Team owner Jack Roush said he is satisfied with the penalty NASCAR levied against driver Carl Edwards for his intentional accident with Brad Keselowski.

Edwards was in an early accident with Keselowski in a race Sunday at Atlanta, and later returned to the track and deliberately wrecked Keselowski. The contact sent Keselowki's car airborne, and NASCAR parked Edwards for the remainder of the race. On Tuesday, he was placed on probation for three races.

"We are satisfied that NASCAR fairly considered all the circumstances in its decision to discipline Carl," said Roush.

Roush said he looked forward to a NASCAR-called meeting this week at Bristol between the two drivers and Keselowski car owner Roger Penske.

"It is our hope to put this behind us at that time," said Roush, who added the incident overlooked an otherwise good day in Atlanta for the Roush Fenway Racing team.

Michael Waltrip will enter the Sprint Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway with help from a longtime sponsor.

Aaron's Inc. will sponsor the No. 55 for Waltrip to enter in the April race. The car will be fielded by PRISM Motorsports.

Waltrip put aside his driving after the season-opening Daytona 500 to concentrate on running Michael Waltrip Racing.

He said at the time he would like to still race in a few restrictor-plate events. All four of Waltrip's career wins came at Talladega or Daytona.

Months of anticipation and speculation finally will come to a close Sunday when the 2010 Formula One season gets under way and Michael Schumacher marks his return to racing at the Bahrain Grand Prix.

Schumacker, a seven-time F1 champion, headlines perhaps F1's most competitive starting grid, coming out of three years of retirement to race for the newly formed Mercedes GP, which bought out last year's constructors' champion Brawn GP.

Schumacher, 41, said he felt like "a child at Christmas" coming to Bahrain, where he will line up against defending champion Jenson Button, two-time champion Fernando Alonso, 2008 winner Lewis Hamilton and talented Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel.

"I love this fight," Schumacher said. "It is because of this fight that I came back to Formula One."

Two-time Bahrain champion Alonso and Ferrari are the preseason favorites as the Spanish driver looks reinvigorated after his move to the Italian team, which also welcomes Felipe Massa back for the first time since he sustained life-threatening injuries in a crash at the Hungarian GP in July.

"It's a very important moment for us after a horrible year. It was also a difficult moment for me with the accident. I'm concentrated, I'm ready 100 percent," said Massa, a two-time winner in Bahrain. "This is a fresh start for me. For all."

Massa said McLaren's design was "strange," but with the past two champions in its lineup the British team is among the favorites.

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