NASCAR Driver Tony Stewart and the Office Depot Foundation Team up to Donate 4,200 Backpacks to Chicagoland Children in Need
Stewart’s No. 14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevy to Feature Special ‘Back-To-School’ Paint Scheme at Chicagoland Speedway
Office Depot(R) /quotes/comstock/13*!odp/quotes/nls/odp (ODP 3.94, +0.05, +1.29%) , a leading global provider of office products and services, and the Office Depot Foundation announced today that Tony Stewart, a two-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series(TM) champion and driver of the No. 14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevy Impala, will join the Foundation on Thursday, July 8 to donate 4,200 backpacks to non-profit organizations and schools in the Chicagoland area. This special event marks the start of the back-to-school season with Stewart hosting the country’s first backpack donation event on behalf of the Office Depot Foundation …Â Details
Danica Patrick is looking forward to her NASCAR return at New Hampshire Speedway this weekend, although she admits to being nervous about this weekend after being away from the Nationwide Series for more than three months.
The IndyCar star last competed in the series at Las Vegas in April, where on her third NASCAR outing she crashed out of the event following contact with a backmarker, despite showing progress relative to her previous two outings. Back then she was only  … Details
Mustangs and Camaros could be going head to head in NASCAR’s top league by 2013, according to The Sporting News.
Jamie Allison, Ford’s director of North American Motorsports, already is on record that the company would contemplate running the  … Details
SPEEDWAY, Ind. — The 2010 Prelude to the Dream — featuring more than 25 world-renowned drivers battling for dirt supremacy on the half-mile clay oval on June 9 at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio — will have a twist. While there still will be an individual race winner, there now will be a race within the race, with the field broken up into four teams, each representing a children’s hospital.
The all-star dirt Late Model race again will be presented live on HBO Pay-Per-View with proceeds from the telecast supporting four of the nation’s top children’s hospitals:
• Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis
• Cincinnati Children’s
• Levine Children’s Hospital in Charlotte, N.C.
• St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.
“We wanted to shake things up a little bit this year,” said Stewart, who has won the Prelude three times since its inception in 2005. “The team concept adds another level of excitement  … Details