Eric McClure News

AVONDALE, Ariz. - Jimmie Johnson has such a stranglehold on the championship that it's out of reach for every driver besides Mark Martin.

As a driver and a team owner, Kevin Harvick could be doing some serious celebrating following Friday night's Lucas Oil 150 Camping World Truck Series race at Phoenix International Raceway .

Fears that Toyota might pack up its haulers in the NASCAR Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series in the wake of its pulling out of Formula 1 were put to rest this week.

John Scolinos was a quiet man with a soft smile and a lasting legacy. He was a baseball coach with an old-school approach that proved to be successful because of the way he treated his players.

Despite a growing body of evidence that it eventually will happen, nothing's been signed between Danica Patrick and Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s Chevrolet-based JR Motorsports.

The No. 1 Chevrolet driven by Martin Truex Jr. failed a post-race inspection when NASCAR officials found the height of the car was too low.

Jimmie Johnson's drive to history took a hard hit against the wall and Kyle Busch ran out of gas trying to complete an unprecedented NASCAR trifecta.

Busch has won each of his last five truck races, extending the streak that began at Bristol in August on Friday night when he beat Matt Crafton by 0.725 seconds at the 1½-mile, high-banked Texas track.

AP Photo/Mike Fuentes Jeff Gordon sits in his car just before qualifying at the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas, on Friday, Nov.

FOX race analyst Larry McReynolds has more than 25 years of NASCAR experience as a mechanic, crew chief and broadcaster.

Germain Racing's Todd Bodine has five NASCAR Camping World Truck Series victories in 10 starts at Texas Motor Speedway.

Just three races remain in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series, and Jimmy Johnson has all but wrapped up his fourth straight title.

If Jimmie Johnson has a good run at Talladega -- far from a given considering his spotty luck there -- you can basically go ahead and crown him.

Mike and Chrissy Wallace will make history in the Halloween running of the Mountain Dew 250 Truck series race at Talladega Superspeedway, becoming the first fathera 'daughter duo to compete in a national series event in NASCAR.

The $845 million sale of the Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field and other assets from the Tribune Co.

NASCAR officials were hoping their media-created Chase for the Championship would keep sports fans from watching professional and college football on fall weekends.

Brad Keselowski beat Kyle Busch on the final lap Saturday to win the Nationwide Kroger On Track For The Cure 250 auto race at Memphis.

Five races left until the end of the season, or is it fives races left until the death of NASCAR according to some of the fans who are already writing their own obituaries? After cruising the Internet's highways and byways taking in some of the small talk about the current state of the sport, which I did find kind of amusing at times, I couldn't ...

FOX race analyst Larry McReynolds has more than 25 years of NASCAR experience as a mechanic, crew chief and broadcaster.

FOX race analyst Jeff Hammond led Darrell Waltrip to two of DW's three Winston Cup championships as his crew chief.