Full Throttle

Penske Racing’s Justin Allgaier, last year’s series rookie of the year, held on in the final 27 laps of the Scotts 300 to keep pole-sitter and teammate Brad Keselowski from passing him.

Frustrated by slow stops on pit road and a variety of different tire strategies on the part of his competitors, Harvick passed Denny Hamlin for the lead with 25 laps left in Saturday’s race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and pulled away to beat Hamlin by 1.361 seconds.

Throughout an incredibly successful career, which included three NASCAR Cup championships and 105 victories, David Pearson always looked forward to racing at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Forget Daytona, or now more commonly called the scene of the crime, the crime being - Pothole-Gate. As anyone with more than a passing knowledge of NASCAR knows the real season starts now at whatever non-restrictor plate track happens to be on the schedule.

Danica Patrick’s debut in the NASCAR Nationwide Series ended just past the halfway point of the DRIVE4COPD 300 at DIS when the IndyCar Series star got caught up in a 12-car crash not of her making.

There’s been not so subtle hints from NASCAR big wigs there are changes on the horizon for the sanctioning bodies Sprint Cup Series. The two that have caught my eye are for a larger restrictor plate for Daytona and Talladega, the second being a reintroduction of a spoiler to the Cup cars.

NASCAR announced today that it will continue its 17-year streak of racing on a national-series level in Wisconsin with the addition of the historic Road America course to its 2010 NASCAR Nationwide Series schedule.

Today, I went online and ordered a No. 7 Danica Patrick T-shirt. Let’s just make one thing perfectly clear from the outset — I am not a person who is inclined to wear hot girls on my T-shirts.

Danica Patrick ended months of speculation when she announced on Tuesday a deal to race part-time in NASCAR’s Nationwide Series. The only woman to win an IndyCar race will suit up for JR Motorsports, a team co-owned by Dale, Jr. and Kelley Earnhardt, as well as Rick Hendrick and Tony Eury, Jr.

Mika Salo is on course to take part in next year’s NASCAR Nationwide Series after completing a successful first test in a stock car last week.

After signing in and putting his car on the grid before Saturday’s Ford 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Busch clinched the NASCAR Nationwide Series championship. That was a mere formality. Two hundred laps later, he crossed the finish line .482 seconds ahead of charging Carl Edwards to win his ninth race of the season and the 30th of his career.

Carl Edwards won Saturday’s Able Body Labor 200 to postpone Kyle Busch’s formal NASCAR Nationwide Series championship clinching party for one week.

Busch won his fourth consecutive Nationwide Series race at Texas Motor Speedway Saturday. The dominating victory came a day after he won his fifth truck race in his last five starts in the series.

Dodge Motorsports revealed the Dodge Challenger as the “New Car” for the NASCAR Nationwide Series and announced an expansion of its partnership with Penske Racing beginning in 2010.

An aggressive Brad Keselowski won his fourth NASCAR Nationwide Series race of the season, banging his way to victory at Memphis Motorsports Park.

Eleven races without a win is an eternity for Kyle Busch, but the prolific Joe Gibbs Racing driver returned to victory lane decisively Friday night at Lowe’s Motor Speedway.

Ford announced in July that Mustang, the iconic pony car that has raced for all 45 years of its existence, would compete in the NASCAR Nationwide Series beginning in July 2010 when a limited rollout of NASCAR’s new car begins at Daytona International Speedway.

Joey Logano claimed his fifth NASCAR Nationwide Series win of the season, while Carl Edwards cut Kyle Busch’s lead in the championship with a third-place finish, in a chaotic Copart 300 at Auto Club Speedway.

Race fans who have been anxious to see Roush Fenway Racing 2010 NNS ride will finally get their chance as Ford and Roush Fenway Racing unveil the new 2010 NASCAR Nationwide Mustang on Tuesday, Oct. 13.

Apparently, Joey Logano is none the worse for wear. Six days after tumbling down the banking in a spectacular Sprint Cup Series wreck at Dover, Joey Logano found his way to a far more friendly environment — Victory Lane at Kansas Speedway.