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          <title>Stewart&#8217;s win not the only big story at Talladega</title>
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Although Stewart was jubilant Sunday after the AMP Energy 500, crew chief Greg Zipadelli was quite emotional. The two have been virtual brothers in racing for 10 years, and now they&#8217;re down to their last days together.&nbsp;
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          <title>Allgaier wins Talladega ARCA race</title>
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Justin Allgaier won the wreck-filled ARCA RE/MAX 250 on Friday at Talladega Superspeedway, bumping past teen star Joey Logano on the final lap and holding on for a 0.113-second victory.
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          <title>Dale Earnhardt Jr. crashes twice in Talledega practice</title>
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Little &#8220;E&#8221; triggered a six-car accident when his left rear tire blew while he was leading a pack of cars
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          <title>Tire test completed for November 1st Rockingham race</title>
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For decades, the one-mile Rockingham track known to fans as The Rock was a twice-a-year stop for NASCARs top series. But NASCAR stopped racing there and more recently the track has been revived with other sanctioning bodies events.
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          <title>NASCAR drivers cut loose on drag strip with personal cars</title>
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Dozens who work in NASCAR-related industries, including drivers Biffle, Matt Kenseth and Kyle Busch and owners Rick Hendrick and Ray Evernham, brought their personal hot rods and street cars to the track.&nbsp;
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          <title>Earnhardt hoping for a boost at Talladega</title>
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Now Dale Earnhardt Jr. and crew chief Tony Eury are nearly 200 points down after the first three races of the Chase for the Championship. And even if they do something big this weekend at Talladega it probably will be too little too late.&nbsp;
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          <title>Sports car series meets new technologies head&#45;on</title>
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The drive to develop fuels to replace gasoline and technologies that will lead to a cleaner environment has been long on talk and short on action.


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          <title>Stock car racing media pioneer Hal Hamrick dies at 79</title>
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Hal Hamrick, part of the team that broadcast the first Daytona 500 in 1959, died Sunday 
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          <title>Kyle Petty may be out</title>
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That pending departure&#8212;not of Kyle Petty&#8217;s own doing&#8212;is the stunning word from Patti Petty, Kyle&#8217;s wife.&nbsp;
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          <title>Goode driver wins Late Model championship</title>
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It came down to the final four laps of the 40-lap feature to decide the 2008 championship 
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          <title>Greg Biffle triumphs again</title>
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Biffle has won the first two races in the Chase for the Sprint Cup, enabling him to narrow Carl Edwards&#8217; Chase lead to 10 points. 


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          <title>Kyle Busch looks to rebound</title>
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If Kyle Busch is to prove he&#8217;s got what it takes to dethrone two-time defending Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson, now might be the time to strut his stuff
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          <title>GEM&#8217;s buyout of R. Gordon&#8217;s NASCAR team is off; GEM drops lawsuit</title>
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The merger terms had called for Gordon to sell his team at the end of this season for $23.5 million
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Suddenly the title picture looks as if Jack Roush&#8217;s Carl Edwards and Greg Biffle will be facing off against Rick Hendrick&#8217;s Jimmie Johnson with Kyle Busch, the season-long leader, suddenly a question mark.&nbsp;
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          <title>Crash leaves Kenseth with deficit</title>
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Matt Kenseth is the only driver besides Jimmie Johnson to qualify for every Chase, but unlike Johnson, he doesn&#8217;t have a championship under the format.
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          <title>What happened to Nascar&#8217;s TV ratings</title>
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What has happened to NASCAR&#8217;s once-soaring TV ratings? It appears that they&#8217;ve crashed and burned over the summer. 


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          <title>NASCAR hall of fame costs increase&#8212;again</title>
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The money be used to build better exhibits, increase the building&#8217;s energy efficiency and pay for unexpected construction costs.
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          <title>NASCAR tests new Nationwide series car at RIR</title>
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It was the first on-track test for a Nationwide car that will have significant chassis, body and engine changes
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          <title>Carl Edwards&#8217; late surge wins Richmond Nationwide race</title>
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Clint Bowyer dominates, but &#8216;slip-up&#8217; makes him settle for third
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          <title>Floyd County native, Virginia Tech grad named Tony Stewart&#8217;s crew chief for 2009</title>
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Darian Grubb received a multi-year deal
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          <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:49:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>NASCAR Angels customize Fort Lee soldier&#8217;s truck</title>
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The NASCAR Angels reality television show presented Army Spc. Josh Grant with his totally refurbished Ford F-150 pickup today.


