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HOMESTEAD, Fla. (November 15, 2008) — Carl Edwards won the battle, but Clint Bowyer won the war.

Edwards took the checkered flag in the Ford 300 NASCAR Nationwide Series season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway, depriving runner-up Kyle Busch of a record 11th victory in a single season.

But Edwards couldn’t put enough distance between his No. 60 Ford and the No. 2 Chevrolet of Clint Bowyer, who claimed his first NASCAR Nationwide championship with a fifth-place finish. Bowyer entered the race with a 56-point lead over Edwards and won the title by 21 points.

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AVONDALE, Ariz. (Nov. 8, 2008) — Carl Edwards got the win in Saturday’s Hefty Odor Block 200 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Phoenix International Raceway — and championship leader Clint Bowyer got the save.

Second in the standings, Edwards trimmed Bowyer’s lead from 91 points to 56, on a day that could have been much worse for the driver of the No. 2 Chevrolet.

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Kyle Busch’s staggering numbers just got better.

With a dominating performance in Friday night’s rain-interrupted Dollar General 300 NASCAR Nationwide Series race—the type of run that’s become commonplace—Busch drove his No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota to victory by .662 seconds over Jeff Burton.

Busch, who led 137 of 200 laps, pulled away after a restart with three laps left. The victory was his ninth in the series this year, the 20th of his career, and his 20th in NASCAR’s top three series combined this year.

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By Reid Spencer, Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service

DOVER, Del. (September 20, 2008) — With a committee of crew chiefs — and in the face of some wishful thinking on the part of Mike Bliss — Kyle Busch won Saturday’s Camping World RV Sales 200 Nationwide Series race at Dover International Speedway in dominating fashion.

Busch led 157 of 207 laps in a race that ended with a green-white-checkered-flag finish after Landon Cassill and Steven Wallace collided on Lap 199 to bring out the seventh and final caution and send the event seven laps beyond its scheduled distance.

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NASCAR announced that this weekend’s NASCAR Sprint Cup and NASCAR Nationwide races are being postponed until Sunday due to weather. The Sprint Cup race is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. with the Nationwide event set for 7 p.m.

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FONTANA, CALIF. (August 30, 2008) — Give Kyle Busch credit for being a quick study.

Nudged out of the way and deprived of a win by Carl Edwards in last Saturday’s Sprint Cup race at Bristol, Busch didn’t let Edwards anywhere near his rear bumper in the closing laps of Saturday night’s Camping World RV Service 300 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Auto Club Speedway.

After a restart with eight laps remaining, Busch pulled away, as he had done consistently all night long, to hold off his nemesis and win the race under caution when Josh Wise wrecked on the white-flag lap.

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After a restart on Lap 226 of Friday night’s NASCAR Nationwide Series Food City 250 at Bristol Motor Speedway, Keselowski pressured points leader Clint Bowyer. On Lap 227, Bowyer slipped off Turn 2, giving Keselowski the opening he needed.

From that point, Keselowski kept the No. 88 JR Motorsports Chevrolet out front and beat Bowyer to the finish line by 1.025 seconds.

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Statement from Joe Gibbs Regarding NASCAR Penalties Issued to Joe Gibbs Racing’s Nos. 18 and 20 Nationwide Series Teams

HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. (Aug. 20, 2008) – The following is a statement from Joe Gibbs, owner and founder of Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR), after NASCAR penalized its Nos. 18 and 20 Nationwide Series teams for infractions that took place by JGR during technical inspection following last Saturday’s Nationwide Series race at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn.

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No. 18 And No. 20 NASCAR Nationwide Series Teams Penalized For Rule Violations At Michigan International Speedway

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Aug. 20, 2008) – NASCAR announced today that the No. 18 and No. 20 teams in the NASCAR Nationwide Series have been penalized due to rule violations discovered by NASCAR inspectors prior to post-race testing on the chassis dynamometer Aug. 16 at Michigan International Speedway.

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Infractions Discovered in Michigan NNS Post Race Inspection; JGR No.s 20 and 18 Involved

Infractions were discovered by Nationwide Series inspectors following Saturday’s Carfax 250 at Michigan International Speedway, according to Robin Pemberton, vice president of competition for NASCAR . The cars involved were the No. 18 Toyota that was driven to a seventh-place finish by Joey Logano, and the No. 20 Toyota that was driven to a third-place finish by Tony Stewart.

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