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Gustavo Yacaman, Olivier Pla and their teammates celebrate in victory lane after scoring the win in Sunday's TUDOR Mobil 1 SportsCar Grand Prix.

They were lined up, hoping, waiting, for a chance to strike. Drivers on the outside looking in at the Chase to the Sprint Cup championship are running out of chances to grab spots in NASCAR's 10-race playoffs.

There will be many who point to Morgan Shepherd's age as a reason why he should not have been allowed to race on Sunday and be in position to wreck the second-place car of Joey Logano.

Much older and slower than any driver on the track, the 72-year-old Shepherd took out contender Joey Logano in the second half of Sunday's race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

Brad Keselowski completed a flawless weekend at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and won Sunday under a green-white checkered finish.

Morgan Shepherd, at 72 years of age, is the oldest driver to qualify for a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race.

Conductor Lorin Maazel, whose prodigious career included seven years at the helm of the New York Philharmonic, died Sunday at his home in northern Virginia.

Talking Cup series wins. Talking having your ticket punched to the Chase to the Sprint Championship that commences at Chicagoland Speedway on Sept.

Joey Logano, already safely in the Chase, is the top-starting Ford driver for Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

Last year, NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Morgan Shepherd Shepherd competed in the Camping World RV 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

Feb 28, 2014; Avondale, AZ, USA; NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Morgan Shepherd during practice for the The Profit on CNBC 500 at Phoenix International Raceway.

Carson Kvapil is in his first full year of racing a Bandolero. He finished at the top of the Concord Speedway's Beginner Bandits standings for the track's spring series and has produced top-five finishes in his Summer Shootout Series events.

As if it were the 1960s all over again, Detroit automakers are pushing horsepower in what's left of their muscle car lineups to new heights.

As if it were the 1960s all over again, Detroit automakers are pushing horsepower in what's left of their muscle car lineups to new heights.

Organizers of the fourth annual Pinto Stampede aren't talking about horses - or even that much horsepower - to raise money for the Wounded Warriors Project.

But thankfully, the pace to make NASCAR more inclusive for fans of all shapes, sizes and ethnic origins is picking up briskly in 2014.

How many race fans who have passed the third-of-a-century mark can remember what they were doing a few days after their 34th birthday? won't ever have any trouble with that one.

For E.J. Generotti III, last weekend's long trip to the Sports Car Club of America races at Watkins Glen International was about reflection, sharing memories with his son and finding time to heal.

Throughout the '60s, automotive icon Mickey Thompson seemed to pop up everywhere competitors gathered in the name of speed.

Morgan Shepherd, 72, is set to race in this weekend's NASCAR Sprint Cup race in New Hampshire.