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Denny Hamlin holds off Harvick to win Cup race at Phoenix
By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service AVONDALE, Ariz. — At the racetrack that dashed his championship hopes in 2010, Denny Hamlin found redemption in Sunday’s Subway Fresh Fit 500 at Phoenix International Raceway. In his second race with 2011 Sprint Cup championship crew chief Darian Grubb on his pit box, Hamlin held off Kevin Harvick in a 53-lap green-flag run to finish the 312-lap race at the one-mile track and took over the series points lead for … Read entire article »
Filed under: Featured, Sprint Cup
Elliott Sadler holds off Keselowski for Nationwide win at Phoenix
By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service AVONDALE, Ariz. – Elliott Sadler got some well-deserved payback at Phoenix International Raceway. At the one-mile venue where a wreck in Turn 3 effectively knocked him out of the NASCAR Nationwide Series championship last November, Sadler took the lead with 25 laps left in the Bashas’ Supermarkets 200 and held off hard-charging Brad Keselowski for the win. The victory was Sadler’s first at PIR, the sixth of his career and his first … Read entire article »
Filed under: Featured, Nationwide Series
Mark Martin makes his mark at MWR with Coors Light Pole run at Phoenix
By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service AVONDALE, Ariz. – Mark Martin didn’t need a second qualifying lap Saturday at Phoenix International Raceway. Driving the No. 55 Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota, Martin claimed the Coors Light pole for Sunday’s Subway Fresh Fit 500 at the one-mile track with a speed of 136.815 mph (26.313 seconds) on his first qualifying lap. The next-to-last driver to make an attempt, Martin waited as Tony Stewart tried to knock him off the pole … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
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
Chad Knaus on NASCAR penalty: ‘We didn’t expect this’
By Reid Spencer – NASCAR Wire Service AVONDALE, Ariz. – Chad Knaus, crew chief for Jimmie Johnson, said he was surprised at the severity of the penalties NASCAR levied on his team on Wednesday. Furthermore, Knaus was surprised the “C” Posts on the No. 48 Chevrolet he brought to Daytona caused the car to fail inspection in the first place. After all, according to Knaus, cars with “C” Posts in the same configuration had gotten through the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Allmendinger Ready for “Real Season” to Begin at Phoenix
AVONDALE, Ariz. – AJ Allmendinger says anything less than a top-10 finish in this weekend’s Subway Fresh Fit 500 at Phoenix International Raceway will be a disappointment. After posting solid top-10 finishes in both NASCAR Sprint Cup races there last season, the Shell-Pennzoil Dodge driver is looking to even better that level of competitiveness this time around. “Phoenix International Raceway has been a really good track for us and I really think we’re going … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
And Now, for the Rest of the Season
HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. – NASCAR Sprint Cup Series teams spend more than two months during the offseason preparing for the season-opening and most prestigious race, the Daytona 500 at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway. But despite all of that preparation by more than 43 teams, followed by 12-plus days spent in Daytona by those that go the distance, only one driver-and-team combination emerges victorious from the big race on the 2.5-mile oval. It’s typically the driver and team … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
For Kurt Busch the Business of Racing Starts at Phoenix
MOORESVILLE, N.C. – It’s time to get down to business. The unspoken idiom is a sentiment echoed throughout the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series garage as competitors now turn their attention westward to Phoenix International Raceway, where the second race of the 2012 season takes place Sunday. The pageantry, pomp and circumstance of the Daytona 500 is unlike any other event on the circuit, but industry insiders say that the real racing season begins after the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Gordon Hopes Brakes Go His Way at Phoenix
AVONDALE, Ariz. – One year ago, the breaks went Jeff Gordon’s way as the Drive To End Hunger team recovered from an early race accident to win at Phoenix International Raceway. One race ago here, however, it was a much different story as brake issues on the newly repaved, newly reconfigured track led to a 32nd-place finish in the penultimate race of the 2011 season. “Obviously, I like the old configuration better right now,” the four-time … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
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