The first major collaboration to come from the partnership between Fenway Sports Group and the former Roush Racing will take place next month in Boston and New Hampshire with an event called Roush Fenway Days. Roush Fenway Racing will have two days of activities at Fenway Park June 28-29, culminating with a baseball game between [...]

Casey Mears, No. 25 National Guard/GMAC/American Heroes Monte Carlo SS, captured his first NASCAR Nextel Cup Series (NNCS) in the Coca-Cola 600 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. Mears’s victory is the second consecutive win for the new Chevrolet R07 engine and the first in a NNCS points-paying event. Crew chief Darian Grubb made the call late [...]

Petty turns 47 on June 2. He made his 797th career start Saturday night and his 51st start at LMS. Petty finished third Saturday night and move up spots in the series standings to 26th. Petty has one victory, six top fives and 12 top 10s at LMS. “Our car was good when the sun [...]

BOBBY LABONTE (No. 43 Betty Crocker/Chocolate Chex Dodge Charger) — 13th “Kyle had a good car yesterday in practice, and he got a lap down tonight. I think he had a little trouble in that wreck. He was able to come back and stay out there at the end and make up a few spots. [...]

Brian Vickers recorded Toyota’s first top-five finish in NASCAR Nextel Cup competition tonight when he crossed the finish line fifth in the No. 83 Red Bull Camry. The fifth-place finish by Vickers is his best result of the season. His previous best finish this season was 10th at California (Feb. 25). Vickers led tonight’s race [...]

GREG BIFFLE — No. 16 Dish Network Ford Fusion (Finished 43rd) “It was just a right-front tire. It’s unfortunate. I hate to talk bad about anybody or bash anybody, but I just have to tell you that I think we’ve got the worst tires in racing — period. Nobody can drive on these things. They’re [...]

Ginn Racing and JR Motorsports appear to be the frontrunners in the Dale Earnhardt, Jr sweepstakes. Earnhardt, Jr, who was unsuccessful in getting a controlling interest in DEI, the team started by his late father, 7-time Nextel Cup Champion Dale Earnhardt, announced that would leave DEI and look elsewhere to drive in 2008.

Pat Tryson, who was fired by Roush Fenway Racing last week, is close to a deal with Dale Earnhardt Inc. Richie Gilmore, the director of motorsports at DEI, hopes to have Tryson signed within the next two weeks. “He’s looking at a couple of other options, but right now we’re at the top of his [...]

Ryan Newman’s name has surfaced prominently in early Silly Season rumors, most notably in connection with a possible move to Joe Gibbs Racing. But Penske Racing officials have said Newman is under contract through the end of the 2008 season, and the driver said Saturday that neither he nor the team are distracted by the [...]