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Roush Fenway Racing Wins Five Year-End Awards at NASCAR Champions Week
LAS VEGAS – Roush Fenway Racing claimed five awards at Thursday’s NASCAR NMPA Myers Brothers Luncheon in Las Vegas. Carl Edwards won the Coors Light Pole Award, Bob Osborne earned the DIRECTV Crew Chief of the Year award, the No. 99 Aflac pit crew won the Mechanix Wear Most Valuable Pit Crew award, Matt Kenseth received the Growth Energy American Ethanol Green Flag Restart award and Roush Yates Engines took home the Mahle Engine Builder … Read entire article »
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Brad Keselowski and crew chief Paul Wolfe agree to multi-year contract extensions
MOORESVILLE, N.C. – One of the most successful combinations in NASCAR will continue for years to come at Penske Racing as the organization announced today that both driver Brad Keselowski and crew chief Paul Wolfe have agreed to multi-year contract extensions. Keselowski and Wolfe will continue to lead the No. 2 team as it pursues the NASCAR Sprint Cup championship in 2012 and beyond. “The winning combination of Brad Keselowski and Paul Wolfe has been … Read entire article »
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Stewart and Newman Win Humorous Newlywed Game Parody as Champions Week Continues
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Tony Stewart’s on a roll. And that’s a good feeling when you’re in Las Vegas. Stewart and Stewart-Haas Racing teammate Ryan Newman won Wednesday’s “This Ain’t the Newlywed Game,” a riff on the television original hosted by Bob Eubanks. Stewart and Newman edged the team of Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch by most accurately recalling the estimated attendance of March’s Kobalt Tools 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The game had a myriad … Read entire article »
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NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion’s Week 2011 Begins With Tony Stewart’s Arrival In Las Vegas
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Tony Stewart left Las Vegas Motor Speedway a second-place finisher last March but returned to Las Vegas as No. 1 on Tuesday to begin celebrating his third NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship. It’s Stewart’s first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion’s Week in Las Vegas. His 2002 and 2005 titles were celebrated in New York City. There was perhaps a bit of déjà vu during Tuesday’s annual Landmark Photo Shoot, with the faux … Read entire article »
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Jeff Burton Gets Drew Blickensderfer as His Crew Chief
WELCOME, N.C. – Richard Childress Racing has named Drew Blickensderfer as the crew chief for the No. 31 Caterpillar/Wheaties Racing team with driver Jeff Burton for the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. Luke Lambert, interim crew chief during the latter part of the 2011 season for the No. 31 team, will assume a yet-to-be announced new position at RCR. Blickensderfer begins his RCR career after nearly a decade with Roush Fenway Racing. He spent the 2011 … Read entire article »
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Steve Addington Named Crew Chief for Tony Stewart
KANNAPOLIS, N.C., – Steve Addington, winner of 16 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races as a crew chief, has been named to the same position for three-time Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart and the No. 14 Office Depot/Mobil 1 team of Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) effective immediately. The Spartanburg, S.C., native is only the third crew chief Stewart has had during his 13-year Sprint Cup career, and it comes just a week after Stewart captured the 2011 Sprint … Read entire article »
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50,000 Consequences for Busch’s Actions at Homestead-Miami
Daytona Beach – Kurt Busch was informed today that actions have consequences. Especially “actions detrimental to stock car racing”. In his case, the actions of flipping someone off and then swearing at ESPN report Dr Jerry Punch at Homestead-Miami Speedway last weekend cost him $50,000. In issuing the penalty, NASCAR cited Kurt Busch’s “poor judgment in making an inappropriate hand gesture” when he drove his car into the garage early in the race after it experienced … Read entire article »
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Martin and Waltrip switch car numbers from 00 to 55
CORNELIUS, N.C. – Michael Waltrip Racing announced today that Mark Martin and Michael Waltrip’s Toyota Camrys will carry the number 55 during the 2012 and 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series seasons. The number commemorates Charlie Loudermilk’s founding of Aaron’s, Inc. in 1955. Martin will drive in 25 Sprint Cup events each of the next two seasons, sharing the No. 55 Aaron’s Dream Machine with Waltrip who will drive seven events with Aaron’s sponsorship. Martin will join Clint … Read entire article »
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Kevin Harvick gets a new crew chief for 2012
WELCOME, N.C. - Shane Wilson will be atop the pit box for Kevin Harvick next season as Richard Childress Racing makes changes to its competition department in preparation for the 2012 NASCAR season. Shane Wilson has been named the crew chief of the No. 29 Budweiser/Rheem/Jimmy John’s team with driver Kevin Harvick after three seasons in the same position with RCR’s No. 33 Cheerios/Hamburger Helper team. Gil Martin, the No. 29 team crew chief since May … Read entire article »
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