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Sprint Cup and Nationwide drivers are at New Hampshire this weekend while Camping World Trucks are at Iowa Speedway.

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Matt Kenseth and Greg Biffle dominated the race, but Tony Stewart took the lead on the final lap to win Saturday night’s Coke Zero 400 at Daytona, his third victory this season and his 18th career win at Daytona. But this has to go down as one of his most satisfying after he qualified second, was sent to the back because of a minor equipment problem and started 42nd, but won anyway.

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The Nascar season reaches its halfway point this weekend, with Sprint Cup and Nationwide drivers heading back to Daytona International Speedway for the second time this season. And with the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship just a few weeks away, points and wins are becoming more important. Race wins decide seeding of the Top 10 and the two wild card positions.

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A dominating day by Clint Bowyer at Sonoma – leading 71 of 112 laps to win his first race of the season and for the first time on a road course. It’s Bowyer’s first win since last October and his first win with Michael Waltrip Racing. Bowyer had to walk to victory lane though because he ran out of gas doing his victory lap.

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The first of the season’s two road courses is up next on the Sprint Cup schedule. It’s all the way out west to just north of San Francisco at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California. It’s a 12-turn course, just a shade under two miles long.

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It was back in 1946 when race promoter Bill France wanted to stage a 100-mile race at the Charlotte, North Carolina Fairgrounds. He wanted to call it a national championship event, but there was no national organization to put its official stamp on it. So he created one – the National Championship Stock-Car Circuit.

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For the second straight week, Sprint Cup drivers will race on a newly repaved track. The two-mile Michigan International Speedway is the next stop on the schedule. Five drivers -- Kyle Busch, Jeff Gordon, Matt Kenseth, Brad Keselowski and Juan Pablo Montoya all did a Goodyear Tire test at Michigan and speeds reached as high as 216 mph.

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Yesterday’s Sprint Cup race at Dover started out badly with 13 cars including defending Cup champion Tony Stewart involved in a wreck on just the ninth lap. It ended the day of 6 drivers early.

After that it was Jimmie Johnson’s day to shine on a cloudy day. Johnson led 289 of the 400 laps for his seventh victory at the one-mile track tying Richard Petty and Bobby Allison for most career victories at the Monster Mile. 

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TV ratings for the Coca-Cola 600 were huge. They were the highest ratings ever and even better than the TV ratings for the Indy 500, which lost five-percent of viewers compared to last year.

From Charlotte, Sprint Cup drivers head north to the Monster Mile at Dover.

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Once it got to the final 10 laps – it wasn’t much of a race at all. Jimmy Johnson started in the front, stretched his lead and nobody else had a chance and he became a three-time winner of the Sprint Cup All-Star race

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It’s the first of back to back weekends at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Saturday night it’s the All-Star race with a million dollars on the line for the winner. No points, just a big payday.

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Finally – the 200th win for Hendrick Motorsports. It had been 16 races since Jimmie Johnson or any of the other Hendrick drivers had won a race until Saturday night at Darlington Raceway when Johnson led 134 of the 368 laps including the last 44

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