Future Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin will get a chance to test their upcoming relationship when both drive for Billy Ballew Motorsports in this weekend’s Kroger 200 Craftsman Truck Series race at Martinsville Speedway.

Former Formula One champion Jacques Villeneuve will attempt to do something this weekend that he has not previously done in his competitive career: Complete a sub-20-second lap.
Villeneuve is entered in the Kroger 200 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race for Bill Davis Racing at Martinsville Speedway, where lap times hover around the 20-second mark.

This is the first season of the ESPN production crew bringing the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series to the ABC broadcast affiliates. These local stations comprise the system of TV delivery that NASCAR mandated for the “Chase For The Championship.” These races must be on broadcast TV nationwide. At least, that was the idea.
Saturday night, the [...]

Q - Aside from the expected beating and banging how hard is Martinsville Speedway on the car itself?
“At Martinsville Speedway you’ll see a lot of brake problems, and next is the rear-end gear. You turn so many RPMs that the rear-end gear ratio heats up real fast. It’s such a short track and you have [...]

The relative dearth of technology also seems to have morphed from detriment to draw for open-wheel drivers accustomed to cars capable of precision steering at 20,000 rpms and laden with telemetry that tells engineers how to adjust the cars. Computer-aided data acquisition is banned by NASCAR, and its ill-handling cars have internal combustion engines employing [...]

The funding has dried up in U.S. open-wheel racing during the 11 years since political infighting split the sport into two major series. In Champ Car this season, Sebastien Bourdais has won $611,000 while marching toward a fourth consecutive championship. Dario Franchitti won $4,017,583 for this year’s IRL IndyCar title.
Of the top 25 drivers in [...]

Shell is leveraging its relationship with Richard Childress Racing (RCR), Kevin Harvick and the No. 29 Shell-Pennzoil car in an effort to drive traffic and sales at Shell branded service stations in the United States. In the one year since the company’s announcement regarding its re-entry into the sport, Shell has created a multitude of [...]

Dario Franchitti - is scheduled to be on the track in Memphis this Wednesday, Oct. 17, for a closed test session, fueling speculation that he will enter the Busch Series Sam’s Town 250 on Oct. 27. Franchitti made a successful stock car debut for Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates (CGRFS) in the ARCA race [...]

Fans of Carl Edwards, driver of the #99 Office Depot Ford in the Nextel Cup Series, have the opportunity to bid on a one-of-a-kind racing firesuit and helmet in an online auction to benefit City of Hope National Medical Center in California.

The Bank of America 500 weekend started out great for Ryan Newman, driver of the No. 12 Alltel Dodge Charger, with his fifth Bud Pole Award this season and his seventh pole at Lowe’s Motor Speedway.
In all three weekend practice sessions, Newman was in the top 10. But everything soured just three laps from the [...]