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Matt Kenseth doesn't want to see things shaken up in the Roush Fenway organization, but he wants to run better. Last year, when some of the Roush teams struggled, Jamie McMurray and Carl Edwards had new crew chiefs early in the season as Jimmy Fennig was moved from McMurray to the Busch shop and Kenseth's engineer Wally Brown went to replace Bob Osborne as Edwards' crew chief with Osborne replacing Fennig with McMurray.
-- SceneDaily.com

After posting the fastest speed in Friday's combined practice sessions for the Samsung 500, Kyle Busch wrecked his primary No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet just five minutes into the opening 50-minute Nextel Cup Series session Saturday morning at Texas Motor Speedway. Busch, who would have started fifth on Sunday, will be forced to start at the rear of the field in his backup car.
-- SceneDaily.com

Another tepid race at Texas Motor Speedway today and drivers could be in trouble. NASCAR knows it has a problem. It's doing everything in its power to prod its racers to race. It is awarding more points for first place. It has changed its Chase for the Championship to stress winning. It has brought out the Car of Tomorrow in hopes of spicing up the competition. So far nothing's worked.
-- The Tennessean

When Texas Motor Speedway debuted in 1997, drivers said it was unlike any 1.5-mile track that they had seen. After 10 years, TMS still retains its idiosyncrasies. "I think it is different," said Jeff Burton, who won the first Cup race at TMS in '97 and will start second today. "How quickly your car changes direction here is different. That doesn't make it wrong. Thank God it is different, that every mile-and-a-half isn't the same [although] they may look the same."
-- Dallas Morning News

Hall of Fame Racing's Tony Raines will be one of the first drivers running the new Chevy R07 engine the No. 96 DLP car, which will make its debut in today's Samsung 500. Five drivers will use the new engine today. Kyle Busch was scheduled to run the R07 but crashed his primary car in Saturday morning's practice. His backup car has the older engine.
-- Dallas Morning News

Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates announced that in honor of baseball legend and civil rights leader Jackie Robinson's 60th Anniversary of his debut into Major League Baseball, the team will display a small tribute to him on their No. 42 Texaco/Havoline Dodge Charger on Sunday, for the Samsung 500.
-- jayski.com

Dale Earnhardt Jr. will drive a brown and beige "Desert Camo" paint scheme on his No. 8 Chevrolet in the Coca-Cola 600 May 27 and a red, white and blue car in the Pepsi 400 July 7. Budweiser will donate proceeds from the sale of collectible diecast models of the cars to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, which provides college scholarships to surviving dependents of Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps special operations personnel killed in combat or training missions.
-- Charlotte Observer

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