Mark Martin will race in 26 Sprint Cup events in 2008, including 24 point races and two non-point events. Martin will kick off the 2008 season and his tenure in the No. 8 U.S. Army/Dale Earnhardt Inc. Chevrolet with his record-extending 20th-consecutive Budweiser Shootout. Highlights of Martin’s 2008 schedule include the 50th running of the [...]

UPDATE:
Jimmie Johnson again paced the 25 Sprint Cup teams at preseason testing at Daytona International Speedway on Monday afternoon, turning a fast lap of 184.672 mph in the No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet.

Dale Earnhardt, Jr flew down from his home in North Carolina to Daytona International Speedway for the day so he could observe the first day of testing of his Hendrick teammates.

Crew chief Ryan Pemberton said philosophical differences led him to leave Dale Earnhardt Inc. and join Michael Waltrip Racing in December.
Pemberton had been crew chief for Mark Martin, and the driver often said last season that as long as he was driving “Ryan’s cars,” he’d be happy. But Pemberton said he never felt as if [...]

The following drivers are expected to participate in the first test session (Jan. 7-9):
AJ Allmendinger (No. 84 Red Bull Toyota)
Aric Almirola (No. 8 U.S. Army Chevrolet)
Greg Biffle (No. 16 3M Ford)
Clint Bowyer (No. 07 Jack Daniel’s Chevrolet)
Kurt Busch (No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge)

Jimmie Johnson said he expects to have two new tire changers with his Hendrick Motorsports team in 2008. Rear-tire carrier Ron Malec, the car chief, remains with the #48 team as does Kenneth Purcell, who was jacking the car during the latter part of 2007. Front-tire carrier Art Simmons also will return, a team spokesman [...]

Jimmie Johnson crushed the competition for DRIVER OF THE YEAR – 2007, much like he trampled his rivals on the way to his second-straight NASCAR Nextel Cup Series Championship.

Twenty-five teams are at Daytona International Speedway for the first session of NASCAR Sprint Cup testing.
The teams are using the same wing-restrictor plate combination that was used at Talladega Superspeedway in October. The rear wing angle will be 10 degrees, and the holes in the restrictor plate are 31/32nds of an inch in diameter. The [...]

A U.S. federal court judge has ruled in favor of NASCAR over Kentucky Speedway in the track’s anti-trust lawsuit against NASCAR and International Speedway Corp.

Did Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s decision to leave Dale Earnhardt Inc. and go to Hendrick Motorsports ultimately come down to do a matter of timing?
Nothing about the biggest NASCAR story in 2007 was that simple. But two people who worked directly at keeping the sport’s most popular driver at DEI said things might have turned out [...]