Haas Automation owner and founder Gene Haas was arrested Monday on suspicion of conspiracy, filing false tax returns and witness intimidation. Federal prosecutors say Haas orchestrated a plan to list $50 million in bogus expenses that it could write off as business costs. The aim was to save the company $20 million in taxes.
   -- jayski.com

We're hearing the announcement of where the UPS sponsorship will go, could be as soon as Friday or at sometime this weekend in Sonoma.
  -- jayski.com

The preliminary entry list for Saturday's AT&T 250 NASCAR Busch Series race at the Milwaukee Mile has only 39 entries, making a short field a distinct possibility. One of the cars not entered is the No. 84 Clay Andrews Racing Chevrolet for Kentucky winner David Gilliland. The Milwaukee race wasn't on the team's schedule, and Gilliland is scheduled to drive in the Nextel Cup race in Sonoma, Calif., for CMJ Racing.
  -- SceneDaily.com

Tony Stewart was in Daytona on Tuesday, promoting next week's Pepsi 400. Stewart's victory last year came in a stretch in which he won five times in seven races. It also was the first time he took a page from two-time Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves and climbed the grandstand fence in celebration. "What possessed me to do that, I have no idea," Stewart said. "That was a night that I bit off more than I could chew because I'm now stuck doing that the rest of my life every time I win a race."
  -- Tampa Tribune

Keith Coleman Racing, which has struggled on the Busch Series side, has opted to try to go Nextel Cup racing. Team owner Keith Coleman said June 17 that his target debut for the No. 94 Nextel Cup car is the New Hampshire race in July. Carl Long is the expected driver, Coleman said, and the team could run as many as 15 races to end the year.
  -- SceneDaily.com

Chicagoland Speedway officials have announced that actor Will Ferrell will serve as grand marshal for the July 9 USG Sheetrock 400 Nextel Cup Series race at the Joliet, Ill., track. Ferrell stars as fictional NASCAR driver Ricky Bobby in the Columbia Pictures film Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, which opens Aug. 4.
  -- SceneDaily.com

Bill Lester is scheduled to make at least one more Cup appearance this year, at Fontana, Calif., and hopes to get sponsorship for a return to Atlanta, which he now calls his hometown, in November.
  -- Orlando Sentinel

Key Motorsports officials say rookie driver Ryan Moore will drive the team's No. 40 Chevrolet for the remaining races of the 2006 Craftsman Truck Series. A team news release said the team is seeking sponsorship and additional employees.
  -- SceneDaily.com

Zephyrhills' David Reutimann is having the best and busiest year of his NASCAR racing career. Although he finished only 15th in last week's Craftsman Truck Series race at Michigan with motor problems, Reutimann moved past defending series champion Ted Musgrave into second in the standings. He also scored his second straight top-10 finish in the Busch Series, finishing eighth at Kentucky. For the third week in a row, Reutimann will do the truck-Busch series double. Both series are racing at the Milwaukee Mile.
  -- Tampa Tribune

Caterpillar Racing team member Tom Hubert hopes to spend Saturday afternoon racing in the NASCAR Grand National Division, AutoZone West Series event at Infineon Raceway. Additionally, for the third consecutive year, Hubert will attempt to qualify Kirk Shelmerdine's No. 27 ride for Sunday's Cup race at the track.
   -- jayski.com

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