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          <pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:28:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Hanna&#8217;s rains could affect Richmond NASCAR race</title>
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Southern Virginia, particularly the area from Interstate 95 west, could see rain Friday night, and virtually all of Virginia could get doused Saturday, the National Weather Service said.&nbsp; Richmond International Raceway is scheduled to hold NASCAR races this weekend, including the Chevy Rock &amp; Roll 400 Saturday at 8:00 p.m.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:23:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>NASCAR&#8217;s Last Stop Before the Chase&#45;Richmond</title>
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      It should be a turbulent night in Richmond, both on the track with the final positions in the Chase hanging in the balance--and with the possibility of bad weather.
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          <title>Hendrick says last year&#8217;s success set teams back</title>
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Rick Hendrick was NASCAR&#8217;s hot ticket car owner the last two seasons, winning championships back-to-back with Jimmie Johnson, Sunday night&#8217;s winner here in a duel with Greg Biffle. 


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          <title>Hanna threat  casues no change in NASCAR at RIR schedule so far</title>
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Richmond International Raceway officials said today they are monitoring Tropical Storm Hanna but the weekend&#8217;s NASCAR events, including the Chevy Rock &amp; Roll 400 Saturday at 8:00 p.m.
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          <title>Owner of Bristol Motor Speedway sounds off</title>
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Leave it to Bruton Smith to call NASCAR out.&nbsp; And leave it to Smith, a modern-day Rockefeller in the big-money world of NASCAR, to lead the charge on a black-flag issue NASCAR needs to fix.&nbsp; Now.
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          <title>Edwards, Busch spice up sport</title>
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It was classic theatre. Just call it the Vegas Kid versus Concrete Carl.
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          <title>Bumper cars in Bristol</title>
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Edwards, from his first weeks on the tour a few years back, has raced with an attitude&#8212;and that old Dale Earnhardt approach to potentially controversial incidents: &#8220;Oops. &#8216;scuse me. Sorry.&#8221; 
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          <title>A little tap goes a long way for Carl Edwards</title>
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Despite dominating the field in his No. 18 M&amp;M&#8217;s Toyota Camry, Busch finished in second place, overtaken by eventual-winner Carl Edwards on lap 470 via an instant Bristol classic bump-and-run move.&nbsp;
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          <title>August Race Week at Bristol Motor Speedway</title>
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Catch up on everything around the track this week, including Saturday&#8217;s Sharpie 500 in Bristol.
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          <title>Technical difficulties for Mladin?</title>
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Six-time AMA Superbike champion Mat Mladin may not have won his eighth straight race and ninth overall at Virginia International Raceway when he took the checkered flag at the Suzuki Big Kahuna Nationals by a margin of 9.747 seconds on Sunday.
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          <title>NASCAR phenom Logano to make debut at RIR?</title>
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Richmond International Raceway is on a short list of tracks to host NASCAR phenom Joey Logano&#8217;s Sprint Cup debut
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          <title>Carpentier&#8217;s comeback at a critical juncture</title>
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Patrick Carpentier ran second in NASCAR&#8217;s rain-marred Nationwide race in his hometown of Montreal last weekend, and he&#8217;ll be on a road course again this weekend at Watkins Glen.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:38:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Allstate 400 at the Brickyard is one of the biggest races of the year, and yet NASCAR and Goodyear clearly hadn&#8217;t done their homework. The right-side tire compound chosen by Goodyear was so wrong for NASCAR&#8217;s new car that caution flags were necessary every 10 to 12 laps.
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Emotions ran high throughout and after yesterday&#8217;s Allstate 400 at the Brickyard, with major tire problems turning one of this sport&#8217;s biggest events into the year&#8217;s most bizarre race
