Tony Stewart said he is getting closer to determining what he will be doing next season and beyond.
Stewart, who is signed with Joe Gibbs Racing through 2009, is entertaining offers of leaving the organization to go to another team that would include the two-time Cup champion as a team owner.

NASCAR has not received a realignment request from Speedway Motorsports to have a race realigned to Kentucky Speedway, NASCAR spokesman Ramsey Poston said Thursday afternoon.
SMI agreed to purchase the track and SMI Chairman Bruton Smith said he expects to have a Sprint Cup race at the 1.5-mile oval next year. Poston said it is late [...]

Kyle Busch has captured the pole for Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway.
Busch turned in a lap of 185.433 miles per hour today to nose out Kasey Kahne for the pole in NASCAR’s longest race of the season. It’s the third pole of the season for Busch, who also started from the top spot [...]

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The announcement was scheduled to be made next Wednesday, but was pushed up after a disagreement between Wheeler and Bruton Smith, the chairman of Speedway Motorsports Inc. that owns LMS. “The suddenness was not my idea,” Wheeler said. “I would have liked to have stayed around a little bit, just eased out a little easier. [...]

UPDATE:
The Kentucky Speedway in Sparta is being sold to one of professional auto racing’s biggest operators. Speedway Motorsports Inc. of Charlotte, N.C., and its founder and chairman Bruton Smith will announce at 3 p.m. that it is purchasing the speedway in a deal that is expected to close in October.
Terms will not be announced but [...]

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Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Journal estimated the deal at $78 million over three years ($26 million per year). Edwards had recently signed a reported three-year deal that will keep him at Roush Fenway at least through 2011.
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Aflac Incorporated announced its signing of a full-season multi-year primary sponsorship of Roush Fenway Racing driver Carl Edwards and [...]

NASCAR sent a memo to Sprint Cup teams this week putting a limit on the amount of rear adjustment being made to create more sideforce.
Teams have been increasingly adjusting the rear housing in an attempt to close the gap on the No. 99 car of Roush Fenway Racing’s Carl Edwards, who has won three times [...]

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