Mark Martin held off Juan Pablo Montoya on a late frantic restart to win the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship opener at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

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.

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

Earnhardt-Ganassi Racing has shuttered the No. 8 car driven by Aric Almirola because of a lack of funding.

David Reutimann gets to start on the front row at Texas.

Jeff Gordon will start from the pole position in the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Martinsville Speedway after steady rain washed out qualifying.

The older Busch showed his kid brother a
thing or two.

Matt Kenseth has won the rain-shortened Daytona 500, taking over the lead two laps before NASCAR stopped the season-opening event. As drivers climbed from their cars to await NASCAR’s decision on whether to restart the race, Kenseth sat patiently inside his parked Ford on pit road.

Nothing could stop Jimmie Johnson’s drive into the NASCAR record books. Not even a final, furious push by Carl Edwards.

Carl Edwards got the jump on Jimmie Johnson in qualifying for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway this Sunday. Edwards, facing a daunting 141-point deficit heading into the Ford 400, qualified fourth, trailing only first-time pole winner David Reutimann, rookie Scott Speed and Roush Fenway Racing teammate Matt Kenseth. Johnson needs only to finish 36th or better on Sunday to wrap up his third straight Cup title. He’ll start a disappointing 30th. It’s only the seventh time in 36 races this season that Johnson has started 20th
or lower.

Jimmie Johnson moved inches away from his record-tying third consecutive NASCAR championship with a dominating victory Sunday at Phoenix International Raceway.

Carl Edwards wins second straight race

Carl Edwards passed Denny Hamlin on a late restart, then held on to win Sunday at Atlanta Motor Speedway to keep his championship hopes alive.

Jimmie Johnson has won at Martinsville Speedway, padding his lead in his bid for a third straight title with four races to go. The two-time defending series champion led 339 laps Sunday as he and his Hendrick Motorsports teammates again dominated on this track.