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By SceneDaily Staff HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Roush Fenway Racing’s Colin Braun won the pole for Friday night’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway, turning a lap of 168.251 mph in Friday’s qualifying session.

By SceneDaily Staff HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Don’t accuse Jimmie Johnson of coasting to the NASCAR Sprint Cup title.

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By SceneDaily Staff HOMESTEAD, Fla. – NASCAR Chairman Brian France said there could be a decision on possible changes to the NASCAR Sprint Cup car during the offseason, although he did not say when any of those changes might be implemented.

By SceneDaily Staff HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Rusty Wallace Racing owner Rusty Wallace said Friday at Homestead-Miami Speedway that he may have to cut back to one NASCAR Nationwide Series team car next season if more sponsorship isn’t found for his No. 62 entry driven by Brendan Gaughan.

By SceneDaily Staff Wave Energy Drink has agreed to an extension of its sponsorship program with Tommy Baldwin Racing for the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup season, according to a release from the company.

By SceneDaily Staff HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Kasey Kahne gave his strongest indication yet on Friday that he may leave Richard Petty Motorsports after the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup season.

By SceneDaily Staff NASCAR has named comedian Frank Caliendo to host the Sprint Cup Series Awards Ceremony on Dec. 4 at the Wynn hotel in Las Vegas.

By SceneDaily Staff HOMESTEAD, Fla. - Roush Fenway Racing's Carl Edwards says he has mixed feelings entering the season-ending NASCAR Sprint Cup Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

By SceneDaily Staff HOMESTEAD, Fla. - Randy Moss Motorsports' Mike Skinner paced the final NASCAR Camping World Truck Series practice Thursday at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

By SceneDaily Staff HOMESTEAD, Fla. - Red Horse Racing's Timothy Peters recorded the fastest lap in Thursday's opening NASCAR Camping World Truck Series practice at Homestead-Miami Speedway, leading the way with a lap of 168.418 mph.

By SceneDaily Staff R3 Motorsports has announced the release of Rob Fuller from the NASCAR Nationwide Series team. Fuller ran the day-to-day operations of what has grown into a two-car team.

By SceneDaily Staff There are plenty of championship-clinching scenarios this weekend for Hendrick Motorsports’ Jimmie Johnson in the Ford 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

By SceneDaily Staff For many NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers, there’s a sense of urgency entering Sunday’s Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. After all, this is the last chance to make a move in the standings or to continue a recent upward swing.

By SceneDaily Staff Clint Bowyer’s Richard Childress Racing crew won the Tissot Pit Road Precision Award for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Checker O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 at Phoenix International Raceway.

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By SceneDaily Staff Reed Sorenson will make his final NASCAR Sprint Cup start for Richard Petty Motorsports in Sunday’s Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, and the occasion will be bittersweet.

By SceneDaily Staff After several months of speculation, Jamie McMurray knows which NASCAR Sprint Cup car he will drive in 2010, and he knows what it’s like to work for his “new” team owner: He’s returning to Chip Ganassi’s stable, where his Cup career started.

By SceneDaily Staff Not that they necessarily needed a push to improve or added motivation in their pursuit of a fourth consecutive NASCAR Cup championship, but crew chief Chad Knaus says that having so much competition within the Hendrick organization has helped Jimmie Johnson's team become even better.

By SceneDaily Staff JR Motorsports officials say Kelly Bires will drive the team’s No. 5 NASCAR Nationwide Series Chevrolet in this weekend’s Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

By SceneDaily Staff JD Motorsports announced Tuesday that Mike Wallace will return to the NASCAR Nationwide Series team full time in 2010.

By SceneDaily Staff The legal jockeying in the Jeremy Mayfield-NASCAR case continued Tuesday as the sanctioning body requested that U.S. District Court Judge Graham Mullen should rule in its favor based on the pleadings that already have been filed and without the two sides continuing to investigate the is...

By SceneDaily Staff Homestead-Miami Speedway officials say astronaut Buzz Aldrin will serve as the honorary race chairman for the track’s Ford 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race this weekend.

By SceneDaily Staff Penske Racing NASCAR Nationwide Series driver Justin Allgaier has always been in a hurry. After all, he is a race-car driver bent on going fast.

By SceneDaily Staff Forty-eight cars are on the preliminary entry list for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, including David Stremme in Phoenix Racing’s No. 09 Chevrolet.

By SceneDaily Staff ABC’s broadcast of Sunday’s Checker O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Phoenix International Raceway earned an overnight Nielsen Media Research rating of 2.8, Street and Smith’s SportsBusiness Daily reports.

By SceneDaily Staff Very early in the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Phoenix, a fellow race fan summed up the thoughts, or maybe dreams, of many other race fans.

