Nationwide Series driver Bobby Hamilton Jr. said Team Rensi Motorsports [#25 Ford] will close its doors in December if a new sponsor to replace Smithfield Foods isn’t found by then. Efforts to reach team president Ronnie Russell were unsuccessful, but a source close to the team confirmed Hamilton Jr.’s statements.

Greg Biffle began the Chase for the Cup as a longshot.
At best.
Winless for almost a year and seeded a distant ninth in the 12-driver field, few considered him a serious contender. But “The Biff” never counted himself out, believing a strong run Sunday in the opener at New Hampshire Motor Speedway would put him in [...]

Launching a new era in its relationship with NASCAR, UPS today announced it would join Roush Fenway Racing for the 2009 campaign and rely on driving standout David Ragan to push the colors of “Big Brown” into Victory Lane. Ragan will race the #6 UPS Ford Fusion next season in a significantly revitalized UPS motorsports [...]

Over a two-year period from December 2004 to January 2006, Ron Hornaday, the defending champion of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, received shipments of testosterone and human growth hormone from an anti-aging center that has been linked to drug-related scandals in the NFL and Major League Baseball.
Ron Hornaday, who admitted his past use of performance-enhancing [...]

Robby Gordon said he still wants to merge with Gillett-Evernham Motorsports, despite a suit just filed against him by Gillett-Evernham. Gordon, who has been using engines supplied by Gillett-Evernham this season, said he expects to have a legal response in the next few days to the lawsuit filed against him by the Ray Evernham-George Gillett [...]

Midway through Sunday’s race at Richmond International Raceway, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kyle Busch found themselves battling for the lead - much the same way the two were in May when Busch ran into Earnhardt Jr. and neither won the race.
This time, it was Earnhardt Jr. who sent Busch spinning and out of contention for [...]

Double NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson held off Tony Stewart over the final 10 laps and won his second consecutive race with victory at Richmond, Virginia on Sunday.
Johnson overtook Martin Truex with 33 laps to go, yielded the lead briefly to Stewart, then regained it for his fourth victory of the season.

UPDATE:
The struggles in the U.S. automobile sales market are trickling down to racing, with the latest blow coming to the Craftsman Truck Series. Dodge will not provide any financial support to any teams in the series in 2009, Dodge Motorsports senior manager Mike Delahanty said.
“We’ll have no factory-funded teams,” Delahanty told ESPN.com. “When times are [...]

NASCAR has postponed the Chevy Rock & Roll 400 from Saturday night to 1 p.m. EDT Sunday at Richmond International Raceway because of the threat of Tropical Storm Hanna, series officials announced Friday. The officials canceled qualifying for both the Sprint Cup and Nationwide series races Friday as well.

Gillett Evernham Motorsports has filed suit against Robby Gordon, claiming the owner/driver of Robby Gordon Motorsports violated terms of a tentative agreement that would have sold his team to GEM for $23.5 million earlier this year.
The agreement, arrived at Jan. 29, was pending an audit and other due diligence from GEM, which could have adjusted [...]