Brian Vickers will have a new crew chief for his third season with Red Bull Racing Team, as Ryan Pemberton leads Vickers’ charge to his first Red Bull victory and a spot in the 2009 Chase. Teammate Scott Speed will return for his rookie NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. He’ll drive the #82 Red Bull [...]

David Poole - I am as suspicious as the next guy when it comes to the way numbers can be played with in assessing things like economic impact a Sprint Cup race has on a community or what value a sponsor gets out of backing a race team. Such things are an inexact science, at best. [...]

Nascar’s Rookie of the Year faces a situation most of his counterparts in professional sports won’t next season — unemployment. Regan Smith, the top first-year driver in the Sprint Cup Series, is one of 116 employees of Dale Earnhardt Inc. whose jobs will disappear as the team merges with Chip Ganassi Racing. Mooresville, North Carolina, the [...]