McMurray holds off Busch to win Nationwide race

By Charles Odum
September 5, 2010


Hampton, GA — Jamie McMurray believed he had the fastest car from the first practice to the last lap Saturday night.

McMurray proved the point by taking the lead for good on the final restart and holding off Kyle Busch to win the Great Clips 300 Nationwide Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

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Kyle Busch sweeps all 3 Bristol races

By Jenna Fryer
August 21, 2010


Bristol, TN — Kyle Busch made NASCAR history Saturday night with an unprecedented sweep of three national races in one week, completing the trifecta with a victory in the Sprint Cup race at Bristol Motor Speedway.

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11 laps to go Harvick passes Hamlin, holds on to win at Michigan

By Chris Jenkins
August 15, 2010


Brooklyn, MI — He already had horsepower, handling and the points lead. Now Kevin Harvick has a win this season at a track other than Talladega or Daytona.

Harvick passed Kevin Harvick with 11 laps to go Sunday, then held on to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup series race at Michigan International Speedway.

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Keselowski wins Nationwide at Michigan International Speedway

By Chris Jenkins
August 14, 2010


Brooklyn, MI — Brad Keselowski grabbed the lead on a restart with eight laps to go, then pulled away to win the NASCAR Nationwide race at Michigan International Speedway on Saturday.

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Juan Pablo Montoya wins at Watkins Glen

By John Kekis
August 8, 2010


Watkins Glen, NY — Juan Pablo Montoya erased 113 races of futility Sunday, winning a duel with Marcos Ambrose and the Sprint Cup race at Watkins Glen International.

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Busch wins Nationwide race at Iowa Speedway

By Luke Meredith
August 1, 2010


Newton, IA — Kyle Busch is now a better bet than the Nationwide Series field.

Busch raced to his sixth victory in his last seven Nationwide starts and ninth in 17 events this season Saturday night, leading 209 of 250 laps in a dominating run at Iowa Speedway.

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McMurray wins Brickyard 400 after Montoya falters

By Jenna Fryer
July 25, 2010


Indianapolis, IN — Juan Pablo Montoya once again had victory within reach at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Then questionable strategy cost him first the lead, and ultimately the race.

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Villeneuve back at Indianapolis Motor Speedway

By Chris Jenkins
July 23, 2010


Indianapolis, IN — Jacques Villeneuve was supposed to be in Europe this week working on a potential deal to return to Formula One next season.

Then he suddenly got the chance to try to qualify for Sunday’s Sprint Cup series race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, so Villeneuve put those talks on hold to go racing.

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Edwards beats Keselowski in Nationwide Dodge Dealers 250

By R.B. Fallstrom
July 18, 2010


Madison, IL — Carl Edwards meant no harm to Brad Keselowski. He just wanted to take the checkered flag that he deserved.

Edwards prevailed in a wild final lap, nudging Keselowski out of control on the final straightaway to take the Nationwide Dodge Dealers 250 on Saturday night. Ten cars were involved in the mess.

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Surprise for Reutimann and for Gordon

By Jay Hart
July 11, 2010


Joliet, IL — A lot of drivers would take Jeff Gordon’s scorecard, which the last five weeks reads 3, 3, 4, 5 and 4. But as we know, Jeff Gordon isn’t a lot of drivers, and the lack of any aces – not even one – is cause for conversation.

For 48 straight races now, Gordon’s only reason to go to victory lane has been to congratulate the winner. This weekend at Chicagoland Speedway, he went to shake the hand of David Reutimann.

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LifeLock.com 400, Chicagoland Speedway
7:46 PM EDT, Sat, July 10, 2010

By Yahoo Sports Staff
July 8, 2010


Chicagoland Speedway, IL — The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series heads to Chicagoland Speedway for Saturday's LifeLock.com 400. This is the only Cup race there this season.

Mark Martin is the defending race winner.

Who Will Win?

