| |  | | | | AGE: 30 | HOMETOWN: Bakersfield, CA | YEARS RACING NEXTEL CUP: 5 | PRIMARY SPONSOR: Kellogg's/CARQUEST | MANUFACTURER: Chevrolet | CAR OWNER: Mary Hendrick | TEAM: Hendrick Motorsports | RACES: 59 | WINS: 1 | T5: 6 | T10: 14 | POLE: 1 | EARNINGS: $6,709,865 | | | > Biography | | | | | | Driver Performance | 1 | | Daytona International Speedway | 9 | 35 | 194 | Accident | $284,945 | 58/0 | 2 | | California Speedway | 5 | 42 | 20 | Accident | $98,110 | 37/0 | 3 | | Las Vegas Motor Speedway | 11 | 13 | 267 | Running | $116,975 | 124/0 | | | August 16, 2008 | Casey Mears says he hasn't made any decisions on his future yet.
Rumors circulated throughout the garage area that Mears had locked up a deal to drive Richard Childress Racing's No. 07 car with... | | | August 09, 2008 | Casey Mears has emerged as the leading candidate to become the fourth Sprint Cup Series driver at Richard Childress Racing next season.
A source close to the situation said the likelihood Mears... | | | July 23, 2008 | Casey Mears will make his 200th NASCAR Cup Series start in Sunday's Allstate 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
It’s a fitting venue for the Hendrick Motorsports driver to reach such a... | | | July 01, 2008 | NASCAR is a performance-driven business in which the rules are very simple: If you don’t perform, you’re going to be out of a job. Casey Mears, driver of the Hendrick Motorsports No. 5 car,... | | | June 27, 2008 | Casey Mears was a groomsman in Jimmie Johnson’s wedding. Johnson was one of the first people to congratulate Mears in victory lane after Mears won his first NASCAR Cup race in the 2007 Coca-Cola 600... | | | June 27, 2008 | Casey Mears will be looking for a new ride in 2009.
Hendrick Motorsports said Friday that Mears, who has been with the team since 2007 and moved to the No. 5 Chevrolet to replace Kyle Busch, will... | | | June 23, 2008 | Just two months ago, car owner Rick Hendrick sounded almost certain Casey Mears would be driving his No. 5 Chevrolet next season.
Now he doesn't sound so sure.
Asked before Sunday's race at... | | | June 12, 2008 | Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Michigan International Speedway couldn't come at a better time for Casey Mears.
The Hendrick Motorsports driver has finished no better than 17th in the last five... | | | June 04, 2008 | The three J’s of Hendrick Motorsports boast the titles, fan support, endorsements and marquee wins most other drivers would envy. Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon are respected in... | | | May 21, 2008 | Casey Mears returns to the site of his lone Cup series victory with every intention of repeating as Coca-Cola 600 champion.
Mears won last year’s 600 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway on a gas gamble,... | | | May 04, 2008 | NASCAR parked Michael Waltrip for aggressive driving following an accident with Casey Mears in the Crown Royal 400 on Saturday at Richmond International Raceway.
On lap 355, Mears cut... | | | March 05, 2008 | CHARLOTTE, NC -- Jimmie Johnson had never run so poorly, not in any race in his six previous seasons and certainly not at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where he'd won three-straight races.
Johnson's... | | | February 11, 2008 | DAYTONA BEACH, FL -- NASCAR announced early Sunday evening that the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet, which was too low in initial inspection Saturday following the Budweiser Shootout, had passed... | | | February 09, 2008 | DAYTONA BEACH, FL -- Casey Mears' Chevrolet was found to be too low in the rear during postrace inspection following Saturday night's Budweiser Shootout at Daytona International Speedway.
Mears... | | | January 27, 2008 | CHARLOTTE, NC -- In his granddaddy’s day, hard-charging, hard-smoking drivers might walk a mile for a Camel.
At the dawn of Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s new racing day, he rides in on a camel.
Her name... | | | January 09, 2008 | DAYTONA BEACH, FL -- Casey Mears crashed two Busch Series cars during Speedweeks at Daytona International Speedway last year and failed to make the race in a teammate's backup car.
His luck... | | | January 09, 2008 | DAYTONA BEACH, FL -- Two teammates have combined for six championships. The third is so popular, Casey Mears was shuffled into obscurity at his very own hauler when Dale Earnhardt Jr. surprisingly... | | | November 08, 2007 | DAYTONA BEACH, FL -- The crew chiefs of the Busch Series teams for Casey Mears and Brad Keselowski have both been fined $10,000 and placed on probation through the end of the year for rule violations... | | | November 06, 2007 | FORT WORTH, TX -- NASCAR likely will levy additional penalties to the JR Motorsports and Hendrick Motorsports teams sent to the back at the start of the Busch Series race Saturday for lug nuts that... | | | October 18, 2007 |
Jeff Gordon has scored the most points in the Chase For The Nextel Cup races, with Jimmie Johnson next and Clint Bowyer third. And Tony Stewart has scored the fourth-most, right?
Wrong.... | | | |