By SceneDaily Staff AVONDALE, Ariz. – Fresh off a win one week earlier at Texas Motor Speedway, Kurt Busch continued his recent string of strong performances with a sixth-place finish in Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Checker O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 at Phoenix International Speedway.

By SceneDaily Staff AVONDALE, Ariz. - It's hard to believe that Earnhardt Ganassi Racing's Martin Truex Jr. ran 34 NASCAR Sprint Cup races without a top-five finish this season. But it wasn't until Sunday's Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 at Phoenix International Raceway that Truex broke through with a top-f...

By SceneDaily Staff AVONDALE, Ariz. – For the fourth time in his NASCAR Cup series career, Denny Hamlin finished third in a race at Phoenix International Raceway. So while Hamlin was certainly pleased to run well in Sunday’s Checker O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 at PIR, he understandably wanted more.

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By SceneDaily Staff AVONDALE, Ariz. - Richard Childress Racing's Jeff Burton sees great strides being made within his team - something evident in his second-place finish in Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 at Phoenix International Raceway.

By SceneDaily Staff AVONDALE, Ariz. – One of the only questions about Jimmie Johnson throughout his march through nearly four NASCAR Chase playoffs has been how his race team would deal with adversity.

By SceneDaily Staff AVONDALE, Ariz. - Veteran driver Mark Martin asked his fellow competitors to practice more caution coming to pit road during the NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers meeting on Sunday morning at Phoenix International Raceway.

By SceneDaily Staff AVONDALE, Ariz. – A day after tangling with Joe Gibbs Racing’s Denny Hamlin during the Nationwide Series race, JR Motorsports’ Brad Keselowski met with NASCAR Chairman Brian France, NASCAR President Mike Helton and NASCAR Vice President of Competition Robin Pemberton in the NASCAR ha...

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By SceneDaily Staff AVONDALE, Ariz. - There's probably no place more unique to watch a NASCAR race than Rattlesnake Hill at Phoenix International Raceway.

By SceneDaily Staff AVONDALE, Ariz. – With just two races left in the NASCAR Sprint Cup season, Tony Stewart and Ryan Newman are pleased with what they have accomplished in their first season as teammates at Stewart-Haas Racing.

By SceneDaily Staff AVONDALE, Ariz. - Joe Gibbs Racing's Denny Hamlin won his second pole of the season during qualifying for Saturday's NASCAR Nationwide Able Body Labor 200 at Phoenix International Raceway.

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By SceneDaily Staff AVONDALE, Ariz. – Jeff Gordon says his position in the NASCAR Sprint Cup standings allows his team to approach Sunday’s race at Phoenix International Raceway a little more aggressively than it otherwise might, but that doesn’t mean Gordon’s group will employ a strategy radically diffe...

By SceneDaily Staff AVONDALE, Ariz. – Kevin Harvick had two reasons to celebrate after the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Lucas Oil 150 Friday night at Phoenix International Raceway.

By SceneDaily Staff AVONDALE. Ariz. – Earnhardt Ganassi Racing driver Martin Truex Jr. won his third NASCAR Sprint Cup pole of the season by qualifying fastest Friday for the Checker O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 at Phoenix International Raceway.

By SceneDaily Staff AVONDALE, Ariz. – ThorSport Racing’s Johnny Sauter paced NASCAR Camping World Truck Series practice at Phoenix International Raceway on Friday, leading the way with a lap of 131.019 mph in his Chevrolet.

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By SceneDaily Staff AVONDALE, Ariz. – Reed Sorenson paced the final NASCAR Nationwide Series practice at Phoenix International Raceway on Friday as Braun Racing swept three of the first six positions.

By SceneDaily Staff U.S. Army officials announced Friday that the Army will return as sponsor for Stewart-Haas Racing’s No. 39 NASCAR Sprint Cup Chevrolet driven by Ryan Newman in 15 races in 2010.

By SceneDaily Staff AVONDALE, Ariz. – Penske Racing’s Sam Hornish Jr. surged to the top of the speed chart late in Friday’s opening NASCAR Sprint Cup practice at Phoenix International Raceway and held on to pace the session with a lap of 133.884 mph.

By SceneDaily Staff Former NASCAR team owner Gary Bechtel has purchased a majority interest in Michael Waltrip Racing’s Nationwide Series team and will put Trevor Bayne in the No. 99 Toyota full time next year, sources say.

By SceneDaily Staff Homestead-Miami Speedway announced Friday that Mike Rowe, host of the Discovery Channel’s “Dirty Jobs,” will serve as grand marshal for the track’s Ford 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race on Nov. 22.

By SceneDaily Staff AVONDALE, Ariz. - Roush Fenway Racing's Carl Edwards, who is second in the NASCAR Nationwide Series standings, led the series’ opening practice Friday at Phoenix International Raceway.

