U.S. Auto Club driver Cameron Dodson has been critically injured in a crash along a rural Hancock County road.

AP photo NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson and his wife, Chandra, displays three fingers after he won the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship for the third consecutive year on Sunday in Homestead, Fla.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards opened the 2008 season intent on knocking Jimmie Johnson from the top of NASCAR. They chased him all year, but never quite caught him. | Auto racing page

NASCAR Chairman Brian France vowed before this season to "minimize change" in the sport. Don`t expect him to make such a pledge entering next season. Changes loom in the 2010 schedule, which will be finalized next year. A troubled economy has forced some teams to downsize. Others could disappear. NASCAR will race in the South on Labor Day weekend, but it will be in Atlanta not Darlington. ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards opened the 2008 season intent on knocking Jimmie Johnson from the top of NASCAR.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards opened the 2008 season intent on knocking Jimmie Johnson from the top of NASCAR.

Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards opened the 2008 season intent on knocking Jimmie Johnson from the top of NASCAR. They chased him all year, but never quite caught him. Despite a combined 17 Sprint Cup Series victories, the challengers came up short in the end when Johnson won his record-tying third consecutive championship. He never bothered to contemplate what tying Cale Yarborough`s 30-year-old ...

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards opened the 2008 season intent on knocking Jimmie Johnson from the top of NASCAR. They chased him all year, but never quite caught him.