Ed Hinton

You can hear it in the boos: Jimmie Johnson is a victim of cultural bigotry. Too many NASCAR fans assume he isn't one of them, didn't grow up hard enough,...

Poor Matt Kenseth. Here he sits in another awkward position. He can either lose this Nextel Cup championship by a nose or win it in a way that would let...

Jimmie Johnson had a dream last week unlike any he'd had before. In it, he was the Nextel Cup champion at last. "I didn't have the full visual of, like,...

Yet another incident has bolstered Tony Stewart's argument for separate races, or at least a separate point system, for NASCAR's playoff contenders. You'd hate to see a guy lose the...

Welcome to NASCAR's latest rendition of playoffs, the Chaos for the Cup. At this rate, somebody's going to stumble to the Nextel Cup championship by averaging double-digit finishes. Surely the...

"Bill France knows I carry a gun, and he don't want to take away my race dates." --H. Clay Earles, founder, Martinsville Speedway There is a time warp here in...

Kasey Kahne's resurgence in the Chase continued Saturday night as he won the Bank of America 500 in Concord, N.C., in a late duel with Jimmie Johnson. But the relentless...

Jeff Burton and Mark Martin, two old friends and former teammates who long ago convinced each other never to count on anything in NASCAR--especially a championship--now find themselves vying for...

David Gilliland won the pole for Sunday's EA Sports 500 at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway, posting a lap of 191.712 m.p.h. in his Robert Yates Racing Ford. But his speed was...

Here go the Chasers to Talladega. Bless their pounding hearts. Here goes the Chase into the Big One, the massive pileup that's almost inevitable and may well mangle the playoff...