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Kasey Kahne has agreed to a contract with Hendrick Motorsports beginning in 2011, sources told SceneDaily.com.
Richard Petty Motorsports, which has Kahne under contract for this season, confirmed that Kahne is leaving the organization.
Exactly whether Kahne will drive for a Hendrick team or for Hendrick affiliate Stewart-Haas Racing is still to be determined. Stewart-Haas, which features [...]

Source: http://autoracingsport.com/report-kasey-kahne-to-leave-richard-petty-motorsports-for-hendrick-in-2010/

Luigi Fagioli Jack Fairman Juan Manuel Fangio Nino Farina Walt Faulkner

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The top seven finishers were in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship field, including Greg Biffle, who won to pull himself out of a deep hole.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/sports/autoracing/04autos.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Alfonso de Portago Sam Posey Charles Pozzi Jackie Pretorius Ernesto Prinoth

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Source: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/10/29/769075/tony-kanaan-out-at-andretti-autosport.html

Paddy Driver Piero Drogo Bernard de Dryver Johnny Dumfries Geoff Duke

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Dario Franchitti claimed his third IZOD IndyCar Series championship in four years with an eighth-place finish in Saturday's Cafes do Brasil Indy 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Will Power's mishap late in the race helped Franchitti tie Sam Hornish Jr. for the most titles in the series. The 37-year-old Scotsman also became the first driver to win back-to-back championships since Hornish did it in 2001-02. Hornish's last title came in

Source: http://www.mysportsbook.com/news/sports_betting/780725.html

Michael McDowell Michael Schumacher Michael Waltrip Mike Bliss Mike Wallace

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Filed under: Carl Edwards, Clint Bowyer, Denny Hamlin, Greg Biffle, Jeff Burton, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Kevin Harvick, Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth, Tony Stewart, Talladega Superspeedway, Chase for the Sprint Cup, NASCAR Crashes, NASCAR Tracks, Sprint Cup, FanHouse Exclusive, NASCAR

When the 43 best drivers in the country take to Talladega Speedway Sunday on Halloween, they will carry with them an unbroken streak of big-crash horrors dating back to the spring of 2007.

The so-called Big One -- which we'll arbitrarily define as a crash involving 10 or more cars -- has occurred at the 2.66-mile, high-banked oval for six straight races now.

Considering NASCAR's more lenient "Boys, have at it" policy in 2010, and the fact that more than half the field -- 24 of 43 cars -- crashed at one point or another in the spring race, the odds of a quiet Sunday afternoon in Alabama seem slim indeed.

In fact, the odds are slim indeed.

Based on the last 11 races, dating back to the spring 2005 event, an average of 20.45 of the 43 cars have been involved in a yellow flag for a crash -- or slightly less than half the field.

For every race.

If you count the fact that a number of cars were involved in two incidents in a single race, the average jumps to 23.45 cars per race involved in incidents, or slightly more than half the field.

Either way you look at it, the odds in recent years of any one driver getting involved in a wreck at Talladega are about 50-50, or a coin toss.

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Source: http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2010/10/29/talladegas-big-ones-leave-drivers-with-coin-toss-odds-in-avoi/

Dave Kennedy Loris Kessel Bruce Kessler Nicolas Kiesa Leo Kinnunen

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Denny Hamlin won his third straight Nascar Sprint Cup race at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/25/sports/autoracing/25sportsbriefs-HAMLINWINSAG_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Myron Fohr Gregor Foitek George Follmer George Fonder Norberto Fontana

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Source: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/10/29/769258/kanaan-andretti-autosport-agree.html

Juan Jover Oswald Karch Narain Karthikeyan Ukyo Katayama Ken Kavanagh

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Filed under: NASCAR Crashes, Camping World Truck Series, SPEED TV, NASCAR

NASCAR truck series driver Ron Hornaday Jr. walked away from a wild crash in the NASCAR series truck race at Talladega Superspeedway Saturday that saw his truck flip onto its roof and then tumble several times on the high-banked first turn.

Hornaday's No. 33 Chevy truck, owned by Kevin Harvick, came to a stop on its roof, but the driver soon emerged without a scratch.

"I brought the steering wheel back," Hornaday told SPEED TV, holding the wheel in his hand after being released from the infield care center. "If you can't win, you gotta bring the steering wheel back. But it was cool to come here. I led a lot of laps and learned a bunch. Too bad we ruined a good truck."

The crash, which occurred with three laps to go, involved five other trucks and prompted NASCAR to bring out a red flag and then finish the race with a green-white-checkered, two-lap shootout.

The finish was just as wild, as Kyle Busch nearly lost control of his truck going to the inside of Aric Almirola, but nipped Almirola at the line by .002 of a second, or about a foot. Johnny Sauter went to the outside of Almirola and made it three wide at the finish, but crossed under the flag in third.

