NASCAR Cup Series

Gil Martin, crew chief for the No. 29 Jimmy Johns Chevrolet driven by Kevin Harvick, has been named the WYPALL* Wipers Crew Chief of the Race following the Auto Club 400 at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California on Sunday afternoon.

1 –fewest cautions for a Sprint Cup race at Martinsville Speedway (three times, most recent 4/25/71).

No wins, yet Jimmie Johnson has been able to remain at the top of the mountain, until this week.

For the first time since 2005, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series has had five different winners in the first five races of the season: Trevor Bayne (Daytona), Jeff Gordon (Phoenix), Carl Edwards (Las Vegas), Kyle Busch (Bristol) and Kevin Harvick (Auto Club).

Matt Kenseth finished fourth in Sunday's Auto Club 400 with a car that he referred to a few times as “absolute junk.”

David Stremme announced today that he will return to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) this season and join forces with the newly-formed Inception Motorsports.

This weekend in Martinsville, Greg Biffle will make his 300th Sprint Cup start. His first Sprint Cup start was at Auto Club Speedway on April 28th of 2002.

According to a Finland Newspaper titled Turun Sanomat, 2007 Formula One Champion Kimi Raikkonen will be coming to NASCAR.

Happy Fridays, but can't trust those Sundays. That would be the short answer about how Regan Smith's season has been going since the Daytona 500 opener.

After celebrating last Sunday’s win with a “Budweiser bath” in Victory Lane at Auto Club Speedway, Kevin Harvick and the No. 29 Budweiser Chevrolet team will race a bit closer to home in this weekend’s Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500 at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway.