Follow the leaders? Better keep an eye on hot Harvick, too

...in points with 5,050. The hottest driver hasn't won a race since the 2007 Daytona 500. Can you say Kevin Harvick? OK, so mathematically it doesn't add up. Edwards' average finish...

Fantasy NASCAR with Mark Garrow

...com will stop by to talk fantasy auto racing before the flag drops on the 50th Daytona 500. Garrow began reporting on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in 1984 and has been doing a...

THE PULSE on ESPNEWS: Saturday, Feb. 17

...prospect Rufus Alexander, NFL prospect Rick Majerus, NCAA MBB analyst PLUS YOUR COMMENTS ON ... NFL draft Daytona 500 College basketball ********* ***** ********** ***** Send in a question to any of our guests (just scroll down and use...

Auto Club Speedway

NASCAR Travel Guide to the track in Fontana, Calif.

Chase format is fine -- it's the schedule that needs changing

Shake up the Chase? Take out some cookie cutters, add a short track or two, and rethink Dega. Then the Chase is really on, writes Marty Smith.

...16, 2008 file photo, Mark Martin, left, talks with teammate Regan Smith during practice for the Daytona 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla. The NASCAR...

Three down and more to go? Johnson, 48 team, might just be getting started

Before you think Jimmie Johnson, crew chief Chad Knaus, and owner Rick Hendrick are ready to rest on their three-peat laurels, realize that's not what makes this team tick, writes Ed Hinton.

SMOKE GETS IN HIS EYES

...of the #12 Alltel Dodge, does a burnout after winning the 50th NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on February 17, 2008 in Daytona Beach, Florida

Funny how traditions take root in NASCAR

Homestead blog Saturday

Junior says his late father would have been able to help secure sponsorship

Dale Earnhardt Jr. said he hopes good things come out of the merger between Dale Earnhardt Inc. and Chip Ganassi Racing, but he isn't sure a merger would have been necessary if his father was still alive and running DEI.

With economy hurting budgets, NASCAR bans testing to save money

NASCAR will implement a no-testing policy next season in order to cut costs in difficult economic times.

DEI-Ganassi merger a sign of the times in this difficult economy

The DEI-Chip Ganassi Racing merger shows us just how difficult times have become. And they're likely to get worse before they get better, writes Terry Blount.

Commissioner Waltrip would get NASCAR back on the right track

Fix NASCAR? Ed Hinton has a few ideas: Hire Darrell Waltrip as commissioner, shorten the season, trim the fat, overhaul the Chase and bring back the passion.

A salute to NASCAR's veterans on Veterans Day

As the nation observes another Veterans Day, Ryan McGee recounts the pasts of two of NASCAR's more decorated men, on and off the track.

There are plenty of options to fix the Chase, but not any really good ones

There are many ways to "fix" the Chase, and Ryan McGee has been seeing plenty of them in his e-mail inbox. McGee runs down his five favorites, and gives the pros and cons to each.