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Source: http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2010/10/30/ron-hornaday-jr-flips-in-wild-talladega-crash-walks-away-unhur/

Manny Ayulo Luca Badoer Giancarlo Baghetti Julian Bailey Mauro Baldi

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UPDATE:
The Cup race at Martinsville has been postponed due to rain and will be run tomorrow at 12:00PM EDT.
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There is a rain delay at Martinsville and the forecast does not look good for the rest of the day as more rain is expected. Stay tuned…

Source: http://autoracingsport.com/rain-delay-at-martinsville/

Doug Serrurier Johnny ServozGavin Tony Settember Hap Sharp Brian ShaweTaylor

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Former NASCAR driver Shane Hmiel won a USAC Midget race last week at Hickory Motor Speedway. He returned to race again the next night, turning the fastest speed in qualifying and hoping for another $3,000 winner’s payday, only to see rain wash away those hopes. A handful of people milled around the pits and maybe [...]

Source: http://autoracingsport.com/shane-hmiel-back-racing-midgets/

Eugene Martin Pierluigi Martini Jochen Mass Felipe Massa Cristiano da Matta

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Filed under: Denny Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson, Chase for the Sprint Cup, NASCAR

Making eye contact with reporters, speaking in a strong voice,gesturing for emphasis, Denny Hamlin all but declared the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup championship was his to lose in the hour after he won the final regular season race Sept. 11 at his home track in Richmond, Va.

His body language seemed to challenge anyone to believe differently. And five races into the 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup, Hamlin is every bit on track to back up the words.

He felt he could win or contend on every single of the 10 Chase tracks and, in the past, it might have seemed more bravado than measured confidence from the NASCAR "young gun."

But this is a different Hamlin. The 2010 Hamlin model says the proper championship mindset has at last matched his considerable talent. And he is doing everything he needs to do to give four-time defending series champ Jimmie Johnson a real run for a fifth.

Johnson holds a 41-point edge over second place Hamlin entering Sunday's race at the half-mile Martinsville (Va.) Speedway, where the Tums Fast Relief 500 is being billed as mano y mano -- a heavyweight fight of sorts between Hamlin and Johnson, who have combined to win every race there in the last four years.

"People would think so, I would think so,'' Hamlin said of comparing the race to a title fight. "I feel like if it is mano y mano, we've been in a lot of green-white-checkers where we've been on the front row together, so it should be interesting.''

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Source: http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2010/10/19/denny-hamlin-gets-serious-as-chase-crunch-arrives/

Peter Revson John Rhodes Alex Ribeiro Ken Richardson Fritz Riess

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Source: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/10/25/759192/hamlin-takes-martinsville-victory.html

Onofre Marimón Helmut Marko Tarso Marques Leslie Marr Tony Marsh

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The SFI Foundation, which sets safety standards and certifies equipment such as uniforms and helmets, announced Friday that it has terminated contracts with Impact Racing and all of its driver suits, arm restraints, shoes, gloves, socks, underclothing, helmet supports, and driver restraint systems will be decertified effective April 27.
The announcement comes while SFI and HANS [...]

Source: http://autoracingsport.com/bill-simpson%e2%80%99s-impact-racing-products-losing-certification/

Mike Fisher Giancarlo Fisichella John Fitch Christian Fittipaldi Emerson Fittipaldi

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DuPont’s once robust NASCAR hospitality program suffered enormous cuts last year, but the longtime #24- Jeff Gordon sponsor is back in 2010 with more guests and events at each track. Just a few years ago, DuPont had the largest hospitality program in NASCAR, hosting guests at every race on the Sprint Cup circuit, a number [...]

Source: http://autoracingsport.com/dupont-increases-hospitality-program-after-big-cutbacks-in-2009/

JeanMarc Gounon Emmanuel de Graffenried Lucas di Grassi Cecil Green Keith Greene

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Source: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/10/29/769583/hornaday-jr-captures-talladega.html

Michael Bartels Edgar Barth Giorgio Bassi Erwin Bauer Zsolt Baumgartner

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Source: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/10/29/769583/hornaday-jr-captures-talladega.html

Ryan Newman Sakon Yamamoto Sam Hornish Jr. Scott Riggs Scott Speed

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Surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament in Denny Hamlin’s left knee will not limit the Sprint Cup driver behind the wheel for the next race, according to one of the doctors that will perform the operation on Wednesday. “I anticipate by the time he gets to Phoenix [April 8-10] he’ll have a pretty [...]

Source: http://autoracingsport.com/hamlin-to-have-knee-surgery-wednesday/

Jacques Pollet Ben Pon Dennis Poore Alfonso de Portago Sam Posey

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Source: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/10/28/764028/amp-500.html

Roger Williamson Dempsey Wilson Desire Wilson Justin Wilson Vic Wilson

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Source: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/10/26/762021/this-week-in-auto-racing-october.html

Travis Kvapil Vitaly Petrov Vitantonio Liuzzi Carlo Abate George Abecassis

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Filed under: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chase for the Sprint Cup, NASCAR Fans, Sprint Cup, Danica Patrick, NASCAR

MARTINSVILLE, Va. -- The legions of fans of Junior Nation rose as one on lap 285 of the Tums Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway Sunday, waving the little green flags passed out by the race sponsor and screaming their lungs out against the din of the more than three dozen race cars circling the half-mile track here.

