NASCAR Cup Series

The Carlyle Group, one of the world's largest and most successful investment firms with a portfolio of businesses that includes Hertz Rental Car, Allison Transmission and Dunkin' Donuts, announced today that it has acquired DuPont's paint business. Although the people, products and technologies will remain the same, the paint business, which sponsors the No. 24 Chevrolet of Hendrick Motorsports and driver Jeff Gordon in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, has been rebranded as Axalta Coating Systems.

In what was an utterly dominating season, that saw Dalton Baldwin visit victory lane a total of 34 times after starting from the pole an outstanding 35 times in the 60 points races held, DB sat on top of the points standings in all 3 series.

Being just 50 miles from the entertainment capital of the world has its advantages. Movies, commercials and television shoots seem to be the norm at Auto Club Speedway. Case in point, yesterday’s Mercedes’ Super Bowl Sunday commercial spot.

The U.S. Air Force will once again partner with Richard Petty Motorsports to connect with America's best and brightest young adults. The U.S. Air Force will serve as an associate sponsor on Aric Almirola's No. 43 Ford for the entire 2013 season and as a primary sponsor at the Memorial Day weekend race at Charlotte Motor Speedway and the Fourth of July weekend race at Daytona International Speedway.

Established in 2009 by one of the most respected crew chiefs in NASCAR, Tommy Baldwin Racing, (TBR), has been a character study in hard work, patience and squeezing a dollar. As their operation heads into 2013, it appears that the effort may finally be paying off for them.

In the sport of NASCAR, as in many professional sports, it is certainly the sponsors that make it all possible.

There was a time when Brian Vickers was on top of the mountain. In 2003 at the age of 19, Vickers has hired by Hendrick Motorsports to replace Ricky Hendrick behind the wheel of the #5 GMAC Chevrolet. In August of that year Vickers would get his first taste of victory in the Kroger 200 at Indianapolis Raceway Park holding off Jason Keller by 2.296 seconds.

Watkins Glen International is deservedly billed as ‘the Soul of American Road Racing,’ having been the site for competition in virtually every discipline of motorsports, from Formula One and Indy cars, to NASCAR stockers and Can Am and World Sports Cars.

Have you ever wanted to learn how to build your own engines? That is exactly what Forster Fry wants to teach you to do. Fry is a former NASCAR engine builder, formerly employed by Richard Childress Racing and former owner of Fry Racing Cylinder Heads, and was inspired to start an engine school right in the heart of racing.

The Gen 6 race car that has been brought before us may not bring every single NASCAR fan back into the sport, but it is a good start. Like Lance Armstrong's confession to performance enhancing, it might be too late, but it is a never late than never scenario.