NASCAR plans to address the issue of suspended crew chiefs continuing to do their jobs from locations at the track but outside of the garage.
Crew chief Tony Eury Jr., for example, reportedly worked with Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s team last weekend from a motorcoach parked on a hill outside New Hampshire International Speedway as he completed [...]

Dale Earnhardt Jr. will drive his own race car Friday night when he replaces Shane Huffman in the Busch Series race at Daytona International Speedway.
Earnhardt, a two-time Busch champion, will drive the No. 88 Chevrolet he fields for JR Motorsports. He said Tuesday he is searching for a permanent replacement for Huffman.

Evernham Motorsports announced that Josh Browne has elected to resign from his team director duties and return to the organization’s engineering department effective immediately. Longtime Evernham Motorsports employee Scott McDougall, former team director of the #98 Evernham Motorsports Truck/ARCA team, will take over as team director of the #19 Dodge Dealers/UAW Dodge on an interim [...]

The Pepsi 400 will mark the first time a Petty hasn’t competed in a Nextel Cup Series race at DIS since 1965. Kyle Petty will serve as a broadcaster for TNT and has put former Pepsi 400 champion John Andretti in his #45 Dodge.

The Wood Brothers/JTG race team wishes to address the numerous inquiries about Ken Schrader’s continued participation with the #21 Nextel Cup entry. The plan in place now is the plan that has always been in place. Bill Elliott continues to drive the #21 car on a weekly basis with the emphasis on the guaranteed starting [...]

NASCAR and IndyCar team owner Chip Ganassi doesn’t foresee open wheel star Dan Wheldon moving to stock cars anytime soon. “I personally don’t see it on his radar screen [for] next year,” Ganassi told ESPN.com Monday. Ganassi did say he and Wheldon discussed the proposition several months back, but discontinued those talks with the plan [...]

As I left New Hampshire International Speedway Sunday I got to thinking the punishment that NASCAR levied against the teams Hendrick Motorsports drivers Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson prior to the Lenox Industrial Tools 300 and just how even more meaningless the punishments looked after the race was over.