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Kyle Busch won the NASCAR Camping World Series East-West combination race Sunday at Iowa Speedway, easily holding off 2008 winner Brian Ickler.

Matt DiBenedetto took just two starts to find Victory Lane. The 17-year-old Grass Valley, Calif., driver passed Austin Dillon on a back-and-forth battle following a green-white-checkered finish to Saturday night’s Tri-County 150 to earn his first career NASCAR Camping World Series East victory.

“Front Row” Joe Nemechek may be inline to temporarily borrow Carl “Flipper” Edward’s nickname after taking a late race tumble during the NASCAR Nationwide Series 300 at Nashville.

Scott Speed has admitted that he ‘doesn’t really care’ about results heading into his rookie season in the NASCAR Sprint Cup, with the former F1 racer stating that he simply wants to finish where his car is capable of finishing.

Joe Gibbs Racing has signed 17-year-old Matt DiBenedetto to its driver development program. DiBenedetto will test in NASCAR’s Camping World East Series program and run in an undetermined number of races starting this spring.

It was billed as a Arena Racing USA match race between NASCAR owner Joe Gibbs and his long-time sponsor, and chairman of Interstate Batteries, Norm Miller. The pre-race banter between the two race rivals paled in comparison to what was to come after the green flag flew.

Persistent rain washed racing Friday in the NASCAR Toyota All-Star Showdown, forcing officials Toyota Speedway at Irwindale to delay all three races for Saturday

Dave Rogers and Jason Ratcliff set to resume their Nationwide Series crew chief roles in time for the second race of the 2009 season?

Over and above all the “regular” end-of-season changes NASCAR endures each year 2008 has brought many others as a result of the so called credit crunch and economic downturn.

Tony Stewart ended a ten year run Sunday in the famous, but now obsolete, Home Depot color orange.

Where in the World is JJ Yeley? You won’t find him on the entry list for the Hefty Odor Block (The What!) 200, and you won’t find him among the Checker Auto Parts 500 entries at Phoenix either.

A few thoughts on Monday’s NASCAR news, that in all honesty take my mind away from the lunacy ongoing on Capital Hill at the moment.
Within a matter of hours it’s expected Paul Menard will announce he’s leaving the floundering, but not yet sinking, ship that is DEI (”Don’t Expect Interest”). Reportedly Menard is headed to [...]

The Charlotte City Council agreed Monday to increase the NASCAR Hall of Fame budget by $32 million to boost exhibits and pay for unexpected building costs.
The 9-2 decision came after council members chastised city staff and other hall planners for not telling them sooner about the price hike. Council members complained of early, “lowball” estimates [...]

That special breed of “fans’ that have spent the better part of 28 Cup events raining boos upon the head of Kyle Busch should be like pig in slop this morning.
After two bad finishes Busch finds himself out, if not mathematically, in all practicality from any chance to gain his first championship. The leader of [...]

Mother Nature must luv Kyle Busch as yet another rainy day forced Sunday’s Cup event to start via points and places Busch on the pole.
For the second consecutive race, the third in the last six and the seventh this year, rain washed out qualifying which begs the question:
With ten events left who wins more Busch [...]

A few days ago Speed TV floated the rumor Joey Logano would make his Cup presence felt at the wheel of the #96 entry fielded by Hall of Fame Racing.
At the time I rated it less than likely, but also used the “weasel phrase” on the other the hand as a way to hedge my [...]

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 [...]

The secret is out, according to the AP at least, they have one of those occasionally correct but generally out-to-lunch persons familiar with the deal saying Ryan Newman is signed by Stewart-Haas Racing with the announcement coming Friday at MIS.

As if a 36-race NASCAR Sprint Cup Series schedule isn’t grueling enough, Tony Stewart spent his spare time doing even more racing Tuesday night with a couple of other Cup regulars.
The two-time Cup champion spent the night with series leader Kyle Busch and Matt Kenseth competing in a super late-model race at Madison International Speedway, [...]

NASCAR’s latest phenom, freshly minted 18 year old and NNS rookie par excellence did what he and Joe Gibbs Racing expected him to do.
Qual in the top ten, stay out of trouble on the difficult Dover high banks, not wreck anyone and bring it home with the fenders on (except one dented in a pit [...]