20 and in only his second career NASCAR Sprint Cup start. And his call on the radio — “Are you kidding me?” DERRIKE COPE— In 14 Daytona 500s, Cope scored just one top-10 finish, but it was a huge one: Cope won the 1990 500 after leader Dale Earnhardt...

And I did, but I can tell you it was a lot of work. It didn't go smooth." Drivers face death every time they climb into a racecar, which separates them from athletes of most other sports and most other families. NASCAR fortunately hasn't had a death in...

Submit Vote vote to see results Saturday night’s Bud Shootout may have seen the birth of the new Intimidator. As much as many fans of the sport don’t like "Rowdy" Kyle Busch, he is the kind of personality on and off the track that brings the casual...

Last year, a kid named Trevor Bayne won it. Bayne had a grand total of one Sprint Cup race under his belt before winning NASCAR's biggest race. The next week, Bayne finished 40th at Phoenix. In 2001, Michael Waltrip won it. Waltrip raced under the...

Yet Busch managed to slip past Tony Stewart at the finish line to win the closest Budweiser Shootout in its 34-year history. The margin of victory -- 0.013 seconds -- eclipsed the previous mark of 0.08 seconds, when Dale Earnhardt edged Sterling Marlin...

I know more and more people have been showing up and just doing three or four runs and have a lot of their stuff already on the car, but we really don't have many more tricks in the bag. We're gonna be one of probably eight cars that has a stab at it."