NASCAR Cup Series

NASCAR today announced a number of competition changes for the 2013 season, highlighted by a new qualifying format in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series that places a greater emphasis on speed.

Kevin Harvick and the No. 29 Budweiser Chevrolet team travel to the newly repaved Kansas Speedway this week for Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400. In addition to the regular weekend schedule, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) teams will spend Wednesday and Thursday testing at Kansas.

Richard Childress Racing in the Sunflower State ... In 41 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series starts at Kansas Speedway, RCR has three top-five and 11 top-10 finishes. RCR's best finish at Kansas was second in 2007 with Clint Bowyer.

Last weekend, Dale Earnhardt Jr. announced that he will miss at least the next two races as a result of two concussions suffered in the past couple of weeks. He wasn’t forced by NASCAR to admit it, could have hid it and kept going racing. However, he made the decision to a neurologist and look into it. It now has some begging the question as to whether it is a time for a policy change.

It is a good thing we live in this modern era, where by the push of a couple of buttons one does not have to choose between watching the Yankees play the Tigers or watching NASCAR from Charlotte. A fella can watch both. View one while recording the other, then when you hit a bank of commercials or return to real time, you simply reverse the process. Non-stop Saturday night action.

Real racing resumed this weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway after the crash fest last week at Talladega. Clint Bowyer saved enough fuel over the final 56 laps to win Saturday nights NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Bank of America 500.

The fall race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway has always been regarded as somewhat of a home coming event. That's because the vast majority of NASCAR's Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series race teams are headquartered in the Charlotte-North Carolina area.

David Reutimann started 34th in the No. 10 TBR/TMone.com Chevrolet. The Tommy Baldwin Racing (TBR) team worked on an ill-handling racecar and finished 30th in the Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

The TUMS Fast Relief 500 is less than two weeks away, but there are still plenty of options available to make sure you take in all the action of the seventh race of in the Chase for the Sprint Cup on October 28 at Martinsville Speedway.

SpeedwayMedia.com editor, Ed Coombs, will recap the weekend in NASCAR and update the latest Chase Standings after Charlotte.