NASCAR Cup Series

KEVIN HARVICK, NO. 4 JIMMY JOHN’S/BUDWEISER CHEVROLET SS, met with members of the media at Phoenix International Raceway and discussed his relationship with his crew chief, Rodney Childers, his approach to the season now that the No. 4 team has a win and many other topics.

This weekend the racing action continues as the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and XFINITY Series head to Phoenix International Raceway. The Camping World Truck Series will return to the track March 28 at Martinsville.

I’m still amazed at how popular this person is, in spite of having little to show for it after two years in full-time Sprint Cup competition.

The STP 500 race weekend at Martinsville Speedway is just two weeks away but great seats still remain for the first NASCAR Sprint Cup short-track event of the year.

I don't often get fired up about things in NASCAR, but today I did. The news that NASCAR had reinstated Kurt Busch without him going through their rehabilitation program and the driver’s smug interview upon that reinstatement has my blood boiling.

After an off week for me I decided that I could not stay out of the Kurt Busch debacle. NASCAR announced today that, according to the press release, “effectively immediately, the indefinite suspension of Kurt Busch has been lifted.

Two races in with a new rules package, and what positive affects has it had on the racing to date? Well, not much from what I can see, especially side by side dueling up front.

Jimmie Johnson has an amazing track record at Martinsville Speedway … eight Sprint Cup wins, enough wins to be the favorite every time NASCAR’s big boys roll into town.

Larson will be making his third NSCS start at PIR this weekend. In both previous visits, Larson has qualified in eighth position, and he has finished in 20th and 13th place. Larson also has four starts in the NASCAR XFINITY Series (NXS) at PIR, with a career-best fourth-place finish that came last season during the March race weekend.

"It means the world to me to be back in the car. It's been a tough situation the last few months, and I've gone through this with confidence knowing that I know the truth and that I never did any of the things that I was accused of. It was a complete fabrication.