NASCAR Cup Series

The 2013 NASCAR season at Talladega Superspeedway will bring a few changes, but the crowd-pleasing excitement of side-by-side pack racing will stay the same. Before fans return next year to NASCAR’s Most Competitive Track, it is important that they know the new dates and mark their calendars.

Dover International Speedway is teaming up with the Fordham and Dominion Brewing Co. to present the first-ever Craft Brew Pub at the Monster Mile during the Sept. 28-30, 2012 NASCAR race weekend.

Brad Keselowski won the opening race for the chase at the Chicagoland Speedway. Keselowski held off Jimmie Johnson during the final 35 laps and captured his fourth win of the season, eighth of his career and his first at Chicagoland.

Bristol Motor Speedway once again kicks off NASCAR’s 2013 short track season in mid-March and welcomes fans back for its second Sprint Cup event on the fourth Saturday in August.

Tommy Baldwin Racing (TBR) will head to the Northeast for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series’ (NSCS) second stop at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. David Reutimann will pilot the No. 10 Chevrolet in the Sylvania 300 Sunday, September 23.

One of the longest and most successful partnerships in NASCAR history continued to grow today with the announcement that Goody’s® Powder will return to Martinsville Speedway in 2013 as the sponsor of the fall Sprint Cup race.

Jeff Gordon and Nickelodeon’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles kicked off this weekend’s Food Lion AutoFair by revealing a special paint scheme that the driver of the No. 24 Drive to End Hunger Chevrolet will race in the Oct. 13 Bank of America 500.

Grubb, who led Hamlin to two victories and the top seed for the 10-race "Chase for NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Championship," during the third quarter, now has the inside track to the coveted KIMBERLY-CLARK PROFESSIONAL* Crew Chief of the Year Award. Grubb, who by the way, was the 2011 KIMBERLY-CLARK PROFESSIONAL* Crew Chief of the Year while leading Tony Stewart to the Sprint Cup title, also took the first quarter honors to start 2012.

In the opening salvo of the 2012 Chase for the Sprint Cup championship, here is what was surprising and not surprising in the Geico 400 at Chicagoland Speedway.

Chicagoland Recap: An unfortunate miscue on pit road left Denny Hamlin without enough fuel to make it to the finish in Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Chicagoland Speedway, with the #11 FedEx Ground Toyota running out on the final lap to finish 16th in the Chase for the Sprint Cup opener. Hamlin made his final pit stop of the day from fourth place with less than 40 laps remaining, looking for an adjustment to help tighten up the car while receiving four fresh tires and a full tank of gas. However, the FedEx crew was so quick on the stop that the fuel tank wasn’t full when Hamlin pulled away.