In most years Silly Season focuses on drivers swapping seats. While there was plenty of that this summer (Tony Stewart, Ryan Newman, Mark Martin) many of the biggest moves will come this fall. Biggest doesn’t always mean headline-grabbing, seven-figures salary big. In this case it we’re talking about the nerve center of a race team, [...]

Dale Earnhardt Incorporated and Chip Ganassi Felix Sabates Racing announced they are combining teams in 2009.
Obviously, it is almost a necessity for two teams both struggling to keep logos on the doors and cars on the track. You still hoped that DEI had learned their lesson: combining spare parts does not ensure a complete package.
In [...]

Midway through the 2004 season DEI signed Paul Menard to drive a Busch Series car with the eventual hope to move to Cup. At age 23 he was a promising stock car driver that had already won two races on the Grand Am tour. The fact that he also provided sponsorship by way of his [...]

It’s almost October and all of the big names (Tony Stewart, Mark Martin, Ryan Newman, Carl Edwards) have already made their plans for 2009 and beyond. While many of the second tier of drivers (Casey Mears, Reed Sorenson, Joey Logano) have also settled in for 2009, there are still some unanswered questions for many teams. [...]

Stewart-Haas Racing made another personnel move this week. Darian Grubb will bring his strong engineering background from Hendrick Motorsports to the top of Stewart’s pit box. He was the interim crew chief for Chad Knaus in 2006 when Jimmie Johnson won the Daytona 500 and the Las Vegas race. Last year he got the full [...]

The 1976 sci-fi movie Logan’s Run was a story about a futuristic society that prized youth more than anything. So prized in fact, that anyone over 30 was euthanized.
Joe Gibbs Racing’s 2009 driver lineup has a similar theme. Not that they sent Tony Stewart out to pasture, but if any team can cope with losing [...]

Jr Motorsports’ Nationwide driver Brad Keselowski has enjoyed a breakout 2008. He has two wins and sits second in the point standings. He is now considered one of the brightest prospects in NASCAR. It’s hardly surprising that Penske Racing offered him the chance to replace Ryan Newman in the #12 car in 2009. What is [...]

So what section of the paper has Tony Stewart been reading anyway? Perhaps comparing Home Depot stock to that of Lowe’s and Menard’s? Or maybe the grocery store sale flyers for specials on Schlitz? Well, it seems the Classifieds or Employment section would be your best guess.
Earlier this evening SI.com’s Tom Bowles broke news on [...]

Ok, maybe that’s a lousy title for a post.
But, like the infamous Celebrity Dead Pool, which plays the morbid game of predicting ‘Which celebrity will die next?’, today’s release of Jeremy Mayfield from Haas CNC Racing has me thinking that a game of ‘Which NASCAR driver is gonna get the axe next?’ is in order.
There’s [...]