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NASCAR Announces Plans for COT

NASCAR announced its plans for the introduction of the new car in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. The new car will compete in four points races during the 2010 season beginning with the July 2 race at Daytona International Speedway followed by the Aug. 14 event at Michigan...

Final Chicago TV Ratings up 4% over 2004:

NBC's coverage of Sunday's NASCAR Nextel Cup race from Chicagoland Speedway delivered a 5.7 national rating and 13 share, up 4% from the same race last year (5.5/13 in 2004). The rating peaked between 6:30-7 p.m. ET with a 6.7/14 as Dale Earnhardt, Jr. took the checkered...

Daytona 500 TV Ratings Mixed AND:

Overnight Nielsen Media Research numbers show mixed results for NBC's coverage of Sunday's Daytona 500. Today's Sports Business Daily says the season-opening Nextel Cup race drew a 10.4 rating and a 21 share in the overnight Nielsen figures. That number is up 13 percent...

France in for France? MORE:

ESPN.com has learned that 70-year-old chairman and CEO of NASCAR, Bill France Jr., is stepping aside and putting his 37-year-old son, Brian, behind the wheel of the stock car series that has mushroomed into a marketing monster and America's No. 2 sports pastime behind...

RIR Penalties Announced:

Driver Kevin Harvick, along with five Richard Childress Racing crew members from the No. 29 team, and Pat Tryson, crew chief for Ricky Rudd, received a varying range of penalties for their involvement in an altercation following Saturday evening's NASCAR Winston Cup...

2004 Templates and a meeting UPDATE spoilers to be cut:

NASCAR is putting the finishing touches on Cup templates for 2004 and plans to show them to teams and explain the differences at a September 9 meeting. Ford will have a new nose and tail, and Dodge will have a new tail.(from the Sporting News )(9-1-2003) UPDATE: NASCAR...

Nextel and the Ponies:

Less than a week after announcing a blockbuster sponsorship deal with Nascar, Nextel Communications has signed a multiyear marketing deal with the National Thoroughbred Racing Association. Financial terms of the deal weren't disclosed, but Nextel says it will become...

Sonoma TV Overnight Ratings:

NASCAR on FOX from Infineon Raceway finished as the highest-rated sports program for the weekend, checking in with overnights of a 4.8 rating and 10 share, according to Nielsen Media Research. This is up almost 7 percent over last year's 4.5 overnight rating. Last ...

New Gas Can Rule:

Beginning with the July 13 race at Chicagoland Speedway, NASCAR will prohibit teams from throwing or tossing gas cans or gas catch cans over the pit wall during a pit stop. The change was announced in Sunday's prerace drivers' meeting. If a violation happens under ...

UPDATE:

NASCAR's Nextel deal raises another major issue - the fate of The Winston all-star race, which NASCAR sources say almost certainly will be moved to Richmond, Va., closer to Nextel's home office in Reston, Va. The date of the all-star race hasn't been set.( Winston ...

NASCAR’s talks on title sponsorship continue:

Jim Hunter, NASCAR vice president for corporate communications, said Friday there are "four or five" companies involved in discussions about eventually replacing R.J. Reynolds Tobacco as title sponsor of the sport's top series. Hunter also said, however, that some ...

New York NASCAR’s #1 Priority:

Over the weekend, Brian France, NASCAR senior vice president and a member of the organization's board of directors, told a group of newspaper sports editors gathered in New York that he would love to see races in the New York and Portland/Seattle areas. France called...

Darlington TV Ratings:

Fox's broadcast of yesterday's Carolina Dodge Dealers 400 Winston Cup race at Darlington Raceway was the weekend's top sports draw on television, today's Sports Business Daily reports. The Daily says overnight Nielsen figures show the race with a 5.5 rating and a 13...

No Racing Back to the Yellow Flag?

NASCAR's drivers have had what they call a gentleman's agreement not to race back to the yellow flag, except in certain situations where a driver is trying to get a lap back and is within a couple of car lengths of the leader. That agreement was designed with driver...

Triplett resigns from NASCAR front office UPDATE:

NASCAR managing director of business operations Kevin Triplett has resigned his position, effective in June, to move back home to Virginia and pursue other options, NASCAR vice president for corporate communications Jim Hunter told NASCAR.com Thursday. During his decade...

Dale Earnhardt / Hall of Fame

Dale Earnhardt must wait five years for consideration by the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, like every other driver. "He’ll be eligible for induction in 2006, and he’ll obviously get in on the first ballot," Hall of Fame executive director Jim Freeman said...

NASCAR Online sold to Turner? UPDATE 2 Yes:

NASCAR is expected to announce today that it will be selling the rights of its popular Web site NASCAR Online (www.nascar.com) to a division of Turner Broadcasting. According to various sources, NASCAR has sold the rights of NASCAR Online to the Turner Interactive ...

Fines Announced

NASCAR officials announced they have penalized two BGN crew chiefs and one driver for rules violations at Michigan. Ben Holm, crew chief of the #81 WCW SABCO Chevy, was fined a total of $22,500 and placed on probation until December 31, 2000. He was fined $17,500 and...

TV Deals

NASCAR is studying whether to consolidate its widespread television contracts to take advantage of the sport's surging popularity. Under the current structure, track owners sell the television rights for their own races, resulting in races during the nine-month season...

Charles Strang named commissioner of NASCAR

Charles Strang, retired CEO and chairman of the board of the Outboard Marine Corp., was named commissioner of NASCAR, replacing Semon Knudsen, who died July 6. As commissioner, Strang will supervise rules and race administration. NASCAR's overall activities remain ...