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A crew member for the No. 48 team mused that it would take a while to get used to the "no one's ever done it" thing. Jimmie Johnson won the Sprint Cup championship for the fourth consecutive year. And no one's ever done it before. Johnson beat Cale Yarborough's mark of three ...
NASCAR
Jimmie Johnson
Hendrick Motorsports
Cale Yarborough
Ford 400
Homestead-Miami Speedway
Many in the motorsports community remain fascinated by Saturday's reports from Homestead-Miami Speedway that said the presence of Hans-Joachim Stuck, who the stories called "the head of Volkswagen's motrosports program," at the race track, and the fact that he spoke with NASCAR ...
NASCAR
Volkswagen
Rick Hendrick will not be at Homestead-Miami Speedway to celebrate his team's ninth championship tonight. His niece, Alesha Gainey, 29, is in critical condition in a North Carolina hospital awaiting a liver transplant, according to Hendrick Motorsports General Manager Marshall Carlson. ...
NASCAR
Rick Hendrick
Homestead-Miami Speedway
Jimmie Johnson
Hendrick Motorsports
Mark Martin
Denny Hamlin lived up to his word Saturday night in the Ford 300. Some of the best quotes after he intentionally spun Brad Keselowski on Lap 35.Make no mistake: That was intentional. "The sun was real bad at that point, and I really couldn't see a whole lot. (crowd cheers, Hamlin chuckles) ...
NASCAR
Denny Hamlin
Brad Keselowski
Ford 300
Well, that didn't last long. After the rivalry between Denny Hamlin and Brad Keselowski has bubbled for the last two weeks, there seemed to be a prime opportunity for the pair to tussle in today's Nationwide race with Hamlin starting sixth and Keselowski starting behind him, fifth. But fewer ...
NASCAR
Brad Keselowski
Denny Hamlin
Ford 300
Kyle Busch
Carl Edwards
Tony Stewart and Dale Earnhardt Jr. are good friends, but last weekend at Phoenix International Raceway, frustrated by some contact that damaged Stewart's championship chances. Stewart cursed on the radio and called Earnhardt a "No-talent, [expletive]." Today Stewart said the comments ...
NASCAR
Tony Stewart
Dale Earnhardt
Phoenix International Raceway
Homestead-Miami Speedway
...for the NASCAR finale, there's some great racing locally tonight. New Smyrna Speedway, the banked half-mile oval, hosts its 44th Annual Governor's Cup tonight, with the best asphalt super late model drivers in this part of the country in one of the most prestigious races in the state. ...
NASCAR
Wayne Anderson
Dale Earnhardt Jr. giggled when asked about a recent story in the National Enquirer, of which he was the subject. The story painted a dark picture of a tortured soul who was wondering how much longer he could go on with life, using second and third-hand anonymous sources to make its point.
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NASCAR
Dale Earnhardt
Jimmie Johnson
Rick Hendrick has no plans to let the crown jewel of his organization get away. Hendrick signed Jimmie Johnson and sponsor Lowe's to multi-year extensions. Johnson signed an extension through the 2015 season and Hendrick signed Lowe's through the 2013 season. He is also working on completing ...
NASCAR
Rick Hendrick
Jimmie Johnson
Lowe's
Juan Pablo Montoya's son isn't a big Montoya fan. Four-year-old Sebastian Montoya's favorite driver is Kyle Busch. Montoya bought him an M&Ms hood to put in his room and is working on getting a Target hood (his sponsor) to go along with it. Outside the Montoya household, though, Hispanic ...
NASCAR
Juan Pablo Montoya
Jarno Trulli, presently out of work since Toyota shuttered its Formula 1 team at the end of this season, spent the last two days in Florida at New Smyrna Speedway -- the first watching friend and former F1 driver Mika Salo test in a Waltrip Racing NASCAR Sprint Cup Toyota, and the second ...
NASCAR
Toyota
Several sources, including a NASCAR Sprint Cup crew chief and a manufacturer's representative, have confirmed that the sanctioning body intends to replace carburetors with fuel injection on Sprint Cup engines in 2011. The move has been discussed for several years, but in a meeting between ...
NASCAR
Mika Salo was a veteran Formula 1 driver, and a member of Toyota's original F1 team, but has spent the last couple of years racing sports cars, mostly Ferraris. Tuesday, he finally got his chance to test a NASCAR Sprnt Cup car with Michael Waltrip Racing at New Smyrna Speedway. He caught on ...
NASCAR
Toyota
Michael Waltrip
The ARCA series, the traditional stepping stone to NASCAR, is adding a second date in Florida, and it’s a road course: The stock car series will race at the new Palm Beach International Raceway, a 2.034-mile, 11-turn road course in Jupiter, on Saturday, February 27, 2010. PBIR is the old ...
NASCAR
Brad Keselowski will start his new job at Penske Racing a little early, according to this Associated Press report. Keselowski will drive the No. 12 Dodge for the final three NASCAR Sprint Cup races of the season, replacing David Stremme .
Keselowski, who won the Cup race at ...
NASCAR
Brad Keselowski
Dodge
David Stremme
Roger Penske
Penske Racing
The ways in which this team succeeds are just incredible. On Saturday I asked Chad Knaus if he had a strategy for how to attack this race. He replied that more than strategy, he has scenarios. Plans of action for different scenarios. Well, 25 laps from the end of Sunday's race, neither ...
NASCAR
Jimmie Johnson
Jamie McMurray won the race. More importantly, though... Two cars went upside down during two different wrecks in the final eight laps of NASCAR's Amp Energy 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. Six months after Ryan Newman punted Carl Edwards' car into the air, it was Newman, whose car turned ...
NASCAR
Ryan Newman
Denny Hamlin
Those who were bored for the first two thirds of this race weren't alone. "I'm as bored as they are sitting in the car," Denny Hamlin said. Hamlin had an engine problem that knocked him out of the Amp Energy 500 and afterward he talked about the bump-drafting rule and what that ...
NASCAR
Denny Hamlin
So far we haven't really seen anyone pushing the bump-drafting rules to see what they can get away with. That's the only way we'll know exactly how the rule works and what NASCAR will and won't allow. That's meant a lot of single-file racing and spacing in the turns. At this point in ...
NASCAR
Kevin Harvick
Dale Earnhardt
Jimmie Johnson
Juan Pablo Montoya
Denny Hamlin
NASCAR wants to put a stop to the locked up team racing that's become the norm at restrictor plate tracks with the new car. During today's drivers meeting NASCAR President Mike Helton warned the drivers that "bump drafting or push drafting is not allowed through the turns" during ...
