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By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service LAS VEGAS, Nev. - If you accept the consensus among NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers and crew chiefs, the new competition package introduced this year for the Gen-6 race car provides more latitude with setups and heightened adjustability.

In three races, there were three different winners and plenty of contact that ranged from door slamming to doors literally being sheered off.

The term "March Madness" is so closely associated with college basketball that the NCAA trademarked it.

In sports marketing, there are certain perks that come with being a top advertiser: a sponsor's box, meet-and-greets with the biggest athletes, tickets to the Super Bowl.

"It gets crazy out there," said Logano, who earned his eighth career pole. "I think it's way cooler than old-style qualifying, don't get me wrong.

Since Kyle and Kurt Busch don't seem particularly interested in the job, Dylan Kwasniewski is more than ready to be the Las Vegas Motor Speedway's newest hometown hero.

By PaddockTalk.com Staff Writers The NASCAR Sprint Cup series has completed practice session one at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in preparation for the 17th Annual Kobalt 400 .

Last Saturday, Busch won a Nationwide race at Phoenix International Raceway for a record third straight time, even though the scheduled 200-lap event there was cut short by 32 laps due to rain.

It's been 10 years since a driver last attempted running both the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 on the same day, a feat so grueling that only Tony Stewart has successfully completed all 1,100 miles.

Matt Kenseth acknowledges a fan at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Thursday, March 6, 2014.

Kevin Harvick had a nice send-off with Richard Childress Racing, winning his penultimate race with the team at Phoenix International Raceway.

The Sprint Cup Series heads to Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the Sunday, March 9th running of the KOBALT 400, and all eyes are on Dale Earnhardt Jr. - not to find out when he's going to win, but when he's going to slow down.

NASCAR's Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series continue on out west, heading to Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the Boyd Gaming 300 Nationwide Series race on Saturday and the KOBALT 400 Cup Series race on Sunday.

Since the 2014 NASCAR season kicked off at Daytona International Speedway back in late February, there's been talk of NASCAR considering ways of limited the number of Sprint Cup Series regulars competing in Nationwide Series and Camping World Truck Series events.

ADVANCE NOTES A Buescher in 2013 o Buescher made seven starts with Roush Fenway Racing finishing 34th in NASCAR Nationwide Series points o His best start was eighth at Michigan with an average series start of 14.4 o His best finish was seventh which he accomplished twice, once at Bristol and Michigan A Buescher at Las Vegas Motor Speedway o 2014 ... (more)

Since we're still in our post-Oscars comedown phase, let's put Jeff Gordon 's hot start this season into the proper Hollywood context, winding the clock back to The 69th Academy Awards, on March 24, 1997.a "The English Patient" had just cleaned up, despite Elaine Benes' dissatisfaction with the film in an episode of "Seinfeld" that aired two weeks ... (more)

Seven-time GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series Champions and five-time Rolex 24 At Daytona Winners Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates announced today that it will field a second Prototype in the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship's 12 Hours of Sebring with drivers Scott Dixon, Tony Kanaan and Sage Karam in the No.

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

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What Kurt Busch is going to try to do on Memorial Day is no easy feat - racing in the Indy 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 on the same day.