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Richard Childress Racing announced that Casey Mears will drive for its #07 Jack Daniel’s® team and Clint Bowyer will move to its new #33 Cheerios®/Hamburger Helper® team for the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season.
With focus on having all three current RCR teams making the 2008 Chase for the Championship, RCR will continue its on-going [...]

Mansfield Motorsports Park hosts the NASCAR Camping World Series East’s return to short-track racing with the Mansfield 150 Saturday, August 23.

Clint Bowyer made an uncharacteristic unforced error that handed Friday night’s Food City Nationwide Series 250 to Brad Keselowski at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Yahoo Sports chief yahoo is at it again.
Not content with “winning” this weeks Stupid Post of the Day award Bob Margolis is making a concerted effort at scoring the monthly award.
His latest edition Black Eye for Gibbs and Toyota follows the same pattern as the last, wild speculation that everyone including the respective janitors presumably [...]

I’m a little late with this, but good comedy stands the test of time, besides, when the comedian is Jimmie Johnson note has to be taken.
It seems J.J. had more on his mind than a victory Wednesday as he took to Bristol’s high banks for his NCTS debut. He was thinkin’ — “I’m gonna get [...]

A state-of-the-art motorsports track complex, envisioned to attract the biggest names in racing, is being proposed for 400 acres in the Big Lake area.
The $200 million facility would accomodate 90,000 fans and could expand to more than 150,000, said the developer, International Motorsports Entertainment and Development Corp (IMED) of Coon Rapids.
The developer, and corporation president [...]

The F1 community has been playing a version of Where’s Waldo every time the name Bruno Senna crosses someone’s lips or gets printed.
So I wonder… is this a clue?
Bruno Senna, nephew of Formula One legend Ayrton Senna, currently occupies second place in the GP2 Championship and is widely tipped to make his Formula One debut [...]

A1GP World Cup of Motorsport has moved A1GP Mugello, Italy from the opening round of the 2008/09 championship following a delay in the build schedule of the new chassis.

Gillett Evernham Motorsports will rotate its three NASCAR Sprint Cup crew chiefs on the team’s No. 9 Nationwide Series entry for the remainder of this season.
The plan is to rotate Kasey Kahne, Elliott Sadler, Patrick Carpentier and Chase Miller at the wheel of #9 Dodge NS entry and match them with Kenny Francis, Mike Shiplett, [...]

Team Penske’s preparations for this weekend’s IndyCar Series round at Infineon Raceway has been hit by a truck fire en route to California.
Having earlier this week expressed its confidence at chasing a solid result at Infineon Raceway, Team Penske will have to overcome a major setback to keep Helio Castroneves and Ryan Briscoe on track.
Traveling [...]

Sam Hornish Jr’s Sprint Cup crew chief Chris Carrier has been shown the garage door of Penske Racing South.
He’s being replaced by Travis Geisler who’s previously been the race engineer for Ryan Newman’s #12 Dodge.
This is kind of a strange move in one sense (unless it’s somehow linked to Newman leaving Penske) Hornish is the [...]

Bob Margolis come on down, you’re featured on Full Throttle’s NASCAR Stupid Post of the Day! (Said with my best Johnny Olson, The Price is Right voice - ed)

Changes are rumored to be afoot, according to un-named and frequently wrong “sources,” that Atlanta Motor Speedways race date will be moved to Labor Day in 2009.
The speculation centers on previous discussions that had a trade of race dates for the 2009 Sprint Cup schedule that involves Fontana, and Talladega Superspeedway.
One of the Atlanta dates, [...]

The pressure will be even greater for the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport national teams when they go to Mugello, Italy for the start of season four in September.

Jason Bowles led the Pipe Careers 200 wire-to-wire for the win at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale on Saturday night, giving him a sweep of both NASCAR Camping World Series West events at his home track this season.
The early laps of the event appeared to be a replay of the last visit by the series to [...]

Carl Edwards held off Kyle Busch in two-lap shootout to the checkered flag and won Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series 3M Performance 400 at Michigan International Speedway to go along with his win in Saturday’s Nationwide Series race

Matt Kobyluck arrived at Lime Rock Park for the NASCAR Camping World Series East Mohegan Sun 200 Saturday afternoon carrying the series point lead for the first time in two years. He asserted his leadership by posting his fourth win of the season and more than doubling his point lead.
Kobyluck led 41 of 82 laps [...]

What would a NASCAR race weekend be without rumors swirling fast, swift and often like the toilets in a Mexican restaurant?

Editor’s note: Say hi and welcome to Australia’s Peter G. He has been a long-time commentor at FT and has gotten the “bug,” (read, pissed off) to write this open letter to V8 Supercars boss Tony Cochrane concerning his letter relating to the Gold Coast IndyCar event scheduling.
As a side note, Peter may be [...]

NASCAR Camping World Series East point leader Matt Kobyluck will start on the pole for this afternoon’s Mohegan Sun 200 at Lime Rock Park.
Kobyluck, 38, of Uncasville, Conn., will lead the field to green after an afternoon thunderstorm prevented qualifying Friday afternoon. The 32-car field was then set as per the NASCAR rule book.
Earlier in [...]