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NASCAR Notebook: Brian Vickers scores top-five in Sprint Cup return
By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service BRISTOL, Tenn. – What ring rust? Brian Vickers returned to the seat of a NASCAR Sprint Cup car and drove as if he’d never left. In the first event of a six-race deal with Michael Waltrip Racing, Vickers drove the No. 55 Toyota to a fifth-place finish in Sunday’s Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway, running right behind teammates Martin Truex Jr. and Clint Bowyer. The same driver who exited the series … Read entire article »
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Brad Keselowski keeps cool, scores repeat Bristol win
By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service BRISTOL, Tenn. — NASCAR racing has a new Ice Man. As he completed the final lap of his victory in Sunday’s Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway, Brad Keseloswki needled Paul Wolfe, his crew chief. “Paul, are you nervous?” Keselowski radioed to Wolfe, his voice exuding of confidence. As he crossed the finish line six car-lengths in front of runner-up Matt Kenseth, Keselowski allowed himself an excited whoop. The driver of the … Read entire article »
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Sadler parlays strategic call into Nationwide win at Bristol
By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service BRISTOL, Tenn. – Elliott Sadler wasn’t sure about the decisive call in Saturday’s Ford EcoBoost 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway — until crew chief Luke Lambert gave him a history lesson. Lambert’s astute call to keep Sadler on the racetrack under the final caution gave Elliott Sadler the boost he needed to win his second Nationwide Series race of the season, two weeks after he broke a 14-year drought in the series … Read entire article »
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NASCAR Notebook: Sharing of EFI data discussed; Johnson spins in practice
By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service BRISTOL, Tenn.— Is sharing always a good thing? Not necessarily, say NASCAR drivers, particularly when it comes to sharing computer data gathered by the electronic fuel injection systems that are new to the Sprint Cup Series this year. Drivers wouldn’t mind seeing data from other teams, but they’re also worried that an open-book policy with EFI might reveal some of their trade secrets. “I’d rather not have that,” Dale Earnhardt Jr. said, when … Read entire article »
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NASCAR Notebook: Brian Vickers returns, blasts article and clarifies image
By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service BRISTOL, Tenn. — As he returns to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Bristol this weekend, Brian Vickers is carrying baggage. While racing for Red Bull in the Sprint Cup Series, his last full-time job as a driver, Vickers adopted what he calls “the Red Bull lifestyle.” As Vickers tries to return to NASCAR’s top series on a more permanent basis, however, the edgy image Red Bull sought to promote may be … Read entire article »
Filed under: NASCAR
Greg Biffle edges Allmendinger for Bristol pole by .001 seconds
By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service BRISTOL, Tenn. — By the thinnest of margins, Greg Biffle won the pole for Sunday’s Food City 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Bristol Motor Speedway. Biffle posted a lap at 125.215 mph (15.324 seconds) in Friday’s time trials and watched as the 10 drivers who succeeded him in the qualifying order tried to knock him out of the top spot. AJ Allmendinger came closest but fell .001 seconds short, as … Read entire article »
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Kyle Busch aims to rebound, bolster Bristol results
NASCAR Wire Service The high potential for pitfalls may not make Bristol Motor Speedway a welcome sight for everyone. But not everyone has navigated past peril there quite as well as Kyle Busch. Over the past three years, no NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver has been as dominant as Busch at the high-speed .533-mile track. He enters Sunday’s Food City 500 having won four of the last six races at Bristol and is tied for most victories … Read entire article »
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Appeals Panel Upholds Penalty Against Chad Knauss and 48 Team
NASCAR Wire Service The National Stock Car Racing Appeals Panel upheld penalties issued to the No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports team Tuesday, keeping Jimmie Johnson outside the top 20 in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series points standings. After a five-hour appeal hearing at NASCAR’s research and development center in Concord, N.C., the three-member panel unanimously ruled to retain the original penalties for illegal modifications to Johnson’s No. 48 car for the Daytona 500. Johnson’s car flunked pre-race inspection Feb. … Read entire article »
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Tony Stewart holds off Johnson for first Las Vegas victory
By Reid Spencer – NASCAR Wire Service LAS VEGAS — Tony Stewart scratched another racetrack off the bucket list. Powering away from Jimmie Johnson after a restart with four laps left in Sunday’s Kobalt Tools 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the reigning Sprint Cup champion took the checkered flag .461 seconds ahead of Johnson. The victory was Stewart’s first at the 1.5-mile track, leaving only Darlington and Kentucky as active Cup tracks at … Read entire article »
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