NASCAR Cup Series

This Chase is becoming more and more like one of those reality series. A week goes by and somebody's nice chef coat gets skewered and their photo bursts into the flames.

In the process of writing this column about Charlotte and the 5th Chase race the unthinkable happened.

Teams representing 11 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series cars turned upwards of 400 miles Monday during a test of Electronic Fuel Injection (EFI) at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

The TUMS Fast Relief 500 is just around the corner, but if you haven't gotten your tickets yet, don't worry. You've still got plenty of time left.

For each of the 36 races during the 2011 Sprint Cup season, TUMS will provide a brief historical recap of a moment when a team fought back to overcome an obstacle, one that can easily be described as a TUMS “Fights Back Fast” Moment. This week, the focus is on Talladega Superspeedway

After Jacquelyn Butler, David Ragan’s girlfriend won the ‘Better Half Dash’ and Daytona 500 winner Trevor Bayne shared a heartfelt invocation, the engines fired under the lights at NASCAR’S home track, Charlotte Motor Speedway.

It’s an old cliché but nowhere else does it fit perfectly than in NASCAR and Roush Fenway Racing has been putting it to work in 2011.

Carl Edwards took over the championship points lead away from 2-Time Champ Jimmie Johnson as Jimmie had a vicious crash near the end of the race.

Trimming down a race team from four cars to three cars has now taken it's second and possibly final trip with Richard Childress Racing.

Rookie Trevor Bayne was giving the No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion, with its Glen Wood tribute paint scheme, a run like the ones Wood himself once delivered back in the day.