Brian Vickers’ #83 Team Red Bull Toyota failed post-qualifying inspection Friday afternoon at New Hampshire International Raceway, knocking the team out of the Lenox Industrial Tools 300 field and giving the spot to BAM Racing’s #49-Chad Chaffin.

Dave Blaney finally gave Toyota something to celebrate by winning the pole for NASCAR’s Lenox Industrial Tools 300 at New Hampshire International Speedway on Friday.
It’s been a long, difficult first season in NASCAR for the Japanese automaker. Its teams have had trouble getting their cars qualified for races, let alone vying for poles.

A ‘little’ dustup between Stewart and Newman at New Hampshire in 2006:
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Pos Car Driver Team Time Speed Lap # # Laps -Fastest -Next
1 *22 Dave Blaney Caterpillar Toyota 29.438 129.384 16 16 —.— —.—
2 12 Ryan Newman alltel Dodge 29.478 129.208 22 24 -0.040 -0.040
3 48 Jimmie Johnson Lowe’s Chevrolet 29.516 129.042 10 17 -0.078 -0.038
4 20 Tony Stewart The Home Depot Chevrolet 29.531 128.976 23 26 -0.093 -0.015
5 11 Denny Hamlin FedEx Ground Chevrolet 29.622 128.580 18 24 -0.184 -0.09

Doling out punishment for cheating has become nearly a monthly ritual for NASCAR this season. So has penalizing teams stiffly without dropping the largest hammer in the tool box: suspending a team – driver included – for a race.
On Tuesday, the sanctioning body penalized the teams of Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson for illegal [...]

Both chambers approved a bill to expedite land use review of a destination resort and amenities that would surround a proposed NASCAR-style speedway that developers want to build near the Morrow County town of Boardman.
Two developers have been negotiating with NASCAR in hopes of persuading it to pick Boardman for a Pacific Northwest speedway, which [...]

TNT’s Kyle Petty raced Sunday in the Toyota/Save Mart 350 even as he served an on-air analyst. When he got in an accident on the first lap that also involved Matt Kenseth and Marc Goossens, viewers saw a replay in which the driver/analyst seemed to yell out an expletive…although TNT, during the race, said it [...]

On Sunday, TNT’s Pride of NASCAR series continues with a feature on ‘Gentleman Ned Jarrett,’ a two-time NASCAR Champion with 239 career wins [50 in the Cup series].
TNT’s Bill Weber spent a day walking the links with Jarrett as he reminisced about his illustrious career over a round of golf.

The NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Infineon Raceway was the highest-rated televised sporting event last weekend nationwide.