Team owner Rick Hendrick thinks NASCAR should not return to Las Vegas Motor Speedway until the retaining wall Jeff Gordon slammed into is improved.
Special barriers are located in the outside walls at Las Vegas. But the track did not install them along the inside wall, which the four-time NASCAR champion hit in the closing laps [...]

Afternoon Session (Tuesday):
Rank, Car#, Driver, Manu, Time, Speed
1 66B Scott Riggs Chevy 27.585 130.506
2 84B A.J. Allmendinger Toyota 27.679 130.063
3 48A Jimmie Johnson Chevy 27.810 129.450
4 43A Bobby Labonte Dodge 27.824 129.385
5 70A Jeremy Mayfield Chevy 27.832 129.348

Jeff Gordon denies Matt Kenseth’s charge that it was Gordon’s “laying back” on a restart Sunday that led to their crash Sunday in the closing laps of the UAW-Dodge 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Gordon was trailing Kenseth on a restart with five laps to go in the race, and when Dale Earnhardt Jr. spun [...]

Ryan Newman on Tuesday repeated his call for a dedicated safety crew that would travel to all NASCAR events and would be able to meet the medical needs of all drivers.

Jim Aust, who has been responsible for Toyota’s motorsports activities in the U.S. for the past 10 years, has announced his retirement. Aust will step down as vice president, motorsports for Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., and president and chief executive officer of TRD, U.S.A. (Toyota Racing Development), on June 31.

Newt Moore has had his suspension reduced from six weeks to two weeks for the No. 1 Phoenix Racing car having a loose oil tank reservoir cover during Nationwide Series qualifying at Daytona on Feb. 15.
The National Stock Car Racing Commission upheld the 25-point penalties for driver Johnny Sauter and team owner James Finch and [...]

Goodyear officials have scheduled a NASCAR Sprint Cup tire test for Monday and Tuesday at the newly paved 1.366-mile Darlington Raceway.
Hendrick Motorsports’ Jeff Gordon, Roush Fenway Racing’s Greg Biffle and Penske Racing’s Ryan Newman are tentatively scheduled to conduct the two-day test.

There is a reason Bruton Smith ranks among the most powerful figures in auto racing. As the Lowe’s Motor Speedway president, Humpy Wheeler, said of Smith, his longtime friend and employer, “He understands leverage better than anybody I’ve ever seen.” Smith has used leverage, power, money and a born salesman’s bulldog drive to build drag [...]

Drivers’ uniforms are plastered with dozens of sponsorship decals, but keep an eye on the shirts of NASCAR TV announcers, because some of them are rumored to be trying to shop around the space for logo rights on their shirts to various racing sponsors — in effect offering to wear a sponsor’s logo during telecasts [...]