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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (July 4, 2009) — With Kyle Busch slamming the frontstretch wall after an unsuccessful attempt to block, Tony Stewart won Saturday night’s Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway.

The victory was Stewart’s second of the season, his second as an owner/driver for Stewart-Haas Racing and the 35th of his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career. [read more...]

DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. – A nudge here, a bump there.

Here-a-bump, there-a-bump, bumpity-bump everywhere.

That’s how Tony Stewart survived a last-lap duel with Kyle Busch to win Saturday’s NASCAR Nationwide Series Camping World 300 at Daytona International Speedway.

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Ryan Newman, No. 39 U.S. Army Impala SS and Tony Stewart, No. 14 Office Depot/Old Spice Impala SS were both forced to backup cars for the Daytona 500 following an accident during final practice on Saturday.

With the No. 14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevrolet and the No. 39 U.S. Army Chevrolet both being involved in an on-track accident during today’s final practice session for the Daytona 500, both Stewart-Haas Racing teams have gone to a backup racecar for the season-opening NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway.

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DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. – They might have to rename the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Daytona International Speedway.

Todd Bodine drives this event like he owns it.

Bodine held off a last-lap bid by Kyle Busch to capture his second truck race in as many years Friday night.

The former series champion had to charge back through the field after being shuffled to the back of the pack for passing under the yellow line. He also had to dodge a series of multi-truck accidents that sidelined several front-running contenders before the race had reached the halfway point, including defending NASCAR Camping World Truck champion Johnny Benson.

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Carl Edwards, driver of the No. 99 Aflac Ford Fusion, showed off his new commercials for the 2009 season and also answered some questions about the upcoming Daytona 500 on Wednesday morning at Daytona International Speedway.

CARL EDWARDS – No. 99 Aflac Ford Fusion – BASED ON WHAT YOU’VE SEEN SO FAR, GOING INTO THE LAST LAP ON SUNDAY WOULD YOU WANT TO BE FIRST, SECOND OR THIRD? “Third wouldn’t have worked out, I don’t think, the other night. I’ve thought about this quite a bit. We have two different possibilities here, we could have a race on Sunday that ends with a long green flag run, or we’re gonna have kind of what we had the other night where maybe 12 laps from the finish or 10 laps from the finish we get a caution and everybody is gonna be on the same page. I’m really hoping for the long green-flag run, where you can battle with two or three guys, instead of just mayhem. The way it feels to me, and I’m not an expert at this, but I’m getting better at these places, is it feels like it’s just restraint that keeps us from wrecking. So the closer you get to the end of the race, there’s this crescendo where everybody starts going, ‘Well, I’m gonna take a little more chance,’ and then there’s a wreck. There’s no way to race as hard as you want without wrecking in those situations. I hope it’s not a frustrating race like that that finishes under caution. I want to race to the checkered flag.”

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TALK ABOUT YOUR NEW TEAM, NEW SPONSORS, AND NEW CAR HEADING INTO THE DAYTONA 500 THIS COMING SUNDAY

“Things feel good so far. I think the biggest test for us as a team was the Bud Shootout. It was great to be involved in that and just kind of get a head start on communication and what we need to work on for the 500. I think everybody is really seeing that obviously you’d love to have speed, but the big thing is having a car that handles. It used to be in 20 laps you could run wide open before you had to start to lift and start worrying about handling. And it used to be about 12 laps before you had to lift, and now it’s about three laps. So, handling is just a premium right now and I think we saw that in the Shootout. It’s something that we really focused on over at RCR and based on how we were able to run at the end of that race in the Shootout, I was very happy with the way the car handled and worked.”

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Daytona Beach, Florida (February 10, 2009) - Canadian John Ryan (J.R.) Fitzpatrick is ready for the season opening NASCAR Camping World Truck Series NextEra Energy Resources 250 to be run at Daytona International Speedway on Friday night, February 13.

Fitzpatrick, from Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, hopes that Friday the 13th will be a lucky day for him and his No. 7 Mammoet Chevrolet Silverado. Fitzpatrick has two starts in the series with a best finish of 21st at Martinsville. The NASCAR CASCAR champion will be running for the Camping World Truck Series Rookie of the Year Award.

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Ten Years Of Trucks At Daytona

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Feb. 9, 2009) – The 2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season will officially kick off this week as teams head south to Daytona International Speedway. Friday night’s NextEra Energy Resources 250 marks 10 years of racing for the trucks on the high banks of the famed 2.5-mile superspeedway. If the previous nine races are any indicator, the 10th is sure to be quite a show.

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Feb. 9, 2009) – This Sunday, a mid-February tradition continues.

The 2009 edition of the Daytona 500 will be the 51st running, the first originating way back in 1959.

A Daytona 500 victory defines a racer’s career. There have been seven different careers defined in the last seven Daytona 500s. That is just one of the many interesting numbers going into this weekend’s race. Here are a few more:

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DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. — Talk about a shootout. They’ll be talking about this one for years to come.

Kevin Harvick drove his Richard Childress Chevrolet to the front of the field on the very last lap Saturday night to capture one of the wildest Budweiser Shootouts in the history of Daytona International Speedway.

Harvick cruised across the finish line after a split-second crash behind him and runner-up Jamie McMurray wiped out a group of contenders, including defending Sprint Cup Champion Jimmie Johnson, contenders Kyle Busch and Brian Vickers, as well as Casey Mears and pole-sitter Paul Menard.

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