Start-and-park teams were the talk of the week after NASCAR confiscated the #66 Prism Motorsports car for a post-race inspection. The sanctioning body inspected the car in the garage at Las Vegas to allow the team to qualify for Sunday’s race. In sponsorship news, Earnhardt Ganassi Racing picked up McDonald’s for 11 races this season with Jamie McMurray. The team said the deal had been in the works for some time. And finally, legendary NASCAR crew chief J.C. ‘Suitcase Jake’ Elder died this week at 73. Elder, who worked and won with some of the sport’s most prolific drivers, had been in failing health since a stroke in 2006. This is the NASCAR week that was February 21 to 27, 2010.

Pennzoil launches new product, but is Kevin Harvick, Richard Childress Racing part of its NASCAR future?

Remembering the brilliance of ‘Suitcase Jake’

KHI reaches back in time with West Coast pipeline

What have you done for me lately?

Questions arise over start-and-park cars

Vintage Insiders

Moonlighting

The Race Track Gourmet

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