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Tomas Scheckter has been added to the entrant list for Saturday night’s PEAK Antifreeze & Motor Oil Indy Read more » 300 at Chicagoland Speedway.  Scheckter will be driving the No. 36 car for Conquest Racing and joins teammate and rookie Bertrand Baguette.

Of his last minute entry, Scheckter tweeted this morning, “Looking forward to Chicago this weekend; happy that Conquest has taken me; going to be tough as we put this [together] so late.  But I enjoy the pressure.”

Mooresville, N.C. – August 25, 2010 – When the NASCAR® Nationwide Series heads north of the border for its annual visit to Canada this weekend, one of the series’ Read more »most experienced race teams will have a fresh face behind the wheel. Paulie Harraka, in his sophomore season in the K&N Pro Series West and his junior year at Duke University, will pilot the Exide® Batteries #87 Chevrolet for NEMCO Motorsports at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal on Sunday, August 29. The race will air live on ESPN 2 at 2:30 PM EST.

The best pit crew of the 1980s emerged among a half dozen crewmen within Richard Childress Racing. Built by driver-turned-team-owner Richard Childress, the team won four consecuti Read more »ve Unocal Pit Crew championships from 1985 to 1988. The annual competition was held at the one-mile superspeedway in Rockingham, N.C., and open to the teams that had qualified for that weekend's NASCAR Cup race. Year after year, the RCR team excelled with its fast times and flawless performances. The few who drew a full-time paycheck from RCR had one common bond: They were diehard racers with a passion to win.

On the Sunday afternoon of June 19, 1949, NASCAR’s first ever Strictly Stock race was held on a small, dirt track just off Wilkerson Boulevard in Charlotte, N.C. Since that fateful day, pit crews have serviced cars during races on a variety of track configurations throughout the nation. In more than six decades of racing, it has become a science and an art form.

Concord, NC, United States (AHN) - Former NASCAR Nationwide Series champion and television analyst Randy LaJoie has paid the price and has been re-instated for competition by NASCAR.

The two-time Nationwide Series champion Read more »was suspended June 22 for violating the sanctioning body's substance-abuse policy.

"I am thankful to NASCAR for reinstating me for competition, and grateful to my friends and family who supported me through this time," said LaJoie. "This has been a tremendous learning and growing process for me, and I have come through it a stronger, better person.''