Was leaving Level Cross, N.C., difficult for Petty Enterprises? Absolutely, but it was also necessary, says Lee Spencer.

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Coach Joe is back, but he’s not calling the shots in NASCAR anymore.

“We’re still trying to figure out how big a pay cut he’s going to get,” J.D. Gibbs said Tuesday night in welcoming his father back to the race team. “It’s going to be large. A couple of zeros off of it. But we’re excited to have him back.”

Gibbs stepped down as coach of the Washington Redskins on Jan. 9, and has quickly settled back into his role as owner of one of NASCAR’s most successful race teams.

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Dale Earnhardt’s death left Richard Childress thinking it was time to find another way to make a living.

Almost seven years later, Childress and his team, Richard Childress Racing, have made a complete turnaround.

With two successful seasons behind RCR and especially with its new engine program - a combined effort with Dale Earnhardt Inc. - running smoothly after coming together midway through 2007, Childress isn’t conceding anything to the top NASCAR team, Hendrick Motorsports.

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Load the up the cars, put away the tires and fold up the computer laptops, January testing season at Daytona International Speedway is over.

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Jacques Villeneuve Sr., the uncle of 1997 Formula One world champion and NASCAR newcomer Jacques Villeneuve, was released from the hospital Tuesday after breaking his pelvis and suffering a spine injury at the 45th World Championship Snowmobile Derby.

Villeneuve is a three-time winner at the event in Eagle River, Wis.

During a heat Friday in the 440 class championship, Villeneuve was knocked off his snowmobile and hit by another racer.

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Ray Evernham is still feeling out his role at the race team he built from the ground up, then sold majority ownership of last season.

Now just a minority owner of Gillett Evernham Motorsports, he’s adjusting to not having to be the first guy at work each morning and the last one to leave at the end of the day.

Now able to work from home when he wants to, or take long weekends when he needs to get away, Evernham said his new workload took some getting used to.

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Jacques Villeneuve Sr., the uncle of 1997 Formula One world champion and NASCAR newcomer Jacques Villeneuve, was released from the hospital Tuesday after breaking his pelvis and suffering a spine injury at the 45th World Championship Snowmobile Derby.

Villeneuve is a three-time winner at the event in Eagle River, Wis.

During a heat Friday in the 440 class championship, Villeneuve was knocked off his snowmobile and hit by another racer.

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Ray Evernham is still feeling out his role at the race team he built from the ground up, then sold majority ownership of last season.

Now just a minority owner of Gillett Evernham Motorsports, he’s adjusting to not having to be the first guy at work each morning and the last one to leave at the end of the day.

Now able to work from home when he wants to, or take long weekends when he needs to get away, Evernham said his new workload took some getting used to.

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A little less than a month remains until the 50th Daytona 500 on FOX, but Darrell Waltrip can’t wait to start the engines.

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Is NASCAR going back to the future? Brian France says yes…but what does it really mean? Plus, qualifying will now make sense, but which teams can make sense of an all-important tire allotment?

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