November 29, 2011
CHARLOTTE (AP) — NASCAR team owner Rick Hendrick said Monday his seat came loose in the Oct. 31 plane crash that left him with four broken ribs and a broken shoulder.The Gulfstream G150 had brake problems upon landing at the Key West Airport in Flor...
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November 22, 2011
CHARLOTTE (AP) — Kurt Busch has lost his second crew chief in three seasons.Penske Racing confirmed today that crew chief Steve Addington has left the organization. He joined Penske before the 2010 season after spending two seasons working with Busc...
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November 17, 2011
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Carl Edwards insists he's not nervous as he races for NASCAR's top championship.Tony Stewart believes otherwise, and is taking every chance he can to needle his competition for the Sprint Cup title.
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May 26, 2011
CHARLOTTE (AP) — Tony Stewart would be interested in signing Danica Patrick if she makes a full-time move to NASCAR. But Stewart only would be interested in signing Patrick to a Sprint Cup ride for Stewart-Haas Racing, which does not field a second......
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November 8, 2010
CHARLOTTE (AP) — Four-time defending NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson had a major shakeup to his race team Monday when Hendrick Motorsports gave him teammate Jeff Gordon's pit crew for the final two races of the season.
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October 27, 2010
CONCORD (AP) — Rick Hendrick never panicked as the season stretched on and he still didn't have a sponsorship deal for Jeff Gordon.Why? Because he always had a contingency plan to fall back on. It gave him the ability to be discerning when it came t...
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October 16, 2010
CONCORD (AP) — NASCAR will move from unleaded fuel to an ethanol blend in all three of its national series beginning next season. The switch to Sunoco Green E15 was announced Saturday by NASCAR chairman Brian France, who touted the switch as yet ano...
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October 13, 2010
CHARLOTTE (AP) — David Pearson has been selected to the NASCAR Hall of Fame. The Silver Fox was controversially left out of last year's inaugural class despite 105 career wins. There was an outcry among race fans at his exclusion in favor of longtim...
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October 12, 2010
KANNAPOLIS (AP) — Tony Stewart's hot streak continued Tuesday when he announced a partnership with ExxonMobil that fills the primary sponsorship holes on his race car for next season.
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September 23, 2010
CHARLOTTE (AP) — Clint Bowyer's NASCAR championship chances were crippled Wednesday when his car failed a follow-up inspection and he was penalized 150 points after winning last weekend's first race of the Chase for the Sprint Cup.
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September 21, 2010
CHARLOTTE (AP) — NASCAR warned Richard Childress Racing that Clint Bowyer's car came close to failing inspection after his Chase-clinching drive at Richmond. NASCAR scheduled a Tuesday meeting with RCR officials to go over the No. 33 Chevrolet and d...
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August 24, 2010
CHARLOTTE (AP) — Elliott Sadler does a great job shilling for his sponsors, and he's a natural in front of cameras.When his days as a NASCAR driver are over, the 13-year veteran probably is headed toward a healthy second career in television.
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August 11, 2010
CHARLOTTE (AP) — Paul Menard is taking his father's sponsorship money to Richard Childress Racing next season, giving that organization the financial security it needs to expand to the NASCAR-mandated maximum of four cars. "When this opportunit...
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August 9, 2010
CHARLOTTE (AP) — NASCAR will open the 2011 Chase for the Sprint Cup championship at Chicagoland Speedway, shifting the start of its title-deciding 10-race format to the second largest media market the series serves.
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July 29, 2010
CHARLOTTE (AP) — The top team owners in NASCAR's Sprint Cup series set their individual agendas aside for a unified brainstorming session on how to cut costs and help revive the auto racing industry.
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July 27, 2010
CHARLOTTE (AP) — NASCAR has fined at least two of its star drivers this season for making critical comments about the racing series, The Associated Press has learned.
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July 2, 2010
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — NASCAR is taking a look at the format of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship format, with chairman Brian France wanting to create more "big-impact moments." The Chase was one of several topics France covere...
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June 8, 2010
CHARLOTTE (AP) — Joey Logano made it clear on pit road at Pocono that he's sick and tired of being pushed around. It's about time.
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May 26, 2010
CONCORD (AP) — Dale Earnhardt's family was the center of attention during the lead-in to NASCAR's Hall of Fame induction ceremony.They honored the seven-time champion with the unveiling of a Wheaties box, the announcement of two commemorative paint...
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May 21, 2010
CONCORD (AP) — Brian Vickers will miss the remainder of the NASCAR season because of blood clots in his lungs and left leg. Vickers was hospitalized two nights last week after feeling chest pains during a visit to Washington, D.C. Testing revealed t...
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May 14, 2010
CHARLOTTE (AP) — NASCAR driver Brian Vickers was being treated Thursday for an undisclosed medical condition that will prevent him from racing this weekend at Dover International Speedway.
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May 13, 2010
CHARLOTTE (AP) — NASCAR driver Brian Vickers was being treated Thursday for an undisclosed medical condition that will prevent him from racing this weekend at Dover International Speedway.
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May 11, 2010
CHARLOTTE (AP) — The rumble from a pair of motors interrupted the opening ceremony at the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
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April 30, 2010
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Hendrick Motorsports extended the contracts of crew chiefs Alan Gustafson and Chad Knaus on Friday.Gustafson, currently crew chief for the No. 5 car driven by Mark Martin, said he received a four-year deal that runs through 2014...
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April 21, 2010
CHARLOTTE (AP) — Several dominoes in 2011 team alignments fell into place Wednesday in a flurry of NASCAR activity triggered by Shell Oil Company's decision to transfer its sponsorship from Kevin Harvick to Kurt Busch starting next season.
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