NASCAR News

Rock star Lenny Kravitz is scheduled to perform at the Daytona 500 pre-race show, Daytona International Speedway announced Thursday.

A few years ago, NASCAR touted its new vehicle design as the Car of Tomorrow. Now that car is finally being updated with technology that is, oh, about three decades old.

As owner and driver of his own National Hot Rod Association Funny Car operation, two-time champion Cruz Pedregon nearly makes himself dizzy, switching hats as budgeter, marketer, hiring manager, tuner and racer.

The only race Jeff Burton won in 2011 - one of the Gatorade Duel qualifying races for the Daytona 500 - did not count toward the points standings.

Concert to help Patrick County Marine Corporal Joshua Kerns, who lost much of his legs, and part of his right arm in Afghanistan Actor Gary Sinise, star of CSI: New York star, and "Lieutenant Dan" from the movie Forrest Gump, came to Martinsville Thursday, to announce a special partnership to help Patrick County Marine Corporal Joshua Kerns.

Cassill says he's been hired to drive for a team that purchased assets and last year's points from the now defunct Red Bull Racing team.

Michelle Obama busted out a few new moves Thursday to mark the second anniversary of her campaign against childhood obesity with a few new friends -- 14,000 or so, it turns out.

Maryeve Dufault is Danica Patrick's worst nightmare. Maybe not on the actual racing courses , but in the real world outside the racing pits.

GAFFNEY, S.C. To better strengthen its overall program, JD Motorsports will field a second car for the 2012 NASCAR Nationwide Series season.

There are many changes taking place in NASCAR in 2012. Some of the changes have to do with drivers changing teams, crew chiefs changing teams or a team receiving a new sponsor.

The things Travis Pastrana can do with a motorcycle seemingly defy gravity. Now he's working on perfecting the skills necessary to harness momentum, centrifugal force and friction.

Every NASCAR race features at least a few irrelevant drivers. During qualification, they are called "go-or-go-homers" because they must qualify for the race based solely on speed.

Statesville, N.C. - NASCAR veteran Pat Tryson will join Front Row Motorsports as the crew chief for David Gilliland's No.

The new race director for the IndyCar Series wants improved communications with the drivers, and is willing to listen to their concerns about specific racing issues.

The new race director for the IndyCar Series wants improved communications with the drivers, and is willing to listen to their concerns about specific racing issues.

Competition 101 is in session at the NASCAR Research and Development Center. Professors John Darby and Robin Pemberton are leading Monday's two-hour class, which has a heavy slant on electronic fuel injection.

NASCAR fans lined up to get their ticket to meet driver Kasey Kahne during the grand opening celebration at Ollie's Bargain Outlet.

A popular Super Bowl Village attraction could find a home at another sporting spectacle in the Circle City -- this one, the largest single-day sporting event in the world.

The second trial of a man who is accused of beating his pregnant wife to death in their North Carolina home began this week with testimony from the dead woman's sister that the defendant was unfaithful with multiple mistresses.

A YOUNG racing driver was more than a little lucky to survive after he lost control of his father's racing car, plunged it off a cliff and landed in the sea off Tasmania.