NASCAR Cup Series

Mention the words “candy apple red” to even a casual race fan and the next thing to come to mind is the Wood Brothers No. 21 Ford, or sometimes the Wood Brothers Mercury.

Dover International Speedway will step outside the box a bit on July 20-22, 2012, as it is set to play host to the inaugural Firefly Music Festival, presented by Red Frog Events.

Change allows fans to watch Sprint Cup qualifying immediately before Camping World Truck Series championship; attendees for Saturday’s Nationwide Series championship now have opportunity to watch two Sprint Cup practices

Though it’s an off week for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, the competitive juices were still flowing for Regan Smith, who threw out the ceremonial first pitch prior to Wednesday afternoon’s Colorado Rockies-Pittsburgh Pirates Major League Baseball game at Coors Field.

While not surprising that conversation still swirled around A.J. Allmendinger and his failed drug test, here is what else was surprising and not surprising from the 20th running of the Lenox Industrial Tools 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

Since the last time NASCAR visited the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York there’s been some significant changes around the track. During the off-season the track completed the installation of new grandstands in several locations around the track.

Paul earned his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victory last season at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Heading into the next NASCAR race series on July 29th at Indianapolis Motor Speedway Paul currently sits 15th in the points standings with four Top-10s.

Tundra driver Todd Bodine will make his 200th career NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) start on Saturday at Chicagoland Speedway. When Bodine takes the green flag at Chicagoland, he will become the first driver in NASCAR history to record 200 starts in each of NASCAR's three national touring series, and will have 766 combined starts, which places him 20th in the NASCAR record book.

Seats in some of the more popular locations at Bristol Motor Speedway rapidly are becoming hard to come by with the IRWIN Tools Night Race quickly approaching.

Ask a group of NASCAR® fans whom they’d most like to “ride shotgun” with at a race track and, chances are, most of them will say Dale Earnhardt Jr. –NASCAR’s nine-time most popular driver.