Denny Hamlin pulled away from the field after the last round of pit stops and never looked back to capture Saturday afternoon’s Carfax 250 Busch Series race at the Michigan International Speedway. The No.20 Joe Gibbs Racing Chevrolet driver crossed the finish line 6.975 seconds ahead of Matt Kenseth.
The victory was Hamlin’s second of the [...]

Pos, No, Driver, Make, Time, Gap To 1st, Speed, Gap To 1st
1. 99 Carl Edwards Ford 38.429 187.359
2. 11 Denny Hamlin Chevrolet 38.521 0.092 0.092 186.911 0.448 0.448
3. 07 Clint Bowyer Chevrolet 38.548 0.027 0.119 186.780 0.131 0.579
4. 38 David Gilliland Ford 38.730 0.182 [...]

“I’ve had probably six phone calls from George Gillett,” Toyota’s Lee White said of the new majority owner of Gillett Evernham Motorsports.
“I knew him 18 years ago when we tried to put an Indy-car team together. I haven’t talked to him in 18 years and suddenly I get six phone calls in a couple [...]

Chevrolet, the winningest nameplate in NASCAR, will continue its partnership in NASCAR competition in 2008 with one of racing’s elite organizations, Richard Childress Racing (RCR).

Jack Roush said that teams won’t be seeing the savings the Car of Tomorrow was supposed to generate in terms of production so long as NASCAR adheres to its stringent levels of tolerance. He says that’s because slightly damaged bodies can’t be repaired without massive repairs.
The Roush Fenway owner’s explanation: “I absolutely feel that there [...]

Juan Pablo Montoya made a trip to the NASCAR hauler today at Michigan International Speedway. The other guy in attendance there? Kevin Harvick. “Yeah, we went, both of us. And they said you know, you gotta be careful guys, because that’s the limit of things you can do,” Montoya said.

In 2010, Roush Fenway Racing will have to shrink from five cars to four, but Jack Roush already has a plan in mind: Sell the fifth car to a group of investors as what he called “seed corn” for an investor-controlled four-car team owned and funded by a group outside of Roush but fueled with [...]