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It's been a long, hot day in the Greater St. Louis area. The heat is on and the afternoon Camping World Truck Series race is over. Now, the Nationwide Series gets on the track to complete the day with qualifying and the race.ESPN will show qualifying at 4:30PM, the prerace at 7PM and the race coverage at 8PM. Dave Burns will lead the announce team of Rusty Wallace and Ricky Craven. On pit roa...

Here we go again with the second try at getting the Camping World Truck Series race underway from Gateway in St. Louis, MO.Conditions are going to be very different now in the heat of the day. On TV, there will be no prerace show and the trucks should be taking the green only minutes after SPEED gets on the air. Rick Allen, Phil Parsons and Michael Waltrip return to call the race. Ray Dunlap and A...

MADISON, Ill. The feud between Carl Edwards and Brad Keselowski dormant since Atlanta in March erupted Saturday night at Gateway International Raceway. In a drag race to the finish line, Edwards sent Keselowski hard into the outside wall on the way to winning Saturday night's MissouriIllinois Dodge Dealers 250 Nationwide Series race at the 1.25mile track. As Edwards took the checkered flag...

MADISON, Ill. On a blistering hot day that left fourthplace finisher Todd Bodine lying on the tile floor of the Gateway International Raceway media center with ice packs on his chest, Kevin Harvick beat the heat and trounced the rest of the field to win Saturday afternoon's blackoutdelayed CampingWorld.com 200. Despite a stiff neck that kept him out of part of Nationwide Series practice earl...

In addition to possible changes to the Chase For The Sprint Cup format, NASCAR Chairman Brian France seems determined to change something else the NASCAR Nationwide Series. France hinted earlier this month that changes to the Nationwide Series could keep Sprint Cup drivers from winning the series championship.

It is safe to say that a race car received more publicity than most drivers during the first half of the 2010 Nationwide Series season. With the exception of Danica Patricks whirlwind start to her NASCAR career, it was the new Nationwide Series car that took center stage for the first six months of 2010. And it was used in just its first race July 2 at Daytona. It will be raced three more times th...

The debate is beginning to rage over whether NASCAR should change its Chase For The Sprint Cup format yet again. But there really should be no debate. It should be a nobrainer. The current format is not working, so change it.

Former Indianapolis 500 champion and Formula One star Jacques Villeneuve is heading back to the Brickyard.

Former Formula One champion Jacques Villeneuve will attempt to qualify for the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway for Braun Racing. Villeneuve will drive the teams No. 32 Toyota sponsored by Dollar General.

Its hard to figure who is looking forward to this weekends Nationwide Series race at Gateway International Raceway more Carl Edwards or Reed Sorenson. Each driver holds Gateway in high regard, and a victory in Saturdays MissouriIllinois Dodge Dealers 250 would produce the series first threetime winner at the 1.25mile track in Madison, Ill.

Neither Kasey Kahne nor Mark Martin have had the Sprint Cup season they expected, with the exception of Kahne securing his longterm future by landing a lucrative deal with Hendrick Motorsports. And while they currently drive for different Cup teams, their lives have been intertwined since April.

For seven drivers outside the top 12 in the Sprint Cup standings, the focus the next seven weeks is on getting into the Chase For The Sprint Cup.

Key Motorsports has hired former TRG Motorsports crew chief Doug Randolph for the next four events, the team announced.

It's an off weekend for the Sprint Cup Series as some of the drivers and team members take the last break before the big push to the Chase. SPEED has live Camping World Truck Series action from Gateway in St. Louis, MO on Friday night. Qualifying coverage starts on SPEED at 7PM ET followed by The Setup prerace show at 8:30PM and the race coverage at 9PM. Hope to see you right here Friday nigh...

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NASCAR star Kasey Kahne will make his first start in the Truck Series in six years when he drives the No. 18 Toyota for Kyle Busch Motorsports at Pocono on July 31.

By now, most fans have read that changes are being considered to the Chase For The Sprint Cup format. After an exaggerated sigh and eye roll, I sat down and tried to understand where NASCAR could possibly be headed. An expanded Chase field, separate points system for Chasers, elimination, blah, blah, blah. Only my tweenage daughters moods change more frequently than NASCAR and I have a hard time ...

Kasey Kahne, who has won the two Camping World Truck Series races he has entered in his career, will drive the No. 18 truck for Kyle Busch Motorsports in the July 31 truck race at Pocono Raceway.

As the drivers take their annual break before the Brickyard, they can look back and see that "have at it boys" was not just NASCAR lipservice. Now are they really ready to let it rip

For the past several years, NASCARs Sprint Cup Series has produced a dozen or more different race winners by seasons end. But unless this years numbers improve, the 2010 season could see that number dip to its lowest point in more than a decade. Fewer race winners could mean more teams heading into the Chase still searching for that first win of the season.