Practice 1/Happy Hour (Saturday):
Pos, Car #, Driver, Manu, Time secs, Speed mph, Fast Lap, Laps Run
1 24 Jeff Gordon DuPont/Cromax Pro Chevy 40.096 179.569 1 17
2 99 Carl Edwards Dish Network Ford 40.183 179.180 2 15
3 16 Greg Biffle 3M Ford 40.244 178.909 2 14
4 8 Mark Martin The Principal Financial Group Chevy 40.248 178.891 1 [...]

FIN, ST, CAR, DRIVER, MAKE, SPONSOR, PTS/BNS, LAPS, STATUS, WINNINGS
1 20 51 Kyle Busch Toyota San Bernardino County 195/10 100 Running 62,300
2 4 30 Todd Bodine Toyota Lumber Liquidators 175/5 100 Running 44,550
3 3 23 Johnny Benson Toyota Toyota Certified Used Vehicles 170/5 100 Running 30,320
4 10 60 Terry Cook Toyota wyler.com 160/0 100 Running 21,310
5 1 33 Ron Hornaday Chevrolet Camping World / RVs.com [...]

It doesn’t matter what kind of car Kyle Busch is driving these days, he’s tough to beat.
The 23-year-old racer added a victory Saturday in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Auto Club Speedway to his runner-up finish in the truck race last week at Daytona. He also finished second in the Daytona Nationwide Series [...]

Rain has moved into the area at California Speedway and has stopped Happy Hour practice.
Waiting to see if they’ll finish the session.
UPDATE: The rest of practice was rained out.
Happy Hour practice speeds

Robby Gordon says the future of his Sprint Cup organization could be in jeopardy if the penalties NASCAR levied after the Daytona 500 stand up under appeal.
Gordon was fined 100 driver and 100 owner points for having an unapproved nose cover on his Dodge Charger. Crew chief Frank Kerr was fined $100,000 and suspended for [...]

Jim Beam, sponsor for Robby Gordon Motorsports, has written a letter to NASCAR asking that the sanctioning body consider the team’s appeal of a recent penalty.
Robby Gordon and his NASCAR Sprint Cup team were penalized 100 points, $100,000 and crew chief Frank Kerr was suspended six races following the usage of an unapproved nose at [...]

Could NASCAR’s Labor Day weekend race be going back to the Southeast?
Whether Atlanta Motor Speedway and newly named Auto Club Speedway could end up swapping dates in the fall in future seasons is still to be determined, but both track presidents seem willing to talk about it.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. said Friday his Nationwide Series team won’t appeal the points or money penalty handed down by NASCAR for an infraction discovered at Daytona International Speedway.
But JR Motorsports will appeal the six-week suspension of Chad Walter, crew chief of the team’s No. 5 Chevrolet. The team was docked 50 points and fined $25,000 [...]

For the past 12 years, between the Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series, Reiser was in the midst of the buzz as Kenseth’s crew chief. His adrenalin would be flowing in anticipation of all the calls he would have to make to get his driver into Victory Lane.
“I don’t like it that much,” he said of [...]

Fayetteville, NC native Jimmy Johnson, who ran Hendrick Motorsports from 1986-98, died Friday night following a stroke earlier in the week. Mr. Johnson was 61. Mr. Johnson suffered a stroke about 5:30 a.m. Monday, according to his brother, Billy ‘B.J.’ Johnson. He said Mr. Johnson died about 9 p.m. Friday at Carolinas Medical Center here [...]