Kurt Busch California Speedway
Kurt Busch's pole-winning lap of 184.540 mph on
Friday was nearly 4 mph slower than the track record of 188.245, set
by younger brother Kyle in February 2005. ...
There are no Ford
drivers among the top-10 starters for the fourth time this season,
all in the last six races. ...
Hendrick Motorsports (five) and Roush
Racing (four) have combined to win nine of the first 12 Cup races at
the California track. Jeff Gordon, who drives for Hendrick, is the
only multiple winner with three. ...
Matt Kenseth, going into Sunday
with two straight victories, also won the February race here.
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Jeff Gordon's championship hopes took a
hit Sunday when the four-time NASCAR champion got caught up in an
11-car crash midway through the UAW-Ford 500 at Talladega
Superspeedway.
Gordon's Hendrick Motorsports crew managed to ...
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MARTINSVILLE, Va. (AP) _ Jimmie Johnson withstood teammate Jeff Gordon's bumping and banging for much of the last 53 laps Sunday and held him off by a front bumper to ...
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David Gilliland had to fight to get NASCAR
approval to race at Talladega Superspeedway.
That battle two months ago was worth it.
Gilliland won the pole Saturday, posting a lap of 191.712 m.p.h.
in ...
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MOORESVILLE, N.C. (AP) _ Dale Earnhardt Jr. is joining Hendrick
Motorsports, hopefully moving one step closer to a championship that
has eluded him while driving for his late father's company.
Rick Hendrick said ...
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Jimmie Johnson, on the cusp of winning his
first NASCAR Nextel Cup championship, had a few anxious moments
Friday on the way to qualifying 15th for the season-ending Ford 400
at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
``We're ...
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Dave Blaney wound up the winner Friday night
at Lowe's Motor Speedway in a NASCAR Busch Series finish that
included red flag stoppages for a scoring glitch and a crash by Carl
Edwards ...
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This might be the final NFL season for Kurt Warner.
The Arizona Cardinals' 35-year-old quarterback, who lost his job to rookie Matt Leinart, said Thursday he is considering retirement after ...
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Jeff and Jimmie, Brian and Ricky. They were the Hendrick Motorsports entourage _ NASCAR's very own version of the Rat Pack.
But people change, things happen and friendships often fade. ...
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Lowe's Motor Speedway is beefing up security for driver Brian Vickers after angry race fans called the track to complain that Vickers wrecked Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Jimmie Johnson on ...
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Reports that IRL champion and Indianapolis
500 winner Sam Hornish Jr. will make his stock car debut next month
at Phoenix in a NASCAR Busch Series car are premature, a Team Penske
spokesman ...
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