Their man, Dale Earnhardt Jr., had clawed his way to the front and taken the lead from Jeff Gordon during a green flag run at the midpoint of the NASCAR Sprint Cup race.

And he led 90 of the next 93 laps -- more than his total for the entire year before Sunday's race. Coming into Martinsville -- where Earnhardt has never won -- he had led a total of 71 laps in five races.

But after more than doubling his laps led total Sunday, Earnhardt was only partially satisfied. He faded during the long green flag run over the final 98 laps and finished seventh.

"Well, this isn't quite good enough," Earnhardt said. "We have to run way better than this. I can come in here and get a top-10 unless we have a major, major issue in the setup."

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Source: http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2010/10/24/dale-earnhardt-jr-sees-a-glimmer-of-racing-sunlight/

Ricardo Rodríguez Alberto Rodriguez Larreta Franco Rol Alan Rollinson Tony Rolt

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Jeff Gordonsaid he had picked up the AARP Foundation and its Drive to End Hunger campaign as his main sponsor for 22 Sprint Cup races over the next three years.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/sports/28sportsbriefs-gordon.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Richard Robarts Pedro Rodríguez Ricardo Rodríguez Alberto Rodriguez Larreta Franco Rol

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Source: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/10/25/759946/ap-source-anti-hunger-group-to.html

Eddie Cheever Andrea Chiesa Ettore Chimeri Louis Chiron Joie Chitwood

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Filed under: Denny Hamlin, Jamie McMurray, Jimmie Johnson, Kyle Busch, Chase for the Sprint Cup, Sprint Cup, NASCAR, Charlotte Motor Speedway

CONCORD, N.C. -- It may have been a familiar car up front in Saturday's Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, but it was hardly just another hum-drum NASCAR championship effort.

Jimmie Johnson finished third behind winner Jamie McMurray and the night's most dominant driver, Kyle Busch, and still extended his NASCAR Sprint Cup championship lead to 41 points over second place Denny Hamlin. Most disconcerting to his competition is the fact the four-time defending series champ scored the finish despite an early race spin, pit road collision and uncharacteristic pit stop bobble.

"Ah, Superman; he woke up,'' Busch said at one point midway through the race while exchanging the lead with Johnson, who had just overcome a series of early race setbacks.

With five races remaining in NASCAR's 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup playoffs, Johnson has clearly established himself as the odds-on favorite, man-to-beat for an unprecedented and unthinkable fifth consecutive title.

"We've had a little more drama in this situation than we would have wanted to,'' Johnson's crew chief Chad Knaus offered Saturday night. Yet somehow, even nights like this haven't derailed his title hopes in the least.

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Source: http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2010/10/17/jimmie-johnson-rallies-for-third-place-finish-increases-champion/

Charles de Tornaco Tony Trimmer Maurice Trintignant Wolfgang von Trips Jarno Trulli

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Series: IZOD IndyCar. Date: Sunday, September 19. Race: Indy Japan 300. Site: Twin Ring Motegi. Track: 1.5-mile "egg-shaped" oval. Start Time: 11:00 p.m. (et) - Saturday, September 18. Laps: 200. Miles: 300. 2009 winner: Scott Dixon. Television: VERSUS. Radio: IMS Radio Network/SIRIUS XM Satellite. With two races to go, the battle for this year's IZOD IndyCar Series championship comes down to Team Penske's Will Power and Dario Franchitti fro

Source: http://www.mysportsbook.com/news/sports_betting/771953.html

Giulio Cabianca Phil Cade Alex Caffi John CampbellJones Adrián Campos

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Source: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/10/27/763444/gordon-in-aarp-drive-to-end-hunger.html

Lucas di Grassi Cecil Green Keith Greene Masten Gregory Cliff Griffith

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The top seven finishers were in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship field, including Greg Biffle, who won to pull himself out of a deep hole.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/sports/autoracing/04autos.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Hubert Hahne Mike Hailwood Mika Häkkinen Bruce Halford Jim Hall

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Source: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/10/26/761871/nascar-camping-world-truck-mountain.html

Marc Gene Elmer George Bob Gerard Gerino Gerini Peter Gethin

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Filed under: Michael Waltrip, Talladega Superspeedway, Sprint Cup, Michael Waltrip Racing, FanHouse Exclusive, NASCAR

Seeing as it would be just his fourth start of the waning 2010 season, is Michael Waltrip worried about shaking off any rust when he rolls onto the 2.66-mile Talladega Superspeedway for Friday's first practice?

Hardly.

"Especially at Talladega because I've won there before, I feel like I know that place as good as anybody," Waltrip told FanHouse.com Tuesday. "It's just something that I have no apprehension about in terms of how we're going to perform. I'm just ready to go after it."

