Mark Anthony Martin (born January 9, 1959 in Batesville, Arkansas) is a NASCAR Nextel Cup Series driver for Ginn Racing, driving the #01 U.S. Army Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS/Impala, and is also a part-time driver in the Busch Series and Craftsman Truck Series for Hendrick Motorsports, and Wood Brothers/JTG Racing. Martin is often nicknamed Mr. Consistency because he frequently places in the top 10 in races.

Carl Michael Edwards, II (born August 15, 1979) is a NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series and Busch Series driver for Roush Fenway Racing. In the NEXTEL Cup Series, Edwards drives the #99 Ford Fusion that is primarily sponsored by Office Depot. Other one-race primary sponsors have included Pennzoil, Stonebridge Life Insurance, and the American Automobile Association. His #60 Busch Series car, also a Ford Fusion, …

Kurt Thomas Busch (born August 4, 1978 in Las Vegas, Nevada) is a NASCAR driver. He pilots the #2 Miller Lite Dodge in Nextel Cup Series and part time in Busch Series driving the #12 Penske Truck Rental Dodge. In 2004, he finished 8 points ahead of Jimmie Johnson to win the NASCAR Nextel Cup series championship in the first ever season using the "Chase for the Cup" points format. Busch drove the #97 Sharpie/Irwin Industrial Tools Ford for Roush Racing in 2005.

James Dennis "Denny" Hamlin, Jr. (born November 18, 1980) is a race car driver currently contracted to Joe Gibbs Racing. He was born in Chesterfield, Virginia, and currently lives in Davidson, North Carolina with his long time girlfriend Kristin Buntain. Kristin and Denny have been dating since high school.

Michael Curtis Waltrip (born April 30, 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky) is a professional race car driver and owner of Michael Waltrip Racing. He is the younger brother of Darrell Waltrip, a three-time NASCAR champion (now retired). Waltrip is a two-time winner of the Daytona 500 (2001 & 2003), and drives a self-owned #55 NAPA Toyota Camry in the NEXTEL Cup Series.

James Christopher "Jamie" McMurray (born June 3, 1976 in Joplin, Missouri) is a NASCAR driver. He currently drives the #26 Crown Royal Irwin Industrial Tools Ford Fusion full-time in the NEXTEL Cup Series with crew chief Larry Carter for Roush Fenway Racing. His teammates are David Ragan (#6 AAA), Greg Biffle (#16 Ameriquest), Matt Kenseth (#17 DeWalt) and Carl Edwards (#99 Office Depot).

Dave Blaney (born October 24, 1962) in Hartford, Ohio, United States is a NASCAR Nextel Cup Series driver. He currently pilots the #22 Caterpillar Toyota Camry for Bill Davis Racing. Blaney is most famous for his sprint car exploits as well as other success on dirt tracks. For many years, he was a regular in the Syracuse Nationals in Syracuse, New York, although he never won that event. He owns Sharon Speedway (named after nearby Sharon, Pennsylvania) in Hartford.

Joseph Frank Nemechek III (born September 26, 1963) in Lakeland, Florida is a NASCAR Nextel Cup Series driver and owner of NEMCO Motorsports. He won the 1992 Busch Series championship. He drove the #13 Chevrolet Monte Carlo for Ginn Racing until July 17, 2007. Sterling Marlin also lost his job at Ginn Racing to make room for Regan Smith. Aric Almirola has replaced Smith at the #01 Army Chevy. Nemechek's plans are uncertain now that he has no ride.

Kenny Wallace (born August 23, 1963) is a NASCAR Nextel Cup Series and Busch Series driver who currently drives the #78 Furniture Row Racing Chevrolet in Nextel Cup. He also works as an on-air personality for SPEED Channel, on shows such as NASCAR RaceDay and NASCAR Victory Lane. He was also featured on the show NASCAR Drivers: 360 on FX. He has two brothers who are also NASCAR drivers: Rusty Wallace and Mike Wallace, and a nephew Steve Wallace.

