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Sam Bass, the longtime NASCAR artist who painted the Gibson guitar smashed by Kyle Busch after the Nashville Nationwide race in early June, said he was “stunned and heartbroken” to see his work destroyed in victory lane.

Berlin Raceway is excited to make its biggest announcement yet, under the new ownership of Michael Blackmer as the track heads into its 59th consecutive year of operation.

Kyle Busch may have been dominating Saturday by leading the most laps and winning his third consecutive NNS event at Texas but it was JR Motorsports’ driver Brad Keselowski who sent a message the #88 would be a force to be reckoned with.

There are stupid questions, but then, considering Kyle Busch’s Food City 500 performance, there are STUUUUPID questions!

Running without second and third gears for a restart with eight laps left in Saturday’s American Commercial Lines 200 at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Kyle Busch nevertheless found enough muscle in his No. 51 Toyota to win the race.

They say what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. While true at some level it doesn’t happen when TMZ is around and you’ve just gone from last to first in winning at your home town track.

Leading up to the Shelby 427 the topic of conversation was whether the TRD supplied powerplants would last the day after finding excessive wear. As a result Marcos Ambrose, Brian Vickers, Scott Speed and David Reutimann all started at the back of the field.

Four of the American hopefuls that have been suggested as potential USF1 drivers when the new Formula One team makes its debut have revealed their thoughts on the matter. Not all of them are entirely convinced.

What do NASCAR fans want? Not your average fan, I speak of the fan base that only sees a half empty glass. They see phantom yellow flags and grand conspiracies involving favoritism in the way rule violations are handled.

With a No. 51 Toyota truck that absolutely dominated the competition Saturday at Auto Club Speedway, polesitter Kyle Busch streaked to a 9.023-second victory over Todd Bodine, last week’s winner at Daytona, in the San Bernardino County 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race.

The #18 Interstate Batteries car cruised around Texas Motor Speedway Friday, but it wasn’t on the 1.5-mile track. The newly decaled NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car took its original spot back into the middle of the Texas Motor Speedway Lake beside the Indy car and NASCAR truck.

Kyle Busch driver of the #18 M&M’s Toyota spent the afternoon with local San Bernardino County middle school students from Etiwanda Intermediate School to unveil the Auto Club Speedway Kid’s Club mascot Lefty.

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

For the second straight year, SportsBusiness Journal/Daily teamed with Kansas City-based sponsorship measurement firm Image Impact to measure the exposure received by companies doing business with NASCAR.

Can you drive really fast around tight corners? Four times each lap? Do you burst a cranial blood vessel, lose your temper and burst into tears when other drivers cut-down on you? If you answered yes to any, or all of the above, NASCAR might want to hear from you.

The Chase for the Cup was implemented in 2004 to involve more drivers in the championship hunt, and intensify fan interest and drama during the season’s stretch run. But little is known how the system was developed, this video shows all the ugly details.

Carl Edwards coaxed his Roush Ford home on fumes ahead of the field after a series of caution flags put him behind when all the top-running cars took two tires while Edwards took four.

Kyle Busch’s first victory of 2008 came in April at Texas, the question now is will Saturday’s dominating performance at the same track be his last, or will he go on to break Sam Ard’s 25 year old record of ten wins?

Ron Hornaday Jr. overcame an ill-timed caution to win Friday night’s Chevy Silverado 350K NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Texas Motor Speedway and trim third-place finisher Johnny Benson’s lead in the series standings to six points.
Hornaday led the final 40 laps and crossed the finish line .958 seconds ahead of Kyle Busch to collect [...]

Despite Kyle Busch’s tepid (to be kind) Chase performance so far the Joe Gibbs driver has figured out ways to stay hot in various ways. One unexpected - and costly.