So 2008 has come to an end and Jimmie Johnson has yet another championship. It is Johnson's third and Rick Hendrick's eighth, and some may express surprise that it happened given how far behind the Hendrick effort looked for nearly half the season. Of course that success has been largely ignored with concerns about sponsorships drying up and the prospect of an economic situation for the sport far weaker than has been seen in years - decades, perhaps. It is in keeping with what may go down as the least popular season in a long time - one can hardly recall a season with more widespread rancor than 2008. Nor can one blame anyone for feeling the sport, the sacntioning ... FULL STORY »
Move Will Provide Significant Cost Savings For Teams DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Nov. 14, 2008) – In an effort to help teams manage costs, NASCAR is suspending testing for its three national and two regional racing series for the 2009 season. Testing for ... FULL STORY »
The dramatic NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series finale on SPEED peaked at more than one million households and put an exclamation point on the most-watched season since the series moved to the network in 2003. The race at Homestead-Miami Speedway scored a ... FULL STORY »
We're hearing a lot about the sport's sponsorship troubles nowadays. A lot of teams are struggling to get sponsorship and the prospects for getting them seem to be deteriorating steadily. Already one team, the Ganassi/SABCO #40, was shut down at ... FULL STORY »