Second win of year at Darlington comes in the last Southern 500
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For the majority of his victory in yesterday&#39;s Southern 500, Jimmie Johnson was driving blind. With each trip through a treacherous Turn 3 drenched in unusually blazing sunlight, Johnson&#39;s No.
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Drivers call them ``wild- card&#39;&#39; races, and today&#39;s Subway 500 at Martinsville Speedway is the last one in the Chase for the Championship.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. charged from 11th place to a victory and the series points lead in the last five laps of Sunday's NASCAR Nextel Cup race at Talladega Superspeedway.
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Darlington traditionally has had difficulty filling its 59,000 seats, small by today&#39;s NASCAR standards, and that is the main reason the Mountain Dew Southern 500, a fixture on the schedule since 1950, will run for the final time today.
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DARLINGTON, SC - Darrell Waltrip used to talk about the Darlington Raceway as if it were temperamental woman. &quot;You know she&#39;s going to reach out and get you,&quot; he said.
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DARLINGTON, SC | The winner of the inaugural Nextel Cup won&#39;t be decided in today&#39;s Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway, but the final contenders will be.
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NASCAR, a sport whose history was built upon the backs on moonshine runners in the Southeast in the 1940s, returned to its roots somewhat Wednesday when it announced it would
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I was going to skip out on work on Friday, and, along with a couple of buddies, pack up my old blue truck, some coolers, a tent, a sleeping bag and a grill to fulfill a time-honored tradition - go to Darlington to catch the Southern 500 and accompanying
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Dale Earnhardt Jr has had his Alabama victory in the Nascar Nextel Cup rescinded for swearing in a television interview after the Sunday race.
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Kurt Busch finished fifth in the last NASCAR race of the year Sunday and it was good enough to help him claim the NASCAR points championship.
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DARLINGTON, SC - When NASCAR decided to throw out the red flag with four laps remaining at last week&#39;s race at the Phoenix International Raceway, it defied the purpose of its new green-white-checkered rule that was supposed to help assure a green-flag
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A two-tire stop for Jimmie Johnson paid off with a victory Sunday at Atlanta Motor Speedway, turning the Chase for the Nextel Cup championship into a virtual dead heat between the reigning champion and teammate Jeff Gordon.
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A two-tire gamble for Denny Hamlin paid off with his first NASCAR Nextel Cup victory of the season Sunday at New Hampshire International Speedway.
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A dominating performance in the Sylvania 300 yesterday at New Hampshire International Speedway at Loudon, NH, gave Kurt Busch a sweep of the 2004 events at the New Hampshire track and lifted him into a tie with Dale Earnhardt Jr.
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Rusty Wallace takes shelter under an umbrella as rain canceled qualifying for Sundayâs NASCAR Southern 500 Friday at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, SC NASCAR set the grid for the race by car owner points.
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LOUDON, N.H. -- It wasn't the first time Kurt Busch and his friend Ricky Craven crossed the finish line at about the same time, and Craven hopes it wasn't the last. A year ago at Darlington, Craven beat Busch in .002 seconds, the closest finish in NASCAR since electronic scoring came into use in 1993. Yesterday, as Busch was completing ...
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DARLINGTON, S.C. -- Jimmie Johnson took advantage of a pit mistake by Jeff Gordon's team and won the Southern 500 yesterday, making the tightest championship chase in NASCAR history even closer with one race remaining.