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Martin Truex Jr. Lands Daytona 500 Pole

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- After what could possibly be described as the most boring day in all of NASCAR -- well, save for the middle laps at Pocono -- a pair of Martins had the hot hand during Sunday's qualifying for next Sunday's Daytona 500.Earnhardt Ganassi Racing's Martin Truex Jr. will lead the Sprint Cup season-opener...

Menard, Sadler Start Up Front in Shootout

Paul Menard's new season with a new team is starting out on a refreshingly good note.Menard, who left the Earnhardt-Ganassi Racing team following 2008 to drive the No. 98 Ford at Yates Racing, drew the pole for Saturday night's Budweiser Shootout at Daytona during a made-for-TV draw "party" Thursday night just outside of...

Former DEI Exec Max Siegel Picked to Lead NASCAR's Diversity Effort

Over the course of the past 24 hours, word has come out that one of the newer faces to the NASCAR garage area will be changing gears in how he works with the sport.Max Siegel, hired on as the company president at the then-Dale Earnhardt Inc. in Febuary of 2007, will now lead NASCAR's Drive for Diversity program in addition...

Welcome to NASCAR's Silliest Season

Did you really think the NASCAR world could keep quiet during this offseason?First, we had Elliott Sadler being canned from his then Gillett-Evernham Motorsports ride just months after signing a multi-year contract extension. A.J. Allmendinger, they said, was taking over the ride.Then, Richard Petty and the...

Labonte Slated to Drive No. 96 Fords in 2009

Move over Earnhardt-Ganassi Racing, the newly crafted alliance between Yates Racing and Hall of Fame Racing -- I don't know if we can call it a merger just yet -- has landed 2000 Sprint Cup Champion Bobby Labonte.Labonte, who left Petty Enterprises in December, moves to the team to drive the No. 96 car that, thanks to that...