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Reed restarted the race in 15th, and remained there for the rest of the race, earning his best finish of the 2014 season.

Team Penske once again dominated NASCAR 's new qualifying format in the Sprint Cup Series, picking up the front row for the second straight race.

UT Medical Center spokesman Jim Ragonese sent an email to the Knoxville News-Sentinel on Friday saying the 78-year-old Majors had a heart valve procedure Thursday.

Opening statements were set to begin Friday in the court-martial of an Army general accused of sexually assaulting a captain under his command with whom he had a three-year affair.

By PaddockTalk.com Staff Writers The NASCAR Sprint Cup series has completed practice session one at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in preparation for the 17th Annual Kobalt 400 .

Everyone I know has either owned a Mustang or knows someone who did. By the time Ford unveiled the first mass market sports car in 1964, the last year in which joining the boomers' club was a demographic Your Take contributions have not been reviewed for accuracy by USA TODAY.

WHERE HE STANDS: Dale Earnhardt Jr. leads the Sprint Cup Series standings for the second straight week after Sunday's race at Phoenix International Raceway.

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On a sunny day late last December on the track of the Homestead Miami Speedway in Florida, humanoid robots representing 16 teams from around the world opened doors, turned valves, cut through walls, struggled to climb ladders and drove all-terrain vehicles.

Despite having a new driver, getting a new crew chief and changing from Chevrolets to Fords, a NASCAR race team from Whiteville made an impressive season debut during Speedweeks this year at the Daytona International Speedway.

Michael McDowell scored a 33rd-place finish at Phoenix International Raceway on Sunday afternoon, driving the No.

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service AVONDALE, Ariz.-Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s victory in last Sunday's Daytona 500 might just be the NASCAR equivalent of a 'Get-out-of-jail-free' card.

Fifteen-year-old, Buddy Tubbs, poses on his Honda 400ex ATV at his grandfather's, Larry Carnes, personal racing dirt track Sunday, February 23, 2014.

While the Mustang prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary, a big name in Mustang history is celebrating a birthday of its own.

Motorsports data pioneer William C. Mitchell died on Jan. 17, 2014, at age 68 at his home in Mooresville, N.C. Mitchell was known to his friends as Bill.

It's going to be a heck of a show when NASCAR Nationwide Series Boyd Gaming 300 race gets underway next weekend.

Tyler, a friend of Bob Willis, worked for Larry Willis as an engineer and attended many of the drag races at Milton that you'll read about below.] Larry Willis was from West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and graduated from Northeastern University as a civil engineer.

A promising week of Modified racing in the annual World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing in Florida ended on a sour note for Candor's Jimmy Zacharias.

NASCAR fans and racing fans in general are in for a special treat during The Profit on CNBC 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race weekend at Phoenix International Raceway.

"The Phoenix weekend is kind of your first test. What's the new rules package going to bring? What's the new qualifying format going to bring? Phoenix has the ingredients to be wild for qualifying because it's a fairly new racetrack and sometimes cycles on your tires do make you go faster.