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| Scheduling change means Auto Club Speedway will no longer have a Labor Day race. Instead, next year it will play host to an October race as part of the late-season Chase for the Cup.
The NASCAR Sprint Cup race held Labor Day weekend at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana will be moved to October starting next year, speedway President Gillian Zucker said Monday. |
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| ATLANTA (AP) -- NASCAR will run under the lights at Atlanta Motor Speedway in 2009, The Associated Press has learned.... |
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| As the Chase looms, Edwards gets his fifth victory of this season's NASCAR Sprint Cup series, which completes a sweep of two weekend races at Brooklyn, Mich. Kyle Busch finishes second.
Carl Edwards sent a not-so-subtle message to Kyle Busch on Sunday at Michigan International Speedway. |
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August 17 |
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| Tony Schumacher raced to his fifth consecutive Top Fuel victory and 10th of the season Sunday, beating Larry Dixon with a 3.845-second run at 313.88 mph in the Toyo Tires NHRA Nationals.
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| BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) -- The two Joe Gibbs Racing cars that have dominated the Nationwide Series this season likely will face stiff NASCAR sanctions after team members were caught deliberately trying to mask the horsepower in their powerful engines.... |
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August 17 |
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| Jeff Gordon, Kasey Kahne and Denny Hamlin had high hopes heading into Michigan, but unfortunate luck leaves them with lousy finishes and drops them in the standings. With three races left before the Chase, the trio better get it together, Pete Pistone says.
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August 17 |
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| Carl Edwards completed a weekend sweep at Michigan International Speedway Sunday, beating points leader Kyle Busch off pit road on their last stops and driving off to his fifth Cup win of the season and second in the last three races.
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| BELDING, Mich. (AP) -- A 72-year-old racer has died in an accident at the Grattan Raceway in northern Kent County.... |
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August 17 |
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| The No. 18 and No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing teams in the Nationwide Series will likely face big penalties after efforts to alter the results of a chassis dyno test.
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| BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) -- Carl Edwards took the lead in the pits, then drove away Saturday for his first NASCAR Nationwide Series victory at Michigan International Speedway and 16th overall series win.... |
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| He came out of the pits under a caution flag with the lead, and held it to win in Brooklyn, Mich.
Carl Edwards took the lead in the pits, then drove away Saturday for his first NASCAR Nationwide Series victory at Michigan International Speedway and his 16th overall series win. |
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| BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) -- Now that most of the big-name drivers in NASCAR's Sprint Cup series are under contract for 2009, the silly season has turned to crew chiefs and engineers.... |
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| BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) -- NASCAR drivers got into the stock car sport for the speed. But feathering the gas pedal to save gas is a regular - and dreaded - part of their jobs.... |
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August 16 |
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| Carl Edwards took the lead in the pits, then drove away Saturday for his first NASCAR Nationwide Series victory at Michigan International Speedway and 16th overall series win.
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August 16 |
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| Now that most of the big-name drivers in NASCAR's Sprint Cup series are under contract for 2009, the silly season has turned to crew chiefs and engineers.
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