NASCAR has dealt it’s punishment to Roush – Fenway driver Carl Edwards for an incident over the weekend at the Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Edwards nudging the Penske Racing Dodge of Brad Keselowski… sending it backwards… airborne and crashing into the speedway’s SAFER barrier.

NASCAR President Mike Helton held a teleconference to talk about the punishment and what the sanctioning body plans to do with both drivers.

Here is the unedited transcript:

HERB BRANHAM: Thanks, and good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the first of today’s two NASCAR Cams. For this first one, we’re joined by NASCAR President Mike Helton. He’s going to open up with a brief announcement before taking some questions from the media. Mike, it’s all yours.

MIKE HELTON: Thanks. Good afternoon, everyone. Revisit just a minute on the incident between the 99 and the 12 car. Following that incident we asked the driver of the 99 to visit us in the hauler, and we made it very clear to him that these actions were not acceptable and did go beyond what we said back in January about putting the driving back in the hands of the drivers. We believe the driver of the 99 understands our position at this point. (more…)

Kurt Busch survived two green-white checkered finishes, a seven-car wreck and some payback to win his second straight NASCAR Cup Series Kobalt Tools 500 at the Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Busch battled Kasey Kahne for the lead for most of the race, but it was Matt Kenseth and Juan Pablo Montoya that he drove away from to notch his first win of the season. (more…)

Kawasaki’s Ryan Villopoto put on a dominating performance leading all 20 laps on way to his first career Daytona Supercross victory on Saturday night at Daytona International Speedway.

The Seattle, Washington, native took the hole shot in the 20-lap event staged inside the Speedway’s tri-oval and held off a late charge from Suzuki’s Ryan Dungey to secure a 4.445-second victory. (more…)