Jeff Gordon, No. 24 DuPont Impala SS, avoided numerous potential disasters in the Dodge Dealers 400 to leave round two in the 10-race Chase for the Nextel Cup Series (NNCS) championship on top of the standings, the position he held beginning with the March race at Bristol. When the 12 Chase drivers were re-stacked after [...]

Michael Waltrip finished 15th in his No. 55 NAPA Camry after starting 43rd. The finish is Waltrip’s second top-15 finish of the season. The No. 83 Red Bull Camry of Brian Vickers finished 16th after starting 23rd. David Reutimann finished 18th in the No. 00 Domino’s Camry after starting 13th. The finish is Reutimann’s third [...]

Scott Wimmer has finalized a deal with Richard Childress Racing that will put him in at least 23 Busch Series races in 2008 and position himself for a full-time Nextel Cup ride.
Wimmer will drive 23 races in the No. 29 Holiday Inn car and there’s potential to put him in the No. 2 driven by [...]

Marcos Ambrose’s decision to pass up an opportunity to make his Nextel Cup debut at Dover Sunday was justified when his wife Sonja gave birth to their second child at 3pm in Charlotte, NC. Ambrose finished 20th in the Busch Series race on Saturday in his #59 Kingsford Charcoal Ford Fusion and then flew directly [...]