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CONCORD, N.C. -- When three-time NHRA champion Greg Anderson pulled up to the starting line Saturday for the last time, it was go or go home. Only one problem. "I don't have a home right now," said Anderson, whose house was burned beyond repair two...

The US F1 team is done. Does this really surprise anyone? If so, it shouldn't. There's a pattern in racing that goes like this: Some group, usually with a well-known or well-connected person involved, announces it is starting a major racing team i...

LAS VEGAS -- Jimmie Johnson won again last week. He may win Sunday, an outcome that wouldn't surprise a soul. He starts 20th in the Shelby American race, the worst starting spot of the four Hendrick Motorsports cars. Big deal. His starting spot m...

FONTANA, Calif. -- "There's no crying in baseball," as we all know from Tom Hanks' famous movie line, but crying is OK in NASCAR. That's what the drivers say about Jamie McMurray's tearful moment after winning the Daytona 500 last week. "You guy...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Using a baseball analogy, Danica Patrick is going from one impressive showing in a Class A game to a Triple-A league in one week. That sounds pretty imposing. Actually, it's much worse. The reality is Patrick is going from a ...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Jimmie Johnson now officially is jinxed in his quest for a fifth consecutive Sprint Cup championship. For only the second time, the media has picked him to win the title. That's it. He's done. The results were announced Thurs...

Every NASCAR driver and team owner just took a 10 percent pay cut. NASCAR is reducing the purse money by 10 percent for every Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series event this season. A lot of folks across the country would say welco...

Kelley Earnhardt is the general manager of JR Motorsports. In other words, she runs the place. But she says her famous little brother, Dale Earnhardt Jr., has to pull rank in the company every now and then. Kelley gave a funny example last week dur...

CONCORD, N.C. -- Some old-school NHRA fans won't approve. First it was reducing races to 1,000 feet. That was bad enough. Now it's racing four-wide? Sacrilege. Just a silly gimmick. For those who feel that way, we'll agree to disagree. You're dead...

CONCORD, N.C. -- I have the perfect solution for finding a way to beat Jimmie Johnson. I also have the perfect guy to replace John Darby as Sprint Cup Series director. Darby is taking a new position at NASCAR, which will be announced Thursday. An...

CONCORD, N.C. -- Leave it to the old football coach to lead the charge. Only one day into the annual NASCAR Media Tour, the message is obvious: "Come back to us." That theme was emphasized by NASCAR team owner Joe Gibbs, who has given his share of...

Three things you won't hear said this week during the annual NASCAR Media Tour: 1) NASCAR chairman Brian France: "We don't know if these changes will work, but we're going for it to try to shake things up." 2) Richard Petty and George Gillett: "Thi...

Derrike Cope has a spot in the 2010 Bud Shootout. For the younger fans who may not know, he won the Daytona 500 -- 20 years ago. Sixty-year-old Geoffrey Bodine, who hasn't raced in a Sprint Cup event since 2004, is invited to jump in a fire suit and...

LAS VEGAS -- New Dodge president and CEO Ralph Gilles has a message for Sen. John McCain. Last month while attending the NASCAR Cup race at Phoenix, McCain said Chrysler, including Dodge, was unlikely to survive, despite $15 million in government lo...

In case you haven't noticed, John Force tends to ramble when he speaks, and he speaks a lot. It can give the impression that the 14-time NHRA Funny Car champion doesn't know what's going on around him. Impressions can be misleading. Force always is...

HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- Many years from now, lots of people will say, "I was there." The crowd of 75,000 for the Ford 400 on Sunday will grow to about 750,000 in 2020. It's human nature, just a little white lie. It always happens on the rare occasions of...