The longtime Sprint Cup driver and two-time Daytona 500 champion will attempt Sunday's AMP Energy 500 at Talladega, his first since racing in the April event at the Alabama behemoth. Waltrip won at Talladega in 2003, one of his four career wins. He currently serves as an analyst on Showtime's Inside NASCAR television program.

His last time out at Talladega looked promising after he drove to the front and led twice for a total of four laps. But on lap 84, just 14 laps after finding the lead a second time, Waltrip was caught in a 10-car crash on the frontstretch tri-oval.

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Source: http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2010/10/26/talladega-welcomes-michael-waltrip-back-to-sprint-cup/

Kurt Busch Kyle Busch Landon Cassill Lewis Hamilton Luca Badoer

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Filed under: Car of Tomorrow, Nationwide Series, Danica Patrick, NASCAR

CONCORD, N.C. -- With trash on his radiator grille and four worn tires, Brad Keselowski ran away from the field in the final laps of the Dollar General 300 Friday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

The Nationwide Series points leader padded his lead as he took his fifth victory of the year and his 11th career win. It was his first checkered flag at the 1.5-mile Charlotte track.

Keselowski now leads Carl Edwards in the Nationwide championship points race by an almost-insurmountable 450 points with four races remaining. Edwards finished 13th.

Keselowski led 46 laps, including the final 35 laps, and won by about 10 car lengths, or 1.137 seconds, over Martin Truex Jr. Finishing third was Justin Allgaier, followed by Joey Logano and Clint Bowyer.

"I'm so mentally exhausted after this race," Keselowski said. "I thought that was the best race I've ever seen in my life. That was awesome."

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Source: http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2010/10/15/brad-keselowski-wins-charlotte-nationwide-race/

Sebastian Vettel Sebastien Bourdais Sebastien Buemi Steve Park Ted Musgrave

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Denny Hamlin won the pole for Sunday?s Nascar Sprint Cup race at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/sports/autoracing/23sportsbriefs-nascar.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Geoff Lees Gijs van Lennep Arthur Legat JJ Lehto Lamberto Leoni

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Filed under: Denny Hamlin, Jamie McMurray, Jimmie Johnson, Kyle Busch, Chase for the Sprint Cup, Sprint Cup, NASCAR, Charlotte Motor Speedway

CONCORD, N.C. -- It may have been a familiar car up front in Saturday's Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, but it was hardly just another hum-drum NASCAR championship effort.

Jimmie Johnson finished third behind winner Jamie McMurray and the night's most dominant driver, Kyle Busch, and still extended his NASCAR Sprint Cup championship lead to 41 points over second place Denny Hamlin. Most disconcerting to his competition is the fact the four-time defending series champ scored the finish despite an early race spin, pit road collision and uncharacteristic pit stop bobble.

"Ah, Superman; he woke up,'' Busch said at one point midway through the race while exchanging the lead with Johnson, who had just overcome a series of early race setbacks.

With five races remaining in NASCAR's 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup playoffs, Johnson has clearly established himself as the odds-on favorite, man-to-beat for an unprecedented and unthinkable fifth consecutive title.

"We've had a little more drama in this situation than we would have wanted to,'' Johnson's crew chief Chad Knaus offered Saturday night. Yet somehow, even nights like this haven't derailed his title hopes in the least.

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Source: http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2010/10/17/jimmie-johnson-rallies-for-third-place-finish-increases-champion/

Gene Force Franco Forini Philip FotheringhamParker AJ Foyt Giorgio Francia

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UPDATE:
The Cup race at Martinsville has been postponed due to rain and will be run tomorrow at 12:00PM EDT.
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There is a rain delay at Martinsville and the forecast does not look good for the rest of the day as more rain is expected. Stay tuned…

Source: http://autoracingsport.com/rain-delay-at-martinsville/

Carl Scarborough Ludovico Scarfiotti Giorgio Scarlatti Ian Scheckter Jody Scheckter

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Denny Hamlin won the pole for Sunday?s Nascar Sprint Cup race at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/sports/autoracing/23sportsbriefs-nascar.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Helmuth Koinigg Heikki Kovalainen Mikko Kozarowitzky Willi Krakau Rudolf Krause

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Gil Martin is the crew chief for Kevin Harvick, who is one of only three drivers to have a shot at winning the Chase for the Sprint Cup.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/sports/autoracing/24nascar.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Roberto Bonomi Juan Manuel Bordeu Slim Borgudd Luki Botha JeanChristophe Boullion

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Gentlemen, start your … political campaigns? Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s re-election campaign said Tuesday that he’s sponsoring Bobby Labonte’s car for the April 18 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at the Texas Motor Speedway. Perry and Labonte were on hand Tuesday as the car was unveiled.
It has the words “Governor Perry” painted on the hood, the [...]

