.968 94.832 33 35 -0.063 -0.045
4 96 [...]

JIMMIE JOHNSON:
“It’s been a great track for us and we had a great set-up with the old car. With the new car going back the set-up is completely different. There is nothing we can take back to that track and have it apply. I have a rhythm and a line that I use that will [...]

* Round 2: Short-Track Racing, COT Debut Continues
* Jeff Gordon Leads Points For First Time Since February ‘05
* Carl Edwards Regaining 2005 Form
* David Ragan Returns To Martinsville With New Respect

HOMETOWN TRACK: Bill Davis Racing (BDR) is based an hour south of Martinsville Speedway in High Point, N.C. BDR fields two Toyotas in the NEXTEL Cup Series, the No. 22 Caterpillar Camry, with driver Dave Blaney and the No. 36 360 OTC Camry, with driver Jeremy Mayfield. BDR also fields three Toyota Tundras in the [...]

Texas Motor Speedway President Eddie Gossage announced that the April 15 Samsung 500 Nextel Cup Series race will have a $7 million purse, the third-largest purse of the season. The total posted awards will be $7,253,642.