Carl Edwards News

THE MODERATOR: Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you so much for coming. We have a very special announcement today from Goodyear and NASCAR.

NASCAR will run its longest race of the season Sunday night and being in optimal physical condition could pay off at the end of the 600-mile race.

Edwards is an active member of the President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition , for goodness' sake.

NASCAR is a sport that builds for the finish. The finish is all that really counts in a NASCAR race.

This is Tony Stewart's worst start of his career. He sits 21st in points, and for the first time through 11 races, he does not have a top-five finish.

ADVANCE NOTES A Edwards at Charlotte Edwards enters the Coca-Cola 600 second in the series points' standings and will return to Charlotte Motor Speedway for his 17th Sprint Cup career start.

Q: Greg, other than the distance of the race event, what makes the Coca-Cola 600 so challenging to win? Well, certainly the timeframe that you go through for a 600-mile race and how much the track changes, the temperature changes, all those things create a huge factor.

Kurt Busch was leading the NASCAR All-Star race when rain forced a delay 13 laps into it.

Ken Venturi, who overcame dehydration to win the 1964 U.S. Open and spent 35 years in the booth for CBS Sports, died Friday afternoon.

Carl Edwards will start on the pole for the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race after posting the quickest time in Friday's qualifying at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Just three months into the season, Johnson has built a 44-point lead over second place Carl Edwards and is positioning himself for a run at a sixth NASCAR Cup Series championship.

Trickle, who died Thursday at the age of 71 of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, was not particularly successful in a Sprint Cup-level career that covered more than 300 races, but his wins elsewhere were - literally - incalculable.

WHERE HE STANDS: Jimmie Johnson remained in first place for the sixth straight week after Darlington.

The chase to set NASCAR's 12-driver field for 2013 Chase for the Sprint Cup is on.

If you were to build a prototypical NASCAR driver, he'd likely have parts from Tony Stewart, Carl Edwards and Kevin Harvick, among others.

By no means set, the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup field does seem to be taking shape.

"I think there are explosions in almost every episode. Some of the explosions mean that the contestants won, and some of them mean that they failed miserably," says Kal Penn, host of Discovery's competitive reality show for engineers, The Big Brain Theory: Pure Genius .

You know the NASACAR narrative by now: Personality is too vanilla. Has a crew chief who cheats.

Sprint Cup standings DARLINGTON, S.C. -- Want to know who's a lock to make the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup this year? I'll give you six names: Jimmie Johnson , Carl Edwards , Matt Kenseth , Dale Earnhardt Jr.

"We've just got a great team," team president J.D. Gibbs said. "So from top to bottom, drivers, crew chiefs, guys that travel, guys back at the shop, I think that really pays off on the weekend.