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Kurt Busch Looking Forward to New Hampshire’s Flat Track Racing
LOUDON, N.H. – Shell-Pennzoil Dodge driver Kurt Busch is really looking forward to this weekend’s SYLVANIA 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. With a career record that sports three wins, seven top-five finishes and 11 top 10s, it’s easy to understand the 2004 NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion’s fondness of the flat 1.058-mile track. “With all the intermediate sized tracks we go to during the Chase, it’ll definitely be a nice change of scenery to get … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Idiots Won the World Series, Too
KANNAPOLIS, N.C. – A week ago while on a press junket in Chicago to promote the 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup, Tony Stewart proclaimed he’d be a “bumbling idiot” if he won this year’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship. After all, the driver of the No. 14 Mobil 1/Office Depot Chevrolet Impala for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) hadn’t won a race in 2011 and squeaked his way into the Chase field with only three top-fives … Read entire article »
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Kyle Busch Hopes to be the Comeback Kid in New Hampshire
HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. – At the outset of the 1992 presidential election, William Jefferson Clinton, with just 3 percent of the vote, finished fourth in the Iowa Democratic Caucus. He was beaten handily by longtime Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, who not surprisingly won 76 percent of the vote, while 12 percent voted “uncommitted,” and 4 percent chose Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas. It appeared as though his campaign was in trouble, but Clinton rallied in the New Hampshire … Read entire article »
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Newman Looking for a Magical Weekend at The Magic Mile
KANNAPOLIS, N.C. – Almost perfection. That’s how Ryan Newman and his No. 39 Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) team would describe their dominating performance at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon just 10 weeks ago. For the South Bend, Ind., native and everyone else at SHR, there’s no doubt it was a magical weekend at the track known as The Magic Mile. After earning the pole position in qualifying on Friday afternoon, Newman went wire to wire – … Read entire article »
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Team Dupont Amped Up Ahead of New Hampshire
LOUDON, N.H. – Jeff Gordon and the No. 24 DuPont Chevrolet are all charged up heading into Sunday’s Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS). In July at “The Magic Mile,” Gordon led by more than three seconds before his No. 24 Chevrolet lost power at the halfway point of the 301-lap event. The three-time NHMS winner then lost a lap on pit road while the crew replaced the battery. The real issue was the … Read entire article »
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Ryan Newman’s win is vindication for his crew chief
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service LOUDON, N.H.—Ryan Newman’s victory in Sunday’s Lenox Industrial Tools 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway couldn’t have come at a better time for Newman himself and his Stewart-Haas Racing team. That said, the race may have been even more important for Newman’s crew chief, Tony Gibson, who got the chance to exorcise a demon that had haunted him for more than three years. Gibson brought Newman to the pits on Lap … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Teammates Ryan Newman and Tony Stewart run 1-2 at New Hampshire
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service LOUDON, N.H.—Ryan Newman and Tony Stewart started 1-2 in Sunday’s Lenox Industrial Tools 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, and not even a fuel crisis, a wild jumble of divergent strategies or a crew chief with pneumonia could prevent them from finishing that way. “One hell of a day, boys—one hell of a day,” Stewart radioed to his team as he approached the finish line .773 seconds behind his Stewart-Haas … Read entire article »
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Kyle Busch ties Martin’s record with 49th Nationwide win
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service LOUDON, N.H.—It was a day of major milestones for Kyle Busch, who tied Mark Martin for the career victory lead in NASCAR’s Nationwide Series with Saturday’s win in the New England 200 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. The victory was Busch’s sixth of the season in 15 starts and the 49th of his career, tying Martin. At the same time, Busch, 26, won for the 100th time in NASCAR’s top … Read entire article »
Filed under: Nationwide Series
Newman edges teammate Stewart for New Hampshire pole
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service LOUDON, N.H.—If the Sprint Cup Series is in New Hampshire, it’s not difficult to guess who might be on the pole for Sunday’s Lenox Industrial Tools 301. With a track-record run at 135.232 mph (28.165 seconds) Friday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Ryan Newman claimed his first Coors Light pole award of the season, his fifth at New Hampshire and the 47th of his career. Newman beat teammate and Stewart-Haas Racing … Read entire article »
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