Daytona is over. Let the real season begin. That's been the prevailing theme this week as the NASCAR Sprint Cup series moves to Southern California for today's Auto Club 500. ...more

February 21, 2009

I naively believe that there are a lot of NASCAR fans reading this column and are interested in what happened when Dale Earnhardt and Brian Vickers caused a massive pileup of wrecked racers this past Sunday in the Daytona 500 race, while actually there may be only a few dozen. ...more

February 19, 2009

Daytona 500 winner Matt Kenseth sampled the champagne in Victory Lane, posed for a few photos, then got on a plane and went home. ...more

February 17, 2009

Kyle Busch had the car to win Sunday's Daytona 500. He did not have the luck that's also needed in a restrictor-plate race. ...more

February 16, 2009

An American team will be racing in Formula One from 2010, and IndyCar driver Danica Patrick is a candidate to fill one of its seats. ...more

February 16, 2009

Once there was Ironhead. Sunday there was his boy: Bonehead. ...more

February 15, 2009

It's easy to look at Jeff Gordon and see the wealthy celebrity with the model wife and baby daughter and nothing left to prove. ...more

February 15, 2009

Today we begin the countdown to Jimmie Johnson's record-setting fourth consecutive NASCAR points championship. The beginning of the countdown is also known as the Daytona 500. ...more

February 15, 2009

Tony Stewart got his first major setback as a team owner Saturday when a crash in practice took out both of the cars Stewart-Haas Racing planned to race in the Daytona 500. ...more

February 14, 2009

Tony Stewart got his first major setback as a team owner Saturday when a crash in practice took out both of the cars Stewart-Haas Racing planned to race in the Daytona 500. ...more

February 14, 2009