FIN CAR DRIVER MAKE SPONSOR SPEED TIME BEHIND 1 55 Brian Vickers Toyota MyClassicGara ge.com 95.874 19.751 Leader 2 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet Diet Mountain Dew / National Guard / AMP Energy 95.660 19.795 -0.044 3 24 Jeff Gordon Chevrolet Pepsi Max 95.660 19.795 -0.044 4 18 Kyle Busch Toyota M&M's Halloween... more.

Pos Car Driver Team Time Speed Lap # # Laps -Fastest -Next 1 83 Brian Vickers Red Bull Toyota 29.304 184.275 1 70 ---.--- ---.--- 2 4 Kasey Kahne Red Bull Toyota 29.334 184.087 3 39 -0.030 -0.030 3 17 Matt Kenseth Crown Royal Ford 29.422 183.536 1 50 -0.118 -0.088 4 27 Paul Menard ZECOL / Menards Chevrolet 29.448 183.374 1... more.

Red Bull Racing Team’s gamble didn’t come at the casino adjacent to Dover International Speedway. The roll of the dice came on pit road. No. 83 crew chief Ryan Pemberton called for a two-tire stop under the final caution flag in Sunday’s FedEx 400. Would Brian Vickers’ aging left-side rubber hold up for the last 33 laps? Would he be able to hold off the cars that took four fresh ones? O... more.

The Red Bull Toyotas struggled at the back of the field Saturday night about as bad as the Dallas Cowboys struggle in December, which gave Red Bull Racing Team time for observation and reflection. + While Matt Kenseth was attempting to set a new land-speed record (the race pace was furiously fast), Kasey Kahne finished 21st and Brian Vickers 27th — two and four laps in arrears, respectively. ... more.

Only five races into the Kasey Kahne-Brian Vickers tandem, the two drivers combined to earn one of the best finishes in Red Bull Racing Team history. Vickers’ No. 83 Red Bull Toyota finished eighth and Kahne’s No. 4 ninth in Sunday’s 400-miler at Auto Club Speedway — yes, it was 400 miles — to match the third-best finish in team history. It tied the total of 17 when the No. 83 finishe... more.

There are six guys, and a handful of others, that rarely get the recognition they deserve during the race. Couch potatoes see them on TV, leaping from a knee-high wall — jacking, changing and rolling wheels that weigh as much as a 6th-grader. Kasey Kahne gave his guys the credit after Sunday’s Jeff Byrd 500. He said the No. 4 pit crew was the reason his Red Bull Toyota finished ninth at Bri... more.

The NASCAR Sprint Cup season began Feb. 20. Brian Vickers’ season began Sunday. After being collected in two accidents in the season’s first two races, Vickers and the No. 83 Red Bull Toyota finally made it to the finish unscathed. Vickers’ 10th-place finish in Sunday’s Kobalt Tools 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway helped erase the memory of a 31st and 30th to start the season — both h... more.

Sixth place goes down in the record books as just that: sixth. It’s not a shiny number. It’s a solid number. And for a team that’s been blanked by a 1-mile slick and slippery race track for the past four years, sixth is quite an accomplishment. “To come out of here with a top 10, I’m pretty happy,” Kasey Kahne said. Kahne and the No. 4 Red Bull Toyota finished — you guessed it ... more.

BIG ONE BEATS UP 83: The Daytona 500 completed the comeback for Brian Vickers, who had not driven in a Cup points race since May 8, 2010, while he recovered from blood clots. The return, however, was brief, as Vickers’ No. 83 Red Bull Toyota got collected in a 14-car accident only 29 laps in. The crew doubled timed it — and even later corrected three power problems — to get Vickers back out.... more.

An Interview With: BRIAN VICKERS THE MODERATOR:  We are pleased to be joined by Brian Vickers.  He drives the No. 83 Red Bull Toyota.  Brian, I've got to believe you're ecstatic about getting behind the wheel again of that race car. BRIAN VICKERS:  Yeah.  I don't know how else to put it.  Everyone keeps asking me how does it feel to be back.  I guess it feels damn good. Yo... more.

BV: “Most of you know about the blood clots I had, the pulmonary embolisms, the clot in my left leg and clots in the lungs. During that process, I also had a clot that went to my left finger. The only way for a clot to get there from where they were created was through my heart from the right atrium to the left atrium. It’s called a PFO (Patent foramen ovale). It’s a hole between the two atr... more.

Red Bull Racing driver Brian Vickers announced Saturday he has been medically cleared to return to the Sprint Cup series next season. Vickers said he had heart surgery to repair the hole July 12. A stent was placed in a vein in his left leg a day later. The 26-year-old Vickers said his choices were to undergo the heart surgery, or "not to close it and run the risk of having a stroke. "I w... more.

When Red Bull driver and two-time DTM champion Mattias Ekström visited Red Bull Racing Team in 2008, he “dreamed” of driving a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series car. Fast-forward two years, and Ekström finally gets his chance. The 31-year-old Swede will drive the No. 83 on Tuesday at Virginia International Raceway to provide the team testing support for the upcoming road race in Sonoma, Calif. Both o... more.

Braun Racing announced today that Reed Sorenson will drive the No. 32 Dollar General Toyota in the NASCAR Nationwide Series races scheduled at Charlotte Motor Speedway (May and October), Daytona Superspeedway (July), Michigan International Speedway (August) and Atlanta Motor Speedway (September).  Brian Vickers was originally scheduled to drive the No. 32 in these events. “This sport is our ... more.

Via ESPN.com, Brian Vickers will miss the remainder of the NASCAR season because of blood clots in his lungs and left leg. Vickers was hospitalized two nights last week after feeling chest pains during a visit to Washington, D.C. Testing revealed the clots, and Vickers missed last weekend's race at Dover. Vickers returned to North Carolina following his release from the hospital Friday night... more.