By SceneDaily Staff Hendrick Motorsports announced Friday that Carquest Auto Parts has extended its relationship with the NASCAR Sprint Cup organization and the No. 5 team of Mark Martin through the 2011 season.

By SceneDaily Staff Seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Richard Petty will lead the Sprint Cup Series field prior to Sunday's Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 at Phoenix International Raceway in a restored 1946 Willy's Jeep.

By SceneDaily Staff AVONDALE, Ariz. – A Dover International Speedway filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this week offers an unusually detailed look at the range and scope of NASCAR’s sanctioning agreements, including a $6.055 million fee for the track’s May Sprint Cup race and $5.429 mill...

By SceneDaily Staff AVONDALE, Ariz. – The No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing team had bolted the weight box on to the frame of the car instead of having it welded last week when Kyle Busch's car went through NASCAR Nationwide Series opening-day inspection Nov. 5 at Texas Motor Speedway.

By SceneDaily Staff Kyle Busch admits that winning a NASCAR Nationwide Series title isn’t the same as winning a Sprint Cup Series crown, nor would it entirely atone for him missing this year’s Chase For The Sprint Cup.

By SceneDaily Staff The Starbucks coffee chain will make its NASCAR debut this weekend at Phoenix International Raceway with Earnhardt Ganassi Racing.

By SceneDaily Staff Officials with the Automobile Racing Club of America announced Wednesday that chassis currently used in the NASCAR Nationwide Series will be eligible for its Re/Max Series in 2010.

By SceneDaily Staff NASCAR has penalized Nationwide Series points leader Kyle Busch 25 driver points and his team 25 owner points for improperly attached weight discovered during opening-day inspection for last weekend's race at Texas Motor Speedway.

By SceneDaily Staff The NASCAR Nationwide Series title likely will be decided this weekend at Phoenix International Raceway, and the Camping World Truck Series championship has a good chance of being decided as well.

By SceneDaily Staff RAB Racing announced today that the NASCAR Nationwide Series team and crew chief Brad Parrott have parted ways, effective immediately.

By SceneDaily Staff NASCAR has announced the schedule of activities for the 2009 Champion's Week celebrations in Las Vegas, culminating with the NASCAR Sprint Cup Awards Ceremony at the Wynn Las Vegas on Dec. 4.

By SceneDaily Staff Michael Waltrip Racing’s announcement that Tums will sponsor the NASCAR Sprint Cup car driven by David Reutimann in five races in each of the next two years demonstrates what many industry people expect to be a big part of the model of future sponsorships in the sport: A small, partial-se...

By SceneDaily Staff Pat Tryson, crew chief for the No. 2 Penske Racing driven by Kurt Busch, has been named the Wypall Wipers Crew Chief of the Race for Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Dickies 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.

By SceneDaily Staff Kevin Harvick’s Richard Childress Racing crew won the Tissot Pit Road Precision Award for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Dickies 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.

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By SceneDaily Staff HT Motorsports officials announced Tuesday that the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series team and driver Terry Cook parted ways following last weekend's race at Texas Motor Speedway and said that Mike Bliss will drive the truck this weekend at Phoenix International Raceway.

By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas – It was a dramatic beginning and a dramatic end in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Dickies 500 at Texas Motor Speedway Sunday.

By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas ˆ Kyle Busch likely woke up this morning with one thing on his mind: History.

By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas – Kyle Busch booted Ron Hornaday out of the way and held off a hard-charging Matt Crafton en route to victory in Friday night’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Texas Motor Speedway.

By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas – All Roush Fenway Racing driver Carl Edwards says he needs to catch up to Kyle Busch in the NASCAR Nationwide Series is a little more power.

By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas – New Kyle Busch crew chief Dave Rogers had the similar role in the NASCAR Cup garage in 2005, and he has a pretty blunt assessment of his job as crew chief for 13 races for J.J. Yeley at Joe Gibbs Racing.

By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas – Danica Patrick will be good for NASCAR but she will need to help promote stock-car racing and the Nationwide Series, said Texas Motor Speedway President Eddie Gossage.

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By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas – Ricky Carmichael will have a new home next season in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.

By SceneDaily Staff Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway will mark a homecoming of sorts for Joey Logano in at least two ways.

By SceneDaily Staff Roush Fenway Racing's Carl Edwards is sixth in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series standings heading into Sunday's LifeLock 400 at Michigan International Speedway. BROOKLYN, Mich. - Carl Edwards and his Roush Fenway Racing team have ...

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MANSFIELD, Ohio - Unofficial results from the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Ohio 250 at Mansfield Motorsports Park with position, driver, team, laps completed, and status:

NASCAR officials have suspended Craftsman Truck Series crew chief Lance Hooper for the next two races and fined him $1,000 for a rule violation at Lowe's Motor Speedway.