So far this year, the NASCAR Craftsman Truck series has been Kyle Busch’s playground.
The 23-year-old Sprint Cup star, moonlighting in trucks and the Nationwide Series in the early part of the season, grabbed his second truck victory in three tries this year, winning the American Commercial Lines 200 on Friday night.

Jack Roush is ready to take a polygraph exam to prove there was no intent or knowledge that his No. 99 team tried to cheat last week at Las Vegas.
The owner of Roush Fenway Racing was visually upset Friday that his driver, Carl Edwards, and crew chief, Bob Osborne, were accused of purposely rigging an [...]

Jeff Gordon, bouncing back from a hard crash in Las Vegas, felt a whole lot better Friday night after winning the pole for the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. isn’t buying two theories: The first, that a bolt just happened to break, allowing for the oil reservoir tank lid to become loose on Carl Edwards’ car last week at Las Vegas. And the second, that he should be credited with the win for finishing second to Edwards, whose car failed inspection.

FIN, ST, CAR, DRIVER, MAKE, SPONSOR, PTS/BNS, LAPS, STATUS, WINNINGS
1 3 51 Kyle Busch Toyota Miccosukee Resort & Gaming 190/5 130 Running 55,050
2 1 33 Ron Hornaday Chevrolet Camping World/ RVs.com 180/10 130 Running 42,075
3 12 5 Mike Skinner Toyota Toyota Tundra 170/5 130 Running 26,145
4 15 88 Matt Crafton Chevrolet Energizer / Menards 160/0 130 Running 17,335
5 2 8 Chad McCumbee Chevrolet Malcolmson Construction [...]

Sprint Nextel may be a takeover target, according to one of the nation’s largest investment banking firms. Deutsche Telekom, owner of T-Mobile and the world’s sixth largest phone company, may consider acquiring Overland Park-based Sprint to block a price war in the mobile phone industry, analysts for Merrill Lynch said today.

Two-time NASCAR Nationwide Series champion Martin Truex Jr. will compete in the #5 National Guard Chevy for JR Motorsports next weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway, joining a list of top-tier drivers who have driven or will drive the car this year.
This will mark the fourth time Truex will drive a JR Motorsports entry He scored [...]

Lee White, GM for Toyota Racing Development, said Carl Edwards’ team knowingly caused a lid to come loose on an oil tank in his Ford because it increased the car’s speed during Sunday’s victory at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Edwards was penalized 100 points by NASCAR for the missing cover.

With rain falling Friday morning and a rough outlook for the remainder of the day at Atlanta Motor Speedway, several Sprint Cup teams will again be looking at the sky hoping for a dry or wet track.
Qualifying for Sunday’s Kobalt Tools 500 is scheduled for 6:45 p.m. EST, and the National Weather Service predicts 100 [...]

Paving of the racing surface at Darlington Raceway has been completed, track President Chris Browning announced. “This begins a new chapter in the history books at Darlington Raceway,” said Browning. “We are very excited to be finished with the paving so that we can now focus on preparing for the upcoming Dodge Challenger 500 [...]