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After running out of gas in the closing laps of last week’s race in Joliet, Illinois, Denny Hamlin did the unthinkable - he promised a win at Loudon in the Sylvania 300. Hamlin later tried to soft-pedal his commitment, adding words to the effect of, “as long as the crew delivers a winning race car,” but it was too late to silence his critics. It wasn’t too late for Hamlin on Sunday, as the Joe Gibbs Racing driver made good on his promise. In fact, he made the win look easy, leading the race for much of its 300 laps, which saw only 4 cautions (most for debris) for a...
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NASCAR Sylvania 300 Preview: The Chase Heads To New Hampshire
Heading into this weekend’s Chase for the Championship race at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Brad Keselowski leads Jimmie Johnson by a scant three points, and third-place Tony Stewart by just eight points. Keselowski may wish the series was heading somewhere else, since the Penske Racing...
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AJ Allmendinger Reinstated By NASCAR After Road To Recovery
Suspended indefinitely on July 24 after testing positive for amphetamines--allegedly taken unwittingly in a pill offered by a friend--AJ Allmendinger is once again eligible to race in NASCAR, and, presumably other series as well. Allmendinger's suspension came as something of a shock to most of the...
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NASCAR Sprint Cup GEICO 400 Recap
When the checkered flag waved at Sunday’s GEICO 400 at Chicagoland Speedway, the expected race winner wasn’t the car crossing the start finish line first. Brad Keselowski took the victory, but the race was dominated by Jimmie Johnson, who started from pole position. Johnson clearly had...
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NASCAR GEICO 400 Preview: The Chase Begins
Sunday’s GEICO 400 from the Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Illinois, kicks off the 2012 Chase for the Championship. The 1.5-mile tri-oval, which opened its doors in 2001, has been good to Chase contender Tony Stewart, who’s racked up three wins there in the past seven years, including...
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NASCAR From Richmond: Federated Auto Parts 400 Recap
Saturday night’s short-track slugfest in Richmond was the final regular season race on the NASCAR calendar, and as expected it delivered its fair share of drama for those patient enough to wait out a rain-delayed start of nearly two hours and a rain-based red flag that lasted nearly another...
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With one race left to go before the Chase for the Championship begins, NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series heads to the three-quarter mile oval in Richmond, Virginia for a Saturday night showdown under the lights. Denny Hamlin comes into Richmond with back-to-back victories earned in Atlanta and in Bristol, bringing his total wins for the season to four. As NASCAR's website points out, Hamlin has a history of doing well at Richmond in September, and is guaranteed a spot in this year’s Chase for the Championship. Hamlin’s teammate at Joe Gibbs Racing, Kyle Busch, has also done...
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Tony Stewart Drives... A Tank? Video
In 2011, NASCAR star Tony Stewart and former Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton swapped rides at Watkins Glen as a promotion for Mobil 1 synthetic oil (which sponsors both drivers). For 2012, Mobil 1 decided to mix things up a bit and ask fans of Tony Stewart what he should drive next. The...
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2013 Ford Fusion NASCAR Sprint Cup Pace Car Going To Lucky Fan
Next year, Ford will debut the 2013 Fusion in NASCAR Sprint Cup competition, and for the first time in years we’ll see a car that differs from others on track by more than just graphics. While still not “stock” in the old-school sense of the word, the new Fusion race car carries...
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. Wins Pole Position For New NASCAR Game Cover
There’s a new version of Activision’s NASCAR racing game due in stores this fall, and NASCAR The Game: Inside Line promises to give player the thrill of Sprint Cup competition, without the hassle of figuring out where to park the transporters between races. We previously told you that...
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Win A Free Class At Ron Fellows Driving School
Whether you're into NASCAR in general or not, the road races the series runs often provide spectacular racing--unafraid of some contact, hustling big machines, and with hired-gun road course specialists making appearances, they get us fired up even when we're sick of the ovals. If you're like us...
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Dodge To Leave NASCAR In 2013: Confirmed
Despite having just unveiled a 2013-spec Dodge Charger for NASCAR Sprint Cup competition, the brand will be leaving NASCAR at the end of the 2012 season. The news was confirmed on an official conference call with the media this afternoon. Ralph Gilles, president and CEO of SRT, said, "Dodge has...
