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After last week’s stop at the half mile track at Bristol it’s back out west again to the two-mile track at Auto Club Speedway, 50 miles east of Los Angeles in Fontana, California where Kevin Harvick will look to defend his title from last year. Harvick p...

Defending Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart had the best car and he proved it on a restart with 30 laps left when he took the lead by dipping past the front row leaders from the second row and held off Jimmy Johnson on 3 more restarts to win yesterday’s race at Las Vegas.  It’s Ste...

After a longer than expected stay at Daytona Speedway, Sprint Cup teams are heading across the country for this Sunday’s race at Phoenix International Raceway.  No rain in the forecast for Phoenix this weekend – just sunshine. It's been a ...

NASCAR race car owner Rick Hendrick and his wife Linda suffered minor injuries after the private plane they were in crash-landed at Key West International Airport in Florida last night.  The pilot of the plane registered to Jimmie Johnson Racing radioed ahead that the brakes weren't working.

It’s been a long time coming but Jimmie Johnson is back in the win column after holding off Kasey Kahne in a green, white, checkered finish at Kansas Speedway.  Johnson dominated the race leading 197 laps for his 55th career victory.  But it came down to those final two laps after Jeff Gordon’s engine blew up.  Johnson stayed on the track with old tires and was still able to hold off Kahne and Bra

Can he make it three in a row? After going winless in the first 26 races of the season, Tony Stewart has started the Chase for the Sprint Cup with back to back victories. Just a month ago there was some doubt whether Tony would even make the 12-driver field for the championship. He even wrote himself off after an awful race at Bristol August 27th, but boy he's been on fire since then with top-seve

Even with a vibration issue late in the race, Jeff Gordon was able to hold off Hendrick Motorsports teammate, Jimmie Johnson, during the closing laps to win Tuesday's Sprint Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway -- a race delayed two days by Tropical Storm Lee.  Gordon led a race-high 146 laps for his third win this season and 85th career Cup victory putting him in sole possession of third place on t

It's been quite a month of August for Brad Keselowski.  Since breaking his ankle during testing at Atlanta he's won at Pocono, came in second at Watkins Glen, placed third at Michigan and Saturday night won his third race of the season taking the checkered flag at Bristol Motor Speedway.  It...

For the fourth time this season Kyle Busch took the checkered flag, but it was for the first time ever at Michigan.  Kyle held off Jimmie Johnson on a two-lap sprint after brother Kurt Busch scraped the wall bringing out the final caution of the day.  Wi...

It was quite a week for Brad Keselowski.  There were some doubts whether he'd be able to drive at all on Sunday in the Sprint Cup race at Pocono after crashing into a wall earlier in the week at Atlanta.  And even with a broken left ankle Keselowski was determined to drive the number 2 Miller Lite Dodge.  And boy did he ever.  He pulled away from Kurt Busch on a late restart and held on for his se

New Hampshire Speedway in Loudon, NH (Getty Images)It’s a busy weekend in racing with Sprint Cup, Nationwide and the Truck Series  all in action. Sprint and Nationwide are at New Hampshire while the trucks are running in Iowa. Kyle Busch won two out of three races last week at Kentucky, winning the Truck series event on Thursday then the Sprint Cup race on Saturday. He enters this weekend with 99

A great night at the track for Kyle Busch in the first sprint cup event at Kentucky Speedway.  Busch led a race high 125 laps and claimed his third victory of the season when he passed Jimmie Johnson on a late restart and held on to the lead to put himself back into the points lead at the halfway point of the season. David Reutimann also managed to get by Johnson for a career best second place fin