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Rival car makers have been claiming that Toyota engines make more power. So NASCAR took several engines from Nationwide cars after the Chicago race two weeks ago for dyno testing, and came up with a new rule.
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When Tony Stewart came to NASCAR, team owner Joe Gibbs sought to pair him with a veteran crew chief who could be a calming influence. Gibbs&#8217; top adviser, instead sold him on an unknown named Greg Zipadelli.&nbsp;
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Sponsors don&#8217;t have the luxury right now to take many marketing chances. They want to go with what&#8217;s proven.&nbsp;
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          <title>Richard Petty is NASCAR history</title>
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Richard Petty has been involved in racing for well over 50 years and has seen it all ... and then some. &#8220;I do everything I&#8217;ve always done....&#8221; Petty says. &#8220;I just don&#8217;t get in the car when they say &#8216;Drivers, start your engines.&#8217;&#8221;
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Martin Truex Jr.&#8217;s car was discovered to be 1-16th of an inch too narrow at practice at Daytona International Speedway last week. His team&#8217;s punishment? Suspensions, a $100,000 fine and the docking of 150 points.&nbsp;
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          <title>NASCAR midseason report card</title>
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When it comes to racing, Kyle Busch is in a class by himself.
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          <title>Move to Joe Gibbs Racing gives Kyle Busch superpowers</title>
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Busch has won six of the first 18 Sprint Cup races &#8212; two more races than he won in three full seasons with Hendrick &#8212; and he leads the standings by 182 points.&nbsp;
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          <title>Randy Moss buys 50% of NASCAR truck team</title>
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Randy Moss Motorsports will make its debut on July 19 at Kentucky Speedway 
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&#8220;I would rather have the races come on at the same time so everybody knows what they&#8217;re watching, but the TV people would rather have it in prime time, and that&#8217;s good for our sponsors, too.&#8221;
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NASCAR owner Chip Ganassi pulled the plug on one of his three teams, closing the doors on the Dario Franchitti team, leaving Franchitti, a former Indy-car star, sidelined.&nbsp;
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          <title>Deac McCaskill stuck in second at South Boston Speedway</title>
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Deac McCaskill has finished second in the last three South Boston Speedway Late Model races
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          <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:27:01 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Waltrip looks for boost from Daytona, an old friend</title>
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Michael Waltrip, now 45 and in his 23rd year on the stock-car tour, needs a good run at Daytona this week more than anyone else on the Sprint Cup series.&nbsp;
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          <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:07:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Strategy won the race, not Kurt Busch</title>
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Now rival crew chiefs should be kicking themselves in the rear end for not playing the end game any smarter: rain coming, no question, late in the race, so why stop for gas?
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          <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:36:00 EDT</pubDate>
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In his second season on the NASCAR Sprint Cup tour, David Gilliland has become a solid driver, despite all the financial problems facing new team owner Doug Yates.&nbsp;
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          <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:05:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Tampa Bay area resident Scott Kalitta&#8217;s death Saturday at Englishtown, N.J., came only 15 months after Eric Medlen suffered fatal injuries while testing at Gainesville Raceway. In September, 14-time Funny Car champion John Force was nearly killed in a crash at Ennis, Texas.&nbsp;
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          <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:43:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Kyle Busch still leads the Sprint Cup tour heading into the race at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, but his lead has been trimmed considerably. 