Source: http://autoracingsport.com/texas-governor-rick-perry-sponsors-bobby-labonte-for-texas-race/

Herbert MacKayFraser Bill Mackey Lance Macklin Damien Magee Tony Maggs

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Source: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/10/24/758667/hamlin-gains-ground-on-johnson.html

F1 Racing Australia F1 Racing Bahrain F1 Racing Belgium F1 Racing Brazil F1 Racing Canada

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Former NASCAR driver Shane Hmiel won a USAC Midget race last week at Hickory Motor Speedway. He returned to race again the next night, turning the fastest speed in qualifying and hoping for another $3,000 winner’s payday, only to see rain wash away those hopes. A handful of people milled around the pits and maybe [...]

Source: http://autoracingsport.com/shane-hmiel-back-racing-midgets/

Rolf Stommelen Philippe Streiff Hans Stuck Hans Joachim Stuck Otto Stuppacher

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Throughout its history, the NASCAR series now known as Sprint Cup has parked its cars on Easter Sunday. But back in the day they did run at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, N.C., on Mondays, including the day after Easter, and it was on one of those post-Easter Monday races that Glen Wood scored his [...]

Source: http://autoracingsport.com/remembering-glen-woods-first-win/

Hector Rebaque Brian Redman Jimmy Reece Ray Reed Alan Rees

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Source: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/10/25/759192/hamlin-takes-martinsville-victory.html

William Ferguson Maria Teresa de Filippis Ralph Firman Ludwig Fischer Rudi Fischer

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Source: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/10/24/757371/hamlin-aims-for-johnson.html

Enrique Bernoldi Enrico Bertaggia Tony Bettenhausen Mike Beuttler Birabongse Bhanubandh

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Dario Franchitti claimed his third IZOD IndyCar Series championship in four years with an eighth-place finish in Saturday's Cafes do Brasil Indy 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Will Power's mishap late in the race helped Franchitti tie Sam Hornish Jr. for the most titles in the series. The 37-year-old Scotsman also became the first driver to win back-to-back championships since Hornish did it in 2001-02. Hornish's last title came in

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Jim Rigsby Jochen Rindt John RiseleyPrichard Giovanni de Riu Richard Robarts

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Source: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/10/25/759192/hamlin-takes-martinsville-victory.html

Christijan Albers Michele Alboreto Jean Alesi Jaime Alguersuari Philippe Alliot

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Clint Bowyer won the Sprint Cup race Sunday, but he and his team were fined and docked 150 points for violations involving the setup of his car.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/23/sports/autoracing/23nascar.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Leo Kinnunen Danny Kladis Hans Klenk Peter de Klerk Christian Klien

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Casey Mears was selected Saturday to sub for #11-Denny Hamlin while he recovers from ACL surgery. It’s a deal that came together in just a few days, but one Mears knows could relaunch a fledgling Cup career after going 1-for-6 in making races with underfunded Keyed-Up Motorsports…a deal that ended with a DNQ Friday. “It’s [...]

Source: http://autoracingsport.com/casey-mears-to-sub-if-hamlin-cant-drive/

Bruno Senna Carl Edwards Casey Mears Chad McCumbee Clint Bowyer

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FONTANA, Calif. (AP) -- A woman crashed a replica Indy race car into a wall at a high rate of speed and died while taking part in the Mario Andretti Driving Experience at a Southern California motor speedway.

The San Bernardino County coroner's office says 24-year-old Ashley Phalen of Los Angeles was killed early Friday when her vehicle slammed into a wall and overturned at the Auto Club Motor Speedway in Fontana. She died at a nearby hospital.

Phalen was participating in what is described on andrettiracing.com as the "World's Fastest Racing Experience." The website says people can drive a race car with 600 horsepower for an eight-minute session and reach speeds up to 160 mph.

The San Bernardino Sun reported that the crash occurred at 9:32 a.m. PT Friday and that the car struck an inside wall before overturning.

An after-hours phone message for the Andretti Driving Experience wasn't immediately returned.

Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. Active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL.

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Source: http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2010/10/16/woman-killed-in-driving-experience-crash-at-auto-club-speedway/

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Filed under: Brian Vickers, Kasey Kahne, NASCAR Rumors, Sprint Cup, Red Bull Racing, NASCAR

Discussing his abrupt departure from Richard Petty Motorsports this week, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Kasey Kahne insisted Friday morning that it was a mutual decision. He dismissed reports that he was owed money from the team and challenged anyone to question his commitment despite the late-season split.

"It was time for me to move on,'' Kahne told reporters Friday morning at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway, where he'll begin his tenure in the No. 83 Red Bull Toyota in Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race.

"It definitely went down differently than what a lot of people people expected, including myself. It's a big change for myself. I'm been doing the same thing for six and a half years. ... and now everything's different, but I'm looking forward to it. I've been looking forward to next year and now I've got a quicker start on it.

"I think it's good for me that it happened. And I think it's good for RPM also.''

Red Bull Racing general manager Jay Frye concurred and acknowledged the timing certainly benefited them as well. Kahne was already set to run the full 2011 season with the team before taking over the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet in 2012. With one of Red Bull's lead drivers, Brian Vickers recovering from a blood clot, the No. 83 was available for Kahne now.

