Following a rare intermission in the NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule, the series is back on track at Martinsville Speedway this weekend for the Goody
’s Cool Orange 500. Martinsville Speedway is NASCAR’s shortest track and slowest oval, and once described by Matt Kenseth as ‘like racing around tw….
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Kickin’ racing games like Forza 2 and PGR4 aside, Microsoft is one of the biggest companies not involved in motorsports. But after partnering with McLaren on the development of Formula One’s new standardized, traction-control-less engine management unit, the software giant could be changing its mind.
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For the 2008 season, Microsoft will be one of the sponsors of the No. 49 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team….
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The article describes how, after reading a 1965 S.I. article about the Daytona 500, the perception of NASCAR today has changed. However the problems and controversies within the sport were going on back then, too. The article concludes with “Endless, mindless arguing over equipment and technology. Boy, sure glad we put that in the past, huh?” HA!
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NASCAR: Michael McDowell will make his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Debut March 30th making his long-awaited NASCAR Sprint Cup Series with Michael Waltrip Racing in the Goodys Cool Orange 500 at Martinsville Speedway.As the 23-year-old steps into the #00 Toyota Camry, Aarons Sales and Lease Ownership announces today that their partnership will continue
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10 years ago, if I told a NASCAR fan that Robert Yates Racing would lose all of their sponsors and be on the verge of going out of business and becoming another “defunct” team, every single fan would have said “you must be out of your mind.”
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The Jamie McMurray Foundation is currently affording NASCAR fans the opportunity to bid on a VIP weekend for the April race held at Texas Motor Speedway. The auction is being held online, and the winner will receive …
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NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Dario Franchitti will have to qualify on speed for his next Sprint Cup series race at Martinsville in two weeks after ending outside the top-35 in the owner standings following the first five races of the season.The Scot needed a good result in order to maintain the benefit that he enjoyed at the start of his NASCAR Sprint
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NASCAR testing at Darlington this week the NASCAR Sprint Cup cars were unofficially clocked at 200 mph during Goodyear tire testing. What a difference paving makes at historic Darlington Raceway.Thats not a miss-print Chevrolet driver Jeff Gordon, Ford driver Greg Biffle and the Dodge of Daytona 500 winner Ryan Newman were all clocked unofficially
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Ahh, yes … from the super speedways to the cookie cutters, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series has finally truly arrived here in the fifth week of the season as we head to Bristol – the place where men are broken and legends are made. Here is a track that you won’t find drivers boasting an average finish of 4.0 or any ridiculous number like that …
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Apparently no longer satisfied with targeting the Tom Cruise & Will Smith market Scientology is going after the Larry the Cable Guy/ Pabst Blue Ribbon demographic by sponsoring a NASCAR team. At this time it is unclear whether NASCAR rules will allow the use of Operating Thetan superpowers during a sanctioned race.
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Following this past weekend’s NASCAR Sprint Cup second place finish, Tony Stewart was not a happy camper. When interviewed after the race, the Joe Gibbs Racing driver sounded off on his great dislike for the series tire sponsor, Goodyear.
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Die-Hard NASCAR Fan dreamed of taking the high banks of a NASCAR track. Mike Harmon grants wish but after fan dies.
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The Red Bull Racing Team doesn’t want a repeat of last year so it is going with experience over youth in an effort to get its No. 84 Toyota in a better position in the points race. NASCAR veteran Mike Skinner will temporarily replace AJ Allmendinger in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series this weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
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Robby Gordon, NASCAR’s last independent owner-driver, needs a near-miracle to prevent a season that started with so much promise from imploding.
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Just hours after Carl Edwards won the UAW Dodge 400 in Las Vegas to garner his second Sprint Cup Series victory in a row, NASCAR inspectors found an issue with his no. 99 Ford in post-race inspections. The issue was that …
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It was a good news / bad news type of day for most NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers today. The good news – there were no rain clouds in sight in Las Vegas on Friday, and the series actually got their qualifying event in at the scheduled time. The bad news – Kyle Busch is the hottest driver …
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