2009 Sep 06: Delana Harvick, wife of Kevin Harvick (29) Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet Impala SS driver, awaits the start of the Pep Boys 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series...

Blitz Awards and Razzies, Part IV

Drumroll, please. It's time to honor the best (and the worst) of the 2009 NASCAR season with the fourth annual Blount's Blitz Awards and Razzies … minus the red-carpet treatment, of course.

Crunching numbers after Homestead

...Mark Martin. Sunday also gave us reasons to get excited for next season. It looks like Richard Childress Racing is getting up to speed and will take some momentum to the beaches in Daytona come...

Rivalries a fun sideshow to JJ's 4-peat

Go figure. The 2009 NASCAR season ends just as the real fun begins. Now we have to wait until February for Denny Hamlin's title run and the rematch between Tony Stewart and Juan Pablo Montoya.

Junior missing out on the Hendrick fun

Three Hendrick drivers -- Jimmie Johnson, Mark Martin and Jeff Gordon -- have swept the past five races at Phoenix. Will teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr. join the party Sunday?

RCR may be finally getting it together

AVONDALE, Ariz. -- Maybe you haven't noticed, but Richard Childress Racing is improving. And Sunday's race could gauge just how far RCR has come. Everyone at...

...a news conference at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009. Richard Childress Racing will shuffle two crew chiefs following this weekend's race at Martinsville Speedway. Childress is continuing...

Nationwide win brings Busch to brink

Kyle Busch is a Sprint Cup win away from an unprecedented NASCAR sweep.

2009's biggest movers ... and losers (so far)

...this year. Harvick plans to move on after 2010, the final year of his contract at Richard Childress Racing, but he's not alone in the minus column at RCR this year. Jeff Burton is...

Burton, Mears to get new crew chiefs

Richard Childress Racing will shuffle two crew chiefs following this weekend's race at Martinsville Speedway.

Childress says he's focused on future

Richard Childress says he's not worrying about Kevin Harvick.

Burton doesn't lay it all on Childress

Jeff Burton says Richard Childress shouldn't be held solely responsible for the way his NASCAR teams have struggled this year.

Hendrick does it all … except take credit

With his eight Sprint Cup championships and 185 Cup series victories, nothing, it seems, is beyond the grasp of Rick Hendrick. Except, perhaps, taking credit for his empire.

Fantastic finish would help ease NASCAR's pain

...are a dream come true for NASCAR. Martin would try to end his three-decade frustration as racing's best-known runner-up and finally win that elusive title. And doing it at age 50...

Mears still waiting on RCR deal

Richard Childress Racing hasn't picked up the option on Casey Mears' contract and likely won't unless a sponsor is found to keep four cars in the organization.