Elliott Sadler News

I don't know how many people noticed it, but I did. It took longer to find out whether Ryan Newman was still alive after his nightmarish crash than it did for ABC to run a graphic that tickets were still available for remaining races once the red flag was finally lifted.

I've hated it ever since the first race I ever saw there, in the fall of 2001, when Bobby Labonte went rolling down the backstretch on the final lap and everyone just accepted it as a matter of course.

Talladega, always one of Sprint Cup's most anticipated events, appears unfixable.

An Associated Press report published today suggests that Best Buy, Elliott Sadler's sponsor on the No.

"When you have little girls, you're the coolest person in the world. I know at some point that's going to end; in their adolescence I'll become the opposite of that, especially if I'm parked outside a high school party.

Richard Petty Motorsports will put driver AJ Allmendinger in the famed No. 43 car in 2010, according to published reports.

I dunno if it's just me, or if other NASCAR fans are a tad bored with races. I actually did not watch Sunday's race at Martinsville.

AJ Allmendinger and Elliott Sadler will get a taste of 2010 a few months early. Allmendinger will run the last three races of the Sprint Cup season in a Ford Fusion, a team source told FOXSports.com. According to a Dodge source, Sadler will drive a Ford beginning next week at Talladega and finish the season driving for the make.

Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s season of unrelenting misery and inexplicable failure continued at Auto Club Speedway, where the 88 team started 37th and ran all the way up in the top 10, only to see all of its hard work wiped out in a crash of someone else's making.

Lap 58 -- LEAD CHANGE: Elliott Sadler out front as he has yet to pit. Lap 57 -- Martin Truex Jr.

Yates Racing had something that Richard Petty Motorsports majority owner George Gillett wanted.

Lap 149: Leaders pit. A lot of different pit strategies in play. Race leader Jimmie Johnson and second-place Juan Pablo Montoya take two tires, the rest take four, and that shuffles the deck big time.

The record books show that Tony Stewart had two substandard races to start the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.

Tony didn't mean to do it. Tony Stewart didn't mean to get in the back of Joey Logano, which sent Sliced Bread up the track, smacking Reed Sorenson, whose car sent poor Logano into the air for what seemed like a gazillion times Sunday.

Richard Petty Motorsports' Elliott Sadler is 25th in the NASCAR Sprint Cup standings heading to this weekend's race at Kansas Speedway.

David Reutimann and Erik Darnell are set to join a host of NASCAR stars at East Lincoln Speedway on Wednesday night September 30th as Stanley presents 'Real Drivers Wear Pink.' The duo will join Kasey Kahne, Elliott Sadler, AJ Allmendinger and East Lincoln Speedway co-owner Ray Evernham in special match races at the 3.8 mile oval.

Ford Motor Co. will manufacture a low-cost compact car in India from early next year, the automaker said Wednesday, as it seeks to boost sales in fast-growing Asia.

Richard Petty Motorsports drivers Kasey Kahne, Elliott Sadler and AJ Allmendinger will join team co-owner Ray Evernham at East Lincoln Speedway in North Carolina on Sept.

After making wholesale changes to its car, the No. 19 Stanley Tools Dodge Charger team watched driver Elliott Sadler march through the competition for an impressive eighth-place finish in the Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

Finally it was time to race. All the talk of championships and pressure and strategy is put to the side at least for the drivers.