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Dale Earnhardt Jr. came within a half a lap of winning his second NASCAR Sprint Cup series win of 2014 Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway .

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.

Not only did Brad Keselowski need to spend the final laps of Saturday's Boyd Gaming 300 fending off Kyle Busch for the victory, but he had to do so while nursing a bad battery in his No.

Chip Ganassi Racing announced the signing of 18-year-old Nationwide Series driver Dylan Kwasniewski as a developmental driver before the Sprint Cup Series Race in Kwasniewski's hometown at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Qualifying for the Boyd Gaming 300 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway is complete. After the new three segment qualifying round, the TriStar Motorsports drivers had a better understanding of how their cars handled.

NASCAR is in Las Vegas for the Kobalt 400 this Sunday, and the mile-and-a-half track at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway will test every driver to the limit.

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.

Series: Third of 36 NASCAR Sprint Cup races. Where: Las Vegas Motor Speedway, 1.5-mile oval.

None of the three Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota Camrys made the final round of qualifying for Sunday's KOBALT 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway , as Kyle Busch led the crew with a disappointing 20th starting position.

Rookie Austin Dillon led the way Friday for Team Chevy in qualifying for Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway with a fourth-place time of 28.026 in his No.

Drivers who don't win races will feel the pressure to make the Chase for the Sprint Cup.

Longtime Richard Childress Racing partners Realtree and Bad Boy BuggiesA are joining the effort to support Austin Dillon's rookie campaign in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series by announcing primary partnership of the No.

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

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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.

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

The NASCAR Nationwide Series heads to Las Vegas Motor Speedway this weekend for the third race of the 2014 race season - Saturday's Boyd Gaming 300.

Forty-eight drivers from the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series turned laps at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Thursday to further build upon the intermediate-track rules package that was formalized late last year.

The spring race at Bristol Motor Speedway is just over a week away and Thursday local authorities announced a plan to handle race traffic.

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.