Sports car racing Kevin Buckler, owner of The Racer's Group (TRG), takes a serious step into stockcar racing by purchasing the controlling interest in Darrell Waltrip Motorsports (DWM) truck racing operations. The sportscar owner did not take a sudden interest in NASCAR, he has been planning this step for several years.

The first foray as a NASCAR owner will be this coming... Read More

Chip Ganassi is one of those guys in auto racing who keeps an eye peeled for the next big thing.

He bought into NASCAR with Felix Sabates, built a big shop near Concord (N.C.) Regional Airport, moved a lot of his other far-flung racing holdings to it, and all of that happened before most of the rest of the sport figured out that it was the smart... Read More

American open-wheel motorsports is suffering from a rash of defections to NASCAR auto racing, IndyCar Racing loses its champion and Indy 500 winner Dario Franchitti, who will team with former CART sparring partner Juan Pablo Montoya on Chip Ganassi's stock car racing NASCAR team.

Fellow IndyCar auto racing and Indianapolis 500 champions Jacques... Read More

With Dario Franchitti's successful stock car racing debut in the ARCA race at Talladega Superspeedway last weekend, Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates has announced that the reigning Indianapolis 500 and IndyCar Series Champion will continue his development program in the Craftsman Truck Series.

Franchitti will qualify the #41 Target Dodge Ram... Read More

Patrick Carpentier is the latest open-wheel racer to join NASCAR's top series ranks, after signing a deal to race in the 2008 Sprint Cup for Gillett-Evernham Motorsports

The Canadian had been linked to a drive for the team since he competed for them at Watkins Glen International this year, racing the No. 10 car regularly driven by Scott Riggs and... Read More

Dario Franchitti's much-anticipated move to stock cars will begin Friday with an ARCA race at Talladega Superspeedway, AutoSportBlog.com has learned.

The 2007 Indy 500 winner and IndyCar Series champion has agreed to a multiyear deal to replace David Stremme in the No. 40 Dodge for NASCAR's Chip Ganassi Racing, according to a person familiar with... Read More

Nationwide is moving into the final stages of negotiations to replace Anheuser-Busch's Busch beer as title sponsor of NASCAR's #2 racing series, sources are telling Street & Smith's SportsBusiness Daily.

Michael Smith of Street & Smith's SportsBusiness Journal this morning reported in the Daily that Nationwide submitted an offer last... Read More

Although no official announcement has been made regarding Franchitti driving for Ganassi’s NASCAR team, Chip has hinted that he is trying to enter Dario in the upcoming ARCA race at Talledega in two weeks.

"We're trying to get him in," Ganassi said. "We have a few little hurdles left to get done before we can announce something. We're feverishly... Read More

Three-time IndyCar Series champion Sam Hornish, Jr., is scheduled to continue his stock car racing experience during a Sept. 26 test at Kentucky Speedway. The Penske racing driver earned a second-place ARCA RE/MAX Series finish June 15 at Michigan International Speedway.

He has made five NASCAR Busch Series starts and delivered his best series... Read More

Dale Earnhardt Jr. will get an early start with his new team. DEI vice president John Story said “We talk about it and we don’t see a problem with it”. This will allow Dale Jr. and Tony (Eury) Jr. to move forward and start working with their Hendricks crew and teammates.

At the same time DEI plans on putting Regan Smith in the #8 during the test in... Read More

According to multiple sources as early as 2009 Busch Series could be racing pony cars. If the stars align and everything goes according to plan the next generation of Busch Series cars will be Chevy Camaro’s, Ford Mustangs, Dodge Challengers and a yet to be named Toyota model.

A change to these cars would help the Busch Series have it’s own identity... Read More

More on the GEM/Petty 'merger': George Gillett Jr., the majority owner of Gillett Evernham Motorsports, has been a big fan of seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Richard Petty for more than 30 years.

Now he wants to be business partners. Gillett is actively pursuing a merger that would make Petty Enterprises and GEM a four-car race team. Sources close to... Read More

There are negotiations taking place that seem to have slipped under the radar of most garage watchers. Sun Media has been told that Red Bull owner Dietrich Mateschitz has been in discussions to switch manufacturers from Toyota next year. Those in the know say that Mateschitz has been deeply disappointed about the results of both the #83 and #84 Red... Read More