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(By Reid Spencer, Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service)
MIAMI BEACH Fla — It was a chance encounter with a bizarre twist—and it wasn’t the way Carl Edwards expected to meet someone who might influence the future performance of his race team.
Some four hours after finishing sixth in the ...
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Carl Edwards
(By Sarah Farlee, CupScene.com Senior Staff Writer)
Rick Hendrick has full Thanksgiving plate this year, but one thing he’ll be feasting on after the holiday – getting Dale Earnhardt, Jr. competitive again.
Hendrick Motorsports has a banner 25th Anniversary year. An eighth championship – four ...
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Dale Earnhardt
Rick Hendrick
Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
(By Greg Engle, CupScene.com Editor, NASCAR Examiner)
The continuing saga of Jeremy Mayfield has taken a turn into Stupidville.
For those fans that may have been in the dark for the last year, Mayfield is the former driver who was suspended after testing positive for meth last spring. Both ...
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Jeremy Mayfield
(By Bill Marx, Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service)
It’s all over but our wrap-up of the 2009 season. So let’s get to it. Here’s a breakdown of the top 12 in the Sprint Cup Series points standings after Sunday’s season-finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
1. Jimmie Johnson, ...
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Chase Austin
Jimmie Johnson
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Monday night, for the first time, the post-season awards banquet for the NASCAR Nationwide Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series was a combined event.
Kyle Busch and Ron Hornaday Jr. officially were crowned as champions of their respective series for the 2009 season on ...
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Ron Hornaday
Kyle Busch
Camping World
(By Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service)
With a 20th-place finish in Sunday’s Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway Brian Vickers, finished the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup in 12th place, but the driver of the No. 83 Red Bull Toyota remains optimistic for next season. Before the 2010 ...
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Brian Vickers
Chase Austin
Roush Fenway Racing announced Tuesday that Donnie Wingo has been named crew chief of the No. 6 UPS team with driver David Ragan.
Wingo joined Roush Fenway at the beginning of the 2009 season as crew chief for Jamie McMurray and the No. 26 team. The duo most recently captured a win earlier this ...
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David Ragan
Jack Roush
Ford
(By Reid Spencer, Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service)
HOMESTEAD, Fla.—At long last, Jimmie Johnson allowed himself to savor the magnitude of his accomplishments—but don’t let that fool you.
After finishing fifth in Sunday’s Ford 400 and wrapping up his fourth straight NASCAR Sprint ...
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Jimmie Johnson
Chase Austin
(By Greg Engle, CupScene.com Editor, NASCAR Examiner)
It was a vanilla end to a vanilla Chase.
Jimmie Johnson did what he had to do Sunday at Homestead-Miami Speedway. He didn’t dominate, he didn’t win the race, Johnson simply stayed out of trouble and finished fifth while chaos erupted around ...
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Jimmie Johnson
Chase Austin
Juan Pablo Montoya
Tony Stewart
(By Greg Engle, CupScene.com Editor, NASCAR Examiner)
Now that Jimmie Johnson has been crowned, again, we have to wait a little more then 80 days before the NASCAR Sprint Cup series takes the green flag at Daytona for the season opening Daytona 500.
The Daytona 500 is arguably the biggest race ...
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Daytona 500
Jimmie Johnson
(By Reid Spencer, Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service)
HOMESTEAD, Fla.—In their first season as teammates, a deep mutual respect developed between Mark Martin and Jimmie Johnson.
Johnson, however, would probably take issue with an assertion Martin made after Sunday’s Ford 400.
“My ...
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Mark Martin
Chase Austin
Jimmie Johnson
(By Reid Spencer, Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service)
HOMESTEAD, Fla.— To Jeff Burton, there are times when it’s OK to dump a fellow driver.
Burton finished third in Saturday’s Ford 300 Nationwide race behind series champion Kyle Busch and runner-up Carl Edwards, but the most ...
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Denny Hamlin
Jeff Burton
Brad Keselowski
(By Sarah Farlee, CupScene.com Senior Staff Writer)
Homestead, Fla., - As the checkers fell on 2009, teams already look to next season – and solid runs in the season finale builds momentum heading into the off season.
The season finale proved to be a momentum builder for several Sprint Cup ...
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Denny Hamlin
Chase Austin
Juan Pablo Montoya
Tony Stewart
Jimmie Johnson
(By Sarah Farlee, CupScene.com Senior Staff Writer)
Homestead, Fla. - Jimmie Johnson made history as he crossed the stripe in Sunday’s season finale, the Ford 400 at the Homestead Miami Speedway, by winning his fourth consecutive series championship – an unprecedented feat that didn’t come ...
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Jimmie Johnson
Chase Austin
(By Bill Marx, Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service)
Here’s a look at the top five drivers in the Sprint Cup Series standings along with five more winless drivers to watch in Sunday’s Ford 400. (Winless drivers Juan Pablo Montoya, Greg Biffle, Ryan Newman, Carl Edwards and Kevin Harvick ...
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Chase Austin
(By Reid Spencer, Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service)
HOMESTEAD, Fla. — As a Hendrick customer, Tony Stewart knows Johnson doesn’t lack for quality equipment or personnel. But Stewart doesn’t minimize the driver’s contribution to the success of the No. 48 team.
“It ...
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Tony Stewart
Chase Austin
Jimmie Johnson
(By Reid Spencer, Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service)
HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Don’t plan Jeff Gordon’s farewell tour just yet.
Gordon’s well-documented back problems, exacerbated by a hard crash during qualifying at Dover in May, fueled speculation that retirement might be ...
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Jeff Gordon
Chase Austin
Rick Hendrick
(By Greg Engle,CupScene.com Editor, NASCAR Examiner)
Mike Rowe is one of the most familiar faces, and voices, on television these days.
A native of Baltimore, Rowe was a local TV host in San Francisco and on QVC. It was in San Francisco as a host for Evening Magazine on KPIX-TV that the idea for ...
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Ford
Ford 400
Homestead-Miami Speedway
(By Sarah Farlee, CupScene.com Senior Staff Writer)
HOMESTEAD, Fla.–There have been no minced words between Denny Hamlin and Brad Keselowski, at least on Denny Hamlin’s end. Keselowski on the other hand, says the rivalry is over and he wants to move on.
Hamlin may not be ready to move on ...
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Denny Hamlin
Brad Keselowski
(By Sarah Farlee, CupScene.com Senior Staff Writer)
HOMESTEAD, Fla.– Carl Edwards has spent all season chasing Kyle Busch and it was only fitting the checkered flag fell on the season finale – with Carl chasing Kyle for the win in Saturday’s Ford 300 at Homestead Miami Speedway.
Busch ...
