Speedway Motorsports Inc. chairman Bruton Smith has more than 200,000 reasons to smile this morning.
That’s how many fans swarmed to Bristol Motor Speedway the past two days for the NASCAR Busch and Nextel Cup events.
BMS, which is only a half-mile oval, is the smallest yet most popular facility in the SMI empire of NASCAR tracks [...]

Two-time NASCAR Nextel Cup Series champion Tony Stewart is set to return to Skagit Speedway in Alger, Wash., to compete in the second annual Kasey Kahne Foundation Sprint Car Challenge. Stewart will join Kahne, a fellow sprint car and Nextel Cup driver, for the Aug. 29 event which will feature the pair going head-to-head in [...]

Dan Wheldon won’t be the next open-wheel driver to move to NASCAR so long as team owner Chip Ganassi has the final say. And Ganassi does. Wheldon said Ganassi wants him to remain in Indy-car racing at least for the time being, which includes 2008.

MATT KENSETH — No. 17 DeWalt Ford Fusion (Finished 39th)
“I saw the wreck and slowed down as much as I could, but I just couldn’t get it stopped. I was kind of in the wrong place at the wrong time, but we put ourselves there. We didn’t perform good enough to run up front tonight. [...]

With two races remaining until the Chase for the Championship, Team Chevy drivers scored solid finishes during Saturday’s Sharpie 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway in an attempt to lock in their place in the 10-race battle for the Nextel Cup title.
Clint Bowyer, No. 07 Jack Daniel’s Impala SS, crossed the line third as the highest [...]

Michael Waltrip finished 23rd in the No. 55 NAPA Camry after starting 16th. The No. 22 Caterpillar Camry of Dave Blaney finished 31st after starting fifth and battling handling problems throughout the race. Dale Jarrett, driver of the No. 44 UPS Centennial Camry finished 34th after starting 33rd. The No. 84 Red Bull Camry of [...]

KURT BUSCH (No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Avenger, Finished 6th)
“The track was obviously the best idea somebody could of implemented into a half-mile. I’m happy to race on it. I’m happy to come home in sixth place, racing Dale Jr. We led a lap and he didn’t so we tied for the day. That’s big [...]

Roush Fenway Racing has sponsorship for Greg Biffle and the No. 16 Sprint Cup car for next season, team president Geoff Smith confirmed Saturday.
Four companies will make up the sponsorship, Smith said but declined to elaborate. Biffle is the only driver whom Roush needed to find a 2008 sponsorship package for.

Ricky Rudd, who will step down as a full time driver after the 2007 season, is scheduled to take the green flag for his 900th career Nextel Cup Series start for the Sharp Aquos 500 at California Speedway. Rudd will run a special scheme, the #88 Snickers Generation Max Ford Fusion.

Motorsports Authentics, the leader in the design, promotion, marketing and distribution of licensed motorsports merchandise, and SIRIUS Satellite Radio, the Official Satellite Radio Partner of NASCAR, announced today the creation of NASCAR Collector, a new one-hour weekly radio show that will focus on the NASCAR collector and fans with special interests in racing memorabilia.