Eckert Racing

Brendan Gaughan isn't likely to be named Husband of the Year, especially if it's voted on by pregnant wives.

HAMPTON, Ga. -- Jamie McMurray's first win of the season is making Kyle Busch wait for another try at Nationwide Series history.

Kasey Kahne was second in final practice at Atlanta Motor Speedway and he turned that into a pole run for Saturday's Great Clips 300.

HAMPTON, Ga. -- For Josh Wise, winning is the best medicine. He's certainly had his share of it: 2005 USAC midget national champion, 2006 USAC sprint car national champion, and a two-time winner of the prestigious Belleville Nationals midget car race.

Sam Ard didn't do it. Neither did Jack Ingram. Or Dale Earnhardt Jr. Or Martin Truex Jr. Or even Kevin Harvick.

For a small, independent organization on a budget, it seemed like the smart move. Fly into Ottawa instead of more expensive Montreal, make the two-hour drive back to the Canadian capital city right after Sunday's Nationwide event at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, and fly home at 6 the next morning. No one anticipated that they actually might win the thing, and driver Boris Said would want to take the entire team out to celebrate.

Roush Fenway Racing on Tuesday announced that Erik Darnell will drive the No. 16 Ford in three Nationwide Series races during the 2010 season starting at Richmond next weekend. Darnell also is scheduled to participate in the races at Dover and Texas.

Richard Childress Racing and Morgan Shepherd's Racing for Jesus have formed Shepherd Racing Ventures, a partnership to run the No. 21 for the remainder of the 2010 Nationwide Series season.

Art is about beauty. About finding a new way of seeing something, capturing that moment, and having others see it as well.

Boris Said has won the Nationwide race at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, edging Max Papis by a nose on a green-white-checkered finish.

Marcos Ambrose can't be in two places at once, but his thoughts are. With 12 races left in the Cup Series season, Ambrose already is thinking about his transition from his current No. 47 Toyota ride at JTG/Daugherty Racing to the No. 9 Ford at Richard Petty Motorsports.

Paulie Harraka, a member of NASCAR's Drive for Diversity program, will make his Nationwide Series debut Sunday at Montreal. He will drive NEMCO Motorsports' No. 87 Chevrolet and start 31st in Sunday's race.

Marcos Ambrose won the pole for the Nationwide race at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.

Marcos Ambrose was asked if there was an Australian term for snakebit, which certainly seems to apply to the Tasmanian in Nationwide Series races at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.

Tony Raines isn't one to necessarily volunteer to be a mentor.

NASCAR will cut the purses of its second-tier Nationwide Series by 20 percent next season.

Kyle Busch has moved one step closer to sweeping the weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Carl Edwards said Friday he has committed to racing the full Nationwide Series schedule next season.

He has been a designated star of the future, unemployed and sometimes something in between.

Jason Leffler is hoping a return to one of his favorite tracks will perhaps remove the black cloud that seems to have been hanging over his team all season.