It's easy to look at Jeff Gordon and see the wealthy celebrity with the model wife and baby daughter and nothing left to prove. ...more

February 15, 2009

Today we begin the countdown to Jimmie Johnson's record-setting fourth consecutive NASCAR points championship. The beginning of the countdown is also known as the Daytona 500. ...more

February 15, 2009

Tony Stewart's day at Daytona International Speedway started with a wreck in his Sprint Cup car, but it ended on a high note as he held off Carl Edwards, Clint Bowyer and Kyle Busch to win his second consecutive season-opening Nationwide Camping World 300. ...more

February 14, 2009

Tony Stewart got his first major setback as a team owner Saturday when a crash in practice took out both of the cars Stewart-Haas Racing planned to race in the Daytona 500. ...more

February 14, 2009

On the weekend of the Daytona 500, new Detroit Tigers pitching coach Rick Knapp used a NASCAR analogy to talk about a pitching staff that was wracked by injuries in 2008. ...more

February 14, 2009

Tony Stewart got his first major setback as a team owner Saturday when a crash in practice took out both of the cars Stewart-Haas Racing planned to race in the Daytona 500. ...more

February 14, 2009

He still doesn't have a sponsor, and his Sprint Cup car did not make Sunday's Daytona 500, but Lakeland's Joe Nemechek was able to smile Friday. ...more

February 14, 2009

Tony Stewart says the biggest surprise he has had so far as an owner/driver is learning he can roust himself from the sack early. ...more

February 14, 2009

Zephyrhills' David Reutimann drew the ire of Ryan Newman after he knocked the defending Daytona 500 champion into the wall in Thursday's second Daytona 150-mile qualifying Duel. ...more

February 13, 2009

Jeff Gordon and Kyle Busch won Thursday's traditional qualifying races, and Tampa's 24-year-old Aric Almirola raced like he believes he can win Sunday's 51st Daytona 500. ...more

February 13, 2009