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Billy Ballew has been an owner in the Truck Series since 1996 and began racing full time in it in 2002.

Billy Ballew Motorsports' Kyle Busch celebrates with a burnout after winning Friday night's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Texas Motor Speedway.

Jeff Gordon is suddenly having all kind of success at Texas Motor Speedway, a track where he had never won until earlier this season.

Matt Crafton topped the qualifying charts on Thursday to take the pole for the WinStar World Casino 350 Camping World Truck Series race at Texas Motor Speedway.

If there's one thing about the Talladega Superspeedway that is the most expected, it is that the unexpected will happen.

By ANTHONY ANDRO If Jimmie Johnson's racing in the Dickies 500 is nothing more than a Sunday drive for the likely Sprint Cup champion, what's Ron Hornaday's night going to be like Friday in the WinStar World Casino 350?If he has anything to do with it, it's not going to be any different than the first 22 races in the NASCAR Camping World Truck ...

The eighth race in the "Chase for the Sprint Cup" championship moves to Texas Motor Speedway this weekend.

Kevin Harvick drives the No. 33 at Talladega on Monday. NASCAR Nationwide Series teams are on the track today at Talladega Superspeedway for a one-day test session to try out the Nationwide version of the COT.

Another Talladega race, another wild and dangerous finish. So it goes every time the Sprint Cup Series visits the Alabama track, where upside down stock cars and a boring first 180 laps or so are about as inevitable as death and taxes.

The field spent most of the race single file, afraid to race for fear of being penalized, or being wrecked.

NASCAR red-flagged Sunday's race at Talladega following a spectacular crash involving Ryan Newman with five laps remaining.

He didn't even make it to the first lap. In a bizarre prerace mishap as the drivers were warming up their tires, a problem with Martin's steering box caused him to run into Johnson.

The motorsports technology program at Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem, N.C., has been renamed Richard Childress Race Car Technology at Forsyth Tech.

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series drivers compete in the Nextera Energy Resources 250 at Daytona International Speedway in February.

Hendrick Motorsports' Jeff Gordon does a burnout after winning at Talladega Superspeedway in 2007.

Barring a miracle or a catastrophe, depending on your point of view Jimmie Johnson is in the process of putting the finishing touches on his fourth straight Sprint Cup championship and wrapping up one of the dullest, least competitive championship races in the history of NASCAR's Chase For The Sprint Cup.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Brad Keselowski held off points leader Kyle Busch on the final lap to win the Kroger On Track For the Cure 250 in a green-white-checker finish in Saturday's Nationwide Series race at Memphis Motorsports Park.

Seven drivers who hail from California took the green flag at Martinsville on Sunday afternoon after rain washed out Happy Hour on Saturday.

"It's the same stuff over and over again," said Johnson, who widened his lead to 118 points over Mark Martin with a runner-up finish to Hamlin in Sunday's Tums Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway.

Stewart-Haas Racing's Ryan Newman earned his second pole of the season at Martinsville Speedway Friday.