NASCAR Rocks

NEXTEL Cup

This is the highest level pf professional competition in sports, this also makes it the most popular and the most profitable of the NASCAR series. In 2006 the NEXTEL Cup had 36 races over a course of 10 months, with the prize money to the tune of $4 million at each race stake.

2004 was the year when NEXTEL took sponsorship over of the premier serious from the them sponsor R.J. Reynolds, and then renaming it as Winston Cup and then further on to the NEXTEL Cup Series. A new points system for the championship by the name of “The Chase for the NEXTEL Cup” was made which created a situation where drivers only within the 400 points of the leader or the top ten drivers to be eligible for the championship. This changes in 2007 when the announcement came from NASCAR that they were changing “The Chase” from 10 to 12 drivers and also doing away with the 400 point cutoff. The 2008 will see another emergence with the renaming of the NEXTEL Cup as the Sprint Cup series due to an impending merger between NEXTEL and Sprint.

Busch Series

This is the second level to NEXTEL Cup thus being the second highest series of professional competition. The defending champion in 2007 is Kevin Harvick.

This is the only series as of now to race outside of the United States. The season is shorter by a few races and the prize money is a lot less that the NEXTEL Cup. The sponsorship is set to expire in 2007 and the lookout for a new sponsor is going on in 2008

Craftsman truck series

This features modifies pickup trucks. This is one of the three top divisions of NASCAR the other being the Busch and the Nextel cup. Todd Bodine is the defending champion in 2007.

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