The biggest surprise of 2010? Kevin Harvick leading the Cup points? Jamie McMurray winning the biggest two races of the season? Or Dale Earnhardt Jr. ... being Dale Earnhardt Jr.?
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NASCAR Sprint Cup Series number crunching after Bristol
Posted by Straightos 15 days ago (http://espn.go.com)
Hello there, friends. I don't know how your weekend went, but I bet it wasn't nearly as good as Kyle Busch's.I tend to stay topical in this blog, except when I kind of mentally drift off and keep typing, ignoring the fact that this is supposed to be a blog for my hard-core NASCAR-loving audience. This week, the topic people wanted to talk about was Busch, and who can blame them?I can't, seeing as
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The 2011 Sprint Cup schedule has some significant changes, but will it really help lift the sport? Time will tell, but corporate politics prevents a true realignment that would do the trick.
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NASCAR will open the 2011 Chase for the Sprint Cup championship at Chicagoland Speedway.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The phone rang at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday. It was Ed Clark, the president of Atlanta Motor Speedway, and, as with most conversations, I began by asking how things were going."I've had better days," Clark said.You could hear the disappointment in Clark's voice. Only two hours earlier, he had had a phone call from Speedway Motorsports Inc. chairman Bruton Smith and chief operating
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Elliott Sadler: Sunday's crash hardest in NASCAR Sprint Cup history
Posted by Munkmannen 36 days ago (http://sports.espn.go.com)
Elliott Sadler says NASCAR officials told him his head-on collision with the inside retaining wall at Pocono Racing on Sunday was the hardest recorded in the history of the sport.
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NASCAR Sprint Cup Series number crunching for the Brickyard 400
Posted by matty3350 48 days ago (http://espn.go.com)
Welcome back, NASCAR fans. I hope everybody enjoyed the off week and had as much fun as my bros and I did down in Disney World. I'm not just saying that since I'm employed by the Mouse, although even if I didn't have fun, I think I'm contractually obligated to fib just a little.While I was down in the Sunshine State (aptly nicknamed, as evidenced by my man tan), I took in a number of the shows, i
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The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Chase format could use an overhaul
Posted by Illuminator 57 days ago (http://sports.espn.go.com)
Not a big fan of the Chase? Obviously, you're not alone. Terry Blount knows how to spice up Sprint Cup's annual playoff: An elimination system is the only way to go.
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First came a lengthy rain delay. Then a 19-car pileup with 12 laps to go. But none of that prevented a determined Kevin Harvick from reaching Victory Lane at Daytona.
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Don't blink -- you might have trouble recognizing your favorite Cup car screaming down the 3,000-foot backstretch at Daytona. The paint schemes are ever-changing.
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Let's face it, the new Nationwide Series cars set to debut Friday look hot. That they look like a car you can buy at your local dealership is something NASCAR needs to make sure happens in the Cup Series, too.
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What's up, my NASCAR-loving friends?I usually come up with the topic for this top, non-statistical section based on conversations I have during or after the race with the fellow NASCAR-ites here in the office. Of course, people might just skip over this part anyway because they're just too darn excited and can't wait to get to the stats. Frankly, I can't blame you. They're pretty tremendous.Today
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Sprint Cup: Jimmie Johnson makes late charge to win at New Hampshire
Posted by Gangsternub 73 days ago (http://sports.espn.go.com)
Jimmie Johnson surged past Kurt Busch with three laps left to win the Sprint Cup race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
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You can't fool Mother Nature, and you can't intimidate Jimmie Johnson. Kurt Busch discovered that firsthand Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
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Greetings, friends, countrymen and minions.Now things are getting exciting. If you didn't think the wildness at Sonoma was enough, we're officially on our way to the Race to the Chase, the 10-race stretch leading up to the 2010 Chase premiere at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. I hope you're not too attached to the 12 drivers currently in the Chase field. That's because going back to the start of
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Jimmie Johnson has grabbed his first career road course victory after Marcos Ambrose made a late mistake to lose the race at Infineon Raceway.
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Sprint Cup: Kasey Kahne edges Jimmie Johnson for Sonoma pole
Posted by Tinselteeth 82 days ago (http://sports.espn.go.com)
Kasey Kahne has won the pole at Infineon Raceway by knocking four-time series champion Jimmie Johnson from the top spot.
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Marcos Ambrose entered 2010 with sky-high expectations after his "breakout season" in 2009. His confidence wavering, the Tasmanian hopes to right the ship at Sonoma.
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Greetings, my friends. Welcome back to everybody's favorite Tuesday-based breakdown of the weekend's Sprint Cup race. You don't have to read it on Tuesday, although I definitely recommend doing so for freshness sake.Sometimes it's important to pause and take notice of a dominating performance in the works. Now, while Denny Hamlin isn't lapping the field (those days have long since passed), his cu
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Denny Hamlin continued his hot streak, dominating Sunday's NASCAR race at Michigan International Speedway to pick up his second straight victory and fifth of the season.
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Not even a late debris caution was going to prevent Denny Hamlin from winning Sunday's Sprint Cup race at Michigan. The five-time winner in 2010 was that dominant.
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Brian Vickers gets asked the question often: "How close were you to dying?" Vickers doesn't know. The doctors don't know. The short answer? Close enough.
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So how long do we give them? How long before we call the Great Dale Earnhardt Jr.-Lance McGrew Experiment a failure? The clock is ticking.
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Kyle Busch prevails at Dover International Speedway for Sprint Cup win
Posted by Calimehtar 115 days ago (http://sports.espn.go.com)
Kyle Busch won the Sprint Cup Series race at Dover International Speedway a day after he won the Nationwide Series race.
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Back home in good old Owego, N.Y., my mom teaches kindergarten. Occasionally, she'll run into students at the store or while out eating dinner, and they'll be surprised that she doesn't live at the school. That being said, I give you a personal record: This is the latest I've submitted a blog entry. Hey, I've got a life outside this blog. It's nothing fancy, but it gets the job done.The issue, of
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