Teresa Earnhardt challenging Kerry Earnhardt's use of last name Teresa Earnhardt is appealing a court decision that denied her challenge of Kerry Earnhardt's usage of the name "Earnhardt" in his "Earnhardt Collection" of homes. Kerry Earnhardt is the older son of Dale Earnhardt and the half-brother of Dale Earnhardt Jr. Kerry was born to Dale and his first wife Latane, who changed her name … [Read more...]

Kyle Busch's crew chief suspended for Kansas lug nut violation UPDATE (6 p.m. ET): Joe Gibbs Racing will not appeal the suspension. Stevens and front tire changer Josh Leslie will serve their suspensions this weekend at Dover. "The 18 team utilized unaltered stock lug nuts during Saturday night's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway and each wheel had all five lug nuts attached … [Read more...]

Should Chase be tweaked to greater incentivize the regular season? As a NASCAR fan, you've probably made a joke or 30 about NASCAR changing the Chase format. After all, those jokes are based in some truth. Since the Chase was formed in 2004, it's been tweaked multiple times. Hell, it's been changed, on average, about every three years. And with 2016 being the third year of the … [Read more...]

Martin Truex Jr. wins pole at Kansas KANSAS CITY, Kansas – Martin Truex Jr. is starting first for the first time since 2012. Truex was the fastest qualifier during Friday's qualifying session at Kansas, beating out his technically-aligned teammates Matt Kenseth and Denny Hamlin for the top spot. Truex's team, Furniture Row Racing, has a technical alliance with Joe Gibbs Racing. Truex last … [Read more...]

Quick takeaways from Kansas: Track position is back! KANSAS CITY, Kansas – Throughout 2016 we may have way too many quick thoughts for our post-race posts. So consider our Takeaways feature to be the home of our random and sometimes intelligent musings. Sometimes the post may have a theme. Sometimes it may just be a mess of unrelated thoughts. Make sure you tweet us your thoughts after the … [Read more...]

Former Truck Series-winning owner Steve Turner dies Former Xfinity Series and Camping World Truck Series owner Steve Turner died Thursday. James Buescher won the 2012 Truck Series title driving for Turner. Buescher had four wins, 10 top-five finishes and 14 top-10 finishes and beat Timothy Peters for the title by six points. Buescher is Turner's son-in-law. Turner formed his own NASCAR team … [Read more...]

Brad Keselowski helped spur changes to All-Star Race format KANSAS CITY, Kansas – Like the changes NASCAR announced for the Sprint All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway? You can thank Brad Keselowski for them. Keselowski was an impetus behind the changes unveiled Friday for the race on May 21. You can click the link above for the full list of changes but the biggest change is a 13-lap … [Read more...]

Happy Hour: The 'perfect' Chase with just a couple more date swaps It's time for Happy Hour. As always, tweet us your thoughts or shoot us an email at [email protected] if you want to participate. It's crazy to think that it's the beginning of May and we're talking about the 2017. Kudos to NASCAR for getting the schedule out incredibly early this year rather than waiting until the … [Read more...]

Here's what the All-Star Race will look like in 2016 NASCAR announced the rules for the Sprint All-Star Race on Friday. And there are a fair amount of rule changes. Let's start with the basics. There will be three segments. The first two are 50 laps each and the final segment is 13 laps. 20 cars will start the race. Drivers eligible are those who have won in 2015 and/or 2016, the three … [Read more...]

Clint Bowyer: Season is 'beginning to start rolling' KANSAS CITY, Kansas – After a self-described "miserable" start to the season, Clint Bowyer is thinking everything is starting to get on track. Bowyer, who is spending the 2016 season with HScott Motorsports before joining Stewart-Haas Racing in 2017 to take over for Tony Stewart, has two top-10 finishes in the last three Sprint Cup Series … [Read more...]