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McMurray goes for rare Daytona 500/400 sweep

By NASCAR.COM
July 1, 2010


Race No. 18: Coke Zero 400 from Daytona International Speedway (7:30 p.m. ET Saturday, July 3, 2010, on TNT). Green at 7:52 p.m. ET.

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Race to the Chase is a mere formality

By Jay Hart
June 27, 2010


Loudon, NH — Let’s cut to the Chase. Literally.

Nine races remain before NASCAR’s Chase for the Championship begins. Between now and then, the only real drama to be played out is if Dale Earnhardt Jr. earns one of the 12 playoff spots, which in the grand scheme means very little.

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Kyle Busch wins at New Hampshire Motor Speedway

By Dan Gelston
June 26, 2010


Loudon, NH — Kyle Busch won the Nationwide Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Saturday and become the career laps led leader in NASCAR’s second-tier series.

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Ambrose stalls giving Johnson Sonoma win

By Jenna Fryer
June 20, 2010


Sonoma, CA — Ambrose stalled his engine while trying to conserve gas late in Sunday's race at Infineon Raceway, where his car came to a stop while leading with six laps remaining. He restarted and tried to re-claim his position at the front of the field, but NASCAR ordered him back to seventh place and Jimmie Johnson inherited the lead.

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Aussie Ambrose looks to become king of the road

By Jay Hart
June 19, 2010


Sonoma, CA — During a test session earlier this month at the road course at Watkins Glen International, Jeff Gordon swapped seats with Marcos Ambrose. Gordon drove Ambrose’s No. 47 car, which has been to victory lane exactly zero times, while Ambrose wheeled Gordon’s famed No. 24, you know, the one with four championships and 82 wins, including nine on road courses.

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Hamlin rolls to 5th win at Michigan

By Will Graves
June 13, 2010


Brooklyn, MI — Denny Hamlin continued his hot streak, dominating Sunday’s NASCAR race at Michigan International Speedway to pick up his second consecutive victory and fifth of the season.

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Hamlin cruises to fourth career win at Pocono

By Will Graves
June 6, 2010


Long Pond, PA — Denny Hamlin is so enamored with the No. 11 Toyota he won in Sunday at Pocono that he’s asked team owner Joe Gibbs if he can keep it when it’s finally taken out of the rotation.

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Kurt Bursch's 22nd win, the Coca-Cola 600

By Jay Hart
May 31, 2010


Concord, NC — It’s got to be frustrating when you’re the one with the championship, the one who has won more Cup races in your respective careers, the one who finished third in the standings last year, and still all anyone wants to talk about is your little brother.

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Johnson says about Hamlin: “He’s a threat”

By Viv Berstein
May 29, 2010


Huntersville, NC — In the sometimes bland NASCAR garage, at least one driver has dared to criticize the powerful, call out the untouchable, slap down the unbearable and catch the seemingly uncatchable.

Denny Hamlin might be NASCAR’s next great hope. If he plays it right, he could be its next champion, too.

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Kurt Busch wins $1 million All-Star race

By Jenna Fryer
May 22, 2010


Concord, NC — The two hottest drivers in NASCAR lined up side-by-side for a final dash toward a cool $1 million prize.

But when Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch tangled in their race for the lead, Kurt Busch sailed through the carnage to steal a victory in Saturday night's All-Star race.

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Hamlin team wins NASCAR's Pit Crew Challenge

By Mike Cranston
May 19, 2010


Charlotte, NC — Denny Hamlin's No. 11 team continued a dominating season by winning NASCAR's Pit Crew Challenge on Wednesday night.

The seven-member team changed four tires, put in gas and pushed the car 40 yards in 23.132 seconds to edge defending champion Jeff Burton's crew and collect $70,650.

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Fryer’s Five: Nothing new about Kyle Busch

By Jenna Fryer
May 17, 2010


Dover, DE — Stop wasting any more time debating “old” Kyle Busch vs. “new” Kyle Busch, at least if the argument centers around the gains he may or may not have made in maturation.

