Last race: Kyle Busch won the battle of attrition, overcoming a pit-road penalty and several scrapes with the wall to win at Darlington Raceway. The third Cup victory of the season for NASCAR’s least popular driver hardly thrilled the crowd, which booed him lustily in prerace introductions and hadn’t softened by the time he took [...]

Cup drivers are not represented by a union, like many other professional athletes, but most say they would like to see a program of random drug testing installed to alleviate any chance that people like Fike, arrested while shooting up heroin last July 7 in the parking lot of a Cincinnati, Ohio, amusement park, will [...]

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.%26There were no marriage proposals, no child reporters and hardly any silly questions. Media day at the Daytona 500 didn’t even have a prediction. No doubt, NASCAR’s season-opening event has a long way to go before it reaches the level of the Super Bowl. [...]