David Reutimann's hot start in the 2009 NASCAR season has gone to his head. The Zephyrhills' native has starting calling himself "The Franchise" around Michael Waltrip Racing. ...more

March 27, 2009

David Reutimann and crew chief Brian Pattie of Zephyrhills have built David's dad, Buzzie, an open-wheeled modified race car, and they all will be at East Bay Raceway tonight for its debut. ...more

February 8, 2009

Team mergers made necessary by the difficult economy and Tony Stewart's move to an owner-driver role have contributed to the biggest alignment shakeup in years. Here are the major changes: ...more

January 31, 2009

Kyle Busch will start the Chase where he has been most of the season - up front in Joe Gibbs Racing's No. 18 Toyota. ...more

September 13, 2008

SPRINT CUP PREVIEW RACE NO. 24: BRISTOL After the Daytona 500 and Allstate 400 at the Brickyard, NASCAR racing doesn't get much more electric than the annual summer race at Bristol. The Sharpie 500 is short-track racing at its best: three hours of banging and crashing and drivers looking to get even under the lights. Despite an enormous seating capacity of 160,000, Bristol has sold out 53 consecutive times for its Sprint Cup races, easily the longest streak in the sport. Tribune motorsports writer Tony Fabrizio looks at what is topical heading into the third-to-last regular-season race: ...more

August 22, 2008

One thing about NASCAR: It always delivers the unexpected. Take Tony Stewart going off on Goodyear after a frustrating second-place finish at Atlanta in March. "That's the most pathetic tire I've been on in my racing career," he said on national television. "If they can't do any better than that, they should pull out of the sport and save us a bunch of headaches." ...more

July 9, 2008

As well as Speedweeks began for Hendrick Motorsports, the New York Yankees of NASCAR fell flat Sunday in the 50th running of the Daytona 500. ...more

February 18, 2008

Tony Stewart won the Camping World 300 on Saturday, his third victory in four years in the Nationwide Series season opener at Daytona International Speedway. ...more

February 17, 2008

The Nationwide Series season apparently is going to start with a rash of penalties. ...more

February 16, 2008

Boris Said watched part of Thursday's second 150-mile qualifying race from the top of David Reutimann's pit box - not because he's the newest employee of Michael Waltrip Racing, but rather because he was Reutimann's "new best friend." ...more

February 15, 2008