Kenny Wallace will be driving the #88 Snickers Ford at Dover, Ricky [Rudd] told Friday the team he won’t be healed enough by Dover to race.
After that it is still a race by race decision, making sure Rudd is healed enough not to put himself in a worse position in case of another accident.

Levi Strauss has notified Hendrick Motorsports driver Jimmie Johnson that it will not continue its personal services agreement with him beyond the 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup season, according to the SportsBusiness Journal.

Denny Hamlin caught NASCAR by surprise last season, quietly winning two races and finishing third in the standings, the first rookie to make the Chase for the championship.
This year, he has spoken out to force pit crew changes, refused to back down to teammate Tony Stewart and proclaimed himself a title contender. He’s also spent [...]

UPDATE 2:
Earnhardt is expected to announce Pepsi’s Amp energy drink as his new sponsor Wednesday; but Jeff Gordon hinted that it might be otherwise: “Have you tried the Jeff Gordon Energy Drink by Pepsi? There’s a huge investment there.”
[Editor's Note: Hard to believe Jr's sponsor is going to be a Jeff Gordon product...we'll find [...]

ON TODAY’S RACE:
JIMMIE JOHNSON: “Really today was a race for second spot. The No. 07 was so much better than everybody else. Obviously big congratulations to Clint (Bowyer) for winning his first one. There were times when I felt like we could run second and beat the No. 24 and the No. 20. Then other [...]

Clint Bowyer, No. 07 Jack Daniel’s Impala SS, scored his career-first NASCAR Nextel Cup Series (NNCS) win in dominating fashion leading six times for 222 laps in the Sylvania 300.
Starting from the pole, Bowyer was clearly the class of the field in his Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet scoring the 20th win for Chevrolet in 2007 [...]

ELLIOTT SADLER (No. 19 Dodge Dealers/UAW Dodge Avenger)
“Yeah, a long day. Our alternator quit and it made our batteries dead. It kind of hurt us there at the end; lost a couple of laps changing that. We ran a little bit better than we did at Richmond. We’re making process, but we are pretty impatient. [...]

MATT KENSETH — No. 17 DeWalt Ford Fusion (Finished 7th)
“I wish we would have finished a little better, but we ran a lot better today so I’m pretty happy with that. We need to run better than that, obviously, to contend for a championship but we ran pretty good. Our speed was pretty good, it’s [...]

David Reutimann began the race 20th in the No. 00 Burger King Camry and ended up 26th. AJ Allmendinger, driver of the No. 84 Red Bull Camry, finished 33rd after starting 39th. Dave Blaney started 10th and finished 35th in the No. 22 Caterpillar Camry. Brian Vickers, driver of the No. 83 Red Bull Camry, [...]

For a few frightening minutes, all the smiles that came with a third-place finish at New Hampshire had disappeared off the faces of Tony Stewart’s No. 20 teammates.
After rolling the car into the postrace inspection bay in the New Hampshire International Speedway garage, the crew was suddenly faced with some sobering news: The left front [...]