FIN, ST, CAR, DRIVER, MAKE, SPONSOR, PTS/BNS, LAPS, STATUS, WINNINGS
1 1 07 Clint Bowyer Chevrolet Jack Daniel’s 195/10 300 Running 259,175
2 18 24 Jeff Gordon Chevrolet DuPont 170/0 300 Running 206,086
3 6 20 Tony Stewart Chevrolet The Home Depot 170/5 300 Running 173,186
4 12 5 Kyle Busch Chevrolet CARQUEST / Kellogg’s 165/5 300 Running 135,450
5 2 1 Martin Truex Jr. Chevrolet Bass Pro Shops / [...]

Clint Bowyer picked the perfect time to win his first ever Nextel Cup race…the first race of The Chase at Loudon, New Hampshire which vaults him from 12th in the Chase standings to 4th.
Bowyer started from the pole in the Sylvania 300 and led the most laps to take his first victory in Nascar’s top [...]

Former Indianapolis 500 and Indy Racing League champion Buddy Lazier will make his NASCAR debut in the Sept. 22 Craftsman Truck Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway driving for Billy Ballew Motorsports.
Lazier has some experience in Trucks, having taken part in a test session with Ballew at Charlotte in 2005, and also competed four [...]

Kentucky Speedway officials are interested in buying New Hampshire International Speedway and moving one of the track’s two Nextel Cup dates to the Bluegrass state.
Jerry Carroll, the chairman of Kentucky Speedway, visited with NHIS owner Bob Bahre during Sunday’s race.
“We love this sport,” said Carroll, who first expressed an interest in NHIS two years ago. [...]

POS, CAR, DRIVER, MAKE, SPONSOR, SPEED, TIME, BEHIND
1 07 Clint Bowyer Chevrolet Jack Daniel’s 130.412 29.206 Leader
2 1 Martin Truex Jr. Chevrolet Bass Pro Shops / Tracker 130.255 29.241 -0.035
3 2 Kurt Busch Dodge Miller Lite 130.011 29.296 -0.090
4 48 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet Lowe’s 129.798 29.344 -0.138
5 12 Ryan Newman Dodge Mobil 1 129.723 29.361 -0.155

A team source at Richard Childress Racing said Saturday that contrary to Internet rumors making the rounds, the team has not signed David Reutimann and has nothing definite on a possible fourth car. Although Reutimann has struggled considerably as a rookie with the start-up Toyota Nextel Cup operation, he’s outperformed his more famous teammates, Michael [...]

NASCAR hopes to inject new life into its Busch Series by changing the types of cars raced, beginning as early as 2009, according to multiple sources familiar with the project. If plans go according to schedule, the next-generation Busch Series cars will be Chevy Camaros, Dodge Challengers, Ford Mustangs and an as-yet-to-be named Toyota model, [...]

NASCAR rookie Juan Pablo Montoya has a unique perspective on the current scandal in Formula One, where his former McLaren team has been fined $100 million and docked all of its constructor points for cheating.
Montoya, who was alienated from the F1 team before leaving late last year to make the move to stock cars, said [...]

NASCAR is working on contingency plans for next season as it has yet to secure a sponsor for its Busch Series.
“We’ll have that series regardless of whether a new sponsor is obtained,” said Jim Hunter, NASCAR’s vice president for corporate communications.

A possible merger between Gillett Evernham Motorsports and Petty Enterprises would benefit both teams from a competition standpoint, Petty vice president of racing operations Robbie Loomis said Saturday. In a season of mergers, GEM and Petty are just the latest to talk about combining their teams and resources.