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Wild Wild West
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro There were monkeys selling programs, an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, a fistfight, a virtual firing of an entire team and, at the end of the day, a new No. 1. It may sound lik...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Who Will Carry On?
NASCAR by Tom Bowles The life and times of Jim Hunter were celebrated wonderfully this week with a visitation followed by a wonderful service Wednesday at Darlington Presbyterian Church. NASCAR’s fo...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Horsepower Rankings
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro 1. Jimmie Johnson  He’s won the Chase every way imaginable, so why doubt he can outduel Hamlin and Harvick in a dogfight down the stretch? 2. Kevin Harvic...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Texas Motor Speedway
NASCAR Location: Ft. Worth, Tex. Distance: 1.5-mile quad-oval (334 laps/501 miles) Banking/Turns: 24 degrees; Banking/Quad-Oval: 18 degrees; Banking/Straightaways: 5 degrees Race Dates: April 18 (Denny Ha...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Disaster Averted
NASCAR By Matt Taliaferro It was the race that kept Jimmie Johnson, Denny Hamlin and Kevin Harvick awake at night. The three drivers left to settle the 2010 Chase for the Sprint Cup knew the Amp Energy Ju...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Racing Returns, Fans Vanish
NASCAR by Mike Neff Martinsville Speedway provided another fantastic race last weekend with 24 lead changes among 12 drivers swapping paint and knocking fenders. Six points now separate first and second i...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Horsepower Rankings
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro 1. Jimmie Johnson  Upcoming Talladega race is the true wild card of the Chase ... and with apologies to Denny Hamlin, the only thing inside Johnson’s head right n...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Talladega Superspeedway
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro and Nathan Rush Location: Talladega, Al. Distance: 2.66-mile tri-oval (500.1 laps/188 miles) Banking/Turns: 33 degrees; Banking/Tri-Oval: 18 degrees; Banking/Backstretch: 2 deg...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Tighten Up
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro Denny Hamlin claimed to have been biding his time, keeping points leader Jimmie Johnson within drafting distance and waiting to get to the second half of the Chase with its Hamli...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

King Without a Crown
NASCAR by Vito Pugliese It’s late October, and the cold and flu season is starting to fire up. A friend of mine on a business trip to Las Vegas had to come home early last week after she came down w...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

RPM: Future in Doubt
NASCAR The ongoing Kasey Kahne/Richard Petty Motorsports saga continues to play out, with more twists and turns by the hour. Kahne crashed in Saturday evening’s Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Moto...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Horsepower Rankings
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro 1. Jimmie Johnson  Not even a self-induced spin at Charlotte could keep Johnson from notching his fourth consecutive top-three finish. Seriously, he’s not a robot...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Martinsville Speedway
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro and Nathan Rush Location: Martinsville, Va. Distance: .526-mile oval (500 laps/263 miles) Banking/Turns: 12 degrees Race Dates: March 28 (Denny Hamlin) and October 24 From ...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

To the Limit
NASCAR by Tom Bowles “It’s tough, when you sit down and think about it; the saddest thing is that you never got a chance to say goodbye to him. But oh, how he lived.”  — Kerry...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Big Money McMurray
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro Kyle Busch led a ton of laps. Jamie McMurray scored his third unlikely win of a career-resurgent season. A debris caution flew with under 25 laps remaining. Yes, the Bank of Amer...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

News & Notes
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro And the hits keep on coming Clint Bowyer just can’t catch a break. Penalized a title-killing 150 points after his car passed post-race inspection and then failed a second,...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Horsepower Rankings
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro 1. Jimmie Johnson  Finishes of first, second and third in the last three weeks find Johnson exactly where we all expected him: leading the points during the Chase. Let&...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Charlotte Motor Speedway
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro Location: Concord, N.C. Distance: 1.5-mile quad oval Banking/Turns: 24 degrees; Banking/Straightaways: 5 degrees Race Dates: May 22 (All-Star Race), May 30 (Coca-Cola 600), Oc...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Not Dead Yet
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro Three Chase races down, three top three runs for the defending four-time series champion. On a day that may have witnessed the official end of seven drivers’ title hopes, p...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Contact Sport
NASCAR by Mike Neff Despite the hype to the contrary, the battle for the championship in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup division involves all 43 cars on the race track, and this past weekend that fact was brou...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

NAS-Karma
NASCAR by Vito Pugliese A funny thing happened while Richard Childress was on his way to the penalty hearing Thursday for his No. 33 Sprint Cup team. Well, it wasn’t really funny. If anything it was...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Confusion, secrecy surround NASCAR penalties
NASCAR by Tom Bowles Sometimes, NASCAR can stand to learn from the best, which according to the audience numbers in America is the NFL. This week’s Monday Night Football was razor-thin close &ndas...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Horsepower Rankings
NASCAR Jimmie Johnson ascends to the top in both Athlon Sports’ weekly Horsepower Rankings as well as NASCAR’s Chase for the Sprint Cup standings following a runner-up finish in last weekend&rsqu...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Horsepower Rankings
NASCAR Jimmie Johnson ascends to the top in both Athlon Sports’ weekly Horsepower Rankings as well as NASCAR’s Chase for the Sprint Cup standings following a runner-up finish in last weekend&rsqu...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Plains Dealer
NASCAR NASCAR’s Chase for the Sprint Cup tightened up on a day when seven Chase drivers took turns atop the scoring pylon and finished in the top 10. In the end, though, it was Greg Biffle, in a 140-po...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

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