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BEACH, FLA. — Fireworks started the Coke Zero 400 Powered by Coca-Cola Saturday night. Fireworks ended the race as well, both on and off the track.

In a wild and wooly finish so typical of races at Daytona International Speedway, Kyle Busch won by a whisker over hard-charging Carl Edwards with a chain-reaction accident behind them sending up a cloud of smoke that covered the track.

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By Tim Tuttle

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (June 28, 2008) — Ron Hornaday Jr. led the final 129 laps and survived a green-white-checkered finish to win the O’Reilly 200 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race Saturday night at Memphis Motorsports Park.

Hornaday’s victory in the Kevin Harvick Inc. Chevrolet was his third of the season and boosted him into the points lead, 27 in front of Matt Crafton. It was Hornaday’s 36th career victory in the series, tops all-time.

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WEST ALLIS, Wis. (June 21, 2008) — All it took to end Carl Edwards’ year-long NASCAR Nationwide Series winless streak was to change crew chiefs.

The defending series champion had gone 36 races without a victory, and team owner Jack Roush decided that was enough. So Roush Fenway Racing swapped crew chiefs earlier this week, with Drew Blickensderfer taking over for Pierre Kuettel on Edwards’ No. 60 team.

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – It’s no secret Carl Edwards loves running the 1.5- and 2-mile tracks on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series schedule.

Here’s why:

• Of his 10 career NASCAR Sprint Cup wins, seven have come at tracks measuring 1.5 or 2 miles (the other three came at Bristol, Dover and Pocono).
• Edwards has three wins this season, all at 1.5 or 2-mile tracks.
• Edwards has scored a Driver Rating over 100.0 in eight races this season. Four of those were at 1.5- or 2-mile tracks (the only 1.5-mile track this season that Edwards has not scored at least a 100.0 Driver Rating was Lowe’s Motor Speedway. He had an 86.1.)
• His top three Driver Ratings came at tracks of that length (139.8 at Texas; 135.4 at Auto Club Speedway; 134.5 at Atlanta).

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Colin Braun, driver of the No. 6 Con-way Freight Ford F-150, heads home to Texas for this weekend’s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race. Braun is the only driver in the series to have started every race this season from the top 10. He leads the Raybestos Rookie of the Year standings and is 14th in overall points, just 73 points out of top 10.

COLIN BRAUN – No. 6 Con-way Freight Ford F-150 – “I’m excited to go to back to Texas. Since I lived there and grew up there, I’ve been to a couple of my Dad’s IRL races there at the speedway. I never raced out there myself but I’m definitely excited to go back. Just being in Texas, I love Texas, I know a little bit of the Dallas area and things like that, so it should be a lot of fun. I’m looking forward to it.”

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DOVER, Del. — Same song, different verse.

Points leader Kyle Busch made mincemeat of the competition and Sunday’s Best Buy 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Dover International Speedway.

In a race that stayed green for the final 153 laps, Busch gained a total of five seconds over runner-up Carl Edwards on his final two pit stops, built a lead that topped eight seconds and cruised in his No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota to a 4.225-second win, his fourth of the season and the eighth of his career.

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NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Best Buy 400 benefiting
Student Clubs for Autism Speaks
Dover International Speedway
Qualifying Fast Facts

Pole Winner: Greg Biffle
Age: 38
Team: No. 16 3M Ford
Owner: Jack Roush
Crew Chief: Greg Erwin

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Darlington, SC — Kyle Busch won the Dodge Challenger 500 at Darlington Raceway. By the only method that works — taming the track’s “Too Tough To Tame” reputation with patience and refusing to lose to everything the South Carolina speedway throws at a driver.

First let her stripe you, let her think she’s in control. Watch her take out the competition one by one. Let the new car think it isn’t going to turn through the corners the way you want it to. Get into the wall with the right side 3 or 4, even 5 times.

Overcome a loose lug nut penalty in the process.

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NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Dodge Challenger 500
Darlington Raceway
Qualifying Fast Facts

Pole Winner: Greg Biffle
Age: 38
Team: No. 16 3M Ford
Owner: Jack Roush
Crew Chief: Greg Erwin

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Carl Edwards announced that he has re-signed with Roush Fenway Racing – a multi-year deal that will keep him behind the wheel of the No. 99 Office Depot Ford Fusion. In addition, crew chief Bob Osborne is back this week after completing his six-week NASCAR suspension. Edwards spoke about those issues after Friday’s practice session at Richmond International Raceway.

CARL EDWARDS – No. 99 Office Depot Ford Fusion – WHAT’S YOUR CONTRACT STATUS? “I signed my contract yesterday, so I’m staying with Roush. I looked at everything and I talked to everybody and, for me, the number one thing is looking into the future and saying, ‘Where can I win the most races and have the most success?’ I was honored at the people who I got to speak with and I just feel like for me personally this is where I want to be for the near future and we got it done. It’s good. I’m real happy about it. It’s a huge relief. It really wasn’t that painful. Geoff Smith and I get along really well and we just pretty much sat down and he’s really easy for me to deal with. It took us about a week-and-a-half of going back and forth with just little things and I feel like the luckiest guy in the world for the contract I got.”

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