NASCAR O'Reilly Series

Turner Motorsports announced today that BRANDT is returning to the multi-car team as primary sponsor of the No. 31 Chevrolet driven by championship contender Justin Allgaier. Allgaier finished the 2011 season third in the overall NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) championship point standings

The season started with a photo finish between Clint Bowyer and Tony Stewart with the margin of victory being 0.007 seconds. But Stewart says he knew that he had won before NASCAR relayed the official timing.

For much of the season, the focus was on the big teams – Roush-Fenway Racing, Kevin Harvick Incorporated, Turner Motorsports and others.

Veteran NASCAR driver Brendan Gaughan will compete in 10 races on the 2012 NASCAR Nationwide Series schedule, driving Richard Childress Racing's No. 33 Chevrolet Impala, and in eight races on the 2012 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series schedule, driving RCR's No. 2 Chevrolet Silverado.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr., the 2011 NASCAR Nationwide Series driver champion, and his No. 6 Roush Fenway Racing team, will take part in a full day – and evening – of activities today, hosted by series sponsor Nationwide Insurance in its headquarters’ hometown of Columbus, Ohio.

Remember standing at the ice cream counter as a kid? So many great flavors to choose from that sometimes you gave in to a double or triple scoop? That’s the way the 2011 NASCAR Nationwide Series season ended up – so many great stories were told.

Hunt Brothers® Pizza,the nation's largest brand of made-to-order pizza in the convenience store industry, will sponsor two of Richard Childress Racing's NASCAR Nationwide Series teams as well as the No. 29 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team with Kevin Harvick through a multi-year partnership agreement that begins in 2012.

With one of the most competitive NASCAR seasons in history now in the record books, ESPN2 will take a look back at the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series seasons in a pair of programs to air later this week.

TOYOTA TIDBITS -- NSCS Champions Week CAMRYS ON CUP CIRCUIT: Toyota drivers combined for six wins, 39 top-five finishes and 78 top-10 results in 36 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) races.

ADP®, a leading provider of human resource outsourcing, payroll services, benefits administration and integrated computing solutions for vehicle dealers, today announced it has teamed up with Penske Racing to become an official sponsor of that winning organization.