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Sunday, July 13th, 2008 140 Views
There is no stopping Kyle Busch this season. The only thing that can slow him down is the muddy grass in the infield as he tries to do burnouts.
Busch beat defending champion Jimmie Johnson on a two lap shootout to win his seventh race of the season. He is only six races away from beating Jeff Gordon’s record of thirteen wins in a season.
Coming in third was Kevin Harvick with a solid run that placed him back in the Top 12 for the chase. Harvick’s return to the Top 12 knocked out his teammate, Clint Bowyer, who finished in 22nd position tonight.
Greg Biffle finished fourth with Busch’s teammate, Tony Stewart, finishing in fifth.
The Sprint Cup Series will take a week off and return to Indianapolis the following weekend for the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard. (more…)
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 71 Views
NASCAR has made the perfect weekend for any sophisticated person who loves to drink wine and eat cheese - the Sonoma / Milwaukee weekend!
The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series is at Infineon tomorrow while the Nationwide Series was at the Milwaukee Mile tonight. JR Motorsports #88 Navy driver Brad Keselowski dominated the first half of the race until a run in with Joe Gibbs Racing #20 Joey Logano. Keselowski’s car never came back to what it was.
Logano, on the other hand, continued to hit everything on the race track on his way to a second place finish.
Keselowski finished in 8th position.
Carl Edwards broke a 36 race losing streak in the Nationwide Series, winning in Milwaukee. He had not won since last June in Nashville. He then got out of the car, backflipped, yadda yadda yadda.
Edit @ 10:52 a.m. - Apparently Edwards did not do his usual backflip in honor of NHRA driver Scott Kilitta who was killed yesterday during qualifying.
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008 107 Views
SPARTA, KY - JUNE 14: Joey Logano spins his tires after winning the Game Stop Toyota in the NASCAR Nationwide Series Meijer 300 presented by Oreo at Kentucky Speedway on June 14, 2008 in Sparta, Kentucky. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images for NASCAR)
Joey Logano made history tonight by becoming the youngest driver to ever win a race in NASCAR’s top three premiere series.
And he kicked some major tail by doing so. The 18-year-old driver of the #20 Game Stop Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing won his first Nationwide Series race in only his third start.
He also won his second Coors Light Pole in his third start today.
Keep your eyes open people. This kid is going to be around for a long time.
Second photo credit: (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008 123 Views
(Photo by Rusty Jarrett/Getty Images for NASCAR)
He has that look in his eye. Tony Stewart has that look in his eyes. It’s coming people. Oh yes, the summer is coming.
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Friday, June 13th, 2008 74 Views
This week, a former NASCAR Nationwide Series official filed a $225 million lawsuit against NASCAR.
The former official, Mauricia Grant, filed suit alleging 23 specific incidents of sexual harassment and 34 specific incidents of racial and gender discrimination.
Grant, a black woman, began working for NASCAR in January 2005 and was fired in October 2007. She claims she was fired after complaining about the inappropriate incidents that happened to her.
NASCAR spoke out against the allegations, claiming they never received a formal complaint about the incidents that Grant is suing the corporation over.
In Kentucky Friday, where the Nationwide Series will race tonight at Kentucky Speedway, two officials were suspended and were sent home. The unidentified officials were two of the 17 officials named in the lawsuit along with Nationwide Series director Joe Balash, assistant series director Mike Dolan, two supervisors, NASCAR’s senior manager for business relations and the human resources director.
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Saturday, May 24th, 2008 91 Views
Denny Hamlin said “pissed” on ESPN2 in the post race interviews tonight from Lowe’s Motor Speedway.
This came after an altercation with #88 of Brad Keselowski’s team. Not sure if Brad himself was involved but know that Tony Eury, Sr. was in the midst of the altercation as was Hamlin.
Now let’s see the fines roll in.
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008 132 Views
After being in NASCAR ten years, Tony Stewart finally tamed the “lady in black” Friday night with his win in the Nationwide Series’ Diamond Hill Plywood 200!
To say the least, Stewart was thrilled.
“At the start of this year, there were still four tracks I haven’t won at and it was California, Las Vegas, Talladega and here (Darlington) and thanks to Dave and the guys on this 20 car on the Nationwide side, we’ve conquered three and should have won the fourth one, but not to be greedy, get four this year and three at the tracks that I haven’t won at, it’s, man with the rich heritage and history at Darlington, to win here and be the first guy to win after they resurfaced here, it’s a feeling that’s hard to describe. It’s just cool to win at Darlington.
It’s just fun, this series is so deep in history in general and this is one of those tracks that it’s history goes as deep as NASCAR and to finally win here, it’s just a huge honor to me.
Crew Chief Dave Rogers also had something good to say about Tony.
I saw Tony Stewart drive probably one of the smartest races I’ve seen here at Darlington.
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