For the first time since Chip Ganassi started his team in 2001, his team's No. 40 hauler is not in the garage this week at Daytona International Speedway. The team ceased operation this week because of a lack of sponsorship in an outward example of flagging sponsorship money to one of NASCAR's most visible teams.

The list of top athletes who have come and gone through NASCAR is a collection of big aspirations with bank accounts that couldn't keep up. Some never reached the track, others spent millions searching for success before finally calling it quits. Randy Moss insists he's different.

The last time Tommy Tatum was strapped into a race car, his now 5-year-old daughter was a bump in his wife's belly. Time almost stood still Friday night at Southside Speedway, as Tatum returned to racing with a dominant performance in the Grand Stocks' 100-lap feature.