The only way NASCAR will control cheating is to send race teams home, seven-time champion Richard Petty said.
The man with a record 200 Nextel Cup Series victories said fines don’t work in a sport that runs with $20 million-a-team budgets.

Track officials announced that the Board of Directors of International Speedway Corporation (ISC) has approved more than $10 million in funding for capital projects at Darlington Raceway. Total estimated spending for the projects represents the largest one-time capital investment in the 58-year history of the storied facility.
Scheduled projects include repaving of the racing surface and [...]

A Taylorsville man was charged with the Saturday slaying of James Sprinkle, a NASCAR mechanic for the Red Bull racing team, according to the Alexander County Sheriff’s Office.
Earl Wayne Flowers, 51, of Gravel Hill Court, was arrested at about 3 p.m. Thursday. He received no bond and was in the Alexander County Detention Center Thursday, [...]

The top crew chiefs in Nextel Cup racing will trade their wrenches for driving suits during the inaugural Kobalt Tools Crew Chief Race Saturday night, May 19, at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. The event will be the featured pre-race entertainment for the Nextel All-Star Challenge.

Kyle Petty will host a special two-hour program live, with Jack Arute, from the SIRIUS Satellite Radio display at the 2007 New York International Auto Show, exclusively on SIRIUS NASCAR Radio, channel 128, Saturday, April 7, 2007 from 1:00 to 3:00pm/et.
Following the live two-hour broadcast, there will be a two-hour autograph session with Petty at [...]