A nine-car NASCAR pileup may have wrecked a vehicle sponsored by the Federal Communications Commission, but it gave the agency more mileage in advertising the imminent switch to digital TV signals, the FCC’s chief said on Monday. The FCC spent about $350,000 to sponsor the car in the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing event on Sunday. …citeste tot articoul.

HOMESTEAD, Fla. — NASCAR has banned all testing at its sanctioned tracks next season in an effort to help teams save several million dollars in their 2009 budgets. …citeste tot articoul.

Hendrick Motorsports confirmed what many NASCAR fans had suspected all season, announcing Wednesday that Jimmie Johnson’s number 48 Chevrolet Impala would be put out to stud, ending its career in stock-car racing and living out the rest of its service life siring the cars of tomorrow. …citeste tot articoul.

Like prize fighters primed for battle, Jimmie Johnson and Carl Edwards sat next to each other on a dais Thursday answering questions about their upcoming showdown. In this case, that is Sunday’s Ford 400, the final race in this year’s Chase for the Sprint Cup. …citeste tot articoul.

You might think that this is a go-kart on steroids, but this BMW-Sauber is what all Formula One racing cars will have to look like next season. …citeste tot articoul.

A man driving away from a Spokane bar hit at least seven cars within 13 minutes, including one driven by an off-duty detective, before they arrested him for drunken driving. Jason G. Cross, 32, was booked into the Spokane County Jail on Saturday on a charge of DUI and seven charges of failure to leave information at the scene of an accident. …citeste tot articoul.

Authorities in southwest Florida say an intoxicated man had his 9-year-old son take him on a beer run. Cape Coral police arrested the 27-year-old man last week, after seeing a pickup truck drive onto a median. …citeste tot articoul.