Jimmie Johnson might have won last year’s Sprint All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway by being the driver who best took advantage of the event’s unique set of rules. He makes no apologies for it. “We played the game is what we did,” Johnson said Friday. [...]
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A United States senator, a lieutenant governor and a military hero will lead race fans in the commencement of the nation’s largest Memorial Day celebration, as they serve as race officials for the 2013 Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Sgt. Aaron Causey will be Grand [...]
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At the height of his father’s success at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Dale Earnhardt Jr. would sit in the Turn 1 condos overlooking the track. The Earnhardts are from Kannapolis, just one town away, and watching Dale Earnhardt at the speedway was a source of pride. Next [...]
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Kyle Busch showed he can still be dominant in the NASCAR Truck Series, even when facing adversity. Busch overcame a costly penalty to snap a seven-race drought on the Truck Series by winning Friday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Busch dominated the race early, but had [...]
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Carl Edwards captured the pole for the Sprint All-Star race at Charlotte Motor Speedway, paying tribute to the late Dick Trickle along the way. Edwards, the 2011 winner in the exhibition event, completed three laps and a four-tire pit stop Friday night in 1 minute, 51.297 [...]
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The 29th running of NASCAR’s All-Star Race is set for Saturday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway. For nearly three decades, the brightest stars in NASCAR have bumped, banged and raced each other for bragging rights and lots of cash. There have been so many outstanding moments [...]
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Dick Trickle suffered from excruciating pain under his left breast in the days before he killed himself … and was “very down” about his health situation in his final days, this according to Trickle’s brother. Chuck Trickle opened up to both TMZ and the Las Vegas [...]
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If Kyle Busch had to do it over again, he still wouldn’t give an inch. “You run up front, and you try for wins,” the Joe Gibbs Racing driver said Friday at Charlotte Motor Speedway. “In the last 30 laps, you’ve got to give it everything [...]
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A field of 23 drivers will try to race their way into the main event in Saturday night’s Sprint Showdown at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The Sprint All-Star Race preliminary will transfer two drivers after the two 20-lap segments to the feature race and a chance to [...]
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The NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race is an event where special, one-off paint schemes have been commonplace in recent years. This year, for example, Brad Keselowski’s iconic “Blue Deuce” No. 2 Penske Racing Ford will carry a mosaic paint scheme that was actually created by thousands of [...]
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