Roger Penske finally got the Daytona 500 victory that had been eluding him for so long. Ryan Newman gave the captain his first Daytona 500 victory in 24 years of race trying driving, a frustratingly long time for someone who in most other cases has always managed to dominate big events.
He has won the Indianapolis […]
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Racing Champion Jimmie Johnson won his second consecutive championship at Miami by finishing a risk-free seventh at the Homestead Driveway on Sunday. His competitive rival from last week’s duel, Matt Kenseth won the race. But Johnson has won the war, being only the first racer to win two consecutive championship […]
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Homestead has aptly been billed as “Ford Championship Weekend,” but the real face-off in the Chase for the Nextel Cup (featuring superstars and favorites Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon) is on Sunday at the Phoenix International Raceway.
And the Hendrick Motorsports teammates seem to be ready to hit the dirt, after two […]
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Jimmy Johnson proved he’s still the ultimate Nascar daredevil when he hit the dirt here in Fort Worth. So flamboyant was Johnson that team owner Rick Hendrick almost pulled him off the track.
Hendrick watched in horror as one of his leading Nextel Cup championship contenders duelled with Matt Kenseth over the […]
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The might be the best of friends off the field or boss and employee in the office but they are stealing the show for the Chase of NEXTEL Cup. With less than 3 races left, and no one else within 100 points, it is quite clear that it is going to be between these two. […]
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CONCORD, N.C. – first he conceded the race to a team mate fearing a fuel issue that wouldn’t let him finish the race on Saturday night. However, luck had something else in plan for him as he managed to cross the finish line despite all his concerns. This was his sixth win of the season […]
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) – there was just a 28 point difference in the standings between six of this year’s chase drivers when they took off, but against all expectations there were no thrilling or memorable moments noted witnessing drivers fighting each other for that extra point and at the end of the race six […]
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Carl Edwards has shown himself to be full of grit and determination when he went on to win his first Chase race in the last two seasons and also jump five points in the race for the Chase for the championship standings and all this was done on the Race track full of smoke and […]
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Jimmie Johnson has now got the distinction of starting first in Dover on the track as well as in the standings.
Johnson got another push to the second consecutive title in his second pole of the season at Dover, when he took the first spot with a lap of 154.765 mph at the Dover international Speedway […]
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The chase for the Nextel Cup was not quite the ideal that Kurt Busch and his crew chief Pat Tryson must have prayed for.The engine started giving problems early on and would not run on full speed, the afternoon which had previously seemed quite promising quickly turned into a disappointment as even after dropping a […]
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