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Not even a pair of pit road penalties could keep Denny Hamlin from winning his second race of the season.  Hamlin was assessed penalties for speeding and an uncontrolled tire but recovered to lead 45 of the 334 laps at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday.  It's Hamlin's third win at Texas and the 33rd of his career.

Harvick now joins Joey Logano who both now have guaranteed spots in the championship race at Miami-Homestead in two weeks.

It was a great weekend for Kyle Busch fans! The driver of the #18 Toyota was the champion of the O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 in Texas on Sunday.

After four straight finishes of 2nd or 3rd, Kyle Busch finally came to the finish line as a winner on Sunday at the O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.

The Monster Energy Cup drivers are in The Lonestar State of Texas Sunday afternoon.

It sure looked like Martin Truex, Jr. was on his way to his eighth victory of the season when he had the lead with 10 laps left at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday.  All he had to do was avoid any mistake.  But that's exactly what happened and Kevin Harvick following closely behind lap after lap pounced on it.

Chalk up the seventh Cup win for Jimmie Johnson at Texas Motor Speedway.  He passed Joey Logano with 16 laps left and pulled away for his first victory of the season and 81st of his career.  Not a bad day after starting from the rear because he didn't use the same set of tires he qualified with.

Sometimes it's a matter of being in the right spot at the right time.  In auto racing it also helps to be in the lead when the rain comes.  Carl Edwards won the AAA Texas 500 Sunday night when rain brought out the yellow flag and eventually the red flag 43 laps before the scheduled end.

Kyle Busch has a pretty impressive string of victories over the past two weeks - four straight national series races including back to back Sprint Cup wins.  Kyle won Saturday night's 500 mile Cup race at Texas Motor Speedway after having won the Xfinity race on Friday night giving him back to back weekend sweeps.  Kyle won the Cup race the previous week at Martinsville along with the Camping Worl

Brad Keselowski looked like a sure thing to punch his ticket for the final four in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.  He dominated Sunday's AAA Texas 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.  Keselowski led 312 of 334 laps and was in the lead until Jimmie Johnson finally found a way to pass him with four laps left to win for the sixth time in Texas.

Chalk up the second win of the season for Jimmie Johnson.  After waking up sick on Saturday morning, the six-time Cup champion led 128 laps including the final 14 when he used a low-side pass to get by Jamie McMurray and Kevin Harvick and held on for his first spring race victory at Texas Motor Speedway.  It give...

With the addition of Dale Jarrett, the nominees for this year's NASCAR Hall of Fame class are now complete. Jarrett has 32 Cup victories and was the Cup champion in 1999. The nominees will be narrowed to five inductees and announced on May 22nd. The Hall was opened in May of 2010 and currently has 20 members.