Kenneth Schrader (born May 29, 1955 in Fenton, Missouri) is a second-generation race car driver. He currently drives the #21 Little Debbie Ford Fusion for Wood Brothers in the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series. He appears as a television analyst on Inside Nextel Cup on the Speed Channel. He is also the owner of Ken Schrader Racing, which fields entries for himself in the Craftsman Truck Series and the Dodge Weekly Series for Chris Bristol.

Sterling Marlin (born June 30, 1957 in Columbia, Tennessee) is a NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series driver who drove the #14 Waste Management Chevrolet Monte Carlo for Ginn Racing until being replaced by Regan Smith July 17, 2007. His future plans are uncertain at this time. He is the son of former NASCAR driver Coo Coo Marlin. Sterling was named after the British Formula One legend Stirling Moss.

David Reutimann, driver of the No. 17 Team Tundra Toyota will be doing double duty through most of the remainder of the 2006 season. Reutimann, currently ranked third in series point standings, will attempt to win his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series title.

Johnny Sauter (born May 1, 1978, in Necedah, Wisconsin) is a NASCAR Busch Series driver from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He drives the #70 Yellow Transportation Chevrolet in the NASCAR Nextel cup series. Sauter was the 2001 American Speed Association champion. Sauter, along with co-driver Kevin Harvick, won the 2003 Owner's NASCAR Busch Series Championship. Sauter drove both the #21 PayDay Chevrolet for Richard Childress and the #43 Channellock Chevrolet and Dodge for Mike Curb.

Jeff Green (born September 6, 1962) is a stock car racer in the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series. He pilots the #66 Best Buy Chevrolet Monte Carlo for Haas CNC Racing. Green's 1990 Nashville Speedway USA championship led to his first foray in NASCAR. For several years, he raced part-time in the Busch Series before thriving as a full-time driver in 1995 and 1996. He then went through a two-year NEXTEL Cup stint with Diamond Ridge Motorsports and Felix Sabates.

Paul Menard (born August 21, 1980) is a NASCAR driver currently competing in the NEXTEL Cup Series driving the #15 Menards Chevrolet Monte Carlo for Dale Earnhardt, Inc.. He is the son of Menards founder John Menard, Jr., whose company is his sponsor.

David Gilliland (born on April 1, 1976 in Riverside, California) is a NASCAR driver. He currently drives the #38 M&M's Ford for Robert Yates Racing in Nextel Cup Series. He drove the #72 CJM Racing Dodge in the Nextel Cup Series race at Infineon Raceway in June 2006. He is the son of former Cup and West Coast driver Butch Gilliland. He is mentored by former Nextel Cup race winner Jerry Nadeau.

Aric Almirola (born March 14, 1984 in Tampa, Florida) is a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series driver who most recently drove the #75 Spears Manufacturing Chevy for Spears Motorsports and is a part-time driver in the NEXTEL Cup Series for Ginn Racing. Almirola began racing when he was eight years old, racing go-karts. At 14, he began racing nationally. He won the pole position in his debut in the World Karting Association race and finished fourth in the standings that year.

Casey Lee Atwood (born August 25, 1980 in Nashville, Tennessee), began racing in NASCAR as a teenager in the Busch Series with Brewco Motorsports in the #27 Castrol Chevrolet. Atwood then moved to the a Nextel Cup Series with Evernham Motorsports. However, after struggling somewhat Atwood returned to the Busch Series with FitzBradshaw Racing. Atwood is currently a free agent in NASCAR. He married his longtime girlfriend, Laura, in 2005.

Jeff Fuller is a NASCAR driver. He is currently a test driver for Joe Gibbs Racing in their #80 Nextel Cup Series Chevy. Before joining NASCAR's major leagues, Fuller won the 1992 Winston Modified Tour championship, driving for Sheba Racing.

Mike Garvey (born September 13, 1962) is a NASCAR Nextel Cup driver. He formerly drove the #51 Marthon Oil Chevy for Competitive Edge Motorsports in the Nextel Cup Series. He was a long-time competitor in the American Speed Association.

