Weather may dash hopes

Qualifying rainout is possible tonight

The forecast for Bank of America 500 qualifying tonight at Lowe's Motor Speedway isn't great.

If qualifying is rained out, Brad Keselowski, Scott Speed and Bryan Clauson would join Derrike Cope in not making the race.

NASCAR Sprint Cup qualifying is scheduled for 7 p.m. today (ESPN2) for Saturday's race (8 p.m., WTVD, WCTI).

Sprint Cup drivers will practice at 3 p.m. (Speed Channel), and Nationwide Series drivers will practice at 6 p.m. (ESPN2). for Friday's Dollar General 300 (8 p.m., ESPN).

BY THE NUMBERS: Jimmie Johnson has led 1,169 laps in 14 career Cup starts at Lowe's Motor Speedway. The all-time leader is Bobby Allison, with 2,339 laps led in 43 starts at the track.

SADLER GETS "PINK" SLIP: The No. 19 Dodge driven by Elliott Sadler and sponsored by Stanley tools in the Bank of America 500 will be black and pink, and that's a special scheme for Sadler.

The paint scheme is in support of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

"Last year, my mother, Bell, was diagnosed with breast cancer, so this is a cause that is very near and dear to my heart," Sadler said. "We are fortunate that she was able to fight and is now on the road to recovery."

Stanley will make a $100,000 donation to Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Sadler's uniform items will be auctioned after the race.

N.C. TEAM WINS CLASS IN NEWFOUNDLAND: Driver Harold Seagle and navigator Stan Pendergraft of the Sea Eagle Motorsports team won their class in the Targa Newfoundland Race/Rally.

The team is based out of Asheville, where Seagle practices law. Pendergraft is a principal in Exclusive Motors in Charlotte.

The team also won the Targa Gold Plate for finishing all of the stages in under trophy time in their Porsche 911SC. The race/rally covers about 2,200 kilometers along the coast and across the island of Newfoundland.

PARSONS HONORED: Benny Parsons was inducted into the N.C. Auto Racing Hall of Fame on Wednesday in Mooresville, and that city, known as "Race City, USA," has announced it will add a Walk of Fame beginning in May to honor Parsons and the other members of the N.C. hall.

BUSY AT THE ROCK: Rockingham Dragway has the season-ending International Hot Rod Association's World Finals on Oct. 17-18, but it was also a busy place Tuesday when National Hot Rod Association Pro Stock drivers Greg Anderson and Jason Line and Funny Car driver Robert Hight were there testing. Jeff Dobbins, a contender for the IHRA Pro Stock title, also tested at Rockingham on Tuesday.

HERMIE SADLER WILL DRIVE AT MARTINSVILLE: Hermie Sadler will temporarily work double duty as a TV commentator and a race car driver when he returns to racing in the Kroger 200 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series event Oct. 18 at Martinsville Speedway.

Sadler, a University of North Carolina alum, is in has second year as a NASCAR analyst for the Speed Channel and for DirecTV, and he is a Total Nonstop Action Wrestling personality. DirecTV will be teaming up with TNA Wrestling as sponsors for Sadler's No. 48 Chevrolet Silverado. The race will be Sadler's first start since he drove in the Kroger 200 at Martinsville one year ago.

CANADIAN GP NEEDS HELP: F1 Grand Prix du Canada, the private company that runs the Canadian Grand Prix Formula One race, is no longer interested in doing so and suggested that only the government can save the event.

Paul Wilson, a spokesman for promoter Normand Legault, said that the event will not be held at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in 2009.

Wilson said all other events on the 18-race schedule are run by some form of government body.