With half of the Chase races completed, Jimmie Johnson is doing what he has done the past three years. He is taking control of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Chase and appears to be on his way to another championship.

Denny Hamlin finally won the race he has wanted for a long time with his victory Saturday night at the Richmond Speedway. Brian Vickers also won a race he was in. He won one of the twelve spots in the chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup title.

Kyle Busch is not a stranger to Victory Lane at Bristol Motor Speedway. He visited it again Saturday night by winning the final Sharpie 500 race at Bristol by holding off pole sitter Mark Martin. The victory also ended months of frustration Busch has had in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

Roush Fenway Racing driver David Ragan passed his teammate Carl Edwards for his second NASCAR Nationwide Series win of his career at the Bristol Motor Speedway’s Food City 250. It was also his second of the season, with his first coming at Talladega in April.

Brad Keselowski and the rest of the Nationwide Series was busy getting ready for the Food City 250 at Bristol Motor Speedway all day Friday. Everyone else was busy with the rumor that Keselowski was going to drive for Roger Penske in the NASCAR Sprint Cup next year.

Ron Hornaday holds just about every record in NASCAR’s Camping World Truck Series. Tonight he came up short in adding to his effort to win six straight races by finishing third in the O’Reilly 200 presented by Valvoline at the Bristol Motor Speedway.

Starting with tonight’s Whelen Modified Tour UNOH Perfect Storm 150 race, Sprint Cup driver Ryan Newman began his quest of completely every lap raced during this week’s races at Bristol Motor Speedway. Bristol is hosting four NASCAR races with the Camping World Truck Series, Nationwide Series and the Sprint Cup Series also racing at the “World’s Fastest Half Mile.”

At the last Camping World Truck Series race in Nashville, Ron Hornaday set a record for the series and joined two other NASCAR legends Richard Petty and Bobby Allison for five straight victories which they each did in 1971. Petty holds the record with ten straight wins in the 1967 season. Tonight at Bristol Motor Speedway, Hornaday will go for his sixth straight win.

This certainly casts some doubt on the veracity of this witness, although it does nothing to erase to multiple positive drug test results. The stepmother of Jeremy Mayfield and a witness for NASCAR in defending its suspension of the Sprint Cup driver, was arrested Saturday night after an incident at his Catawba County house. That's Lisa Mayfield's none-too-pretty mugshot attached to this post.

Lowes racing is one of my favorite races of the year. It is the longest race distance wise and it comes on the heels of the Indy 500 in the afternoon. A couple years ago drivers such as Tony Stewart and Robby Gordon used to attempt to race both the Indy 500 in the afternoon and then fly to Charlotte to race the Coca Cola 600. A total of 1100 miles in the day. For me this race kicks off summer. It's Memorial Day weekend and it's time to go racing.

Pizza Ranch announces today that they have signed a deal with Joe Gibbs Racing for Kyle Busch to pilot the No. 18 Pizza Ranch Toyota at Iowa Speedway’s inaugural NASCAR Nationwide Series race on August 1, 2009.

NASCAR is all about being the points leader, right? Each race can add points to your score for the season and lead to you winning the NASCAR crown. Except, every year there's the no points, no pressure, NASCAR All Star race, and 2009 is no different.