Andy Houston (born November 7, 1970 in Hickory, North Carolina) is a veteran of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, scoring three wins. Houston is the son of legendary Busch Driver Tommy Houston and the youngest of three brothers, one of them being part-time NASCAR driver Marty Houston and the other being the oldest of the three, Scott Houston. Andy Houston has also raced in the Nextel Cup Series and the Busch Series. Andy is married to wife Lorie and has two kids, …

Brian Simo (born October 1, 1959) is a race car driver from Carlsbad, California, USA. He drove the 33 Korbel Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing at the Infineon Raceway in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series in 2005, recording an impressive top ten finish. He is a veteran of Trans-Am racing. He also created the No Fear Clothes line.

Bill Weber (born 1957 in Middletown, New Jersey) is now TNT's lap-by-lap announcer for their NASCAR Nextel Cup Series coverage, and a former lap-by-lap announcer for NBC's NASCAR coverage. Weber is still a part of NBC Sports as he is the lead announcer for Champ Car World Series events and other racing series that are shown on the network. Weber's career began at WISH-TV in Indianapolis as a sports reporter while a student at Butler University.

Jamie Little (1978-, Las Vegas, Nevada) is the pit reporter for NASCAR Busch Series and Nextel Cup Series coverage on ESPN/ABC. Little is a former pit reporter for ESPN/ABC coverage of the Indy Racing League and returns to her pit reporting duty for the Indianpolis 500. Little joined ESPN in 1998 and covered both the Winter and Summer X Games. Little is a 2001 graduate of San Diego State University. She currently is single and resides in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Jerry Robertson (born January 2, 1962 in San Diego, California) is a champion NASCAR driver. He began his racing career as a high school senior at Colorado National Speedway and won eight races, garnering the Rookie of the Year title. Over the next 12 years, he was a fixture on the national dirt-track racing scene, winning 126 times. In 1994, he switched to paved racing, and was named Rookie of the Year and champion in the NASCAR Grand American Modified Division.

Stuart Kirby (born May 9, 1981 in Bowling Green, Kentucky) is a race car driver. He has driven in ARCA, the Busch Series, and the NEXTEL Cup Series. A former apprentice funeral director for his family's funeral home, he drove the #51 Chevrolet owned by Competitive Edge Motorsports in 2005, but was released before the season could be concluded. He currently owns a Bruster's Real Ice Cream franchise in Bowling Green, KY and is still pursuing a career in racing.

Doug George (born November 5, 1960 in Atwater, California) is a NASCAR driver and mechanic. Currently, he is the crew chief of the #72 CJM Racing Dodge Charger in the NEXTEL Cup Series. He has made a total of 58 starts in NASCAR. George made his NASCAR debut in 1995 at Sears Point International Raceway. Driving the #07 Olson Technology Ford Thunderbird, he qualified 42nd and finished 31st in the Winston Cup race.

Ed Berrier (born November 8, 1961 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is a second-generation NASCAR driver. His father Max Berrier competed in seven Grand National races over four years, and won 125 feature races as a modified driver. Ed's younger brother Todd is currently the crew chief for Kevin Harvick in the NEXTEL Cup Series. Berrier started running go-karts and became a force to be reckoned with, winning 72 out of 127 races. In 1980, he moved to the NASCAR Dash Series, …

Johnny Miller is an American road course racer born in Johnson City, Tennessee on December 25th, 1965. Miller has 100 career starts in the Trans-Am road racing series, including two wins and 67 top ten finishes. Miller finished in the top ten in Trans-Am points from 1998-2004 with career victories in 2000,-2004. Miller is also considered a Road Course Ringer in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series. Miller has raced for Morgan-McClure Motorsports and Front Row Motorsports, …

Ralph Sheheen (born on August 23, 1964 in Utica, New York) is currently a pit reporter for "NASCAR on TNT", an announcer for AMA motocross and supercross on the SPEED Channel, as well as an announcer for many other minor racing series' on the Speed Channel. Sheheen's work at SPEED included anchoring "SPEEDNews", and being the lap-by-lap announcer for the World of Outlaws' Knoxville Nationals.

