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

Quaker State Motor Oil, which has been under the hood of Hendrick Motorsports cars since 1996, will be on top of a hood for four races next year.

Denny Hamlin started chasing the championship during qualifying Saturday at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Rick Hendrick has made a crew chief change before when one of his drivers has failed to qualify for NASCAR's season-ending Chase. But right now, the car owner said Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Lance McGrew will remain together on the No. 88 team.

Kyle Busch doesn't think he's a dirty driver.

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.

Atlanta Motor Speedway has always had a reputation for being tough on tires, and that should hold true again in Sunday night's Emory Healthcare 500. But factor in a different tire composition for this weekend -- and practice and qualifying during the day -- and teams find themselves having to make their best guesses at the correct set-up.

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.

When it's your year, breaks seem to come more often than disappointment. That was the case Friday at Kentucky Speedway when a spin by points leader Todd Bodine turned into the race-winning move in the Built Ford Tough 225.

David Starr is in a rare predicament for this late in a NASCAR season.

Before getting a job offer over the phone from Richard Childress as he worked at his job in a body shop in his hometown of Emporia, Kan., Clint Bowyer was a champion at one of the Midwest's top dirt short tracks.

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

Here's a look at the top five drivers in the Cup Series standings and five drivers to watch in Sunday night's race at Atlanta Motor Speedway (7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN). All statistical references are for Cup races at Atlanta unless otherwise indicated. Driver Rating is based on the past 11 races at the track.

Race No. 25: Emory Healthcare 500 from Atlanta Motor Speedway (7:30 p.m. ET Saturday on ESPN). Green flag at 7:46 p.m. ET.

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.

Last week, NASCAR fans saw a lot of fresh faces in the Nationwide and Truck series races. In part, that was because the cars ran on the road course in Montreal and the trucks were part of an ARCA doubleheader at Chicagoland.

Female drivers began making history in NASCAR since the day -- June 19, 1949 -- the organization ran its first NASCAR Cup Series race in Charlotte, N.C.

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.

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