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The Roush Fenway Racing team of driver Matt Kenseth will need a new primary sponsor next year as whisky brand Crown Royal has opted to discontinue its association with the team.
In a statement released Tuesday, Crown Royal said:
“In evaluation of our NASCAR programming and after much consideration, we have made the decision to make a [...]

The ongoing debate over who should be enshrined in the NASCAR Hall of Fame is healthy because it causes people to think about who their heroes – racing and otherwise – really are.
For many, their racing heroes aren’t the Pettys and Pearsons of NASCAR. They’re the short track racers they watched every Saturday night at [...]

By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor
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Could the Chase hit the road? Sounds like the idea was gathering support at Infineon Raceway over the weekend.
Right now, of course, the Sprint Cup playoffs are conducted exclusively on ovals. A variety of ovals, but ovals.
But with Cup drivers getting more and more comfortable on road courses, they seem [...]

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Kurt Busch led 75 of 110 laps and won the Save Mart 350 Sprint Cup Series race at Infineon Raceway on Sunday.
The victory was the first of the season for the Penske Racing driver. It was the 23rd of his career.
The victory gave him his second podium finish in his last three races as he [...]

By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor
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The busiest guys in racing this coming week? From the sound of it, could be the fab shop guys. They’ll be the ones undoing the damage done at today’s Sprint Cup race at the road course at Infineon Raceway.
Driver after driver in the garages at Infineon talked about the increasing [...]

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Joey Logano on Friday won the pole for Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350 Sprint Cup Series race at Infineon Raceway.
Logano posted a lap at 93.256 mph in his Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota.
It was his first road course pole and the second pole of his career – the other came at Bristol in 2010.
“I was surprised it [...]

By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor
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Let’s see what’s in the old Morning Memo today:
A lot has been made over the years about the rivalry between Roger Penske and Chip Ganassi. And it’s a rivarly that has been there.
But it has mostly been of the non-acrimonious variety.
Now, in the wake of incidents during the IndyCar Series [...]

By Mike Harris | Senior Writer
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Marcos Ambrose will be searching for gold this weekend, on and off the track.
The Australian badly wants a NASCAR Sprint Cup win and it seems likely that when it does come it will be on a road course like Infineon Raceway.
A year ago, it looked like Ambrose was going to [...]

CONCORD, N.C. – With the stroke of a pen, North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue signed into law Tuesday a bill adopting stock car racing as the Tar Heel state’s official sport, but it was 13 elementary school students who were responsible for the new state symbol.
“Why is it that sometimes it takes really bright kids [...]

NASCAR issued penalties to Joe Gibbs Racing on Tuesday for use of unapproved parts at Michigan International Speedway last weekend.
The penalties included fines and probation to crew chiefs and car chiefs for all three JGR teams, but no reductions of owner or driver points.
A statement issued by NASCAR read:
“All three of the Joe Gibbs Racing [...]