Yates Racing News

Famous NASCAR driver Bobby Labonte is best known for his speed on a high-banked oval, but now he's hoping to raise some money for being fast on his feet.

Tony Stewart won't win the Sprint Cup title this season. Then again few thought he would at the beginning of the season, as he moved to a new team but showed its strength by leading the points for part of the season.

The Frontstretch: Bubble Breakdown: Robby Gordon Clinches Spot In Top 35 As Speed, Andretti Stumble by Mike Ravesi -- Monday November 16, 2009 Bubble Breakdown: To say it was a good news/bad news week for some of our bubble team is an understatement.

Bobby Labonte has signed a one-year contract to drive TRG Motorsports' car in 2010 -- and at least for the season-opening Daytona 500 he'll have a teammate in TRG's hoped-for full-time second car.

SportsMinute Gators gettin' ready...Big Ten and Pac 10 showdowns...Final set in Paris UNDATED Top-ranked Florida is getting ready for an SEC road test at South Carolina while No.

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, Ala. Torrey Galida, a former Ford and Roush Fenway Racing executive who most recently was president of the motorsports division for sports marketing company Millsport, has taken a new job as executive vice president and chief marketing officer of TRG Motorsports.

If you are a fan of NASCAR in any way, Talladega is the two races you circle every year.

Behind the scenes, the team is also shoring up its lineup. Team officials familiar with RPM's personnel moves told The Associated Press on Wednesday that sponsor Best Buy will move from Sadler's car next season to Petty's famed No.

The No. 1 car looks to be the only Sprint Cup ride up for grabs for 2010. NASCAR Media With mergers over the last couple of season and teams scaling back for economic reasons or to comply with the NASCAR team limit rule, there may actually be more drivers with Sprint Cup racing experience looking for rides than actual rides available for 2010.

This weekend the final short track race of the season was at Virgina's Martinsville Speedway; a paperclip-shaped track that has the capability to make or break many team's chances for victory and a championship.

The planned merger between Richard Petty Motorsports and Yates Racing is on track, but might include a strange twist an investment in the organization from Prince Faisal bin Fahad bin Abdullah Al Saud of Saudi Arabia.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. fans aren't the only ones robbing America blind these days . A man in a NASCAR jacket that had a logo for Cheerios, which sponsors Clint Bowyer and used to sponsor Bobby Labonte, was part of a two-man team that robbed a home in Erie, Pa., last week.

By Bill Marx Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service 1990: Rick Mast wins the NE Chevy 250 at New Hampshire for his ninth and final Nationwide Series victory.

MILLVILLE -- Race fans lined up Wednesday to meet a NASCAR legend at New Jersey Motorsports Park.

Allen C. Moeller, 63, Green Bay, passed away early Monday morning, October 5, 2009, at the Good Shepherd Nursing Home following a courageous battle with Multiple Myeloma.

If the rumors are right, Bobby Labonte not only has a championship provisional, but also both Ask.com and Academy Sports +A OutdoorsA sponsorship deals in his pocket.

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.

George Gillett says the proposed merger between Richard Petty Motorsports and Yates Racing is still on track, and the new organization will field at least three teams in 2010.

In February 1960, a young driver from Randleman, N.C., won his first NASCAR Grand National race at the old Charlotte Fairgrounds in Charlotte, N.C. He would win 199 more, seven NASCAR championships and seven Daytona 500s.