Here are some video highlights and the finish of last Sunday’s Darlington Nextel Cup race:
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Joe Gibbs Racing officials met Monday to discuss personnel changes after a pit road mishap cost Denny Hamlin a victory at Darlington Raceway.
Hamlin was critical of his crew after a pair of dropped lug nuts during a late pit stop cost him the race. Hamlin, who led a race-high 179 laps, was in second when [...]

The sale of Chrysler to Cerberus could prove interesting to NASCAR. Cerberus owns the car-rental companies National and Alamo, and last year led a consortium that purchased a 51 percent stake in the General Motors Acceptance Corporation, the financing arm of General Motors.
The problem with private equity firms such as Cerberus according to some labor [...]

Dale Earnhardt Jr. is the hottest free agent in NASCAR history.
But Jeff Gordon hopes teams don’t turn the Earnhardt sweepstakes into a bidding war like what happens with free agents in other major league sports.
“The whole key here is that you can’t have a driver making so much money that he breaks the team and [...]

A sprawling site on the Staten Island waterfront that was once pegged to become a 82,500-seat NASCAR track will be put up for sale within a month, according to a manager for the defunct project.
The property, once an oil tank farm, has been sitting idle since International Speedway Corp. abandoned its plan to bring professional [...]

Less than two weeks after the Aaron’s 499 in Talladega, images of fans throwing beer cans at Jeff Gordon’s No. 24 Chevrolet are still fresh. The incident occurred during a post-race victory lap as Gordon, who passed the late Dale Earnhardt on the career wins list, paid tribute to the Intimidator by waving the [...]

Due to the schedule change at Darlington Raceway this weekend (with inclement weather postponing the race until Sunday afternoon), there will not be a Nextel Cup Series test this week at Dover International Speedway.

Jeff Gordon, No. 24 DuPont Impala SS, won the postponed Dodge Avenger 500 on Sunday afternoon to score Chevrolet its fifth-consecutive win for the new Chevrolet Impala SS and the 10th win in 11 races for the Bowtie brand. Gordon’s victory is his seventh at Darlington Raceway, the track notorious for being too tough to [...]

ROBBY GORDON — No. 7 Menards/MAPEI Ford Fusion (Finished 38th)
“If you take a look at the right side of this car, it’s obvious to see what got us back here. I just got into the wall a couple of times. I got into the wall about lap 15 and I’m gonna say I’ve hit it [...]

RYAN NEWMAN (No. 12 alltel Dodge Avenger)
NOTE: Newman has finished ninth, sixth and fourth in the past three races at Talladega, Richmond and Darlington, respectively. Newman’s three straight top 10s have allowed him to move from 26th to 14th in the series standings. He’s 97 points behind 12th place, the final transfer spot in The [...]