Mark Martin showed that age doesn’t matter as he led 195 of 267 laps at Chicagoland Speedway to win the Lifelock 400. “Rick Hendrick, he wouldn’t quit,” Martin said of the team owner who coaxed him back to full-time driving this year. “I was persuaded to do it. And I can’t believe what an idiot [...]

Roush Fenway driver Greg Biffle thinks that ‘some’ drivers in Sprint Cup are ‘pushing the envelope’ when it comes to safe driving as he was asked on his thoughts on last weekends’ Coke Zero 400 at Daytona. “I can tell you one thing, you can get hurt in these cars. It hurts when you crash [...]

Last week there was a call placed to Ford Motor Company’s Brian Wolfe in Dearborn, Mich., to get an idea where those boys at the Blue Oval were going with their stock-car racing program. Ford, he says, drafted a slimmed down business plan under the company’s new CEO Alan Mulally, and yes, cuts were made [...]

Red Bull Racing Vice President and General Manager Jay Frye will travel to Austria next week for his semi-annual meeting with his team owner and sponsor’s upper management. During that time, Frye said he will try to nail down a number of details for 2010, including a deal with an automaker, a contract for Brian [...]

Hearing Yates Racing will clean house with its current driver roster at the end of the season. After the example that Tony Stewart has set at Stewart-Haas Racing on how a satellite operation should be run, is there any question why Jack Roush would not consider unloading Bobby Labonte and Paul Menard, who are 27th [...]

It’s been a tough road for former Yates driver David Gilliland this season. Gilliland, who was 21st in the No 28 Ford for Doug Yates at this juncture last year, has qualified for every race in the No 71 TRG Motorsports Chevy. Gilliland has been a loyal soldier in the start-n-park venture and is currently [...]