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Source: http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2010/10/22/kasey-kahne-it-was-time-for-me-to-move-on/

F1 Racing Great Britain F1 Racing Hungary F1 Racing Italy F1 Racing Japan F1 Racing Korea

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Gil Martin is the crew chief for Kevin Harvick, who is one of only three drivers to have a shot at winning the Chase for the Sprint Cup.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/sports/autoracing/24nascar.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Dave Blaney David Gilliland David Ragan David Reutimann David Stremme

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Filed under: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chase for the Sprint Cup, NASCAR Fans, Sprint Cup, Danica Patrick, NASCAR

MARTINSVILLE, Va. -- The legions of fans of Junior Nation rose as one on lap 285 of the Tums Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway Sunday, waving the little green flags passed out by the race sponsor and screaming their lungs out against the din of the more than three dozen race cars circling the half-mile track here.

Their man, Dale Earnhardt Jr., had clawed his way to the front and taken the lead from Jeff Gordon during a green flag run at the midpoint of the NASCAR Sprint Cup race.

And he led 90 of the next 93 laps -- more than his total for the entire year before Sunday's race. Coming into Martinsville -- where Earnhardt has never won -- he had led a total of 71 laps in five races.

But after more than doubling his laps led total Sunday, Earnhardt was only partially satisfied. He faded during the long green flag run over the final 98 laps and finished seventh.

"Well, this isn't quite good enough," Earnhardt said. "We have to run way better than this. I can come in here and get a top-10 unless we have a major, major issue in the setup."

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Source: http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2010/10/24/dale-earnhardt-jr-sees-a-glimmer-of-racing-sunlight/

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Three years after a serious accident, John Force hopes to become the first N.H.R.A. major-class champion older than 60.

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Casey Mears was selected Saturday to sub for #11-Denny Hamlin while he recovers from ACL surgery. It’s a deal that came together in just a few days, but one Mears knows could relaunch a fledgling Cup career after going 1-for-6 in making races with underfunded Keyed-Up Motorsports…a deal that ended with a DNQ Friday. “It’s [...]

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The top seven finishers were in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship field, including Greg Biffle, who won to pull himself out of a deep hole.

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Denny Hamlin won the pole for Sunday?s Nascar Sprint Cup race at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia.

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Former NASCAR driver Shane Hmiel won a USAC Midget race last week at Hickory Motor Speedway. He returned to race again the next night, turning the fastest speed in qualifying and hoping for another $3,000 winner’s payday, only to see rain wash away those hopes. A handful of people milled around the pits and maybe [...]

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Former NASCAR driver Shane Hmiel won a USAC Midget race last week at Hickory Motor Speedway. He returned to race again the next night, turning the fastest speed in qualifying and hoping for another $3,000 winner’s payday, only to see rain wash away those hopes. A handful of people milled around the pits and maybe [...]

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Helio Castroneves will start on the pole for the Indy Japan 300 after edging his Team Penske teammates, Ryan Briscoe and Will Power, in Saturday's qualifying at Twin Ring Motegi. Castroneves, who won at Kentucky earlier this month, turned a lap of 201.992 m.p.h. for his fourth pole at Motegi in five years. Briscoe qualified on the outside pole, while Power, the current points leader, took the third spot to give Penske the top-three starting p

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Jamie McMurray?s career came full circle at Charlotte Motor Speedway, where he returned to victory lane eight years after grabbing his first win.

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Casey Mears was selected Saturday to sub for #11-Denny Hamlin while he recovers from ACL surgery. It’s a deal that came together in just a few days, but one Mears knows could relaunch a fledgling Cup career after going 1-for-6 in making races with underfunded Keyed-Up Motorsports…a deal that ended with a DNQ Friday. “It’s [...]

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Denny Hamlin won the pole for Sunday?s Sprint Cup race in Martinsville, Va.

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Filed under: Carl Edwards, Clint Bowyer, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick, Chase for the Sprint Cup, Nationwide Series, Sprint Cup, Joey Logano, NASCARThe leaves are changing, and pretty soon it will be getting dark at 5 p.m. and the holidays will be hurtling at us.

We've still got five races to go in NASCAR's Chase to the Sprint Cup championship, and four more in the Nationwide series.

But on this rather slow Wednesday at the halfway point of the Chase, we thought we'd jump back into the summer for a review of some of the highlights and lowlights of those long, sunny, hot days of June, July and August.

The 2010 season will be remembered as a year that the economic downturn hit NASCAR hard, with vast swaths of empty seats at many race tracks. Even Bristol doesn't sell out anymore.

But NASCAR Vice President of Competition Robin Pemberton's open invitation of "Boys, have at it" in January had its effects, too, and throughout the season, the drivers showed a far greater willingness to mix it up on the track, and the NASCAR police stood down and let 'em race.

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Surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament in Denny Hamlin’s left knee will not limit the Sprint Cup driver behind the wheel for the next race, according to one of the doctors that will perform the operation on Wednesday. “I anticipate by the time he gets to Phoenix [April 8-10] he’ll have a pretty [...]

