Johnson setting pace for Chase
In his soft-spoken, no-brag, just-fact sort of way, Jimmie Johnson articulated what 11 other Chase contenders left here fearing Sunday. "We're happy to be hitting our stride at this point...
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3-way battle for IndyCar title wraps up in Joliet
The hottest championship drama this weekend belongs to the IndyCar Series, in Sunday's season finale at Chicagoland Speedway. There are no playoffs for the IndyCar title, so this is it...
Bristol has lost some of its edge
News flash to the NASCAR world: Bristol Motor Speedway is no longer a slam-bang, temper-boiling, dog-eat-dog racetrack. It has become, well, nice. And that could dampen its notoriety. In the...
Clock is ticking for Little E
As if Dale Earnhardt Jr. didn't have enough trouble, hanging by a thread to NASCAR playoff hopes going into a race Saturday night that could be the wildest brawl of...
DEI aiming to get all it can out of ‘8’
The recent-hit NASCAR soap opera, "Too Much Ado About the No. 8," took a cliff-hanging turn Thursday, sure to hold audiences into next NASCAR season. A little organ music, please:...
Maturity escapes ‘other’ Gordon
Bob Gordon, Robby's father, used to tell stories about the toddler riding along on practice runs for the Baja 1000, bouncing along, laughing all the way. At 38, Robby seems...
Johnson forced to shift his focus
The disintegration of Jimmie Johnson's luck has been so profound on the NASCAR landscape this summer that even red-hot rival Tony Stewart felt compelled to look over his shoulder with...
Johnson is forced to shift his focus
The disintegration of Jimmie Johnson's luck has been so profound on the NASCAR landscape this summer that even red-hot rival Tony Stewart felt compelled to look over his shoulder with...
A Stewart storm could be brewing
Tony Stewart couldn't ask for better conditions to try to blast out of a winless first half of the Nextel Cup season. One of his patented second-half streaks could be...
Montoya to triple Brickyard pleasure
With Sunday's Allstate 400, Juan Pablo Montoya will become the first driver to race three different types of cars at Indianapolis Motor Speedway: IndyCars, Formula One and now NASCAR. Of...