Mike MacKenzie News

This season was supposed to have the most competitive title race since the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship format began six years ago.

NASCAR assessed a 50-point penalty to both driver Martin Truex, Jr. and car owner Teresa Earnhardt and fined crew chief Kevin Manion $50,000 after Truex's No.1 Chevrolet failed post-race inspection last Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway.

Kurt Busch was a little late getting to Victory Lane on Sunday night because his Dodge ran out of gas during his celebratory lap around the Texas Motor Speedway.

Two-time Nationwide Series champion Kevin Harvick returns to the No. 33 Jimmy John's Chevrolet this weekend at Texas Motor Speedway, looking for his fifth career Nationwide Series win in 11 starts at the 1.5-mile track.

Earnhardt Ganassi Racing will stay with Chevrolet as the manufacturer for its racing teams next season, ending a courtship with Toyota, multiple sources said Sunday.

For James Buescher, the 2010 NASCAR season will be a busy one, as he's going to run full-time in the Nationwide Series with James Finch's PhoenixA Racing and also run 19 races for Turner Motorsports, LLC in the Truck Series.

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

Richard Childress Racing announced Friday at Texas Motor Speedway that 19-year-old John Wes Townley will join the team in the NASCAR Nationwide Series for the 2010 season.

Kyle Busch is going for a sweep of the three races at Texas Motor Speedway this weekend, and he hurdled his first major obstacle Friday night.

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

A picture of NASCAR drivers Matt Crafton and David Gilliland. Matt Crafton sits on the pole for Friday night's Camping World Truck Series race in Texas.

IRL has scored a new sponsor amid concerns that ultra-popular US driver Danica Patrick is about to leave the series.

One of the coolest things about the Texas Motor Speedway race is watching the winner fire pistols in victory lane while wearing a cowboy hat.

In 298 previous starts in NASCAR's Camping World Truck Series, owner Billy Ballew never had gotten a 1-2 finish from his teams.

The main storyline coming from Talladega Superspeedway wasn't the final result, but how NASCAR exposed itself to more controversy after tweaking the rules in hopes of better and safer restrictor- plate racing.

Jimmie Johnson said his strategy for the AMP Energy 500 "backfired." But the leader in the Chase for the Sprint Cup virtually locked up his fourth consecutive NASCAR championship anyway, thanks to a shrewd move by crew chief Chad Knaus.

Jimmie Johnson last started from the pole at Talladega Superspeedway in 2002, as the points leader, lined up next to Mark Martin.

The former attorney for Jeremy Mayfield said he has yet to be paid for defending the suspended NASCAR driver.

Kyle Busch used a generous bump from teammate Aric Almirola a few hundred yards from the finish to win the NASCAR Camping World Trucks race at Talladega Superspeedway on Saturday.

Jimmie Johnson will start from the pole based on points after rain forced officials to cancel qualifying for Sunday's Cup race.