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Filed under: NASCAR Hall of Fame, NASCARDriving champions David Pearson, Bobby Allison, Lee Petty, Ned Jarrett and team owner Bud Moore were named as the second class of inductees into NASCAR's Hall of Fame on Wednesday afternoon during a ceremony at the Grand Hall of the year-old shrine in downtown Charlotte.

Representing markedly different eras, the new class is comprised of some of the sport's most recognizable names.

Three-time Cup champion David Pearson, who many thought would enter the Hall during its inaugural class, was the first name announced by NASCAR Chairman Brian France (right).

Legendary driver Bobby Allison, the 1983 Cup champ and three-time winner of the Daytona 500, was the next name revealed, followed by the Petty family patriarch and inaugural Daytona 500 winner Lee Petty; Ned Jarrett, a two-time Cup champ (1961, '65) and father of 1999 Cup driving champ Dale Jarrett; and Bud Moore, a three-time Cup champion mechanic and team owner.

The class -- selected by a 52-person voting panel plus a fan internet vote in a four-hour voting session Wednesday morning -- will be inducted in May of 2011. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

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Denny Hamlin won the pole for Sunday?s Sprint Cup race in Martinsville, Va.

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Filed under: NASCARIn another of ESPN Film's Emmy-worthy installments of its documentary series "30 for 30," the network on Tuesday night gives us a moving and informative look at the life of former star NASCAR Cup Series driver Tim Richmond, who died in 1989 of complications from AID at the age of only 34.

Using the right blend of classic race footage and emotional interviews, the hour-long film gives an in-depth look at NASCAR's original rebel, the driver who gave Dale Earnhardt fits on track and puzzled the "Good Ol' Boy" garage, which wasn't sure what to make of this glam-kid from the Midwest.

As his former team owner Rick Hendrick and contemporaries such as Darrell Waltrip tell it, Richmond had more talent than he could harness. And Richmond enjoyed every bit of his success -- perhaps to a fault. The film, with emotional interviews from Richmond's sister, lets you decide.

This is a must-see for the massive legions of new NASCAR fans who started tuning into the sport only in the last decade. And it's sure to be an emotional trip down memory lane for those who remember Richmond's spunk, talent and personality.

It's interesting and compelling television whether you're a NASCAR fan or not.

The show begins at 8 p.m. (ET) Tuesday. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

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Kyle Busch?s took the checkered flag for the 11th time in 23 of Nascar?s Nationwide Series races.

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Filed under: Denny Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson, Chase for the Sprint Cup, NASCARMaking eye contact with reporters, speaking in a strong voice,gesturing for emphasis, Denny Hamlin all but declared the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup championship was his to lose in the hour after he won the final regular season race Sept. 11 at his home track in Richmond, Va.

His body language seemed to challenge anyone to believe differently. And five races into the 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup, Hamlin is every bit on track to back up the words.

He felt he could win or contend on every single of the 10 Chase tracks and, in the past, it might have seemed more bravado than measured confidence from the NASCAR "young gun."

But this is a different Hamlin. The 2010 Hamlin model says the proper championship mindset has at last matched his considerable talent. And he is doing everything he needs to do to give four-time defending series champ Jimmie Johnson a real run for a fifth.

Johnson holds a 41-point edge over second place Hamlin entering Sunday's race at the half-mile Martinsville (Va.) Speedway, where the Tums Fast Relief 500 is being billed as mano y mano -- a heavyweight fight of sorts between Hamlin and Johnson, who have combined to win every race there in the last four years.

"People would think so, I would think so,'' Hamlin said of comparing the race to a title fight. "I feel like if it is mano y mano, we've been in a lot of green-white-checkers where we've been on the front row together, so it should be interesting.'' Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

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There have been numerous calls for Bristol Motor Speedway to end its experiment with old-timer “legends” racing since the track’s March 20 event resulted in a savage late-race accident. Larry Pearson, the driver seriously injured in that wreck, isn’t one of the naysayers. Pearson, 56, had six surgeries in the 12 days following the crash, [...]

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Denny Hamlin won the pole for Sunday?s Nascar Sprint Cup race at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia.

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Casey Mears was selected Saturday to sub for #11-Denny Hamlin while he recovers from ACL surgery. It’s a deal that came together in just a few days, but one Mears knows could relaunch a fledgling Cup career after going 1-for-6 in making races with underfunded Keyed-Up Motorsports…a deal that ended with a DNQ Friday. “It’s [...]

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Dario Franchitti claimed his third IZOD IndyCar Series championship in four years with an eighth-place finish in Saturday's Cafes do Brasil Indy 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Will Power's mishap late in the race helped Franchitti tie Sam Hornish Jr. for the most titles in the series. The 37-year-old Scotsman also became the first driver to win back-to-back championships since Hornish did it in 2001-02. Hornish's last title came in

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Denny Hamlin won the pole for Sunday?s Nascar Sprint Cup race at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia.

