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AdvoCare and RCR Announce Partnership for Austin Dillon’s 2012 NASCAR Nationwide Series No. 3 Chevy
WELCOME, N.C. – Richard Childress Racing and AdvoCare have entered into a partnership for the company to be the primary sponsor of the No. 3 AdvoCare Chevrolet Impala driven by Austin Dillon for 20 races in the 2012 NASCAR Nationwide Series season. Dillon, who currently drives the No. 3 Bass Pro Shops Chevrolet in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, has an 11-point lead in the driver championship point standings with two races remaining. The 21-year-old … Read entire article »
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Tony Stewart Leads NASCAR Team Into Inaugural Indy Karting Classic
INDIANAPOLIS – Two-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Tony Stewart will lead a team of NASCAR drivers who will compete against a team of INDYCAR drivers in the inaugural Indy Karting Classic on Sunday, Dec. 11, at Conseco Fieldhouse in downtown Indianapolis. The Indy Karting Classic is a one-day festival of karting that will bring the third annual International Motorsports Industry Show (IMIS) to a close. IMIS is a three-day trade show featuring seminars, conferences and … Read entire article »
Filed under: NASCAR
Tony Stewart: Something Wicked This Way Comes
KANNAPOLIS, N.C. – Despite leading the championship standings, Carl Edwards might feel like a character in Ray Bradbury’s 1962 novel Something Wicked This Way Comes. As the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series carnival arrives at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth for Sunday’s AAA Texas 500, one can sense something different in the air. Edwards, not five-time and reigning Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson, sits atop the point standings. And Tony Stewart, the last driver not named Jimmie … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Kyle Busch hopes to get back to victory lane at Texas
By Lee Montgomery Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service For most drivers, a two-race losing streak at any particular track is simply the cost of doing business. But Kyle Busch is clearly not most drivers—especially not at Texas Motor Speedway in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. Busch won five in a row at the 1.5-mile track, but that streak was stopped by Carl Edwards last year. Busch lost again there in April, so he heads to Texas for this weekend’s O’Reilly … Read entire article »
Filed under: Nationwide Series
Third-place Harvick minding his own business heading to Texas
By Jim Pedley Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service A lot of the attention around the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup this week has been directed at the verbal throw-down that erupted between drivers Tony Stewart and Carl Edwards after last Sunday’s race at Martinsville Speedway. And while the challenge issued by Stewart (who has won three of the first seven playoff races) to Edwards (who is the points leader heading to the AAA Texas 500 at Texas … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Point Leader Carl Edwards Looks to Help Roush Fenway to 300th Win
CONCORD, N.C. – NASCAR Sprint Cup point leader Carl Edwards moves into Texas Motor Speedway leading the Chase point standings for 21 weeks in 2011. In addition to his championship efforts, Edwards, who won the spring Nationwide event at Texas, will look to help move Roush Fenway Racing one (or two) step (s) closer to its historic 300th victory with another strong performance this weekend. Roush Fenway needs only two victories to reach the milestone victory … Read entire article »
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Jimmie Johnson Foundation Awards More Than $520,000 in School Grants
MUSKOGEE, Okla. (Nov. 3, 2011) – In their first official foundation visit to Oklahoma, reigning five-time Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson and wife, Chandra, a Muskogee native, announced the recipients of more than $520,000 in education grants. The Jimmie Johnson Foundation/Lowe’s Toolbox for Education Champions Grants are awarded to deserving K-12 public schools in the Johnsons’ hometowns and where they currently reside. The Johnsons were joined by Chris Waller, Market Director, from Lowe’s for … Read entire article »
Filed under: NASCAR
Attorney: Mayfield had no knowledge of stolen goods, meth on his property
Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service Former NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield’s attorney says Mayfield had no knowledge of the stolen items nor the methamphetamine found on his North Carolina property that led to his arrest Tuesday. Mayfield was charged with one felony count of methamphetamine possession after police found 1.5 grams of what they believed to be methamphetamine on his property, according to a Catawba County (N.C.) Sheriff’s Office incident report. He was freed on $3,000 bond, according to … Read entire article »
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MWR Confirms Reutimann Gone at End of Season
CORNELIUS, N.C. – Michael Waltrip Racing announced today that driver David Reutimann will not return to the team for the 2012 season. Team officials notified Reutimann this week. “David has been a significant part of Michael Waltrip Racing since the very beginning and will forever be a part of our heritage,” said Co-Owner Michael Waltrip. “We want to thank David for his contribution to our growth and success over the past five years and wish him well … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
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