Petty Enterprises, the winningest organization in NASCAR history, announces Jeff Meendering as the new crew chief of the #43 Cheerios/Betty Crocker Dodge Charger driven by 2000 NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Bobby Labonte.
Meendering, 30, will take over crew chief duties of the 43 team immediately and will see his first on track action with Labonte [...]

Cale Yarborough and Donnie Allison tangle at the end of the 1979 Daytona 500 resulting in fisticuffs between Yarborough and Donnie’s brother Bobby Allison:
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Michael Waltrip, along with all the other 2007 teams that failed to begin the season with “starting-field protection,” experienced tremendous difficulty, and the veteran driver has made a proposal governing the qualifying process.
Waltrip won a pole but made the field for only 14 races and finished in the top 10 only twice.

Turner Sports and TNT have greenlit a reprise of this past NASCAR season’s July 7 Wide Open Coverage race, a television first that featured no commercial interruptions but used branded content for 10 advertisers that appeared sporadically via a small on-screen window.
Trish Frohman, executive vp of Turner Sports sales, said Sprint will definitely return for [...]