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Comforts of home await Jimmie Johnson at Auto Club
After a shaky start to the season, Jimmie Johnson is back on the brink of being one of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series’ front-runners. With his home track looming on the schedule, another big move isn’t out of the question. Johnson and the rest of the Cup tour head west to Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., the site of some of the five-time champion’s most meaningful victories, including his first Cup win in 2002. Three … Read entire article »
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Hendrick Motorsports, Jimmie Johnson penalty overturned on final appeal
NASCAR Wire Service Penalties levied against Hendrick Motorsports’ No. 48 team driven by Jimmie Johnson were overturned Tuesday. National Stock Car Racing Chief Appellate Officer John Middlebrook rescinded the loss of 25 driver points, 25 owner points and six-race suspensions for crew chief Chad Knaus and car chief Ron Malec. The decision was reached after a final appeal hearing at NASCAR’s research and development center in Concord, N.C. Middlebrook also ruled that the $100,000 fine assessed to … Read entire article »
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Cool-Down Lap: Bristol faces challenge in rebuilding its fan base
By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service On Friday afternoon, track owner Bruton Smith promised that Sunday’s Food City 500 Sprint Cup race at Bristol Motor Speedway would draw a large crowd. Not a sellout, mind you, but a large crowd. It was a large crowd, but not for Bristol. In the box score distributed after the event, attendance was listed at 102,000. That’s an estimate — not turnstile count — and a cosmetic estimate at that. Most of us … Read entire article »
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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 »
Filed under: Nationwide Series
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 »
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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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