Fans have spoken and NASCAR listened – double-wide is the way to go (avoid the easy fan jokes here).  Starting in Pocono this weekend, restarts during the race will no longer be single file and lapped cars will not be up front w/ the leaders.
The race leader will have his choice of positioning on the [...]

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After Kansas rankings
That’s Racin’s weekly ranking of the top 40 teams in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series as of the Camping World RV 400 at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas. (Last week’s ranking in parentheses):

1. (3) Jimmie Johnson – car No. 48
Kansas victory was his 12th in 43 Chase races [...]

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LOUDON, N.H. – In 12 laps Sunday, Greg Biffle went from long shot to legitimate contender for the Sprint Cup Series championship.
Mired in a 33-race winless slump that included all of this season, Biffle admitted that he and his Roush Fenway Racing team should have been given good odds as the 10-race [...]

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LOUDON, N.H. – No one questions the need for a strong start in the Chase for the Sprint Cup, but it appears that winning during NASCAR’s 10-race playoff has increasingly become a priority.
Jeff Gordon, who led the series standings for most of the first 26 races last season, averaged slightly better than [...]

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Clint Bowyer heard the critics loud and clear last year when the Richard Childress Racing driver squeaked into NASCAR’s Chase for the championship by taking the 12th and final spot despite not winning a race.
It took Bowyer one glorious Sunday to shut them up.
Bowyer captured the first checkered flag of his Sprint [...]

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Tony Stewart and Joey Logano will not be on probation in the NASCAR Nationwide Series after all.
A three-man panel of the National Stock Car Racing Commission issued a decision Wednesday rescinding the probation handed down to the drivers after the Joe Gibbs Racing team was caught trying to [...]

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Clint Bowyer has it. David Ragan and Kasey Kahne both want it. One race, one night and only one will go home happy.
Boiled down to its bones, that’s the story for Saturday night’s Chevy Rock & Roll 400 at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway.
Bowyer, Ragan and Kahne may not figure in who wins [...]

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Penske Racing is officially announcing today that David Stremme will take over in the No. 12 Dodges in 2009.
Stremme, 31, will replace Ryan Newman, the 2008 Daytona 500 champion, who is leaving to drive the No. 39 Chevrolets for Stewart-Haas Racing next season.
Stremme has made 75 career Sprint Cup starts, driving full [...]

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FONTANA, Calif. – One year ago Jimmie Johnson roared into the championship chase on the heels of a pair of victories at California and Richmond – a run that helped propel Johnson to his second consecutive Sprint Cup Series championship.
The California native is poised for a repeat performance after easily winning the [...]

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BRISTOL, Tenn. – Kyle Busch believed Carl Edwards would offer up an empty apology after Edwards bumped his way past Busch to win Saturday night’s Sharpie 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Wrong.
“I feel like I was extremely justified to do what I did,” Edwards said after his bump in Turn 1 on Lap [...]

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BRISTOL, Tenn. – Carl Edwards doesn’t appear to be overly eager to couch the 2008 Sprint Cup season as a two-man battle between himself and Kyle Busch – despite mounting evidence to the contrary.
Edwards sped to the pole for Saturday night’s Sharpie 500 in Friday’s qualifying, looping this .533-mile oval at an [...]

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BRISTOL, Tenn. – Has Bristol lost some of its bite? The track notorious for its beating and banging got a new paving job before last year’s August night race. Trucks and Nationwide Series races leading up to the Sharpie 500 were memorable and there was great anticipation for the Sprint Cup race.
Perhaps [...]

Ryan Newman’s long-anticipated move to Tony Stewart’s new race team will become reality at Michigan International Speedway, NASCAR.com has learned. The announcement is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. ET Friday.
Read the full story at NASCAR.com

If Kyle Busch appeared “vulnerable” in recent weeks to some of his fellow NASCAR Sprint Cup competitors, the aura of invincibility returned to the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota on Sunday at Watkins Glen International. Read the full story at NASCAR.com
The younger of the Busch brothers, Kyle has easily shown that he not only [...]

Martin Truex Jr. and Dale Earnhardt Inc. principals Max Siegel and John Story appeared at the Watkins Glen International media center to confirm what had been reported earlier in the week — that Truex will drive the No. 1 DEI Chevrolet next season with continued sponsorship from Bass Pro Shops. Read the full story at [...]