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   Kasey Kahne continues a month-plus run to remember with another pole.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:12:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Montoya hopes Sonoma gives him a spark</title>
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Montoya, although he&#8217;s the pre-race headliner in the San Francisco Bay area this weekend, needs to get things back on track.&nbsp;
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Helton told the drivers that NASCAR is tired of hearing drivers complain about the winged car. And Helton reminded drivers that they make a good living in the sport&#8212;which is, after all, a family-owned business.&nbsp;
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          <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:30:01 EDT</pubDate>
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Shut up and race?&nbsp; Well, maybe NASCAR&#8217;s Mike Helton wasn&#8217;t being quite so succinct in his Friday-morning meeting with drivers at Michigan International Speedway, in the wake of yet more complaints about NASCAR&#8217;s winged car.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:22:00 EDT</pubDate>
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After a two-year drought, any win is a good win for Dale Earnhardt, Jr. But even Earnhardt conceded that his win Sunday afternoon at Michigan International Speedway may need an asterisk &#8212; *Victory on gas mileage.&nbsp;
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          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:10:01 EDT</pubDate>
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    Rain forces the Michigan Lifelock 400 to go to the point standings to set the field.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:39:00 EDT</pubDate>
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NASCAR chairman Brian France denied Wednesday that a former official complained to her supervisors about racial and sexual discrimination, claims she alleged led to her eventual firing.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:27:01 EDT</pubDate>
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Fox, ESPN and Speed, carrying the Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Truck series, respectively, all report a jump in TV ratings this season. Billy Wanger, the head of research and programming for FOX Sports, pointed proudly to NASCAR&#8217;s TV gains in big markets.&nbsp;
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          <title>&#8216;Car of Tomorrow&#8217; not living up to hype</title>
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Designed from scratch and tested, modified and tweaked during a period of several years, NASCAR&#8217;s &#8220;car of tomorrow&#8221; was supposed to be the best race car ever built. 

From a competition standpoint, it has not measured up.&nbsp;
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          <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:36:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Kyle Busch, 23, has won 10 races in NASCAR&#8217;s three national divisions this year, and he holds a commanding lead in the Sprint Cup standings entering Sunday&#8217;s Pocono 500. And 29-year-old Kurt Busch has practically become forgotten.&nbsp;
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          <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:35:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Hendrick operation searching for a cure</title>
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Hendrick is one of the most successful NASCAR team owners ever but this year has been week after week of zeroes.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:23:00 EDT</pubDate>
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     NASCAR sent another message that teams simply cannot try to alter its new car---or face the consequences.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 00:02:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Legal at last, Logano set for Nationwide Series debut</title>
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Joey Logano reached the legal age to race at NASCAR&#8217;s national level just four days ago, and there&#8217;s still only one way to describe his Nationwide Series debut this weekend at Dover:&nbsp; Long-awaited.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 16:56:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Nick Smith stripped of first South Boston Late Model win</title>
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Smith was disqualified for a lead plate on the outside rail of his car, South Boston Speedway Chief Steward Gene Lawson said
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          <pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 12:44:01 EDT</pubDate>
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A huge night of racing is on tap Saturday, May 31, at South Boston Speedway when America&#8217;s Hometown Track hosts the Strutmasters.com 150.


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          <pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 16:22:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Musings from a day at the races</title>
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The exhaust fumes and reverberations have barely subsided from America&#8217;s grandest day of auto racin&#8217;, and you can&#8217;t tell the winners and losers without a postmortem scorecard 
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          <pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 11:22:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>SMI going full&#45;speed ahead</title>
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No yellows? &#8220;It&#8217;s unbelievable. I&#8217;m shocked, I&#8217;m absolutely shocked because I thought I was going to be the first caution in the first corner,&#8221; Gordon said. &#8220;I&#8217;m pretty shocked there weren&#8217;t any cautions. But four 25-lap segments is a long way around this place, and you don&#8217;t have to be as aggressive to run 25 laps. So that might have contributed to it.&#8221; 
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Kasey Kahne made it into Saturday night&#8217;s Sprint All-Star race as the one driver voted in by fans. He parlayed that gift into a $1 million paycheck, winning the 24th edition of NASCAR&#8217;s biggest non-points race.&nbsp;
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Baseball has a home run derby and basketball has a slam dunk contest. Now, NASCAR&#8217;s all-star event has its own short-attention-span, explosive sideshow.&nbsp;
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All teams in Saturday night&#8217;s Sprint All-Star race will compete in what may seem to be something rather gimmicky, with buzzers and bells and guys pushing their cars the length of the arena to a finish line. 