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Filed under: Carl Edwards, David Ragan, Denny Hamlin, Greg Biffle, Jamie McMurray, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Juan Pablo Montoya, Kasey Kahne, Kevin Harvick, Ryan Newman, Tony Stewart, Chase for the Sprint Cup, Sprint Cup, NASCARConsidering Denny Hamlin's record at Martinsville Speedway -- two straight victories and three wins in the last five races -- you wouldn't think he'd be too worried about whether he could hold onto the pole position for Sunday's Tums Fast Relief 500 after posting the fastest lap in his qualifying run Friday.

But winning the pole means getting the pick of the pit stalls, and at Martinsville the best one is first in line, right behind the exit line of the pits.

So as Hamlin waited nervously in the lounge of his team transporter while the rest of the field took their runs, he was. . . well, let's let him describe it in his usual frank manner: "I wasn't wishing bad luck," he said, "but I was just like, 'Slip, slip, slip, slip.'

"It came true for us. We've had to work extra hard today because we have worked just on qualifying."

The pole position at this tight, half-mile short track was "objective number one" for Hamlin and he and his team devoted all of practice to the qualifying setup. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

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Dario Franchitti claimed his third IZOD IndyCar Series championship in four years with an eighth-place finish in Saturday's Cafes do Brasil Indy 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Will Power's mishap late in the race helped Franchitti tie Sam Hornish Jr. for the most titles in the series. The 37-year-old Scotsman also became the first driver to win back-to-back championships since Hornish did it in 2001-02. Hornish's last title came in

Pedro de la Rosa Reed Sorenson Regan Smith Robby Gordon Robert Kubica

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The IndyCar Series -- with new title sponsor IZOD -- enjoyed another thrilling season this year, as far as the championship race was concerned. Dario Franchitti and Will Power took their points battle all the way to last Saturday's season-finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway, with Franchitti claiming his third title. Other headlines in IndyCar this season included the first race in a South American country, a revision to the championship format and th

Michael Schumacher Michael Waltrip Mike Bliss Mike Wallace Nelson Piquet Jnr

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Dario Franchitti took one stop closer to catching Will Power in the IZOD IndyCar Series championship battle by winning the pole for Saturday's season-ending Cafes do Brasil Indy 300 at Homestead- Miami Speedway. Franchitti, the defending series champion, posted a two-lap average of 213.187 m.p.h. in qualifying at the 1.5-mile South Florida track on Friday to pull within 11 points of leader Power. It was Franchitti's second pole of the

David Ragan David Reutimann David Stremme Denny Hamlin Derrike Cope

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Dario Franchitti took one stop closer to catching Will Power in the IZOD IndyCar Series championship battle by winning the pole for Saturday's season-ending Cafes do Brasil Indy 300 at Homestead- Miami Speedway. Franchitti, the defending series champion, posted a two-lap average of 213.187 m.p.h. in qualifying at the 1.5-mile South Florida track on Friday to pull within 11 points of leader Power. It was Franchitti's second pole of the

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Filed under: Carl Edwards, Clint Bowyer, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick, Chase for the Sprint Cup, Nationwide Series, Sprint Cup, Joey Logano, NASCARThe leaves are changing, and pretty soon it will be getting dark at 5 p.m. and the holidays will be hurtling at us.

We've still got five races to go in NASCAR's Chase to the Sprint Cup championship, and four more in the Nationwide series.

But on this rather slow Wednesday at the halfway point of the Chase, we thought we'd jump back into the summer for a review of some of the highlights and lowlights of those long, sunny, hot days of June, July and August.

The 2010 season will be remembered as a year that the economic downturn hit NASCAR hard, with vast swaths of empty seats at many race tracks. Even Bristol doesn't sell out anymore.

But NASCAR Vice President of Competition Robin Pemberton's open invitation of "Boys, have at it" in January had its effects, too, and throughout the season, the drivers showed a far greater willingness to mix it up on the track, and the NASCAR police stood down and let 'em race.

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CONCORD, N.C. -- A week ago, Danica Patrick was wrecked while in the midst of what would have been her best NASCAR finish -- an unnecessary victim of bullying as far as she was concerned.

So this week, Patrick warned the guilty party, fellow rookie James Buescher, that he better not push the issue in Friday night's race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

"I think it's pretty safe to say I'm not going to make it my mission to take him out because I don't want to do anything to take away from my race,'' said Patrick, who will be making her ninth start in Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s No. 7 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet.

"But if he, in any way, starts to act up out there, yeah, I'm going to do something about it.''

"I hope that he thinks about what he did last weekend. If he plays well with others then you know we'll be able to carry on. But if he doesn't, there's going to be a need for something to happen because you can't get pushed around out there. You can't.''

Patrick was referring to an accident with nine laps remaining in last Saturday's race in Fontana, Calif., when she was on pace for her first top-15 finish. While running 14th in a tight pack of cars she was hit from behind by Buescher, ending her day while he went on and finished 17th. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

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