Denver-based Furniture Row Racing is new to NEXTEL Cup this year. Watkins Glen will mark the team's first road course race. Papis and the team recently completed a right turn/left turn test ...

NASCAR has traditionally catered to American automobile manufacturers. During the inaugural season in 1948, companies such as ...

Denny Hamlin has announced the end of his longstanding partnership with FedEx following the Phoenix Raceway. The ...

Former NASCAR driver Kurt Busch publicly accepted responsibility after pleading guilty to a DWI charge in North Carolina.

In the final year of the Latford system in 2003, the quiet consistency of Matt Kenseth granted the Wisconsin native his one and only Cup Series title. The Chase for the Nextel Cup favored the ...

In 2004 NASCAR instituted the “Chase for the Nextel Cup” 10-race season ending Playoff format that placed a premium on winning. Kenseth would go on to qualify for those Playoffs in 13 of his ...

Michigan’s Sugar Bowl win over Virginia Tech also made a winner of Michigan International Speedway president Roger Curtis, who laid a side bet on the game with Martinsville Speedway president ...

2007 — Jimmie Johnson becomes the first driver to win consecutive Nextel Cup championships since Jeff Gordon in 1997 and ’98, wrapping up the title by finishing a trouble-free seventh in the ...