FIN, ST, CAR, DRIVER, MAKE, SPONSOR, PTS/BNS, LAPS, STATUS, WINNINGS
1 20 48 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet Lowe’s 190/5 500 Running 198,736
2 3 24 Jeff Gordon Chevrolet DuPont 175/5 500 Running 153,861
3 1 11 Denny Hamlin Chevrolet FedEx Express 170/5 500 Running 139,125
4 14 5 Kyle Busch Chevrolet Kellogg’s / CARQUEST 165/5 500 Running 105,375
5 8 8 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet Budweiser 165/10 500 Running 141,833

Jimmie Johnson refused to budge from the bottom of the track and no matter how much Jeff Gordon pushed he didn’t give way before winning Sunday’s Goody’s Cool Orange 500 Nextel Cup race at the Martinsville Speedway. The No.48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet took the checkered flag 0.066 seconds ahead of Gordon.
The victory was Johnson’s third [...]

CHARLOTTE, NC—Only days after its long-anticipated, much-criticized Car of Tomorrow debuted to overwhelmingly negative reviews at the Bristol Motor Speedway, NASCAR responded to the wishes of competitors and fans alike by introducing the stylishly retro, technologically retrograde NEXTEL Cup Car of Yesterday.

One of the Indy Racing League’s longtime team owners is pushing the idea of IRL-NASCAR Nextel Cup combined events.
John Barnes, an owner and the general manager of Panther Racing, thinks that even if the IRL event was positioned as a support race, Indy-style racing would benefit.

The Wood Brothers have 96 all-time NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series victories, including two at Martinsville Speedway. However, those wins came in the sixties and seventies with Cale Yarborough (1968) and David Pearson (1973). With Wood Brothers driver Ken Schrader qualifying fourth for today’s race co-owner Len Wood assessed his teams chances of re-capturing some old [...]

Richard Petty talks about the state of NASCAR, the ‘Car of Tomorrow’, bringing in an investor to Petty Enterprises and more:
COMMENT ON KYLE’S COMMENT ABOUT SWEAT EQUITY “The guys that helped build NASCAR for the guys that come in now with money. When it first started Junior, Bud Moore, us, all these guys were racers. [...]

Pos, St, #, Driver, Sponsor, Car, Pts, Status, Laps
1 1 5 Mike Skinner Toyota Tundra Toyota 195 Running 253
2 26 30 Todd Bodine Lumber Liquidators Toyota 170 Running 253
3 4 14 Rick Crawford Power Stroke Diesel Ford 165 Running 253
4 6 2 Kevin [...]