The NASCAR Foundation announced today five community service projects across the country as keystone events to take place on NASCAR Day on May 21, teaming with several official NASCAR partners and aimed at education and helping children live happier, healthier lives. “The Big Five” projects include: renovation and race theme decoration of a portion of the Aflac Cancer Center and Blood Disorder... more.

from Courant.com- After two years as a studio analyst at ESPN, former Sprint Cup Series regular and Maine native Ricky Craven is readying to take the next step in his NASCAR broadcasting career.Craven will leave the cozy confines of the studio behind on April 3 and make his first foray into race coverage when he joins the ESPN broadcast booth for the NASCAR Nationwide Series Nashville 300 from Nas... more.

Veteran NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Sterling Marlin has signed Puerto Rican Bryan Ortiz to a driver development deal for the 2010 season. Marlin, the 1994 and 1995 winner of the Daytona 500, formed a new race team, BD Racing with Sterling Marlin, and will compete in the Sunoco National Tour (previously known as the ASA Late Model Challenge Series) with Ortiz.   Marlin, a three-time track Cham... more.

The No. 28 HotRodGrills Chevy will be looking to Grill the field in the NNS race on the famed Bristol Motor Speedway short track come March 20, 2010. The entire JRR/HotRodGrills Team will gear up its MPH, with Kenny Wallace behind the wheel! Bristol with its “Racin’ the way it ought to be” will now be joined by the V-8 of gas grills www.HotRodGrills.com “The Ultimate Grill“ Jay Robins... more.

Scott Riggs fans have spoken… The dedicated culmination of Scott Riggs fans would like to reach out in support of the veteran driver in a unique fan-driven opportunity to “Sponsor Scott” in the upcoming Federated Auto Parts 300 on April 3rd at Nashville Superspeedway. Packages: *Bronze-$50 donation: Includes a signed picture of the No. 09 Ford Fusion from the Nashville Race weekend by Sc... more.

Kenny Wallace will be competing in the United States Modified Touring Series when the USMTS Casey’s General Stores National Tour kicks off the 2010 campaign next Friday and Saturday, March 12-13, at the Humboldt (Kan.) Speedway.... more.

Braun Racing is pleased to announce that BigSpot.com, an Offerwise Company, will be the primary sponsor of its No. 11 Toyota Camry for five NASCAR Nationwide Series races this season. NASCAR Nationwide Series Rookie of the Year contender, Brian Scott, will drive the BigSpot.com Toyota Camry for all five races which include Phoenix International Raceway, Road America, New Hampshire Motor Speedway, ... more.

This is an across-the-board off-week for NASCAR’s three national series and the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series. Next week, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and NASCAR Nationwide Series return at action at Bristol Motor Speedway. The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series returns the following week at Martinsville Speedway, while the sports cars are off until an April 10 event at Barber Motorsports P... more.

The annual Tire Kingdom NHRA Gatornationals in Gainesville, Fla., is one of the biggest events of the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series season, and ESPN2 airs three hours of final eliminations action on Sunday, March 14, at 6 p.m. ET. Gatornationals qualifying highlights air Sunday at midnight (late Saturday night), re-airing at 10 a.m. Sunday   The traditional East Coast opener, this event i... more.

Bryan Davis Keith, lead Nationwide Series writer for Frontstretch.com and a contributing writer for THL, had a chance to sit down with Roush Racing driver Colin Braun to discuss his rookie season in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. Bryan Davis Keith: You've got a lot of help on the Nationwide Series side. You've got a fellow rookie in Ricky Stenhouse Jr. who's making his full-time debut in the ser... more.

Eddie Gossage's blog-It seems to be all the rage to bash Danica (she's so big, we don't use her last name anymore). She finished 36th Saturday in Las Vegas after wrecking halfway through the Nationwide Series race. For some reason, it's big sport for fans of the sport to talk about her while expressing their exasperation. If you listen to these fans, you would think Danica doesn't have a friend... more.

Jack Roush Sr. celebrated a racing milestone yesterday at Homestead-Miami Speedway when his son, Jack Roush Jr., and co-driver Billy Johnson won the Homestead 200 (Grand Sport Class) at Homestead-Miami Speedway.  The win marked the 400th all-time victory for Roush Sr. in road racing and NASCAR combined. The race, which was part of the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Series, featured Rous... more.

The 2010 season has provided both ups and downs for the five drivers that make up the Nationwide Series' 2010 rookie class. Of course the the season is only three races old and some ups and downs are to be expected the first year out. So far into the young season, things have been mostly up for rookie of the year candidate James Buescher. He started off his 2010 campaign with a strong top-10 ru... more.

Q: What does it mean to you to come back to Texas Motor Speedway and racing on your home track? I always like coming back to this racetrack, especially because it’s only a four-hour drive for me. I used to live in Plano (Texas), no I live in Katy (Texas). It’s the only racetrack on the schedule that I can drive to. That makes it kind of nice. All my family and friends from the Houston and D... more.

Q: How much better prepared are you this year because of your experience from last season? About three or four times the amount I was last year. Last year was tough for me. The cool part is how we improved throughout the season. Coming out of the gates this year with already one top five and already getting two top 10s off the bat is pretty exciting for a driver and for the whole Home Depot tea... more.

Excerpt from CBS Sports.com article-Rusty Wallace's Nationwide Series team is owed more than a half million dollars by former sponsor US Fidelis. Rusty Wallace Racing is among the 20 creditors with claims against the now-bankrupt company with $535,439.18 owed to the team, which sponsored Steve Wallace and Brendan Gaughan for the 2009 Nationwide Series season.... more.

NASCAR legend Morgan Shepherd knows Bristol.  Shepherd is currently tied for most Nationwide Series victories with Kevin Harvick with three wins at the ½ mile oval track. Like many teams, Shepherd’s mission driven Victory In Jesus Racing team is feeling the economic crunch. The team is offering advertising opportunities ranging from $1,200 to $10,000 for one of NASCAR’s biggest weekend... more.

R3 Motorsports has signed up-and-coming NASCAR driver Coleman Pressley to a multiple-race deal for the 2010 NASCAR Nationwide Series season. Pressley, 21, of Asheville, N.C., is the son of former NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, NASCAR Nationwide Series and Camping World Truck Series driver Robert Pressley. Coleman is also the grandson of Bob Pressley, a multiple-NASCAR short track champion in the Lat... more.

Key Motorsports team owner Curtis Key announced this morning the return of Westerman Companies to the quarter panels of the #40 Chevrolet for eight NASCAR Nationwide Series races in 2010. "Westerman Companies have agreed to remain a partner with Key Motorsports in 2010," said Curtis Key. "We at Key Motorsports appreciate the opportunity to continue to grow and build the Westerman Companies bran... more.

After earning his first career top 10 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway last year, Scott Lagasse Jr. entered this weekend’s race with high hopes of a repeat performance. A penalty for jumping the restart on lap 92 put the No. 43 Dr. Gadget®/everybodygets1.com Ford Fusion two laps down and made for a long Sam’s Town 300, but the team managed to get back on the lead lap late in the race and earn a re... more.