Casey Mears’ Chevrolet was found to be too low in the rear during postrace inspection following Saturday night’s Budweiser Shootout at Daytona International Speedway.

Fun.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. had himself a bucketful of it Saturday night at Daytona International Speedway, kicking off his career as a Hendrick Motorsports driver in the best way possible with a victory in the Budweiser Shootout.
“I had a blast those last few laps,” Earnhardt Jr. said, speaking of the three-lap run following a late yellow [...]

UPDATE 3:
Tony Stewart hit Kurt Busch with more than his car on Friday night at Daytona International Speedway.
The two-time Sprint Cup champion also hit Busch with his fist inside a NASCAR hauler, sources close to the situation confirmed on Saturday.

Coke Zero is taking the driver’s seat as the new title sponsor of the July Sprint Cup Series race at the Daytona International Speedway. Officially, the race will be entitled the “Coke Zero 400 Powered By Coca-Cola.” To bring NASCAR fans closer to the sport they love and create excitement about the race, Coke Zero [...]

Seven drivers will go to the rear of the field prior to the start of tonight’s Budweiser Shootout, including polesitter Kurt Busch.

Drivers are still talking about how the new car [COT] won’t turn like the old car and crew chiefs are doing everything they can to make it turn. Since last fall, teams have been spending a lot of man-hours working on fine-tuning the front end geometry of the new car in an effort to produce [...]

Instead of racing in places like Monaco or hobnobbing with the European elite, Speed will now be checking out the sites in such exotic locales as DuQuoin, Illinois or Berlin, Michigan. Speed will spend this season competing full-time in the ARCA Series.

ON WHAT HAPPENED? “I got turned by the No. 07 car. He crowded me and I didn’t give him a whole lot of room, but it was six laps into practice so I didn’t think it was that big of deal. He just didn’t find the middle pedal when he needed to.”