Carl Edwards was spared suspension for intentionally wrecking Brad Keselowski during last weekend's NASCAR race in Atlanta. NASCAR president Mike Helton said Carl Edwards will be on probation three weeks'. NASCAR said they will meet with both drivers and their car owners to "clean the slate." 

 

Matthew Huffstetler, a crew member for the #01 team in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, and William Keith, a crew member for the #38 team in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, have been indefinitely suspended from NASCAR for violating the sanctioning body's substance abuse policy.

Keith is the former brother-in-law of Jeremy Mayfield, and was a spotter for David Gilliland.

 

ISC announced Rick Humphrey as Managing Director of Business Operations. Humphrey accepted the role from his most recent position as president of Talladega Superspeedway. Meanwhile Grant Lynch Jr., Chairman of Talladega Superspeedway will assume the responsibilities for day to day operation of the facility.

 

This Friday, March 12 Jack Roush will receive the highest compliment in the hot rod world as he will be presented with the Robert Petersen Lifetime Achievement Award. The ceremony takes place during the grand opening breakfast of the 12th Annual HotRod & Restoration Trade Show at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis.

 

Race fans at Nashville Superspeedway Easter wk-end will get to enjoy Big Machine Records recording artists Steel Magnolia (Meghan Linsey and Joshua Scott Jones). The duo will perform a post-race concert on the frontstretch as part of the Dillon Transportation Concert Series immediately following the race, scheduled to take the green flag at 3 p.m. The concert is free to all April 3 NASCAR Nationwide Series race ticket holders.

 

 

Following Sunday's race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, NASCAR announced that the engines of race winner Kurt Busch, Matt Kenseth, Brian Vickers (random) and Michael McDowell (start-and-park) would be taken to the NASCAR R&D center and torn down for observation. Busch and seventh-place finisher Vickers' chassis will also be taken to the NASCAR R&D center for observation.

 

NASCAR veteran Kyle Petty has raced stock cars and sports cars at Daytona International Speedway. Yesterday he added motorcycles to that list after taking lessons from Supercross legend Ricky Carmichael. Petty, along with his SPEED Channel co-host Rutledge Wood, took part in the inaugural Ricky Carmichael University. Petty, who has always enjoyed motorcycles but did not have any previous Supercross experience, equated participating in the event to a kid being able to take a lap around Daytona International Speedway the day after the Daytona 500.

 

Tomorrow team members from Jeff Gordon, Scott Speed and Brian Vickers teams, Olympic swimmers and students from the NASCAR Technical Institute will all participate in the construction process of Construction of Hope Park. A unique 20,000 square-foot, motorsports-themed playground at Lowe's YMCA in Mooresville, N.C.

Kurt Busch won the Kobalt Tools 500 Sprint Cup Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway for his 1st win of the season, 21st of his career and 3rd at AMS. Matt Kenseth finished 2nd, Juan Pueblo Montoya, Kasey Kahne, and John Paul Menard. 

 

Part of yesterday’s excitement came when Carl Edwards and Brad Keslowski bumped on Lap 41 and Edwards ended up getting shoved into the #20 Toyota of Joey Logano, effectively ruining both of their days. Keselowski, meanwhile, drove away from that incident and went on to put together a solid run for the day. Edwards spent much of the afternoon in the garage, only to return to the track 150 laps down and appeared to purposely wreck Keselowski sending him airborne, his car ended up landing upside down, nearly crushing in the driver's side of the roof, and was completely destroyed in the aftermath. The #99 Roush Fenway Ford was ordered to be parked in the garage. After the race Brad Keselowski is asking NASCAR to suspended Carl for at least one race- The governing body said last night they will take its time in examining all the facts before deciding what to do with Edwards. Any additional penalties for Edwards by late Tuesday afternoon.

 

Some other questions about Atlanta; include Goodyear tires. At least a dozen drivers were affected by tire problems during Sunday's race, stirring up complaints that Goodyear supplied a compound that was good for speed but low on durability at the high-banked track.

 

Kevin Harvick took the checkered flag in the truck race Saturday. Harvick pulled away from Kyle Busch for a dominating victory Saturday at Atlanta Motor Speedway.