NASCAR News

NBC Sports Group announced today that Rick Allen has signed a multi-year agreement to serve as the lead race announcer for NBC's upcoming NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series coverage, beginning in 2015.

Kurt Busch and Furniture Row Racing set the bar for small Sprint Cup teams with what they accomplished in 2013.

Every year, there are a handful of drivers in the Sprint Cup Series who have their breakout.

Longtime motorsports announcer Paul Page will return to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network as its lead announcer next season.

The FIA, international motorsports' governing body, released its 2014 calendar Wednesday, placing the U.S. Grand Prix in Austin on Nov. 2. That's the same day as the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, a three-hour drive from Austin.

Even as Jimmie Johnson speeds through Champion's Week and enjoys his coronation in Las Vegas, the focus of those who compete in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and those who follow it, even peripherally, already has begun to move toward 2014.

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With Michael Annett leaving for a Sprint Cup ride with Tommy Baldwin Racing, Richard Petty Motorsports has signed Dakoda Armstrong to a multiyear contract to succeed Annett in the No.

An announcement to confirm what everyone already knows is scheduled for next week in a North Carolina hamlet that briefly will become a destination for NASCAR's media corps.

One day after getting a part-time, on-track job with Michael Waltrip Racing for the 2014 season, veteran NASCAR driver Jeff Burton has landed yet another job.

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NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion Jimmie Johnson, and Miss Sprint Cup Brooke Werner pose for a photo at the 'Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas' sign on in Las Vegas, Nevada.

This 2005 Porsche Carrera GT is the same make and model that Paul Walker and Roger Rodas were in when they died in a Valencia crash on Nov. 30, 2013.

The 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup season began with a celebration by Jimmie Johnson and ended with another one by Johnson, who earned his sixth championship.

Ryan Reed, 20, of Bakersfield, Calif., is chasing his dream to become a top NASCAR driver.

Bryan Clauson won 26 features in midgets and sprint cars in national events and his second straight USAC National Sprint Car championship this year.

Swan Racing announced Tuesday that it will expand to two teams in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in 2014 with drivers Parker Kligerman and Cole Whitt.

Winning NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series Rookie of the Year award is better than not doing so, but overall it doesn't mean much in NASCAR's big picture.

He had already kissed the bricks as the Indianapolis 500 winner. It was time to plant one on his image on the Borg-Warner Trophy.

Talladega Superspeedway is the latest NASCAR track to find a way to keep its television "partners" from showing all those empty seats during Sprint Cup races next year: The track in eastern Alabama is razing the 18,000-seat Allison Grandstand, the large section of backstretch seats that are no longer needed.