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Carl Edwards, driver of the #99 Kellogg's/Frosted Flakes Ford, celebrates with a backflip after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway on March 16, 2014 in Bristol, Tennessee.

Mother Nature has struck again as this is the second time this season that a Nascar Sprint Cup race has been delayed by rain.

Returning to his short-track racing roots, Kyle Larson made his third-career start at Bristol Motor Speedway during Saturday's NASCAR Nationwide Series race.

By Mike Sulka Bristol! That one word says it all! The NASCAR Sprint Cup has been racing at Bristol Motor Speedway since 1961, and NASCAR's first visit of 2014 will be the venue's 107th Cup event! The first Cup race at the massive Tennessee facility was won by Jack Smith in a '61 Pontiac with much more humble surroundings.

Emergency workers removing debris from the site of a deadly explosion at two New York City apartment buildings were expected to reach the basement levels Saturday, clearing the way for investigators to search for... Emergency workers sifted through debris Saturday from the site of a deadly explosion at two New York City apartment buildings as they ... (more)

NASCAR driver David Stremme etched his first career dirt track victory on Friday night at Carolina Speedway in the first night of the 14th annual Skyler Trull Memorial.

There is no panic at Stewart-Haas Racing despite a sub-par start to the season that is tarnishing Tony Stewart's comeback from a broken leg.

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Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company has set six springtime test dates for its NASCAR racing program.

What some INDYCAR participants are saying about the Verizon multi-year entitlement of the Verizon IndyCar Series, which will benefit the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, other race venues, teams, partners and fans: "The Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Indianapolis 500 has long been recognized as a technological proving ground and an association ... (more)

A Knoxville man was arrested in Kingsport Thursday after he reportedly shoplifted 59 pairs of panties and 22 pairs of yoga pants from Victoria's Secret.

Joe Gibbs Racing applied a simple strategy for snapping Team Penske's winning streak in the new group qualifying format for the Sprint Cup Series.

By PaddockTalk.com Staff Writers The NASCAR Sprint Cup series has completed practice session one at Bristol Motor Speedway in preparation for the 54th Annual Food City 500 .

I've heard a lot of pea-brained ideas come out of College Station, Texas, but the thought of bulldozing a historic racetrack that remains in active use almost every weekend of the year in favor of cheap, tacky houses on dinky lots takes the cake.

NASCAR's new points system is supposed to encourage more rubbing-is-racing type moments, and if there's one track where rubbing is racing, it's Bristol Motor Speedway.

At least four drivers had to pull out their backup cars before the halfway point of Friday's 90-minute first practice.

The NASCAR Nationwide Series returns to the Eastern US this weekend for Saturday's Drive to Stop Diabetes 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Brian Vickers once went swimming with the sharks at the Georgia Aquarium. He's parachuted into the infield at the Daytona International Speedway and been spearfishing in the Caribbean.

This weekend both the NASCAR Nationwide series & NASCAR Sprint Cup series invaded thunder valley for round four of the 2014 season in what promises to be an exciting weekend of short track racing.

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