A rule change for Saturday night’s NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race raised eyebrows Wednesday, but NASCAR said it was a simple oversight not meant to benefit any specific driver. In 2012, drivers were eligible to win the All-Star Race fan vote — which goes to the top [...]
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NASCAR’s iron-fisted authority has been virtually unchallenged throughout its 65-year history, giving officials carte blanche to run the sport how they see fit. But when two NASCAR-issued penalties were reduced this week under appeal, it led toquestions about whether the sanctioning body’s ability to govern the [...]
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In a wild and confusing finish that left the race winner in doubt, NASCAR awarded Regan Smith with a victory in Saturday’s Nationwide Series race at Talladega Superspeedway. “That was pretty cool, wasn’t it?” Smith said with a laugh in Victory Lane. Smith, driving for Dale [...]
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. had some angry, opinionated comments immediately after October’s Talladega race — which ended with him sustaining a concussion in a multi-car crash. Earnhardt now regrets those words and said Friday they were made partially out of emotion he felt over the concussion (which [...]
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Two Richard Childress Racing crew members arrested and charged with assault after allegedly attacking driver Nelson Piquet Jr. after Friday night’s Richmond Nationwide race are feeling NASCAR’s wrath, too. NASCAR suspended crewmen Michael Scearce and Thomas Costello for four races each and fined them $15,000 for [...]
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Brad Keselowski ducked underneath Kyle Busch to take the lead with 10 laps to go Friday night and won the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Richmond International Raceway. Keselowski had to hold off a final charge from Kevin Harvick, but after Harvick closed within a few [...]
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. is giving his nephew the biggest break of his NASCAR career, but it isn’t because of what he saw from him in a car. It was in a ring. When Jeffrey Earnhardt made his mixed-martial arts debut last year at a honky tonk [...]
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A celebration of NASCAR racing turned somber Tuesday as President Obama honored a champion driver in the wake of murder at the Boston Marathon. “I know the NASCAR family joins me” in dealing with “the incredible sense of loss” after Monday’s bombing attack, Obama said. “We [...]
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Danica Patrick’s 12th-place finish at Martinsville Speedway last weekend was “a nice reminder that I can drive a race car,” she told news reporters Friday. And Patrick didn’t just mean it as a reminder to her critics, either. “Sometimes you get a little down on yourself, [...]
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After thoroughly whipping the competition at Martinsville Speedway — as he has more than any other active Sprint Cup driver — Jimmie Johnson keyed his mic with a curious transmission Sunday. “We looked like we knew what we were doing today,” Johnson exulted. His NASCAR rivals [...]
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