Ed Hinton

Saturday night, NASCAR's best drivers get to have a few laughs at 190 m.p.h. The show is called the Budweiser Shootout, and it's a chance to get a little wild...

Hold off on that backlash, traditionalists. Hear me out on the coming of Toyota to NASCAR's top two series, made official this week. This is not a "foreign invasion." This...

NASCAR got a year ahead of itself Monday, announcing all sorts of plans for 2007 but saying little about the season that is about to begin. First, NASCAR and Toyota...

NASCAR has finalized its biggest TV deal ever. The rights package, worth an estimated $4.5 billion over eight years, was announced Wednesday. It is with three separate media giants--Disney (ABC-ESPN),...

NASCAR's longest-running active driver, Ricky Rudd, will call it quits at the end of this season. Rudd, 49, who has driven in NASCAR's top series since he was 18 and...

The driver contract logjam in NASCAR for next year broke Monday, sending 2004 Nextel Cup champion Kurt Busch to Penske Racing South and Jamie McMurray to replace Busch at Roush...

Jimmie Johnson's team members can draw only one conclusion from Tony Stewart's persistent vowing that they're not going to get inside his head. "I guess we've gotten inside his head,"...

Storm clouds, if not war clouds, continue to gather on the horizon of NASCAR's plan to limit the number of cars a team may field to no more than three....

Despite this year's debacle, Indianapolis Motor Speedway has scheduled another running of the U.S. Grand Prix for July 2. But Indy's contract with Formula One ends in 2006, so that...

The Indy Racing League made Miami and Chicago the bookend stops of its season but dropped three other major markets and offended a fourth Tuesday when it announced a reduced...