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Watching Clint Bowyer cross the finish line at the 2007 Daytona 500 upside down, backwards, and on fire--or Carl Edwards punting Brad Keselowski at Atlanta in 2010--might be the reason some fans of NASCAR watch the long oval races, but for some fans, that's losing its appeal--or new fans are finding the actual racing more interesting. That finding comes from a study at the University of Iowa (via BoingBoing), entitled, "The Demand For Aggressive Behavior In American Stock Car Racing," published in the journal Sports Economics, Management, and Policy (subscription required), which took a look...
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2013 Chevy Camaro NASCAR Nationwide Race Car Revealed
The 2013 Chevrolet Camaro NASCAR Nationwide race car will make its race debut in 2013 at Daytona.
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2013 Ford F-150 FX4 EcoBoost Announced As NASCAR Pace Truck
If you think full-size pickups are just for tradesmen, ranchers and those needing to haul boats, trailers or race cars, think again. Proving that pickups can also haul something else, Ford has announced that the official pace truck of Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Race at Michigan International...
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2013 Toyota Camry NASCAR Sprint Cup Race Car Debuts
Toyota is the latest to unveil its challenger for the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Based on the latest 2013 Toyota Camry, the race car’s introduction marks the culmination of an aggressive redesign to provide it with an updated and more familiar identity. As some readers may recall, NASCAR...
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Congress (Again) Ponders Military Sports Sponsorship Ban
The United States Army and the National Guard, in the eyes of the Pentagon, are brands that requires ongoing promotion to raise public interest and awareness. One of the most cost-effective ways of doing this, in terms of media exposure and number of eyes-on, is via sponsorship of professional...
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2013 Shelby GT500, Next-Gen WRX, Lexus HS 250h Dead: Today's Car News
Subaru unveiled the Advanced Tourer Concept at the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show last December, and we all thought it was previewing the next-generation Legacy and Outback. Motor Trend now reports that the concept actually hints at the next-generation WRX. The front-end design of the new WRX will...
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A sequel to last year’s popular NASCAR video game NASCAR The Game 2011 is in the works and is due out in stores this fall. The new game will be called NASCAR The Game: Inside Line and it's once again being designed for multiple platforms including Microsoft’s Xbox 360, Sony’s PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo Wii. Allowing you to hop in the driver's seat of a fully-fledged NASCAR racer, the new game simulates racing with the top NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers, teams and cars. On top of this, it also features all 23 officially licensed NASCAR race tracks. As mentioned, NASCAR...
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2014 Chevrolet SS Confirmed As VF Holden Commodore: Official
UPDATE: The 2014 Chevrolet SS has been revealed. Click here for all the details. Chevrolet, together with officials from fellow GM subsidiary Holden, has confirmed today that the Australian designed and built Holden Commodore sedan will return to U.S. shores as the 2014 Chevrolet SS. A racing...
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The Beginner's Guide To NASCAR Racing: Infographic
Perhaps it’s the sport’s blue-collar roots, or maybe it’s the fact that tracks are generally oval or tri-oval in shape, instead of laden with complex left and right corners. Maybe it’s the fact that (in recent years) the cars all looked more or less alike, or that they...
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Tony The Tiger NASCAR Car Of Tomorrow Up For Auction
Ever wanted to own a relatively modern piece of NASCAR Cup-car machinery? Well, here's your chance: a Tony the Tiger-liveried, Car of Tomorrow-bodied, 2007 Chevrolet Impala SS. Best of all, it has a brand-new GM CT 400 racing engine under the hood. The 2007 #5 Kellogg's car was driven by Kyle...
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2012 Ford Focus Electric To Pace NASCAR Richmond 400
While the 2013 Ford Fusion Sprint Cup race car won't join the (mostly) oval fray until next year, the 2012 Focus Electric will be getting its NASCAR debut this weekend--sort of. It'll be the pace car. Ford announced the Focus Electric as the pace car a couple of weeks ago, but now we have photos of...
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Richard Hammond And Jimmie Johnson Talk NASCAR And Top Gear, Pastrana's Mullet
So Richard Hammond and Jimmie Johnson hopped on a NASCAR conference call that was quickly sidetracked into the minutia of NASCAR racing and politics. But from the mists emerged a few choice nuggets of wider appeal. Among them was Travis Pastrana's new mullet. Given to Pastrana by Jimmie Johnson...
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