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Kurt Busch has been penalized for his actions during last Saturday’s Sprint Cup race at Darlington Raceway.
Also penalized were a crew member for Busch’s team and two members of Ryan Newman’s Stewart-Haas Racing team.
Busch, driver of the No. 51 car in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, was fine $50,000 and placed on NASCAR probation until [...]

Jimmie Johnson broke a 16-race winless streak Saturday night when he won the Southern 500 Sprint Cup race at Darlington Raceway. He got the victory by pulling away from Tony Stewart on a restart with two laps to go.
The victory by the five-time champion gave Hendrick Motorsports its 200th Cup series victory.
“I want to thank all [...]

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Muscle Milk Pickett Racing got its second straight victory in the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón on Saturday at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.
In the GT class,  Corvette Racing’s Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner also took their second consecutive win.
Seven cars in the GT class were within two seconds in the closing hour [...]

Joey Logano of Joe Gibbs Racing won the Sports Clips 200 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Darlington Raceway on Friday night.
The victory, which came after a green/white/checkered restart, was the third of the year in the series for Logano and it came in his eighth start. It was his second victory in a row.
“Darlington,” Logano said, [...]

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Greg Biffle won the pole on Friday for Saturday night’s Bojangles’ Southern 500 Sprint Cup race at Darlington Raceway.
Biffle, driving a Roush Fenway Racing Ford, had a fast lap of 180.257 mph. It was his second pole of the season – his other came at the Bristol short track.
Biffle has been the series points leader [...]

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The third of 12 national Super Chevy Show events presented by Chevy Performance will take place at Texas Motorplex this week.
The event started with an escorted cruise Thursday afternoon of the American Veterans Traveling Tribute wall from Canton to the drag strip complex in Ennis, Texas.
The Super Chevy Show is a celebration of one of [...]

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Two-time IndyCar Series champion Panther Racing announced Monday it has formed a strategic alliance with Dreyer & Reinbold Racing on Oriol Servia’s entry for the remainder of the 2012 IndyCar Series season.
The No. 22 Panther/DRR team will utilize Panther’s second Chevrolet engine lease and work in conjunction with the No. 4 National Guard team anddriver [...]

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Steve Torrence scored his first career Top Fuel win Sunday when he beat the field at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern Nationals at Atlanta Dragway.
Also scoring class wins were Ron Capps (Funny Car), Greg Anderson (Pro Stock), Eddie Krawiec (Pro Stock Motorcycle).
Capps’ victory was the first in Funny Car this season for a non-John [...]

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Brad Keselowski survived a large handful of late-race restarts – the final one a green/white/checkered job – and went on to win the Aaron’s 499 Sprint Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday.
The victory was the sixth of the Penske Racing Dodge driver’s career. It was his second of the season as he won [...]

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Sam Hornish Jr. had his chances for a good finish and a functioning Dodge race car slammed into the wall at Talladega Superspeedway Saturday afternoon.
The slam came courtesy of Danica Patrick and her JR Motorsports car and it came on the cool-down lap after the Aaron’s 312 Nationwide Series race.
After getting out of his car, [...]