Jimmie Johnson’s victory of the Chevy Rock & Roll 400 at Richmond International Raceway clinched the 2007 Manufacturers’ Championship for Chevrolet in NASCAR’s premier division. With ten races left in the season, Chevrolet has collected its 31st Manufacturers’ crown since 1952.

Roush Fenway Racing officials have been looking for a way around NASCAR’s four-car cap rule ever since it was introduced at the end of the 2005 season. Their alliance with Robert Yates Racing appears to be the answer. Roush Fenway Racing, which already shared an engine program with RYR, will expand its relationship in 2008 [...]

As the laps wound down in last night’s Chevy Rock and Roll 400, Dale Earnhardt Jr. raced side by side with Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon and had a shot at winning the race until - in news familiar to his fans - the No. 8 car blew its engine.

Tony Gibson, who substituted as the crew chief for #8-Dale Earnhardt Jr. earlier this year and was crew chief for Michael Waltrip at the end of the 2005 season at Dale Earnhardt Inc., will be the crew chief for Regan Smith next year. Gibson replaced Tony Eury Jr., who is heading to Hendrick Motorsports with [...]

Richard Childress said Friday that Tom Hicks [owner of MLB's Texas Rangers] is “doing due diligence on our sport” and confirmed that he invited Hicks and members of his family to last Sunday’s race at California. “They wanted to look at our sport,” Childress said. “I think it would be great if they wanted to [...]

Just in time for next year’s Daytona 500, Florida race fans should be able to buy NASCAR license plates. Gov. Charlie Crist and the state Cabinet are scheduled to vote Sept. 19 on the design of a new NASCAR plate.
If all goes well, the plates will go on sale in January. The extra cost per [...]