Joe Gibbs Racing has set a Monday afternoon news conference to announce its driver of the No. 20 Sprint Cup car.
The announcement won’t be a surprise. Eighteen-year-old Joey Logano is expected to be named the driver to replace Tony Stewart, who is leaving to become a driver and co-owner of Stewart-Haas Racing.

Richard Childress might bring the No. 3 back to an RCR vehicle in a NASCAR national touring division when grandson Austin Dillon competes in the series.
Childress said Dillon likely will drive in a Nationwide Series race later this year and possibly could be in the series full time in 2010.
Childress still owns the rights to [...]

NASCAR’s fines to crew chiefs often are considered fines to teams with the belief that the car owners pay them. But Joe Gibbs Racing President J.D. Gibbs said Nationwide Series crew chiefs Dave Rogers and Jason Ratcliff will be responsible for their $50,000 fines plus an in-house fine. Gibbs also will add to the [...]

Scott Wimmer, who combined with Jeff Burton to give Richard Childress Racing the 2007 Nationwide Series owners’ title, isn’t part of the team’s plans for ‘09, he said Thursday.

NASCAR driver Tony Stewart is having a pretty bad week. During the same week Stewart was docked 150 points for his team’s efforts to mask his car’s true horsepower at a recent Nationwide Series race, Stewart also lost a key sponsor. Officials for Subway restaurants this week announced that they are ditching Stewart for [...]

Johnny Sauter has a full schedule in the coming weeks of NASCAR Sprint Cup competition. Sauter will pilot the #08 FUBAR Dodge this week at Bristol and next week at Auto Club Speedway. Then, he will get back behind the wheel of the #70 Haas CNC Racing Chevy for the following two events at Richmond [...]

Q. Are race drivers athletes?
A. No.*
*It doesn’t matter, so stop bickering with the stick-and-ball crowd, will you? Both sides will feel a lot better.
This is an issue that needs settling once and for all.

“Gibbs teams hammered.”
That was the headline on NASCAR.com Wednesday after the sanctioning body dished out its penalties for Joe Gibbs Racing after the stunt it pulled in Saturday’s Nationwide Series post-race inspection at Michigan International Speedway.
The penalties and fines were characterized as some of harshest ever applied in the sport by many of the reports [...]

Lee White President and General Manager TRD, U.S.A. (Toyota Racing Development):
“Over the past several days we have had numerous conversations with Joe and J.D. Gibbs relative to the infractions at Michigan International Speedway in the Nationwide Series post-race inspection.

NASCAR announced that the #18 and #20 teams in the Nationwide Series have been penalized due to rule violations discovered by NASCAR inspectors prior to post-race testing on the chassis dynamometer Aug. 16 at Michigan International Speedway.
Both the #18 and # 20 cars were found to be in violation of Sections 12-4-A (actions detrimental to [...]