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We are hearing today that Randy Moss Motorsports has shut down its #81 Camping World Truck Series team effective immediately due to lack of funding.  The team, which has been running with David Starr this season, had only partial sponsorship to begin the season.  We are also hearing that several employees have been laid off, [...]

As we approach the final stretch run of the 2010 Nationwide Series schedule, expect there to be more driver shuffling within Roush Fenway Racing’s NNS program.  We’re hearing that both Matt Kenseth and Erik Darnell will get starts in the team’s #16 Fords in the upcoming races.  Kenseth ran two NNS races for this team [...]

In the current climate of funded drivers and retreating sponsorship dollars, it’s very uncommon for a young driver without his own money to get a second chance.  What we are seeing with Aric Almirola though, goes against all of that.  JR Motorsports announced on Wednesday that Almirola had signed a multi-year agreement to drive the team’s #88 car [...]

We found out this last week that Kasey Kahne would be making a one year stop at Red Bull Racing before he takes over the #5 full time at Hendrick Motorsports for 2012.  A lot of questions still remain about Kahne’s future, but one of the big ones is who will be his crew chief [...]

According to NASCAR’s official Twitter page, Kevin Conway has been replaced on the entry list by Tony Raines in the #34 Front Row Motorsports Ford.  This confirms our information from Monday’s blog post in which we told you that Conway’s job was in trouble.  This news also comes after sponsor Extenze put out a press [...]

Ever since this story first leaked out over the weekend, there has been a ton of discussion about Kasey Kahne’s move to Red Bull for the 2011 season.  While the official announcement from the team answered a few questions for Kahne and Hendrick going forward, it created a bunch more for Red Bull.  Looking over [...]

The Watkins Glen road course provided some great racing this weekend, but while the action on track was interesting, so were some of the rumors floating around the garage.  We heard a few different bits this weekend that we wanted to share, and I figured I’d weigh in on them with some of my own [...]

I wonder if we will ever quit referring to driver and sponsor movements as the Silly Season.  It was initially called that because it referred to a specific part of the season when all this started happening.  Now it seems that it starts in February at Daytona.  Sorry, I digress… Has the 2010 Silly Season [...]

When T.J. Bell returns to the CWTS on August 14th at Darlington, it will be with the help of a new ‘green’ sponsor.  It will be announced Tuesday that Liberty Tire Recycling, the nation’s largest tire recycler, will be the primary sponsor for MAKE Motorsports and the #50 truck for the Too Tough To Tame 200.  [...]

GRAND-AM Continental Tire Series driver Billy Johnson will make his Nationwide Series debut next weekend at Watkins Glen with Roush Fenway Racing.  Johnson, who co-drives the #61 Roush Performance Mustang in the Continental Tire Challenge Series with Jack Roush Jr., will pilot the #6 Citi Financial Ford.  The race will be the first NASCAR event for [...]