Tony Ave (born November 10, 1968) is a race car driver born in Hurley, Wisconsin, USA. He competed in the Grand-Am Series from 2000 until 2002, in Formula Atlantic from 1996 until 2001, and in the Trans-Am in 2002. He also made 3 Indy Lights starts in 1993 and one Indy Pro Series start in 2003. In 2004, Tony raced one race in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series at Watkins Glen finishing 31st.

Carl Adams (born April 24, 1942) is a NASCAR driver from National City, CA. He made 28 Winston Cup Series starts in his career. He earned five top-ten finishes and a best effort of 23rd in the 1975 points standings. Adams began racing at Cajon Speedway near San Diego, California in 1962, eventually racing concurrently in both Super Stocks and open wheel Modified Sportsman classes and winning feature events in both before moving into CRA Sprint Cars.

Bob Burdick (born October 20, 1936) is a former NASCAR driver from Omaha, Nebraska. He competed in fifteen Nextel Cup Series events in his career. Burdick made his debut in 1959, where he won the pole at Trenton Speedway in his first career NASCAR start. Although a fire took Burdick out of the event early, he earned his first career top-10 finish with a 9th place effort in the next race at Nashville Speedway USA.

Dean Combs, born on February 23, 1952 in North Wilkesboro, NC, is a former NASCAR driver. In his limited career, Combs competed in twenty-four Winston Cup Series events. Combs is best known for dominance on NASCAR's lower level Dash Series in the 1970s and 1980s. He had five championships in that series, and was the all-time wins leader in that series before it closed up in 2004.

Don Hume (born May 8, 1938) is a former NASCAR driver from Belvedere, New Jersey. In his limited NASCAR career, Hume competed in fifteen Winston Cup events.

John R. Menard, Jr. (born 1940) is an American entrepreneur who is the founder and owner of Menards, a major Midwestern home improvement store chain. Menard is also a partner in Robby Gordon Motorsports with NASCAR owner/driver Robby Gordon, and is the father of NASCAR driver Paul Menard. As early as 1959, Menard ran a business constructing pole buildings with friends from college. A 1963 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, …

Larry Mann (Unknown - September 14, 1952) was an American stock car driver. He was born in Yonkers, New York, although the exact birth date is unknown. Mann was the first driver to be killed in a NASCAR Grand National race; he died from a pulmonary hemorrhage caused by a crash at Langhorne Speedway.

Tony Bettenhausen, Jr. (October 20, 1951 - February 14, 2000 from Indianapolis, IN) was a former Champ Car team owner and driver, born in Joliet, Illinois, who died in a 2000 plane crash. As a driver he started 11 Indianapolis 500 races, scoring a best finish of 7th his rookie year in 1981. He took his trademark #16 into team ownership in 1993, originally using year-old Penske chassis and entering a second car for himself, #76, at the year's Indy 500.

Bob Barron (January 13, 1921-) is a former NASCAR driver from Bradenton, Florida, USA. He completed in thirty-two Grand National/Nextel Cup Series events in his career, earning five top-tens. Barron debuted to NASCAR in 1960, racing his own car in the fall race at Charlotte. Starting 46th in the fifty-car field, Barron completed most of the race before finishing 30th with mechanical woes. The rest of Barron's starts came in 1961, …

Barry LeBrock is an American sportscaster, based in Los Angeles, California. LeBrock is one of the anchors in the rotation on "FSN Final Score", the nightly news program on Fox Sports Net and most affiliates of Comcast SportsNet. LeBrock's resumé also includes work at Fox Sports Net West/Prime Ticket and Fox Sports Net Northwest. On February 18, 2007, he contributed to the debut of the NASCAR Hot Pass pay-per-view package on DirecTV.