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Ross D. Franklin Associated Press Dale Earnhardt Jr. already has more than 570,000 followers on Twitter, even though he joined only after winning the Daytona 500.

Tony Stewart can recite nearly every line in "Smokey and the Bandit" and high on his bucket list is meeting star Burt Reynolds to discuss the popular 1977 movie.

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Matt Crafton has made three career starts in the Nationwide Series, but has never started a Sprint Cup race.

A handful of celebrity appearances and special events, including a flame thrower semi truck to open the show Friday, are expected to help the 62nd annual custom car show attract more than car buffs.

The 21-time Cup winner left Richard Childress Racing at the end of last season and initially announced a deal as a test driver for Michael Waltrip Racing with only one guaranteed race - Sunday at Las Vegas.

Yes, we are only two weeks into a 36-week NASCAR season and we are already talking about the championship.

If it's March, it's time for the famed March Meet at Auto Club Famoso Raceway north of Bakersfield.

Rodney Childers wrestled for months with the decision to join Kevin Harvick at Stewart-Haas Racing.

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Schedule: Friday, practice , qualifying ; Saturday, practice ; Sunday, 3 p.m. . Last week: Kevin Harvick raced to his second straight victory at Phoenix International Raceway, leading 224 of 312 laps.

Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing will field a second IndyCar entry for Oriol Servia this season in at least four races, more if sponsorship can be secured.

USA TODAY Sports' Jeff Gluck sits down with 2003 champion Matt Kenseth, who enters Sunday's Sprint Cup Series event at Las Vegas Motor Speedway as the defending race winner.

Car racing legend Jeff Gordon didn't take kindly to a web editor calling one of the driver's 2013 commercials a fake.

Despite having a new driver, getting a new crew chief and changing from Chevrolets to Fords, a NASCAR race team from Whiteville made an impressive season debut during Speedweeks this year at the Daytona International Speedway.

The President of the Ukranian Soccer Association says the International Friendly between the USA and Ukraine will be played in Cyprus on Wednesday.

Keselowski-pole, Logano 1-37, Gilliland 38-39, Keselowski 40, Keselowski-pole, Logano 1-37, Gilliland 38-39, Keselowski 40, Logano 41-73, Harvick 74-110, Keselowski 111-112, Harvick 113-190, Logano 191, Harvick 192-236, Edwards 237, J. Gordon 238-241, Newman 242-247, Bowyer 248, Harvick 249-312.

IDEA : Astronaut? Firefighter? Movie star? All fine professions. But it's the dream of being a racecar driver that gets kids' pulses racing in many homes across America.

Busch will try to qualify for the Indy 500 in a fifth car for Andretti. Should he make the May 25 race, Busch will travel to Charlotte Motor Speedway to fulfill his full-time job with Stewart-Haas Racing in NASCAR's longest event of the year.

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