KYLE BUSCH, No. 18 Interstate Batteries Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing
Finished: 4th
Can you assess your second race of the season? “It’s a good championship point’s day. It was pretty cool out there to run the way we did in our Interstate Batteries Toyota. Unfortunately we didn’t have quite the car to get up there and [...]

A week after challenging two race records at the Daytona 500, the new car being used in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series once again boosted competition at the front of the field — this time at the Auto Club Speedway.
The record for lead changes at the Auto Club Speedway toppled Monday, as a total of [...]

THE MODERATOR: We’ll roll into our post-race press conference here for the Auto Club 500. Right now our race runner-up Jimmie Johnson, driver of the No. 48 Lowe’s Chevrolet. I’m told that in 11 races here at this particular speedway, Jimmie has seven top-10 finishes. Very impressive statistics. He moves now into eighth place [...]

Jimmie Johnson admits that skipping the first test of NASCAR’s new car at Atlanta Motor Speedway might have allowed some other teams to gain ground on the Hendrick Motorsports program. Not that the team isn’t catching up quickly.
Johnson said that when his team arrived at Auto Club Speedway, it was a little off with [...]

Jeff Gordon will run the special #24 DuPont Nicorette Chevy paint scheme for the first of six races in 2008 at Sunday’s UAW-Dodge 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. “It is rewarding to be involved with a sponsor such as Nicorette that focuses on making a difference in people’s lives and helping people achieve better [...]

Tony Stewart was dominant Monday in winning his second straight NASCAR Nationwide Series race, holding off hard-charging Kyle Busch again.

MATT KENSETH — No. 17 Carhart Ford Fusion — (finished 5th)
“We got the sun today and I felt a little bit better about it. We were just off all weekend. We really didn’t get enough practice time to figure out what we needed to fix. We really struggled with it all day, but we had [...]

It didn’t matter to Team Chevy drivers how long it took to run the Auto Club 500 at Auto Club Speedway of Southern California (ACSSC), formerly California Speedway, they were there to contend for the win.
Hendrick Motorsports (HMS) teammates Jimmie Johnson, No. 48 Lowe’s Impala SS who started on the pole and Jeff Gordon, No. [...]

KASEY KAHNE (No. 9 Budweiser Dodge Charger)
ON THE RACE: “We had a great car. The team did a good job. We had good pit stops. Everything was nice. That final run we were a top-four car and just got the car loosened up a little too much — maybe a slippery set of tires, maybe [...]

FIN, ST, CAR, DRIVER, MAKE, SPONSOR, PTS/BNS, LAPS, STATUS, WINNINGS
1 2 20 Tony Stewart Toyota Z-Line Designs 195/10 150 Running 77,245
2 14 32 Kyle Busch Toyota Beringer Vineyards 175/5 150 Running 62,350
3 6 33 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet RoadLoans.com 170/5 150 Running 50,800
4 5 99 David Reutimann Toyota Aaron’s Dream Machine 160/0 150 Running 45,643
5 3 60 Carl Edwards Ford Scotts Miracle-Gro 155/0 150 Running 35,700