Nationwide: Harvick hammers home win
Clint Bowyer wasn’t angry at the driver who spun him Saturday night at Richmond International Raceway. He was thankful. ”Thank you, Juan Pablo!” the Michael Waltrip Racing driver boomed from Victory Lane. “If you’re still here, thank you Juan Pablo!” Assuming the lead on a late restart in Friday night’s Virginia 529 College Savings 250 at Richmond International Raceway, Kevin Harvick ended a 30-race NASCAR Nationwide Series drought dating to the fall race at Richmond in 2010.
The Canadian website auto123.com reports that the Briton, formerly McLaren’s chief designer, is now working for the North Carolina-based Michael Waltrip Racing. In 2007, he was sacked by McLaren following accusations he received a dossier of information stolen by Ferrari’s Nigel Stepney. 
Eighteen-year-old Brett Moffitt picked up his second straight win at Dover International Speedway in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East season finale Friday in the Sunoco 150. Ryan Truex, 18, clinched his back-to-back series championship simply by taking the green-flag and capped off his title run with a third-place finish. 
Jarno Trulli has indicated that the uncertainty about his plans for the 2010 season is soon to end. The Italian is likely to be on the grid next March, but he recently travelled to the United States for a test in a Sprint Cup NASCAR. 
Jarno Trulli will make his test debut in a Sprint Cup NASCAR at Florida’s New Smyrna Speedway on Wednesday. On Tuesday, another familiar F1 name was at the wheel of the Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota Camry, and a report in the Orlando Sentinal said Mika Salo “caught on quickly”. 
The winds of change will be blowing at Homestead-Miami Speedway this week.The season-ending Ford 400 at the 1.5-mile track marks the end of the road for more than a handful of relationships in the Cup garage. Here’s a look of some of the important “lasts” that will take place Sunday. 
Ahead of his NASCAR test in the coming days, Jarno Trulli was this weekend trackside for the Sprint Cup event in Phoenix. “Nice to see Jarno Trulli here!” the Italian’s former formula one rival Juan Pablo Montoya wrote on Twitter. 
After a first hard day as went out the track in the morning, Patrick Carpentier cought up and he will be starting 17th Sunday in the NASCAR Sprint Cap Series in Watkins Glen. 
Aaron Rents Inc. and Scott Shore, president of Erohs Group LLC, have announced a new partnership with R3 Motorsports of China Grove, N.C.