The calendar has yet to change over to the new year, but the 2013 generation of Sprint Cup car has already claimed its first track record — albeit unofficially. Kasey Kahne sped around Charlotte Motor Speedway at a brisk 193.771 mph on Wednesday morning, during the second and final day of testing for vehicles that […]
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The haymaker Jimmie Johnson delivered Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway turned out to be an eight-point swing. Taking advantage of a late caution and four fresh tires to Brad Keselowski’s two, Johnson pulled away from Keselowski in a green-white-checkered-flag finish to win the AAA Texas 500 and tighten his grip on a possible sixth Sprint […]
Read more Mr. Martinsville is back — with mission accomplished. With surgical precision, polesitter Jimmie Johnson triumphed at one of his best race tracks, gathering steam toward a sixth Sprint Cup Series title while fending off a strong performance from his closest challenger for the championship. Holding off Kyle Busch during a five-lap closing green-flag run at […]
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Fans who came to Kansas Speedway on Sunday thought they were attending a Sprint Cup Series race. Instead, they witnessed the latest episode of “Survivor.” Matt Kenseth won a wild war of attrition, otherwise known as the Hollywood Casino 400, beating Martin Truex Jr. to the checkered flag by .495 seconds to claim his third […]
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Clint Bowyer was burned up that he didn’t have enough fuel to complete a righteous burnout. But that was the only thing that went wrong in Saturday night’s Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Saving fuel over the final 56 laps of the closing green-flag run, Clint Bowyer snookered his Chase for the […]
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To his Sprint Cup Series rivals, Brad Keselowski has the annoying habit of doing what he’s not supposed to do — as in winning Sunday’s AAA 400 at Dover International Speedway. Adroitly saving fuel over the final 79-lap green-flag run, the devil in the Blue Deuce, Detroit’s consummate wheel man, triumphed in what was perhaps […]
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Denny Hamlin called his shot — and gave the rest of the field a handicap before he fulfilled his own prophecy. After running out of fuel in the first Chase for the Sprint Cup race last Sunday at Chicagoland, Hamlin promised via his Twitter feed that he would win Sunday’s Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire […]
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AJ Allmendinger says his options for a return to racing are wide open and that he would consider an IndyCar move as well as rejoining the NASCAR Sprint Cup. The Californian was reinstated by NASCAR on Tuesday, having successfully completed the Road to Recovery rehabilitation programme following a failed drug test that led to an […]
Read moreBrad Keselowski delivered a body blow to the championship aspirations of Jimmie Johnson, but the five-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion was hardly down for the count. With a pass for the lead that seemed certain to spark controversy in the Hendrick Motorsports camp, Keselowski won Sunday’s GEICO 400 at Chicagoland Speedway, the first race […]
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Clint Bowyer had a gulp of gas just big enough to win the race. Rick Hendrick had Kasey Kahne and Jeff Gordon join the Chase field. In a rain-interrupted race of accumulating tension, Bowyer made it to the finish line 1.198 seconds ahead of Gordon in the closing laps of Saturday night’s Federated Auto Parts […]
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