UPDATE 3: Lowe’s will not renew its naming rights of Lowe’s Motor Speedway when its contract expires after this season. Lowe’s cited changing marketing strategies Thursday as the reason it won’t return in 2010. The home improvement chain signed as sponsor of then-Charlotte Motor Speedway in 1999 in the first major naming rights deal of [...]

Miller Lite Dodge driver Kurt Busch says Sunday’s Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at the Glen is shaping up to be perhaps the rowdiest race of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Racing season. “It is going to be a wild battle, I can guarantee you that,” said Busch, currently fourth in the Sprint Cup point [...]

Q. You struggled with the results of last weekend. Does a week of testing like this give you a chance to regroup with your crew and get focused for the upcoming race? Kyle Busch: “Yeah were looking forward to this weekend in trying to get back. We won here last year, so it’s something familiar [...]

With a trip to historic Watkins Glen International next on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series schedule for Sunday’s Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen, plenty of talk will center on the road-course “experts” who annually challenge the NASCAR regulars on the 2.45-mile circuit. Yet to find the most successful drivers at The Glen, [...]

Kyle Busch joined members of the media on Tuesday night, Aug. 4, 2009 for dinner in Dover. During an interview he was asked about Nationwide plans for next season. “The plan was last year when we were winning all the Nationwide races and running really well. The plan was initially to go full season and [...]

Dodge and Ford will race the Challenger and Mustang, respectively, in the NASCAR Nationwide Series next year, as the series transitions to the “Car of Tomorrow” platform. And as [Auto Week] also reported, Chevy will not race the Camaro, opting to continue with the Impala. [Auto Week] asked Mark Kent, head of General Motors racing [...]