NASCAR Nextel Cup News

The Madera Speedway will close out the racing season today with the 3rd Annual Pumpkin Smash Halloween Crash, Bash and Blow Up.

The feel-good story from Friday's qualifying for the Tums Fast Relief 500 has to be the final driver to make it in on time.

Noon: Welcome to the Beast of the Southeast! It's a gray autumn day outside, about 50 degrees and it's not going to get much warmer out here.

As we reported in June, the Ford Mustang is headed to NASCAR's Nationwide series , and the Mustang-bodied race car has now made its first official public appearance at Roush Fenway Racing headquarters in Concord, North Carolina.

Local NASCAR superstar Kasey Kahne will head to Cascade High School in Everett, Wash.

The whole thing seemed so confusing - so off track - when it was introduced in 2004.

Several drivers consider Jimmie Johnson the favorite to win Nextel Cup's Chase for the Championship, even though no driver in NASCAR's Cup-level history has won four championships in a row.

You've got to figure that this was not in Ray Evernham's 10-year plan when he founded a NASCAR team back in 2000 and signed on to ride point in Dodge's Nextel Cup revival effort.

Wisconsin native Matt Kenseth recently talked about what he needs to do to make the Chase for the Nextel Cup and how much fun it is to race at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

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Phil Scott of Montpelier won his 22nd Thunder Road Late Model feature, and Jean-Paul Cyr of Milton was crowned the "King of the Road" after his third-place finish Thursday night at Thunder Road International Speedbowl.

Anyone with debts owed to or by the estate of Master Sgt. Marc Grant, Human Resources Command, must contact Maj.

Six years ago, a blue eyed 24 year old from a small time in Washington burst onto the then NEXTEL Cup Series scene.

Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal Steve Wallace listens to fans questions in the pits prior to qualifying Sunday.

The tradition of having drivers from the Nextel Cup series in town for the TD Banknorth 250 continues this weekend.

STATELINE -- Dale Jarrett called Jeremy Mayfield a 'really good race driver' and said he hated to see what the NASCAR Nextel Cup driver was dealing with.

Fresh from his NASCAR Nextel Cup win Saturday at Daytona, Tony Stewart captured the inaugural Lou Blaney Memorial Classic Tuesday at Sharon Speedway in Hartford, Ohio.

Nextel Cup stars Tony Stewart , Kasey Kahne and Dave Blaney will compete Tuesday in the inaugural Lou Blaney Memorial Classic at Sharon Speedway in nearby Hartford, Ohio.

NASCAR veteran Ken Schrader will be competing with the IMCA Modified division in racing action at RPM Speedway in Hays, KS, on Wednesday evening, August 5. Schrader, who has over 20 years experience in the elite NASCAR division, competes in nearly 100 race events each year, running everything from asphalt superspeedways to dirt short tracks, in ...

NASCAR's premiere shindig--which started out as the Strictly Stock Series--later turned into the Grand National Series before morphing into the Winston Cup Series, followed by the Nextel Cup Series, and then the Sprint Cup Series.