But the guys on the floor will be taking it all very seriously.
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Jarrett&#8217;s newest ride as he heads into the next phase of his career around NASCAR racing will be in a TV booth for ESPN with fellow announcers Andy Petree and Jerry Punch, two old buddies from Newton.&nbsp;
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The result of Childress reaching deep into his bank account and a more strenuous testing program is likely to put all three drivers back in the Chase for the Sprint Cup, despite what looks like greater competition
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Eight major wins on seven different types of tracks. About the only question now, is Busch so hot that he&#8217;s front-loaded the stock car racing season and may burn out?
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Thirty-one cars eclipsed Ward Burton&#8217;s track record of 173.797 mph set in the first race after the track was repaved in 1996.&nbsp;
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With the same determination he displayed as a rookie in the Cup series in 1994, Burton is still driving hard. He comes into this weekend&#8217;s Dodge Challenger 500 second in points.&nbsp;
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The month of May traditionally is a crucial month for NASCAR drivers and crew chiefs who haven&#8217;t won much lately, in part because sponsors are always hungry for more.&nbsp;
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The new stock car has been awkward to drive. And now teams are heading to Darlington, just repaved, with its stunning 200 mph speeds, and then back here to Lowe&#8217;s Motor Speedway for a couple of weeks of work.
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Ragan hopes he can continue that momentum this week at the resurfaced Darlington.&nbsp;
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The resurfacing won&#8217;t be the only difference for NASCAR&#8217;s oldest superspeedway. A new infield tunnel has been constructed between Turns 3 and 4.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. posted the fastest lap during today&#8217;s practice session for NASCAR Sprint Cup teams as they prepared for tomorrow&#8217;s 7:30 p.m. 400-lap race at Richmond International Raceway.
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Kasey Kahne edged out Carl Edwards by less than two-tenths of a MPH
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Economic downturn, added capacity may be responsible for excess

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Rusty Wallace found race didn&#8217;t always go to the swiftest
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Three months into his tenure with Joe Gibbs Racing, Busch is the hottest driver in NASCAR.
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Richmond, this weekend&#8217;s Sprint Cup tour stop, will be homecoming for Denny Hamlin, one of the hot drivers this season, and now a driver who appears to have put all his bad luck behind him.&nbsp;
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It will be interesting to see how Patrick handles herself on Dale Earnhardt Jr.&#8217;s Thursday night XM radio show. And it will be interesting to see how Earnhardt handles things from the NASCAR perspective.&nbsp;
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New crew chief Jimmy Elledge Elledge seems to have perked up Montoya, who broke out of the doldrums here and came within a few lengths of winning.
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Bryan White and Mark Miller spent most of their college football careers on special teams. The former U.Va. linebackers are putting that practice to work as crew members for two Penske Racing Sprint Cup teams.
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Parking the RV against the fourth-turn fence: $600.&nbsp; Extra charge for infield wristbands: $105 each.&nbsp; Fuel to get here: Think body parts.
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Stewart is under contract with Gibbs through 2009, but he admitted Friday he has been approached with two offers from other teams that involve ownership.&nbsp;
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Chrissy Wallace, just a couple of weeks after she finished 17th in her first-ever NASCAR Truck run, at Martinsville, is trying to figure out her next step in what she hopes will eventually become a major-league NASCAR career.&nbsp;
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Franchitti breaks his ankle and will miss Cup race Sunday.&nbsp; Stewart hopes to follow this win with a victory in the Aaron&#8217;s 499.
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The focus may be moving toward Tony Stewart coming to a track where he has never won - suddenly the issue is not about Victory Lane but rather his next NASCAR contract.
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If Dale Earnhardt Jr. is getting frustrated by his long losing streak&#8212;next week it will be precisely two years since his last tour win&#8212;he&#8217;s hiding it well.&nbsp;
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Kyle Busch&#8217;s third straight Nationwide tour win, against a charging Marcos Ambrose, will naturally make him a headliner at Talladega Speedway.&nbsp;
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Within hours after Danica Patrick became the first female winner in IndyCar history shortly after midnight yesterday, RIR experienced an increase in ticket sales for its SunTrust Indy Challenge on June 28.
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She becomes the first female ever to win an IndyCar race.&nbsp;   
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