By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Counting today’s Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway, seven races remain in the Chase for the Sprint Cup Championship. Mathematically, none of the 12 drivers in the playoff have been eliminated.
But lists of favorites to win the championship are under construction.
Some of the faves love being [...]

By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Friday’s press conference to announce that Clint Bowyer had signed to drive for Michael Waltrip Racing beginning next season looked pretty standard. Joking driver, praise-gushing owner and optimistic sponsor.
But there was something just a little bit odd going on. The smell test on this deal produced [...]

By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Andy Graves was working at Hendrick Motorsports back in the early 1990s. It was a team that was pretty darn good in those days. But there might of have been something that was missing something. Like, one piece. Perhaps on the leadership front.
It all changed the [...]

By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Greg Biffle won the pole on Friday afternoon for Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400 Sprint Cup race at Kansas Speedway.
Biffle, who missed out on this year’s Chase for the Sprint Cup Championship, had a fast lap at 174.887 mph.
The Roush Fenway Racing driver has won twice at Kansas [...]

By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor
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BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. – Surprise was not one of the things that Tony Stewart felt after following up two winning runs to start this year’s Chase for the Sprint Cup Championship by faltering in race No. 3 at Dover last Sunday.
Disappointment, yes, but surprise? Nope. Not these days.
These days, Stewart [...]

NASCAR drivers completed a second day of testing of the new, reconfigured surface at Phoenix International Raceway on Thursday.
Several were asked their opinions of the new surface and how it will affect racing at the track when the Sprint Cup Series arrives for the penultimate Chase race.
Their answers follow:
Kyle Busch of Joe Gibbs Racing: “Certainly, [...]

NASCAR officials and drivers were at Phoeinx International Raceway on Tuesday, and will be there on Wednesday as well, to test the track’s repaved/reconfigured surface.
One of those drivers was Jeff Gordon of Hendrick Motorsports. After the test, Gordon answered some questions about the new surface, which will be raced upon for the first time next [...]

Larry Woody | Senior Writer
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Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s championship chances probably went down the drain with last Sunday’s 24th-place finish at Dover.
The lackluster run dropped Junior two spots in the standings, to 10th, and with only seven races to go that’s too deep a hole from which to climb. [...]

The Second Day Lede:
Kurt Busch was in anything but a win it or wreck it mood the middle of last week. In fact, light and laid back, he was barely in a Kurt Busch mood.
Perhaps it was the hunting trip he had been on at a private farm in central Kansas. Or maybe the thick, [...]

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Kurt Busch passed Jimmie Johnson for the lead on a restart with 42 laps to go, held off the defending champion on the final laps on won the AAA 400 Sprint Cup race at Dover International Speedway on Sunday.
The victory in the third race of the Chase moved Busch from ninth to tied for third [...]