The NASCAR season is almost upon us. Preseason testing has been held in Daytona with more to come this week in Las Vegas and California. The Daytona 500 is just three weeks away. And already there are plenty of storylines to watch for during the upcoming season:
1. How will Dale Earnhardt Jr. [...]

Soon, NASCAR team transporters will embark on their late-January trek across plains, mountains and deserts — an annual cross-country pilgrimage crucial to a fast start.
For NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and NASCAR Nationwide Series teams, the western swing of NASCAR Preseason Thunder — the sport’s annual preseason test sessions — extends some recent learning curves.
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Stephen Leicht will run a minimum of two NASCAR Nationwide Series races in 2008 for Richard Childress Racing’s (RCR) No. 21 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS team.
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Jacques Villeneuve has cut ties with his long-time manager Craig Pollock just weeks before the start of the 2008 Sprint Cup season. According to the Journal de Montreal, the split was primarily due to Pollock’s personal life going in another direction. However, there are also reports that the two differed on the management of Villeneuve’s [...]

Q – Will this documentary shed some insight on what went on behind the scenes between you and Teresa Earnhardt?
DALE EARNHARDT JR. – “I think everybody has a different idea of how things might have been. Whatever you’ll see, that’s what happened. I don’t think it’s really going to answer a lot of questions about [...]

International Speedway Corp. has interest in the Denver market but isn’t close to securing a site, a company official said Thursday.
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NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt Jr. is the focus of a new television series on ESPN, Dale Jr. – Shifting Gears, premiering prior to next month’s opening of the 2008 NASCAR season. The five-part series chronicles Earnhardt’s move from Dale Earnhardt Inc., the team founded by his father, to Hendrick Motorsports, in the NASCAR Sprint Cup [...]

Ford isn’t giving up on NASCAR. After a dismal 2007 season that saw the manufacturer win only seven Nextel Cup races - to Chevrolet’s 26 - Ford officials made a point Thursday to show their commitment to the newly named Sprint Cup. Edsel Ford II, a member of Ford’s board of directors and the great-grandson [...]

As Fox Sports prepares to begin its eighth year of NASCAR coverage, the network revs its engine with the unveiling of 2008 NASCAR on Fox broadcast schedule. Prior to exclusive, live coverage of the 50th Daytona 500 on Sunday, Feb. 17, Fox Sports hits the gas on its coverage with night racing from Daytona International [...]

Race fans are invited to watch the cars and stars of NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series Monday and Tuesday as Las Vegas Motor Speedway conducts the annual NASCAR Preseason Thunder Las Vegas test session. The grandstands will be open to the public and fans are invited to watch their favorite drivers test the new Car of [...]