The only thing that really matters is how Busch runs on the race track, and if this past weekend is any indication, we are indeed seeing the old Kyle Busch.<

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NASCAR opens Hall of Fame in Charlotte

By Jenna Fryer
May 11, 2010


Charlotte, NC — The rumble from a pair of motors interrupted the opening ceremony at the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

Nobody seemed to mind, though, when Richard Petty pulled his 1974 Dodge Charger onto the ceremonial plaza, with Junior Johnson trailing in a 1940 Ford. The two members of NASCAR’s inaugural Hall of Fame class climbed from the cars they are most associated with to a rousing ovation.

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Junior wrecks 1 car and bangs up backup at Darlington

By Jenna Fryer
May 7, 2010


Darlington, SC — Dale Earnhardt Jr. has disliked Darlington Raceway since his 2000 rookie season debut. A good car quickly went bad, Earnhardt crashed, then worried he'd never make a career as a driver if he couldn't handle NASCAR's oldest superspeedway.

"He's like all but ready to quit, it's that bad, it's like 'There's no way I can race here a million times,' " crew chief Lance McGrew said Earnhardt told him Friday about that 40th-place debut.

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Jeff Gordon is irrelevant?

By Jenna Fryer
May 3, 2010


Richmond, VA — Everybody had an opinion when it came to the so-called “feud” between Hendrick Motorsports teammates Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson, but only one stirred any serious debate. When analyst Brad Daugherty said on Showtime’s “Inside NASCAR” that Gordon has “almost become irrelevant” during Johnson’s current reign, more than a few eyebrows were raised.

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Special K wins Bubba Burger 250

By SpeedTV
April 30, 2010


Richmond, VA — Brad Keselowski raced Friday night in the shadow of a controversial finish last Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway.

But that was the only shadow Keselowski saw Friday night.

Keselowski was wildly dominant in Friday night’s Bubba Burger 250 Nationwide race, eventually leading 189 of the 252 laps. But he had to survive a rough green-white-checkered finish to reach victory lane.

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Harvick’s mad dash caps a ‘perfect race’

By Jay Busbee
April 25, 2010


Talladega, AL – Ladies and gentlemen, let’s go ahead and call it right now: The Aaron’s 499 on Sunday at Talladega was a perfect race.

No, that doesn’t mean it was NASCAR’s best race. The 1979 Daytona 500 still holds that title. But let’s consider all the ways in which Sunday’s Talladega run was racing perfection:

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Hutchens’s seen it all, from Earnhardt to Stewart

By Jay Hart
April 23, 2010


Bobby Hutchens may not be a familiar name, but he’s worked closely with some of NASCAR’s biggest stars. He was one of NASCAR’s very first engineers, working at Richard Childress Racing for four of Dale Earnhardt Sr.’s seven titles.

Today, he serves as the competition director for Stewart-Haas Racing.

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Crunch time for Richard Petty Motorsports

By Jay Hart
April 17, 2010


Over the next month or two, Rick Hendrick will figure out where to store Kasey Kahne for 2011 while Kahne waits for Mark Martin to vacate the No. 5. In the meantime, there’s still business for Kahne to take care of at his current home, namely trying to make the Chase and, in the process, possibly saving Richard Petty Motorsports from completely imploding.

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Giving up your car is the most painful part of getting hurt

By David Caraviello
April 10, 2010


Jeff Burton doesn’t remember the race, he doesn’t remember the year. All he remembers is that he had to get out of the car.

“I just couldn’t do it,” the Cup Series driver said Friday at Phoenix International Raceway. “I had severe vertigo, and I just couldn’t drive. I could do it for a little while, but over a period of time, it just got worse and worse and worse. I finally just had to get out.”

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Hamlin hopes to race in Subway 600

By Jay Hart
April 7, 2010


Denny Hamlin says his surgically repaired left knee is “painful,” but he’s hopeful to race in Saturday night’s Subway 600 at Phoenix International Raceway.

“It’s painful – as anyone who has had this surgery or any similar surgery can tell you – but I am working hard to get back my full range of motion and get back to where I need to be,”

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