NASCAR News

NASCAR's 'official burger and drive-thru' restaurant, has agreed to back Jay Robinson Racing for eleven races in this season's Busch Series, beginning with the Orbitz 300 at Daytona next weekend.

Furniture Row Racing and Front Row Motorsports will both return to the 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series on a full time basis with single car outfits for Kenny Wallace and Kevin Lepage respectively.

Elliott Sadler will join Scott Riggs and primary driver Kasey Kahne for a 23-race Busch Series campaign behind the wheel of the #9 Ultimate Chargers Dodge.

Ginn Racing has revealed that Panasonic Broadcast will act as primary sponsor on Sterling Marlin's #14 Chevrolet at twelve of the year's Nextel Cup races.

David Gilliland and Juan Montoya had the honour of topping the times as week two of NASCAR's Pre-season Thunder schedule got underway at Daytona.

Mike Wallace will attempt to make the Daytona 500 with James Finch's #09 Phoenix Racing team.

Half way through the traditional pre-season test at Daytona, Jeff Green stands atop the time charts with his Hendrick powered #66 Haas CNC Racing Chevrolet.

The renamed Ginn Racing operation (formerly MB2 Motorsports) have announced that former championship winning crew chief Gary DeHart has joined their expanding roster of staff as director of shop operations.

Juan Pablo Montoya joined fellow NASCAR runners Elliott Sadler and Kurt Busch at the Detroit Motor Show to take the wraps off Dodge's latest addition to the stock car ranks, as the US marque unveiled the Avenger model which will contest the 'Car of Tomorrow' events from 2007.

Bobby Hamilton, the 2004 Craftsman Truck Series champion and owner of the Bobby Hamilton Racing team, has lost his battle with cancer at the age of 49.

BAM Racing have signed a deal with Evernham Motorsports for the supply of engines in 2007, a move that could propel the #49 team back into the top 35 in owner points.

Rocked by Larry Carter's decision to defect to Roush Racing, Michael Waltrip has elected to bring in the largely unheralded Frank Kerr as David Reutimann's crew chief for the 2007 season.

NASCAR veteran Mike Skinner has landed a ride for the Daytona 500 with a third Bill Davis run Toyota Camry, the same team that he has gone to Daytona with for the last two years.

Just weeks after being announced as David Reutimann's crew chief for the 2007 season, Larry Carter has left Michael Waltrip Racing and joined Roush Racing as Jamie McMurray's new crew chief.

NASCAR veteran Ricky Rudd will be back on the Nextel Cup grid full-time in 2007, having agreed to fill the seat at Robert Yates Racing vacated by Toyota-bound Dale Jarrett.

Dale Earnhardt Inc has appointed top music executive Max Siegel as its new president of global operations.

Despite failing to qualify for 16 of the 27 races they attempted in 2006 and only recording two actual race finishes, veteran Derrike Cope and his McGlynn Motorsports team have vowed to return to the tracks in 2007.

The pit crew for newly-crowned Nextel Cup champion Jimmie Johnson has claimed the season-long Checkers/Rally's Double Drive-Thru Challenge competition.

Despite his third straight win at Homestead being lost amongst the hubbub surrounding Jimmie Johnson's maiden Nextel Cup triumph, Greg Biffle insists that it is a sign of things to come from the #16 team.

One day removed from hoisting the 2006 NASCAR Busch Series championship trophy, Kevin Harvick battled a tight condition on their race car for the majority of the season-finale Miami 400 on their way to a fifth-place finish, the team's third top-five result in as many weeks.

MB2 Motorsports has changed its name to Ginn Racing, effective immediately. MB2 Motorsports began operations in July 1996 and the name change is a result of the team's new owner, Bobby Ginn, who recently purchased a majority interest.

Bill Davis Racing has announced that 1995 Craftsman Truck Series Champion Mike Skinner will return to the organisation in a Toyota Tundra in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series through to the 2009 season.

NASCAR supremo Brian France was the subject of a minor police investigation this week after crashing his car near his Florida base on Monday.

Tony Stewart's victory at Texas Motor Speedway last Sunday tied Chevrolet's modern era single-season win record in NASCAR's top flight at 22 and, with the 'Bowtie brand' on a roll at present, this weekend's trip to Phoenix could see a new mark established.