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Kyle Busch claims top starting spot for All-Star Race
By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service: CONCORD, N.C. – Kyle Busch and his crew had all three elements necessary to win the pole for Saturday night’s NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race — speed on the racetrack, speed on and off pit road and speed from the pit crew during the mandatory green-flag stop at Charlotte Motor Speedway. With a total time of one minute, 59.112 seconds (136.006 mph) over three laps and the pit stop, Busch edged … Read entire article »
Filed under: NASCAR
Charlotte Preview: Edwards gears up – Buescher pours it on
NASCAR Wire Service Edwards gears up for shot at $1 million All-Star repeat Carl Edwards is the one driver in the garage who can claim to be most recently familiar with winning the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race. But just one week ago, he admitted he wasn’t completely familiar with the event’s new format. At Darlington Raceway last weekend, Edwards was asked about his hopes for an All-Star repeat and his thoughts about the new five-segment schedule for the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup, Truck Series
Johnson’s No. 48 team dethrones Hamlin’s No. 11 in Pit Crew Challenge
By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The No. 48 team of Hendrick Motorsports driver Jimmie Johnson saved the best for last Thursday night. Posting its fastest time in the final round of the Sprint Pit Crew Challenge, the No. 48 NASCAR Sprint Cup team dethroned the two-time defending champion No. 11 crew of Joe Gibbs racing driver Denny Hamlin. In a competition that includes simultaneously changing front and rear tires, fueling and jacking four different … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Fan Vote for Sprint All-Star Race Now Open
HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. – As the date of the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race approaches, Sprint (NYSE: S) is asking fans to again help determine the starting lineup for what is one of the most highly anticipated events of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. Through the annual Sprint Fan Vote, under way now, fans can cast ballots for their favorite eligible driver. The driver receiving the highest number of votes will earn a spot in the prestigious … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Even with the new big screen, All-Star Race a real bore
By Matt Crossman Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service CONCORD, N.C.—On the eve of NASCAR’s All-Star Race, an event promoters hailed as a knockdown, drag-out, mad-dash, swashbuckling, eye-popping, knee-knocking, white-knuckling race for pride, glory and a million smackeroos, Dale Earnhardt Jr. had a suggestion: Spice it up! Even more! “Make it a little bit more a stick of dynamite than a whole long row of 180s,” he said. If only NASCAR had listened. Saturday night’s race was a long row of duds. Not to get carried away, but the race was so boring that Kyle Busch—the man everyone expected to be the TNT in the dynamite—apologized to reporters for the lack of drama. He was mostly kidding, but he was also right. “From my vantage point, it was a tame race today,” Busch said. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Edwards drives away to win All-Star Race, $1 million
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service CONCORD, N.C.—Carl Edwards’ No. 99 crew didn’t win Thursday’s Sprint Pit Crew Challenge—it waited until it really counted. Flawless work during mandatory four-tire pit stops before the final 10-lap shootout in Saturday night’s Sprint All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway got Edwards off pit road first, ahead of Kyle Busch. That proved decisive in Edwards’ first All-Star win as he became the eighth different winner of the event in the past eight years. Edwards, who finished 0.443 seconds ahead of runner-up Busch, collected $1.2 million for the victory. David Reutimann ran third, followed by Tony Stewart and Greg Biffle. Matt Kenseth, Denny Hamlin, David Ragan, Kevin Harvick and Ryan Newman completed the top 10. About the only thing that went wrong was Edwards’ slide through the frontstretch … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Kyle Busch edges Bowyer for All-Star Race pole
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service CONCORD, N.C.—Kyle Busch, the last of 18 drivers to make a qualifying attempt, edged Clint Bowyer for the pole for Saturday night’s Sprint All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Now comes the important business of winning the race—something Busch hasn’t been close to doing in five attempts. Under the unique All-Star Race qualifying format that features three laps and a pit stop, Busch completed the process in 1 minute, 59.191 seconds (135.916 mph) to Bowyer’s 135.377 mph. Greg Biffle was a close third at 134.740 mph. Carl Edwards (134.236 mph) will start fourth, followed by Mark Martin (133.670 mph), who is driving the No. 25 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet this weekend, as Jimmie Johnson (who qualified 11th) gets behind the wheel of the No. 5 (to promote a … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Prestige of All-Star Race heightens competitors’ drive to win it
By Matt Crossman Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service CONCORD, N.C.—There’s an old saying in NASCAR: Win or bring home the steering wheel (and nothing else) trying. More than any other event, that applies to Saturday’s Sprint All-Star Race. With the race comes an expectation, a hope, a yearning, that someone will dump someone for the win, for the pride, for the glory, for the checkers, and above all, for the million bucks. The thought is that after weeks of racing conservatively for fear of falling in the ever-important points race, drivers will race like maniacs, unshackled by the burden of a miscue destroying their Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup chances. It’s a source of endless prerace chatter as drivers contemplate their strategies for the 10-lap shootout at the end of the 100-lap … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
NASCAR Notebook: Earnhardt determined to win Showdown
By Reid Spencer and Matt Crossman Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service CONCORD, N.C.—Dale Earnhardt Jr. is promising an all-out assault on Saturday’s Sprint Showdown. Earnhardt couldn’t be blamed for taking a conservative approach to the qualifying race, which will transfer the top two finishers into the main event that follows, the Sprint All-Star Race. Realistically, all he has to do is have a car in raceable condition to take advantage of the fan vote, which fills the last position in the All-Star Race. “The opportunity for us to win the fan vote is definitely in the back of my mind, but I don’t think it will affect me at all in how I drive the race,” Earnhardt told Sporting News on Friday at Charlotte Motor Speedway. “If … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
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