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Fish stories, we’ve all heard them. Told a few whoppers myself, but who would have thought a fish story would keep one of NASCAR’s stars from a starting line-up?

With the Cup Series taking the week off it’s hardly a surprise then to see at least one driver answering the call of “Gentlemen Start Your Engines.”

Jamie McMurray had the fastest Ford in Saturday’s final practice session despite a bout with the flu the Raoush-Fenway driver has been battling with since mid-week. Maybe a quick check-up by Dr. Brian Fox of Virginia is in order. Given the circumstances I don’t think the doctor would mind the house call.

Despite having a less than perfect race, Greg Biffle won an eventful Sam’s Town 300 Nationwide Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Kyle Busch’s efforts for a triple race win weekend came up short at the hands of a surging Matt Kenseth who became the first driver since Jeff Gordon in 1997, and fifth overall, to win the first two events of the Sprint Cup season.

According to Tommy Baldwin who looked over the #21 Wood Brother’s Sprint Cup entry prior to qualifying the car is an “absolute masterpiece” and “the best looking car at a superspeedway.” The boss/crew chief of Tommy Baldwin Motorsports went on to predict on Friday that the #21 would be fast.

Hard as it is to keep up with the current financial tentacles that are becoming more convoluted with each merger or “alliance” of NASCAR teams it’s understandable some things sail under the radar of daily news.

NASCAR chairman Brian France says his management group is working with teams to develop new business models that can withstand the current economic crisis.

Here’s something you don’t see everyday, at least not in this era of NASCAR teams/drivers switching to TRD’s NASCAR operations, Hall of Fame Racing dumps its Toyota/JGR alliance for one with Yates Racing.

Before hitting the pavement in 2009, Roush Fenway Racing’s up-and-coming driver, Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. will make his fifth start this week in the 23rd annual Chili Bowl held in Tulsa, Okla.

David Ragan really turned some heads with his performance in the NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series in ’08 in his Roush Fenway Racing Ford Fusion.

For the second straight year, McMurray, who drives for Roush Fenway Racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, is competing in Daytona KartWeek By Cometic Gasket World Karting Association races.

With all the talk about NASCAR downsizing in various ways both at the sanctioning and team level I wonder just how long this new, i.e. prolly expensive, technology will migrate to all or most of the teams?

Roush Fenway Racing driver David Ragan has taken NASCAR by storm. The 22-year-old driver of the No. 6 AAA Ford Fusion barely missed making NASCAR’s Chase in 2008. This coming season he will be sponsored by UPS and will contend not only for wins and the Chase, but for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship.

The storybook ending to the 2008 ARCA RE/MAX Series came this weekend at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center in Covington, Kentucky, where young Justin Allgaier closed out his ARCA RE/MAX Series career as the Series’ first new champion in nearly a decade.

For the third consecutive week Sprint Cup qualifying has been rained out.
For the third consecutive week points leader Jimmie Johnson starts on the pole and gets his preferred pit selection.
Yepper, three times a charm. Makes you wonder when the “charmed life” will end, if ever.
For those doing the counting, the Weatherman is ahead of Kyle [...]

For the first time in nine years, someone other than Frank Kimmel leaves Toledo Speedway with an ARCA RE/MAX series championship.
That was expected after Kimmel left his long-time owner to form his own team. That doesn’t mean Kimmel wasn’t among the favorites - he has nine career victories at the track - but it wasn’t [...]

Justin Lofton, in an Eddie Sharp Racing Dodge, broke the ARCA RE/MAX Series qualifying record at Toledo Speedway on Saturday afternoon with a 15.860-second lap around the .5-mile short track. He starts on the pole alongside Dexter Bean for Sunday’s Hantz Group 200.
Lofton’s time was good enough to eclipse the ARCA RE/MAX Series’ previous qualifying [...]

The combination of a little luck, the necessary skill and the right pit road strategy turned Justin Allgaier into a road course winner Sunday afternoon in the inaugural Loud Energy Drink 150 at New Jersey Motorsports Park.

UPS announced Friday morning what had long been known that it will sponsor Roush-Fenway Racing’s David Ragan next season.
In other news, the moon is not made of green cheese and Hanna Montana is still an over-exposed (in more ways than one) ditz.
There have been several mentions by NASCAR about the new drug policy coming down [...]