Kyle Petty emerged as a top-15 car, using a two-tire stop to propel him to a 10th-place finish, within 72 points of 35th place with just four races remaining.
JJ Yeley had a day he’d rather forget at Talladega. Rear-ended by Ken Schrader in the first big wreck, the bump caused significant damage to his car.
The UAW-Ford 500 is the 30th race on the 36-race NASCAR Nextel Cup Series schedule. The Cup Series visits the 2.66-mile Talladega Superspeedway twice in 2006.
Elliott Sadler was the big loser this weekend, the victim of a pit-road mishap during the first caution of the race.
Kevin Harvick dominated the Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire Sunday, leading 118 of the final 123 laps to take the checkered flag for the second week in a row.
$266,461 – Kevin Harvick’s purse for winning the Sylvania 300.
Can we spend a few minutes mentioning NASCAR’s non-Chasers, please? Otherwise, sponsors will leave and we will end up with fewer quality teams in a few years!
Bobby Labonte was the big loser on the day. Labonte was running solidly in the mid-teens when he was tagged by Kurt Busch on lap 209.
Classy addition to include the Pledge of Allegiance in the pre-race festivities, way to go, Richmond!
On a rock ‘n’ roll extravaganza of a night at Richmond, Kevin Harvick stole the show before the curtain closed on NASCAR’s regular season.