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Nascar Restricting Toyota Engines, the Wrong Decision?

12:39 AM ET 07.24

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On Wednesday Nascar made an attempt to even the competition of the Nationwide Series by ordering all teams using Toyota engines to use a small restrictor, which will knock off about 15 horsepower.If you ask me, this is wrong and unfair to the teams using Toyota motors. The only reason this has come to be is because of the success of Joe Gibbs Racing cars in the Nationwide Series, in particular the #20 car which has found victory lane 9 times. This frequent success has led to the assumption that Toyota has some sort of advantage, though Joe Gibbs Racing has provided all but one of Toyota's…

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Last Man Standing: Busch Survives Talladega

11:00 AM ET 04.29

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Kyle Busch recovered from an early miscue during green flag pit stops when he missed his pitbox and fell a lap down and an incident with Jamie McMurray which almost claimed the two driver's cars to win at Talladega for the first time in his young career. As teammate Tony Stewart, who has finished 2nd at Talldega 6 times and won the Nationwide race, led the most laps, Busch was working his way up the running order before finally taking the lead on lap 184, holding off late charges from Jeff Gordon and Juan Pablo Montoya."I don't think I've ever finished one here yet without…

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McCumbee Filling in for Petty, Labonte leaving Petty?

10:04 PM ET 04.01

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Kyle Petty will be replaced by Craftsman Truck Series driver Chad McCumbee for the race at Texas this weekend, just days after Petty failed to qualify for the race at Martinsville. Petty has a best finish of 28th this year at Bristol, and the rest of his starts have ended with finishes outside the top-30. McCumbee also filled in for Petty last year at Pocono and Michigan while Petty was commenting races for TNT. In those races he finished 25th and 41st, and he's looking forward to the opportunity to improve on those performances."I feel comfortable around the No. 45 team,"…

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