Kyle Busch was beaten by Jamie McMurray on the Daytona International Speedway in the Pepsi 400 race.McMurray finished the race after his car appeared to touch several times with Kyle’s car. He nosed across the finish line a mere 0.005 seconds ahead of Busch.
Team-mates and family seemed to be the key in the final laps for Kurt Busch. Busch received drafting help from his brother, Kurt Busch, who brought his No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge across the finish line in third. Kurt Busch finished on the (...)
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NASCAR’s premier series will be called from 2008 the Sprint Cup.Executives from Nascar and Sprint Nextel will announce the switch from Nextel Cup to Sprint Cup for the next season.
Following R.J. Reynolds’ decision to leave the sport in 2003, Nextel announced plans to sponsor NASCAR’s top series for a 10-year period, beginning with the 2004 season. The terms of the agreement were never publically announced, but were believed to be between $70 and $75 million per year with the value (...)
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Today NASCAR officials announced penalties for Kyle Busch and Johnny Suater,after their cars failed the inspection made after this Sunday’s race at New Hampshire International Speedway.
The cars of Busch and Sauter were both found to be lower than the rules stipulate for the left front after the race.
And, despite both drivers holding on to their finishing positions of 11th and 14th respectively, they have been punished by NASCAR for the rule infringements.
Each pilot got a penalty of 25 (...)
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Sunday was Denny’s Hamlin lucky day because he obtained his first Nextel Cup victory of the season.
Hamlin pulled it off, beating the series points leader to the finish line by 0.068 seconds less than a car lengthto earn his third career victory and first since last July at Pocono.He came into the race second in points, but he’s been frustrated, leading laps and contending without being able to take a checkered flag in the first 16 races.
When the leaders made their final scheduled pit (...)
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Toyota is the first Japanese automaker who obtains a pole position in the Nascar Nextel Cup.This perfomance was obtained by Dave Blaney who made all this in 29.426 at the top speed of 129 mph.In his run to the pole position, at the wheels of his
Toyota Camry, Blaney overtook three Dodge cars: the 2004 champion Kurt Busch, Reed Sorenson, Johnny Sauter and also the winner at Sonoma, Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya .
Brian Vickers, initially qualified was then disqualified after his car his car (...
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Nascar issued penalties to the Hendrick Motorsports teams that compete in the Nextel Cup Series, all of these as a result of rule infractions found at the last race at Sonoma.
The two cars of the team driven by Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson were found with components and equipment that are not approved by the Nascar regulations.All of these were found last Friday during the initial inspections of the car.
As a result, the two drivers have been penalized with 100 points each,their crew (...)
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Juan Pablo Montoya won the Nascar race at Sonoma in his Toyota/Save Mart 350 demonstrating that it doesn’t matter in which championship you race, as long as you have the racing passion in your blood.Many people doubted that Montoya could overtake the big boys from Nascar championship,but the Colombian did it, and he did it well.
Montoya had a superb race: starting in 32nd place after a bad qualifying session,he made his way easily into first places.With 30 laps to go Montoya was the (...)
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It became official Wednesday (June 13) when Hendrick and Earnhardt said that Junior will join Hendrick Motorsports for five years,begining from 2008. The most popular driver goes to the Chevrolet company that won six NASCAR titles with three drivers and 159 races with 12 drivers since 1984.
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