Pos, No., Name, Best Time
1 1B Martin Truex Jr. 29.901
2 40A David Stremme 29.902
3 12A Ryan Newman 29.902
4 01A Mark Martin 29.915
5 36A Jeremy Mayfield 29.973

Dale Earnhardt Jr. has used his clout to get things changed in NASCAR before. His next target is the Car of Tomorrow.
A day after struggling with the new-look car at Richmond International Raceway, Earnhardt Jr. called on NASCAR to make it easier to turn and handle.
“It’s going to take some time to figure it out, [...]

Unruly fans banned from Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway after pelting Jeff Gordon’s car with beer cans and debris last Sunday also are being punished in North Carolina.

Montreal Canadiens owner George N. Gillett is close to a partnership arrangement with Evernham Motorsports.
Gillett, who also is the owner of the Liverpool soccer team in the English Premier League, would be the second major sports team owner to join NASCAR this season, following Red Sox owner John Henry’s buy-in to what is now Roush [...]

One Top 10 finish. Through nine races this season, the closest Toyota has come to Victory Lane in NASCAR’s top tier is 10th place. Only two other times has a Toyota driver finished in spots 10 through 20.
Of the seven cars that Toyota teams field, an average of four make the race. And these aren’t [...]

Doug Yates is wearing a patient, if pained, expression as he sits on the couch deep inside the rig that hauls David Gilliland’s Fords around the country.
Gilliland, just an unknown rookie, was a quick pick last summer when Elliott Sadler bailed to Ray Evernham’s. That was just a couple of weeks after teammate Dale Jarrett [...]

The “Robert Yates” NASCAR brand will remain a Ford brand, even in any merger with Dale Earnhardt Inc., according to sources familiar with the Yates-DEI negotiations.
However Earnhardt, who has been the heart of DEI, insisted he will be in Chevrolets again next season, no matter what.

As we launch our new NASCAR Video section we thought it was appropriate to have Dale Earnhardt’s 1998 Daytona 500 victory be the very first video. We miss you Dale!
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Jimmie Johnson, driver of the No. 48 Lowe’s Impala SS and last year’s NASCAR Nextel Cup Champion took his fourth victory of the season and the ninth for Chevy in an uncharacteristic day race at Richmond International Raceway. Rescheduled from Saturday night due to rain, the 400-lap (300 mile) race saw Chevy Impala SS drivers [...]

KURT BUSCH (No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Avenger)
“I’m very disappointed we let that race get away. I’m very disappointed the Miller Lite Dodge didn’t win today, but that’s why they call it racing. We’ve got to be smart on pit road, too. We had a good car and the team worked well on pit stops. [...]