NASCAR Cup Series

DALE EARNHARDT, JR., NO. 88 AMP ENERGY/NATIONAL GUARD/DIET MOUNTAIN DEW CHEVROLET, met with the media during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Test at Daytona International Raceway.

The battle for the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup title comes down to the season’s final race Sunday at Homestead-Miami Speedway. No. 56 NAPA AUTO PARTS driver Martin Truex Jr. gives Carl Edwards a slight edge over Tony Stewart to take home the trophy, although the Michael Waltrip Racing driver expects the final few laps on the 1.5-mile oval.

When Regan Smith walked out of Homestead-Miami Speedway following last year's final Sprint Cup race of the season, he felt confident that his Furniture Row Racing team was on the cusp of reaching a new level of competition.

Four-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon has been named the 2011 NASCAR Illustrated Person of the Year.

On Monday, November 14, 2011, driver of the No. 22 Shell-Pennzoil Dodge, Kurt Busch traveled to New Orleans, LA to the offshore Shell oil rig Brutus.

TOYOTA TIDBITS KAHNE COLLECTS CHECKERS: Red Bull Racing Team driver Kasey Kahne beat championship-contenders Carl Edwards (second) and Tony Stewart (third) to the finish line to capture the checked flag in Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at Phoenix International Raceway.

EXPRESS NOTES: Phoenix Recap: Denny Hamlin drove the #11 FedEx Freight Toyota Camry to a 12th-place finish in Sunday’s Kobalt Tools 500 at Phoenix International Raceway, the penultimate race of the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season and Round 9 of the Chase for the championship.

Racing legend and St. Louis, Missouri native Rusty Wallace, will be honored by his hometown this Wednesday, as an inductee into the St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame.

With only one race remaining in the 2011 season, Roush Fenway Racing holds the points’ lead in both of NASCAR’s two major series and will look to make history this weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway; becoming the only team in NASCAR history to win both the Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series’ titles in the same season, while bringing home the team’s historic 300th NASCAR win in the process.

Kevin Harvick and the No. 29 Budweiser Chevrolet team will close out the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) season in Sunday’s Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.