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Justin Allgaier set some lofty goals for his first season in the Nationwide Series, and they're within his reach moving into its second half Friday with the Dollar General 300 at Chicagoland Speedway.

What: LifeLock.com 400, 19th of 36 races for NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series. Where: Chicagoland Speedway, 1.5-mile oval in Joliet, Ill.

All Times EDT NASCAR LifeLock.com 400 Site: Joliet, Ill. Schedule: Thursday, practice , qualifying ; Friday, practice ; Saturday, race, 8 p.m. . Track: Chicagoland Speedway .

NASCAR feeling economic pinch as Joliet race is non-sellout SLOWING THE PACE The race Saturday would be only the second non-sellout at Joliet, a sign of a troubling economy.

It's a busy weekend of racing as the NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series head to Chicago, while the IndyCar Series takes to the streets of Toronto and Formula One returns to action in Germany.

Play-by-play announcer Bill Weber will not call the last two races of TNT's NASCAR coverage.

Clint Bowyer knows how to win. His 10 combined victories in NASCAR's three national touring series -- Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Camping World Trucks -- along with his 2008 Nationwide Series championship, attest to that.

In one sense, tonight's Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway marks both the halfway point and a new beginning to the 2009 Sprint Cup Series season.

LAP 107: Top five - Tony Stewart, Denny Hamlin, Kyle Busch, Kurt Busch, Jeff Burton.

What: Coke Zero 400, 18th of 36 races for NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series. Where: Daytona International Speedway, 2.5-mile oval in Daytona Beach, Fla.

Clint Bowyer's first victory of the season gave Richard Childress Racing a much-needed boost.

Kyle Busch endorsed the Nationwide Series using double-file restarts for the first time tonight in the Subway Jalapeno 250 at Daytona International Speedway.

Today, practice ; Friday, qualifying ; Saturday, race, 8 p.m. . TRACK -- Daytona International Speedway .

By SCOTT GOLDSTEIN / The Dallas Morning News sgoldstein@dallasnews.com / The Dallas Morning News Tanya Eiserer contributed to this report.

IndyCar racing's Helio Castroneves narrowly edged NASCAR's Tony Stewart in second-quarter voting for the 2009 Driver of the Year award.

It's been a long five years. Greg Pursley was at the top of the heap in 2004 when he won NASCAR's Weekly Racing series national title while running at Toyota Speedway of Irwindale, the lone driver from the track to take the award.

" Daytona International Speedway, the storied racing circuit that is home to the original Supercross since 1971 -- the longest continuous Supercross event in America -- will host the 2010 Daytona Supercross By Honda on Saturday night, March 6. Top riders in America such as three-time defending champion Chad Reed, James Stewart, Andrew Short and ...

Riding around under caution, and cutting his engine to conserve fuel in a car that was down to its last drops, Joey Logano saw the sprinkles on his windshield and had a question for his spotter.

Double file. Double your fun. NASCAR Sprint Cup racing on the tight mile oval of New Hampshire Motor Speedway shed its old reputation for vanilla races won typically by gaining more positions with quick pit stops than passing race cars on the track.

Rookie Joey Logano benefited from crew chief Greg Zipadelli's gutsy late-race pit strategy for his first Sprint Cup Series victory in Sunday's rain-shortened Lenox Industrial Tools 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.