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The National Stock Car Racing Appeals Panel will hear Joe Gibbs Racing's appeal on May 8 for severe penalties assessed by NASCAR to Matt Kenseth's No. 20 Sprint Cup Series team for an illegal engine used at Kansas Speedway.JGR's appeal will be heard by a three-member committee, and it will be conducted at NASCAR's Research and Development Center in Concord, N.C. NASCAR handed down penalties to the No. 20 team last Wednesday after officials found one of the connecting rods on the engine used in Kenseth's race-winning Toyota Camry on April 21 at Kansas did not meet the minimum connecting rod weight. The violation was discovered during a secondary post-race inspection of his engine at the R&D center.Kenseth was penalized with a loss of 50 points. His crew chief, Jason Ratcliff, had been fined $200,000, suspended from NASCAR competition for six points-paying races, as well as next month's all-star event (non-points), and placed on probation until Dec. 31. Car owner Joe Gibbs was docked 50 ...
While NASCAR's new race car, the Gen-6, continues to be a work in progress, it is showing signs of improvements based on its performance in Sunday's race at Las Vega...
With the continuing development of NASCAR's new race car, the Gen-6, track activities for Sprint Cup Series teams at Las Vegas Motor Speedway this week will begin so...
NASCAR driver on evolution of race safety
One of the frequently-heard complaints about NASCAR's "car of tomorrow" is that they all look alike. Even the fake headlights and grilles don't look anything like th...
Two-time Daytona 500 winner Michael Waltrip on racecars and race week.
Oops.On Thursday night Joe Gibbs Racing announced that Mark Martin would replace Denny Hamlin behind the wheel of the No. 11 JGR Toyota while Hamlin recuperated from...
NASCAR has approved all four automakers' new Sprint Cup Series race car designs for next season.Series officials announced Monday that the new Chevrolet SS, Dodge Ch...
Faced with the impending defection of its main partner in stock car racing, Dodge has decided to withdraw from NASCAR competition at the end of this season.The decis...
NASCAR fans have more than one reason to smile this week.And not just because of the big party going on in Las Vegas.In NASCAR, things are moving in the right direct...
With two days of testing in the books at Charlotte Motor Speedway, race teams presumably learned a lot about the new 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup cars, dubbed "G6" for six...
The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series returns to the track tomorrow and Wednesday for two days of testing of the 2013 Sprint Cup cars at Charlotte Motor Speedway.During both ...
If you want to look at how far NASCAR has come with its redesigned 2013 Sprint Cup cars, dubbed "G6" for sixth generation, all you have to do is look back to 2007, t...
Jamie McMurray has no regrets about the ebbs and flows of his career since his 2002 Sprint Cup debut with Chip Ganassi Racing.There was a win in his second career st...
NASCAR's Car of Tomorrow is a thing of the past.Designed primarily to improve driver safety following the death of Dale Earnhardt in the 2001 Daytona 500, the car ha...
NASCAR's new Generation-6 Sprint Cup race cars — the Chevrolet SS, Ford Fusion and Toyota Camry — are making their competition debuts during Daytona Speedweeks.The G...
Martin Truex Jr. on preparations
The 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season has arrived and so has the new Generation-6 car.After extensive testing during the offseason, the much-anticipated Gen-6 mak...
Denny Hamlin is refusing to pay a fine of $25,000 assessed to him by NASCAR for making derogatory comments about the new Sprint Cup Series race car, the Gen-6, last ...
NASCAR is in Sin City this week, as the Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series compete at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.NASCARSprint Cup SeriesKobalt Tools 400 - Las Vegas Moto...