Kahne moves ahead but Stewart sees red
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RICHMOND -- The color-coded points standings, flickering on the flat-screen displays in Richmond International Raceway's media center throughout last night's Chevy Rock &amp; Roll 400, made it simple to follow the Chase for the Nextel Cup.
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Tony Stewart took a verbal swipe at NASCAR on Saturday, insisting friend and competitor Dale Earnhardt Jr. should not have lost points for cursing during a live TV interview last weekend.
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Last season, when Dale Earnhardt Jr. finished 19th in the Nextel Cup points standings, his mouth often ran faster than his sluggish No. 8 Chevrolet.
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The Evernham Motorsports driver was fifth in qualifying for tomorrow&#39;s Pop Secret 500, a NASCAR Nextel Cup Series race. Kahne was third in qualifying for today&#39;s Target House 300, a Busch Series race.
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Rusty Wallace is the leader among active drivers at Martinsville Speedway with seven career victories, and even he&#39;s unsure how the track&#39;s new surface will respond to racing on Sunday.
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After tearing up the track in the first six rounds of NASCAR&#39;s new 10-race, playoff-style championship format, Kurt Busch is looking a little more Matt Kenseth-esque these days.
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Kasey Kahne has made a late-season rally and put himself back in position to contend for one of the 10 spots in the Chase for the Nextel Cup.
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HOMESTEAD, Fla. - Sometimes things are not as they seem, and on those days, stock-car events are impossible to predict. The driver who won the pole for Sundayâs Ford 400 had qualified 22nd, 21st, seventh
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DOVER, Del. -- Nextel Cup rookie sensation Kasey Kahne set a Busch series qualifying record by taking the pole Friday at Dover International Speedway.
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Robby Gordonâs revenge might have ended Tony Stewartâs and Jeremy Mayfieldâs chase for the Nextel Cup championship before it started.
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Kevin Harvick passed Tony Stewart on the front straightaway with three laps to go Sunday at Watkins Glen International and stole a caution-plagued race that had seemed to have been Kurt Busch's from the start.
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LOUDEN, NH -- Right now, things are going Jeff Gordon&#39;s way. That should enhance his chances of winning a fifth NASCAR championship.
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Tony Stewart, top left, failed to win the Daytona 500, but he and his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch, who finished fourth, moved easily in single-car runs. Ryan Newman, right, took the checkered flag ahead of Kurt Busch, center. (Photograph by Duffin McGee/Reuters) Looking at the top 20 finishers of the Daytona 500, there's quite [...].
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The weather could play a factor today in the Chase for the Nextel Cup. Cooler temperatures, something drivers arenât accustomed to at Darlington Raceway for the Southern 500, has changed the way drivers attack the track.
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Going into Sundayâs Pep Boys 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Clint Bowyer is third in the standings, 115 points behind the first-place Jeff Gordon with three more races remaining.
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Kasey Kahne wins the pole Friday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, leading a parade of Dodges as Chargers takes five of the top seven spots in qualifying.
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Kenseth finished 0.119 seconds ahead of runner-up Kyle Busch for his third victory of the season and 17th of his Busch career. At the 100-lap mark, Atlanta area native Reed Sorenson