Two South Carolina NASCAR champions will be the featured guests at Darlington Raceway’s Historic Racing Festival in September. Three-time NASCAR champions, Cale Yarborough and David Pearson, will take part in the track’s second gathering on Sept. 26-27. Also attending will be longtime sport promoter and former Lowe’s Motor Speedway president and general manager, H.A. “Humpy” Wheeler.

If Mark Martin keeps winning like this, even he might have to concede that he’s racing for a Sprint Cup championship. The 50-year-old Martin won for the second time in four races, outlasting Jimmie Johnson in a wreck-filled show at Darlington Raceway on Saturday night.

NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield has been suspended indefinitely after failing a random drug test. The result stems from a test last weekend at Richmond International Raceway.

Matt Kenseth set a Darlington Raceway record in winning his first pole in four years Friday, while three-time Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson will start near the back for the Southern 500 after a qualifying crash.

As tailgaters pulled into Darlington Raceway’s infield area and set up across the street, the Fifth Annual Darlington Car Hauler Parade and Festival at Florence Civic Center welcomed crowds of race fans to celebrate the beginning of race weekend in the Pee Dee.

A retro font was used to paint the walls at the track at Darlington Raceway.

Mark Martin will drive a full Sprint Cup schedule for Hendrick Motorsports in 2010.

Speedway Motorsports Inc. officials say
they have made an official request with NASCAR to add Kentucky to
the 2010 Sprint Cup Series schedule.

Kyle Busch planned to open the bulk of his birthday presents when he returned home from Richmond International Raceway. “What do you get a guy who has everything or buys anything he wants?“ he wondered. How about a trip to Victory Lane?

Brian Vickers turned a lap at 127.131 mph
to win the pole position for Saturday night’s NASCAR Sprint Cup
Series race at Richmond International Raceway.

NASCAR officials are not considering changing the racing surface at Talladega Superspeedway following a spectacular last-lap accident that sent debris flying into the grandstands.

Brad Keselowski has won his first Sprint Cup Series race by pushing Carl Edwards into the lead, then driving off to victory when contact between the two cars sent Edwards sailing into the fence at Talladega Superspeedway.

Juan Pablo Montoya won the first pole of his NASCAR career on Saturday with a strong lap at Talladega Superspeedway.

Jeff Gordon says the back pain he had last week at Phoenix International Raceway has yet to go away and he expects to drive with some discomfort this season.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Casey Mears have
been placed on probation by NASCAR for intentionally hitting each
other following the race at Phoenix International Raceway.