Nascar’s Rookie of the Year faces a situation most of his counterparts in professional sports won’t next season — unemployment.
Regan Smith, the top first-year driver in the Sprint Cup Series, is one of 116 employees of Dale Earnhardt Inc. whose jobs will disappear as the team merges with Chip Ganassi Racing. Mooresville, North Carolina, the [...]

Former Penske open-wheel driver Sam Hornish Jr. has the team’s full support in his second full season of NASCAR Sprint Cup racing next year.
Hornish, a three-time IndyCar Series champion and winner of the 2006 Indy 500, struggled this season in the No. 77 Dodge Charger in his rookie Cup year, finishing 35th in points and [...]

NASCAR and one of its companies are suing Cessna for damages, saying the aircraft company’s negligence and its faulty plane are responsible for a crash last year that killed five people. The plane that slammed into two houses in Sanford [FL] in July 2007 was “unreasonably dangerous and defective,” and Cessna’s instructions, warnings, inspections and [...]

Dave Blaney knows he’ll be involved in racing in some capacity in 2009, but that’s speaking in general terms. It could be in NASCAR Sprint, Nationwide or Trucks series or it could be as overseer of his 14-year-old son’s super late-model short-track activities. Following the last of 36 Sprint Cup races at Homestead Miami Speedway [...]