1 7 Robby Gordon Camping World Ford 47.687 188.731 4 24
2 5 Kyle Busch CARQUEST/Kellogg’s Chevy 47.704 188.663 4 27
3 31 Jeff Burton AT&T Mobility Chevy 47.877 187.982 5 32
4 40 David Stremme Coors Light Dodge 47.996 187.516 9 12
5 70 Johnny Sauter Haas Automation Chevy 48.051 187.301 4 34

Dale Earnhardt Jr. on Friday will announce a personal services agreement with clothing manufacturer adidas, sources told ESPN.com. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

This year’s coverage of the Pepsi 400 will mark the debut of TNT’s Wide Open Coverage, a unique television format that will feature no national commercial interruptions, only three local commercial breaks per hour and an innovative on-screen video box for sponsor branded content.

Robby Gordon Motorsports announced a new partnership with Camping World for the 2007 season. Camping World will sponsor Gordon in three Nextel Cup events and the Busch Series race in Canada, later this summer.

The paint scheme on Joe Nemechek’s #13 Ginn Racing Chevy for this weekend’s Pepsi 400 Nextel Cup race at Daytona International Speedway will honor the nine Charleston, S.C. firefighters who perished in a warehouse blaze on June 18. The names and ages of the nine fallen firefighters are listed on the decklid of Nemechek’s Chevrolet [...]

NASCAR chairman and chief executive officer Brian France said Tuesday that while race teams will always test the rules of racing, they’re fighting a battle they can’t win.
“We could have any penalty structure and (still) face somebody willing to think they can outsmart us,” France said.
“Ultimately, we’ll prevail.

Tony Stewart joined some elite company last July when he scored his second consecutive win in the Pepsi 400 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series race at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway.
After leading a race-high 86 laps in last year’s Pepsi 400 and all but nine of the 160 laps in the 2005 Pepsi 400 to score his [...]

Kasey Kahne will be running a special paint scheme on his Evernham Motorsports Dodge to promote the new Universal Pictures’ comedy starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James and Jessica Biel, ‘I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry.’ The film will be released in theaters on July 20.