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KANSAS CITY, KS. (Oct. 4, 2009) — Two-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Tony Stewart took two tires on his final pit stop and held off hard-charging Jeff Gordon, a four-time champion himself, at the finish to win the Price Chopper 400 at Kansas Speedway Sunday afternoon.

Stewart, a first-year car owner/driver, raced hard all afternoon with the frontrunners and gambled with crew chief Darian Grubb on the two-tire strategy at the end.

“Darian (Grubb, crew chief) made it.” said the driver of the No. 14 Office Depot Chevrolet “We got two tires earlier in the day and were able to go really quick on them so it was pretty much in our opinion a no-brainer of what to do. The guys that took four could just never gain the track position back. We had a really good car on two tires. Darian and these guys on the pit crew, they are the ones that got us the win. They got us track position and I was able to pick which line I wanted on the restart and that won us the race.” [read more...]

OK, everybody sing along, you know the tune:

“I’m going to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come - they got a winning little speedway there and I’m gonna get me some…”

No?.. well.. it was worth a shot… (apologies to the late, great Wilbert Harrison)

If the ’stock-car’ racing standards are set in the way many have historically classified them, it breaks down this way: [read more...]

If the New Hampshire opener proved nothing else, it shined light on just how volatile the Chase can be, just as humbling.

Now enter Dover, The Monster Mile, it can be it’s own “wildcard” in The Chase, have no doubt.

It’s a tough track. Speeds are quick, disaster looms and can become reality just as quickly.

The drops in points position are hard to recover from, the gains are just as hard to maintain.

Dover has that modus operandi: 400 miles, hard on drivers, hard on equipment…

It can be a game changer for certain.

One race neither wins or loses a championship, but two races can become an indicator, a look at the end for some. [read more...]

DOVER, DE. — ‘By a nose’, a term usually resevered for horse races. A perfect description for today’s victory by Jimmie Johnson over Tony Stewart also.

Not in terms of side-by-side closeness, but in pure technique.

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (May 26, 2009) – With expectations high coming into the season, merely putting three drivers in the top 12 through 12 races isn’t enough for Roush Fenway Racing.

After starting off the season with back-to-back wins by Matt Kenseth, Roush Fenway has gone winless over the last 10 races.

All that seems likely to change, as nearly the entire stable excels at Dover – a track at which Roush Fenway finished 1-2-3 the last time the series raced there. [read more...]

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – With his fourth career weekend sweep, Kyle Busch etched his name in a couple of record books.
First, he joined Cale Yarborough as the only drivers to win on their birthday.
Second, Bush totaled 50 wins across NASCAR’s three national series. That’s tied for third-most since the inception of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series in 1995.
Ahead of Busch in national series wins since 1995 are Jeff Gordon (82) and Mark Martin (60). Greg Biffle also has 50 national series wins. [read more...]

Qualifying Fast Facts
Talladega Superspeedway
Aaron’s 499

Coors Light Pole Winner: Juan Pablo Montoya
Age: 33
Team : No. 42 - Tums Dual Action Chevrolet
Owner: Teresa Earnhardt
Crew Chief: Brian Pattie [read more...]

FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Jeff Gordon can rest easy. He won again Sunday… the first time in 47 races.

The four-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion held off teammate Jimmie Johnson the last 26 laps to win the Samsung 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.

This one, the 87th win of Gordon’s fabled career, was a dandy. It came on a day when a bunch of hard-charging drivers had the lead at one time or another. [read more...]

LAS VEGAS (Feb. 20, 2009) — It looked more like a demolition derby at Islip (N.Y.) Speedway than a marquee race in NASCAR’s NASCAR Nationwide Series.

With cars slipping, sliding, spinning and crashing, Greg Biffle won the Sam’s Town 300 race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway for one primary reason: His No. 16 Ford survived the trouble that quashed the winning hopes of most other top contenders — and survived his own misfortune.

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Greg Biffle, driver of the No. 16 3M Ford Fusion, is coming off a third-place finish in the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series point standings. Biffle spoke about getting ready for the new season, which opens Saturday night with the Bud Shootout at Daytona International Speedway.

GREG BIFFLE – No. 16 3M Ford Fusion – ARE YOU READY TO GET STARTED? “I am. I’ve been by the shop a few times this winter and there’s not a lot going on – talk about last season and this season – but I had to go by a couple of weeks ago just to make sure that we’re still gonna be racing in February. It’s been awful quiet. I’ve really enjoyed that little bit of time off, but I went by the race shop and sat in the car just to get the feel of it – put the belts on – and made sure that we’re ready to go for 2009 and we are. Ever since then it’s been wide-open. We’ve done a couple of tests and appearances and all kinds of things going on, so it’s gone from nothing to wide-open. I’m back in the swing of things.”

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