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Bristol qualifying rained out:

#13-Casey Mears will start first in the Irwin Tools Night Race Sprint Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway after qualifying was rained out and set by the rules book. The 43 drivers who made the race were from the top-35 in owners points and teams with the most...

Rain at Bristol:

qualifying for the Irwin Tools Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway has been cancelled, so the rain-out qualifying procedure for all three NASCAR national series is as follows: If first practice is run [which it was], but qualifying is unable to take place, the starting...

Special FarmVille scheme for Gordon UPDATE and images:

#24- Jeff Gordon will run a special FarmVille / Drive to End Hunger Chevy at Bristol Motor Speedway this weekend. See images of the scheme on the #24 Team Schemes page.(8-24-2012) UPDATE: Zynga, the world's leading provider of social game services, is joining Drive...

Rusty to be honored on #2 Dodge UPDATE:

The featured tag line on the rear bumper of the #2 Miller Lite Dodge of Brad Keselowski this weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway will read 'Inductee Rusty Wallace.' This is a tribute to Wallace's 2013 induction into the NASCAR Hall of Fame. During his time in the #2...

Edwards and Shell?

a bit of speculation that bears watching in the next few weeks concerns Carl Edwards. There is one unconfirmed report that Ford executives ' who remember played a key financial role in keeping Edwards from jumping to Toyota last summer ' may want to put Edwards in...

#27 team and Menard penalized UPDATE 2 – Appeal:

NASCAR could come down hard on the #27 Richard Childress Racing team after discovering irregularities with the frame rails on the car driven by Paul Menard last weekend at Michigan International Speedway. Menard's car was taken to the Research and Development Center...

Keselowski says Hendrick teams may be bending rules UPDATE:

#2- Brad Keselowski believes Penske Racing's refusal to bend the rules contributed to him not being able to challenge #48-Jimmie Johnson for the lead Sunday Michigan. Johnson was leading Keselowski with six laps remaining when his Hendrick Motorsports engine blew. #...

Wild Card ‘ Opportunities Fading Fast:

With the regular season dwindling down to a precious few races, the Chase 'Wild Card' race literally has become a game of musical chairs. Six winners into two seats obviously won 't go. And that doesn 't take into consideration four more drivers ranked 11th through...

Johnson 21 laps to 1,000:

With 21 more laps led, #48-Jimmie Johnson will reach the 1,000 laps-led mark for the sixth consecutive year. Only four drivers have ever led 1,000 laps in six or more consecutive years: Richard Petty (12 straight years), Cale Yarborough (eight), Darrell Waltrip (seven...

A Yankees Lifer in NASCAR:

With 10 championships and 206 victories in 29 seasons of racing, Hendrick Motorsports is sometimes called the Yankees of NASCAR. And now that Hendrick has a Yankees lifer on its staff, it would be hard to argue the point. For those who did not notice, that was Gene...

SealWrap returns to sponsor Blaney at Bristol:

SealWrap Repair Tape, based in Indianapolis, will back #36-Dave Blaney this weekend at Bristol and at two more events [Chicago and New Hampshire] throughout the season. SealWrap Repair Tape is designed for use in automotive repair, plumbing and electrical. It fixes...

Bayne full-time in 2013:

Bayne full-time in 2013: Roush Fenway Racing announced Friday morning that Trevor Bayne will run in the Nationwide Series full-time in 2013 and will continue his part-time schedule with Wood Brothers in the Cup Series.(8-24-2012)...

NASCAR D-Day 60th Anniversary Show Car Returns to the National D-Day Memorial:

The National D-Day Memorial received some very special guests last Friday: three staff members from the Bank of America motorsports team transported the MBNA show car that was created in honor of the 60th Anniversary of D-Day and the MBNA 400 'A SALUTE TO HEROES' ...

Bristol Goodyear Tire Notes:

Teams in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series will run a slightly different tire set-up than those in the NASCAR Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series at Bristol this weekend . . . while teams in all three series will run the same right-side tire code, Sprint Cup teams...

RPM makes crew changes:

Richard Petty Motorsports made changes to its two pit crews on Monday in preparation for this weekend's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway. 'We 're trying to move things around to improve the performance on both teams,' says Sammy Johns, director...

White scheme back for Johnson at Bristol:

Jimmie Johnson will pilot the #48 Lowe's Dover White Chevry at Bristol Motor Speedway. Johnson raced the scheme at Kentucky in June. The color was used by Chevrolet for one model year 1969. The same color was used by Chevrolet from 1971 to 1978 but under the name...

Drivers with the most points in the last five races:

#2-Brad Keselowski, 203 #5-Kasey Kahne, 194 #16-Greg Biffle, 191 #15-Clint Bowyer, 185 #56-Martin Truex Jr., 179 (8-23-2012)...

Outback returns to the #39 car:

Award-winning Outback Steakhouse, with 750 stores nationwide, is the primary sponsor of SHR's #39 Chevy and Ryan Newman this weekend at Bristol. This will be Outback's second race as the team's primary sponsor for Newman. In their first outing together at Martinsville...

Expect A Few Drivers To Clinch Chase Spot At Bristol:

When a driver clinches his spot in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, they receive a commemorative black and yellow hat with the 2012 Chase logo emblazoned on it. So far, no one's in possession of that hat. Ten drivers in all have a mathematical chance at clinching...

Front Row Motorsports Among America’s Fastest Growing Companies:

Front Row Motorsports (FRM), which fields the #26, #34 and #38 Fords in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series was named to Inc. Magazine's list of the 5,000 fastest growing privately held companies in the United States. FRM earned a rank of No. 800 on the list. This marks the...