In a thrilling photo finish, Denny Hamlin made a pass on Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Matt Kenseth for the lead on the final lap on Sunday’s Daytona 500. Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr. were side-by-side for the win as they crossed the start-finish line, but Hamlin — who led a race-high 95 laps — prevailed […]
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The only New Zealand team in the V8 Supercars championship may be the new boys on the block but they are going about their business as professionally as they can. Super Black Racing owner Tony Lentino is leaving no stone unturned in an effort to give his team the best possible platform to do the […]
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Rapper 50 Cent is bringing his headphones and audio line into NASCAR via a partnership with Swan Racing. The rapper — born Curtis Jackson — will have branding for his SMS Audio line on both of Swan Racing’s cars. The logos will also be on the uniforms for Parker Kligerman and Cole Whitt, and the drivers will be […]
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Ricky Stenhouse Jr. quickly learned an important lesson in his race with girlfriend Danica Patrick for NASCAR’s rookie of the year award. After on-track battles between the two led to at least two accidents, Stenhouse figured out it was best to always take the blame. “Battles are tough, especially when you are going against your […]
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Jimmie Johnson held off Hendrick Chevrolet team-mate Dale Earnhardt Jr to claim a record-breaking eighth NASCAR Sprint Cup win at Dover’s ‘Monster Mile’. Johnson drove an awesome final stint. At the last stop his crew changed just two tyres while Earnhardt’s swapped all four. It seemed to work for Earnhardt as he leapt straight into […]
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Nationwide will end its seven-year run as entitlement sponsor of NASCAR’s second-largest series at the end of the 2014 season and refocus its motorsports spending to other areas of the industry. NASCAR announced a new deal Wednesday to extend Nationwide’s contract as its official auto, home, life and business insurance partner through 2017. The insurer […]
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Citing unprecedented and extraordinary circumstances resulting from several allegations of race-fixing last week at Richmond International Raceway, NASCAR has expanded the field for its Chase for the Sprint Cup playoffs by adding Jeff Gordon as a 13th driver. With an eighth-place finish at Richmond, Gordon fell one point shy of Penske Racing’s Joey Logano of […]
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We’ve seen this script before, Matt Kenseth holding off Kasey Kahne in the closing laps of a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race. It happened in March at Las Vegas. It happened in April at Kansas. And it happened again in Saturday’s Irwin Tools Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway. On inferior tires and with a […]
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Tony Stewart’s 2013 Sprint Cup season is over, but his career isn’t. Stewart-Haas Racing officials said on Monday they expect the three-time champion to fully recover and be back in the No. 14 Chevrolet in January for preseason testing. Meanwhile, the organization signed Mark Martin to drive in 12 of this season’s final 13 races, […]
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Joey Logano gave Ford a Sprint Cup sweep in Michigan — and enabled team owner Roger Penske to celebrate a victory in his home state. Now Logano can start to envision a happy finish to what has been an eventful season for the 23-year-old driver. Joey Logano’s win put him squarely back in the Chase […]
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