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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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Race of His Life: Stewart Chases Edwards, History
Guest Column By Cathy Elliott When 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion Tony Stewart was looking for an apt comparison for his battle with Carl Edwards – which literally came down to the last lap of the final race in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup at Homestead-Miami Speedway – he went to the Bible. “I appreciated that championship battle. It was a David versus Goliath battle to the end,” he said. Goliath, as you may … Read entire article »
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Carl Edwards Homestead-Miami Post Race Press Conference
Carl Edwards battled to a second place finish in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season finale, and wound up tied with race winner Tony Stewart in the series standings. With the championship tie breaker being number of wins, Tony Stewart’s series leading five wins was more than enough to relegate Edwards to a second place finish. Carl met with members of the media after the race. Full transcript. Kerry Tharp: Carl, terrific season, terrific effort tonight. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Stewart Backs Up His Mantra – Win the Race, Win the Chase
By Reid Spencer, Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Tony Stewart won the biggest game of winner-take-all in the history of NASCAR racing. Rebounding from a succession of setbacks, Stewart took the checkered flag in Sunday’s rain-interrupted Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup championship in a tiebreaker over race runner-up Carl Edwards. With four new tires to Edwards’ two—thanks to a strategic gamble that paid off when rain hit the 1.5-mile … Read entire article »
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Video – Who do NASCAR drivers thing will win the Sprint Cup championship
During Friday’s media availability at Homestead-Miami Speedway, NASCAR drivers Kevin Harvick, Danica Patrick, Ryan Newman, Carl Edwards, Denny Hamlin, Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson talk about the Ford 400 and who they like in the Chase for the Sprint Cup. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup, video
Jeff Gordon leaning toward Edwards but pulling for Stewart
HOMESTEAD, Fla.—In handicapping the NASCAR Sprint Cup championship, do you favor the driver with a dominant track record at Homestead-Miami Speedway, or do you go with the guy who’s a four-time winner in the Chase? Do you bet on the driver with a three-point lead or on the driver who has trimmed his deficit to Edwards from 24 to three points over the past four races? That’s a tough call, says Jeff Gordon, a four-time champion in … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Winning would be simplest way for Chase contenders to clinch
By Jim Pedley Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service Two very different teams and drivers will take to the Homestead-Miami Speedway track Sunday in pursuit of the 2011 Sprint Cup championship. But those two drivers and their teams are being forced into having identical game plans on their clipboards. Win the Ford 400. Points leader Carl Edwards of Roush Fenway Racing, and Tony Stewart of Stewart-Haas Racing, will take the green flag in Sunday’s season-ending race separated by just three … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
NASCAR Spint Cup Series championship contenders press conference
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship contenders Carl Edwards and Tony Stewart met with the media Thursday for the traditional contenders press conference. KRISTA VODA: Good afternoon, everyone. On behalf of the France family and everyone within the NASCAR family, we want to welcome you to the championship contenders press conference. SHANNON SPAKE: The season started back in February with the Daytona 500. After 35 races at 22 different racetracks in 20 states coast-to-coast, we are down to two outstanding … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Roush Fenway Looks to Make Championship History at Homestead
CONCORD, N.C. – This weekend Jack Roush and Roush Fenway Racing will attempt to parlay one of its most successful seasons into NASCAR Championship history. RFR leads both the Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series point standings with only the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway standing in the way of the team and history. “Two-Thousand and eleven has been one of our best years ever,” said team co-owner Jack Roush. “We have had great technical support from … Read entire article »
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