Villeneuve racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in early 2008. In a subsequent interview with Autosport magazine, Villeneuve's manager Craig Pollock confirmed that Villeneuve's Formula One career was over It was announced on August 24, 2007 that Villeneuve would run the remaining seven races in the Craftsman Truck Series driving a Toyota Tundra for Bill Davis Racing and undertake a full-time Sprint Cup schedule in 2008.

* Bobby Hamilton-2004 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series champion

Loudon is home to the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, which in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series is home to the Lenox Industrial Tools 301 and the Sylvania 300, in the NASCAR Nationwide Series the New England 200, in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series the Sylvania 150, and is also home to the Loudon Classic, America's Oldest Motorcycle Race.

Nashville Superspeedway, a oval hosting NASCAR Busch Series, Craftsman Truck Series, and Indy Racing League events, is located in nearby Gladeville.

Once per year from 1995 until 2000, the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series held a race at the Evergreen Speedway located at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds.

Prior to the use of the Toyota Tundra silhouette in the Craftsman Truck Series, MG was reported as the last foreign brand to be used in NASCAR.

The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series ( formerly the NASCAR SuperTruck Series presented by Craftsman and the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series ) is a pickup truck racing series owned and operated by the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing.

Craftsman had been the title sponsor since 1995, the year NASCAR founded the series.

Kyle Busch was 16 when thrown out of a 2001 Craftsman Truck Series race in Fontana, CA by CART ( which sanctioned the Marlboro 500 that weekend ) because tobacco sponsorship regulations prohibited competitors under 18 in any race during the meet, and resulted in a 2002 NASCAR minimum age requirement of 18.

At the end of the 2008 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series schedule, Craftsman stopped sponsoring the series and Camping World replaced them.

Chrysler allowed Dodge to return to NASCAR for the Craftsman Truck Series with the Dodge Ram pickup truck.

Bodine was involved in a vicious, fiery accident at Daytona International Speedway in the inaugural Daytona 250 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race on February 18, 2000, driving the # 15 Line-X Ford F-150 for Billy Ballew.

The first race on the resurfaced race track was the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series on October 7, 2006.

In the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, he won the pole for the Florida Dodge Dealers 250 in 2005, but he lost his ride after 2 races was released due to lack of sponsorship.

* NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Qualifying: Joe Ruttman, 22. 081 sec.

* NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Race: Greg Biffle,, August 5, 1999

The three largest racing series sanctioned by NASCAR are the Sprint Cup Series, the Nationwide Series, and the Camping World Truck Series.

NASCAR also operates the Nationwide Series, a stock car junior league, and the Camping World Truck Series, a junior league where pickup trucks are raced.

* Mario Gosselin, NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver / owner, lives and operates his race shop in Lake Wales

* Dakoda Armstrong, Driver of the # 98 EverFi Toyota for ThorSport Racing in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.

* Crissy Wallace ( former NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Driver )

* Jake Crum ( born 1991 ), driver in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series

* Mike Skinner ( born 1957 ), NASCAR Camping World Truck Driver

As a result, starting with the 2011 season, NASCAR implemented a rule that stated that a driver could only race for the drivers ' championship in one of three national series ( Sprint Cup, Nationwide, and Camping World Truck ) of the drivers ' choosing.

* Russ Dugger, NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver

The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Lucas Oil Raceway will also be discontinued.

Along with rallying, Räikkönen has turned his attention towards NASCAR, and made his debut for Kyle Busch Motorsports in the Camping World Truck Series.

The so-called rivalry was short-lived as Kenseth and Stewart participated as friends in a joint promotional tour for DeWalt and The Home Depot ; Kenseth also appeared in September at Stewart's Eldora Speedway in the NEXTEL PRELUDE with NASCAR drivers, as well as the ARCA Truck Series event there.

The difference can be heard as the flat-plane crankshafts result in the engine having a smoother, higher-pitched sound than cross-plane ( for example, IRL IndyCar Series compared to NASCAR Nextel Cup, or a Ferrari 355 compared to a Chevrolet Corvette ).

He was the third driver in NASCAR history to win both the Rookie of the Year and Cup Series championship in his career, joining David Pearson and Richard Petty.

Dale's 1994 NASCAR Winston Cup Series | 1994 racecar

A common misconception is that Richard Childress Racing " owns the rights " to the No. 3 in NASCAR competition ( fueled by the fact that Kevin Harvick's car has a little No. 3 as an homage to Earnhardt and the usage of the No. 3 on the Camping World Series truck of Ty Dillon ), but in fact no team owns the rights to this or any other number: However, according to established NASCAR procedures, RCR would have priority over other teams if and when the time came to reuse the number.

Category: NASCAR Cup Series champions

* 2001 – Seven-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Dale Earnhardt dies in an accident during the Daytona 500.

It also oversees NASCAR Local Racing, the Whelen Modified Tour, the Whelen All-American Series, and the NASCAR iRacing. com Series.

Richard Lee Petty ( born July 2, 1937 ) is a former NASCAR driver who raced in the Strictly Stock / Grand National Era and the NASCAR Winston Cup Series.

Split screens are frequently used in motor racing, especially during safety car pit stops in the IndyCar Series and NASCAR, where four way splits are used, most often with three leading cars or trucks ' pit stops shown on the left and a shot of the pit exit ( where restart order is determined after pit stops ) on the right, with some featuring just four different cars or trucks making pit stops.

NASCAR is the world's largest governing body for stock car racing, and its Sprint Cup Series ( named for its sponsor, Sprint Nextel Corporation ) is the de facto premier series of stock car racing.

The national touring series, the NASCAR Late Model Sportsman Division, originated from local late model races in the east coast of the U. S. This division became the Busch Series and then the Nationwide Series.

The most prominent championship in stock car racing is the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, named after its sponsor Sprint Nextel.

The NASCAR Canadian Tire Series enjoys generally strong car-counts using the base of the sport in Canada ( the short-oval region of Southern Ontario ).

* CASCAR Super Series 1981 – 2006 ; now NASCAR Canadian Tire Series