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Fifth Third Bank to partner with Roush Fenway Racing and Matt Kenseth
Cincinnati – Fifth Third Bancorp today announced a multi-year marketing partnership with Roush Fenway Racing, beginning this season with four races as the primary sponsor of Matt Kenseth’s No. 17 Ford Fusion in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. A similar number of races for the following years will be announced at a later date. Fifth Third will be theprimary sponsor of Kenseth’s Ford at four Sprint Cup Series races in 2012 including: - Sprint All Star Race in … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
NASCAR Notebook: Matt Kenseth blames himself for failure to win at Talladega
By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service - TALLADEGA, Ala. – Matt Kenseth had a simple explanation for his failure to win the Aaron’s 499 NASCAR Sprint Cup race Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway: driver error. Kenseth led the field to a green-white-checkered restart on Lap 193 from the outside lane. With a push from Roush Fenway Racing teammate Greg Biffle, Kenseth surged into the lead, clearing eventual race winner Brad Keselowski and diving to the bottom of the … 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 »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
NASCAR Notebook: Danica Patrick dialing back expectations for 2012
By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service LAS VEGAS — In talking about competing for a championship in the NASCAR Nationwide Series this year, Danica Patrick admitted Friday that she might have set her expectations at an unrealistic level. “I definitely feel like I want to do well for so many people,” Patrick said Friday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, returning to the track for the first time since racing in the 2011 IndyCar Series finale that claimed the life of Dan Wheldon. “I think that I gave myself maybe a little bit of false expectation about running this year for the championship, and probably using those words ‘for the championship.’ “It’s my first-ever full year, and what I’ve done still doesn’t add up to one year, and I didn’t have anything before that … Read entire article »
Filed under: NASCAR
NASCAR Notebook: Brad Keselowski explains the presence of a phone in his racecar
By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service AVONDALE, Ariz. — Brad Keselowski made news last week for tweeting from the backstretch during a long delay in the Daytona 500 — but his reasons for keeping a phone in his car have nothing to do with his Twitter account. “The reason why I keep a phone in my car — it’s a lengthy story,” said Keselowski, who picked up more than 100,000 new Twitter followers during the two-hour, five-minute … Read entire article »
Filed under: NASCAR
Matt Kenseth holds off Earnhardt Jr. to win bizarre Daytona 500
By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Finally, nothing out of the ordinary happened. In a Daytona 500 that featured the first postponement in its history, a ball of fire from a racecar vs. jet dryer collision under caution and a surfeit of wild action in the closing laps, Matt Kenseth won his second Daytona 500 when the tandem of Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Greg Biffle couldn’t catch the race winner in a green-white-checkered-flag … Read entire article »
Filed under: Featured, Sprint Cup
Tony Stewart, Matt Kenseth win Duel qualifying races at Daytona
By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Three months off and a crew chief change haven’t slowed Tony Stewart. In the first of two Gatorade Duel 150-mile qualifying races Thursday at Daytona International Speedway, Stewart took the checkered flag under caution a half-lap after Danica Patrick — the driver he hired for a 10-race Sprint Cup schedule — took a vicious hit against the inside wall on the backstretch. Escaping an attempted block from Roush Fenway … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
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 »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Stewart starts 8th with Edwards one spot back on Sunday
By Reid Spencer, Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service AVONDALE, Ariz.—Matt Kenseth did his teammate a favor. In winning the pole of Sunday’s Kobalt Tools 500 at Phoenix International Raceway, Kenseth—the next-to-last driver to make a qualifying attempt on Saturday—moved Roush Fenway Racing teammate Carl Edwards from eighth to ninth in the starting order. That’s a boon to Chase leader Edwards, who will start on the much more manageable inside row, whereas Tony Stewart, three points behind Edwards, will … Read entire article »
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