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Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s fans were on their feet, sponsor representatives were ready to invade victory lane and Junior Nation could envision what would have been the best start to a season ever - two wins in three races.

The odds weren't with Jeffrey Earnhardt in Las Vegas. He ended a rough day in Saturday's Boyd Gaming 300 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway with a 33rd-place finish in the Flex Seal Chevrolet.

After struggling in the second half of last Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Phoenix, Paul Menard came back with a vengeance at Las Vegas, even though his thoughts might have been elsewhere.

"I haven't been told 'no' to anything yet," Childers said after Harvick won last week's NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Phoenix International Raceway, just the second event since Harvick and Childers were paired at Stewart-Haas Racing.

Andretti Autosport announced this morning that Kurt Busch, driver of the No. 41 Haas Automation Chevrolet in the Sprint Cup Series, will attempt the Indianapolis 500 in a fifth entry for the IndyCar Series team.

LAS VEGAS -- As the music thumped away, partygoers mingled around shiny silver race cars and firesuits in display cases.

Brad Keseslowski gets the jump on Kyle Busch on his way the NASCAR Nationwide Series win at Las Vegas on Saturday.

Kenseth was by far the best in the Sprint Cup Series in 2014 on 1.5-mile intermediate tracks with an average finish of 5.73, including other wins at Kansas, Kentucky and Chicagoland.

Wright Motorsports will go for its third straight driver and team championship in the IMSA Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge USA by Yokohama in 2014.

Dylan Kwasniewski started attending NASCAR races at his hometown Las Vegas Motor Speedway when he was nine years old, his first race spent atop family friend Robby Gordon's pit box.

By PaddockTalk.com Staff Writers The NASCAR Nationwide series has completed practice session one at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in preparation for the 18th Annual Boyd Gaming 300 .

Team Penske drivers share the front row for the second consecutive week, but this time Joey Logano will have the glory of leading the Sprint Cup Series field to green at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Someday in the future, Kyle Busch would love to emulate his older brother's attempt to run the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 in the same day.

Truck Series champion Matt Crafton will be on standby at Las Vegas Motor Speedway this weekend for Paul Menard as the driver awaits the birth of his first child.

Qualifying for the Indy 500 this year will begin on May 17 when the fastest 33 cars are locked into the field.

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

The Frontstretch: The Long and Short of the Intermediate Track Problem in NASCAR by Amy Henderson -- Thursday March 6, 2014 Andretti Autosport announced this morning that Kurt Busch, driver of the No.

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.

Thirty-seven years later, Stewart, a three-time Cup champion, is reprising the role of the movie's star character.

When Busch takes the green flag in Sunday's Kobalt 400, he will also be attempting to make his first visit to victory lane since his last Sprint Cup win in October 2011.