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4 hrs ago | Myrtle Beach Online

Dale Jr.: Nothing new, but Patrick good for NASCAR

Dale Earnhardt Jr. says Danica Patrick would be good for NASCAR, but there's nothing new to report on the IRL star joining his team.

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12 hrs ago | Roanoke Times

Montoya defends Cup racing - roanoke.com

Juan Pablo Montoya says the Sprint Cup Series is the most competitive racing series he's ever competed in.

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Tue Nov 10, 2009

BleacherReport

Kyle Busch Has a Big and Busy Weekend Coming Up This Weekend in Phoenix

Last Sunday at the Texas Motor Speedway Kyle Busch came up one gallon short of making history.

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NASCAR Winston Cup Scene

High five for Busch

If Kyle Busch enters a Truck Series race, odds are better than 50-50 he'll win -- at least where the 2009 season is concerned.

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MotorAuthority

Jaguar Launches New R Performance Academy

For some, a day at the track driving the fastest Jaguars on sale today with a top notch driving instructor is a dream.

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BleacherReport

NASCAR'S Negative Fan Bases: Good or Bad for the Sport?

Shortly after this weeks Nascar Race at Texas, I started surfing the various racing sites and Twitter.

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Related Topix: Sports, Brian Keselowski, Andy Pilgrim, Racing, Bryan Clauson, NASCAR, Nascar Drivers, Dario Franchitti, Michael Valiante, Jack Roush

Mon Nov 09, 2009

MyFoxPhilly

Busch, Tyson Continue to Race Hard

Kurt Busch and Pat Tryson had every reason to coast through the season's final 10 races in a long farewell before the crew chief bolts to a new team next year.

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Scene Daily

Jared Turner: Time can be the only missing link to success in NASCAR

As with most sports, sometimes the only way to improve in NASCAR is to first be willing to change.

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Related Topix: Sports, Brian Keselowski, Racing, NASCAR, Nascar Drivers, Jack Roush, Kevin Harvick, Burney Lamar, Auggie Vidovich, Andy Pilgrim, Bryan Clauson

Forth Worth Star-Telegram

Tony Stewart has made all the right moves in his transition to owner-driver

That's all it took to turn Haas CNC Racing from a Sprint Cup afterthought into one of the most powerful teams in NASCAR.

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Roanoke Times

France critical of TV coverage

NASCAR chairman Brian France says he wants TV broadcasters that work NASCAR events to call the sport like those in other sports do and limit their areas of criticism.

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Sun Nov 08, 2009

New York Times

Johnson Has Turned Nascar's Chase Into a Stroll

Jimmie Johnson will probably make stock-car history this month by winning a fourth consecutive championship, but his coronation will culminate an anticlimactic Nascar Sprint Cup Series season.

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AllLeftTurns.com

Kurt Busch Wins Dickies 500 as Chase Race Tightens Up

Jimmie Johnson wrecked , Kurt Busch won a fuel-mileage thriller and one lucky fan won $1 million at the Dickies 500 at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday.

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Tulsa World

Nascar Notebook

Busch's new crew chief ready for first tirade: Kyle Busch's new crew chief knows what's coming.

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PilotOnline.com

Quality of racing a hot topic for fans

Loading... Mark Martin, left, flips after being involved in an accident last Sunday at Talladega.

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Sat Nov 07, 2009

The Gaston Gazette

Biffle thinks Danica should wait ... a while

FORT WORTH, Texas What if Danica Patrick makes her NASCAR debut in the Daytona 500? More likely, of course, it would be the Nationwide Series race.

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SanLuisObispo.com

NASCAR to honor fallen soldiers at Texas race

NASCAR will honor the fallen soldiers at Fort Hood during a race weekend that is just 170 miles from the site of the massacre that left 13 people dead.

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CBS SportsLine

Zero Cup wins for Edwards after 9 last year

Carl Edwards has found a way to try to mask the frustration of his winless NASCAR Sprint Cup season.

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Roanoke Times

Gordon not fan of bump-draft - roanoke.com

Jeff Gordon admits he was one of the drivers who went to NASCAR last week at Talladega complaining about the bump-drafting but says that rule didn't impact the race.

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Forth Worth Star-Telegram

Jamie McMurray savors victory on his way out the door at Roush Fenway

Jamie McMurray doesn't sound like a driver who's worried about an uncertain future.

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Fri Nov 06, 2009

Connecticut Post

Galante's racing fleet sold an auction

Brandon O'Reilly looked at the NASCAR Whelen modified touring racers the way Bogart looked at Bacall, appreciating the top-of-the-line chassis.

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