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As the Race to the Chase begins at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, hear from David Reutimann, who is 40 points out of a Chase place, on the challenging Magic Mile. Find out how Kyle Busch plans to change last year’s luck, and Driver Rating says Tony Stewart is one to watch this weekend.

Greg Biffle grabbed the lead in his DISH Network Ford from Jimmie Johnson during a restart with 12 laps remaining to claim his first win of the season at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
The rest of the story is depicted left, a real honest-to-goodness NASCAR swaybar. Of course that one has all its bolts attached in [...]

Ron Hornaday Jr. put aside all the distractions and had another dominating performance at New Hampshire Motor Speedway to score his 38th career victory in the Truck Series.

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 [...]

In the second venture for the NASCAR Camping World Series East to the Buckeye State, Brian Ickler took the checkered flag in the Mansfield 150 Saturday evening in Mansfield Motorsports Park to secure his third win of 2008.
For Ickler, who made his NASCAR Camping World Series East debut at Mansfield a year ago and finished [...]

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

Except for the rain, the owner of New Hampshire Motor Speedway generally liked what he saw during the NASCAR track’s first Sprint Cup weekend since he took over.
Bruton Smith, whose Speedway Motorsports Inc., bought the track last fall for $340 million, is still working on plans for its future.
But, while SMI also recently bought Kentucky [...]

According to reports NASCAR is soliciting input from team crew chiefs with an eye towards a change in Sprint Cup testing for the 2009 season.
“Holy rules written on an Etch-a-Sketch Batman, whatever makes NASCAR think a change is needed?”
“Well Robin, based on the Brainwave Bat-analyzer John Darby, NASCAR’s Sprint Cup director, is looking for a [...]

“Shut it Down, Shut it Down!” - the sage advice of Québec native Patrick Carpentier’s Crew/Car Chief after his first lap at NHMS landed the #10 GEM Dodge on the pole position.
“It’s amazing,” said Carpentier, “The car was great. We made a couple of changes from this morning and the car just rotated beautifully through [...]