Kevin Harvick took the lead from teammate Jeff Burton with 27 laps to go, then held off Matt Kenseth to win the NASCAR Busch Series race at Chicagoland Speedway on Saturday.
It was the fourth victory at Chicagoland for Harvick, who won the first two Cup races held here in 2001 and 2002 and won the [...]

Mark Martin will be forced to go to a backup car for Sunday’s USG Sheetrock 400 at Chicagoland Speedway, after wrecking his 01 U.S. Army Chevrolet in Saturday’s first practice session. Martin will have to give up his fourth-place starting position and start in the back of the field for Sunday’s race.
Martin spun out and [...]

Kevin Harvick questioned NASCAR’s drug testing policy after Craftsman Truck Series driver Aaron Fike was arrested and charged with possession of drugs last weekend.
“I believe that every driver and every national series should be drug tested a couple of times a year randomly regardless of who you are, what you are doing,” Harvick said on [...]

Nextel Cup director John Darby — saying he was speaking for himself, not NASCAR — didn’t mince words Friday when asked about speculated changes to NASCAR’s Top-35 rule. “We ain’t changing it,” Darby said. That doesn’t mean, however, that NASCAR isn’t contemplating some alterations to the current rule.

Richard Childress Racing and Dale Earnhardt Inc. have completed the purchase of a tract of land off Exit 85 on Interstate 85 in North Carolina north of Salisbury, N.C., which will house the organizations’ new joint engine facility.
“We’re still working through all the plans, but we hope to move in by January of 2009,” said [...]

During TNT’s pre-race coverage, the Pride of NASCAR series will continue as Wally Dallenbach spends time with legendary NASCAR owner Bud Moore, owner of cars driven by several NASCAR legends in their own right, including David Pearson, Cale Yarborough, Dale Earnhardt, Bobby Allison and Darrell Waltrip among others.