Changes

==Racing Today==

==Racing Today==

Currently, the Nextel Cup runs a thirty-six race season, with 43 cars participating in each. Most of the races are run on mid length oval tracks, but there also two races on road courses and two "restrictor place races" at tracks where the cars need to wear restrictor plates on their engines to slow down their high speeds, with one of these tracks being Daytona. Top racers currently include the previously mentioned Jeff Gordon, and Dale Earnhardt Jr., along with Gordon's teammate, Jimmie Johnson, and former Indy racer Tony Stewart. The 2007 season saw the debut of the Nextel Cup series' first foreign carmaker in many years with [[Toyota]], who had previously run the Craftsman Truck Series for a few years before joining the ranks of [[General Motors|Chevrolet]], [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]], and [[Chrysler|Dodge]]. Additionally, NASCAR also began running the "Car of Tomorrow" that it had developed, with the new model expected to be used for all races in 2008.

Currently, the Nextel Cup runs a thirty-six race season, with forty-three cars participating in each. Most of the races are run on mid length oval tracks, but there also two races on road courses and two "restrictor place races" at tracks where the cars need to wear restrictor plates on their engines to slow down their high speeds, with one of these tracks being Daytona. Top racers currently include the previously mentioned Jeff Gordon, and Dale Earnhardt Jr., along with Gordon's teammate, Jimmie Johnson, and former Indy racer Tony Stewart. The 2007 season saw the debut of the Nextel Cup series' first foreign carmaker in many years with [[Toyota]], who had previously run the Craftsman Truck Series for a few years before joining the ranks of [[General Motors|Chevrolet]], [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]], and [[Chrysler|Dodge]]. Additionally, NASCAR also began running the "Car of Tomorrow" that it had developed, with the new model expected to be used for all races in 2008.

==Culture==

==Culture==