By Jonathan Ingram | Senior Writer
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From the Monday Morning Crew Chief:
Racing in NASCAR’s premier series has got its groove back. It’s wild. It’s wacky and only slightly tacky.
The big stage of the Texas Motor Speedway – heightened by the small monkey selling programs out front – and the bigger stage of a Sprint Cup championship got [...]

By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor
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As questions go, today’s big one is really big. But, it’s the kind we all liked so much in high school because it’s a multiple-choice question and and there are only two choices. And, the correct answer will be posted in less than two weeks.
So, here it is: Was Chad [...]

By Nick Bromberg | Staff Writer
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Fort Worth, Texas – Chad Knaus, crew chief for four-time defending Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson, elected to sub in Jeff Gordon’s pit crew for his slumping pit crew during Sunday’s AAA Texas 500.
Johnson lost time on four of the seven pit stops that he had with his own pit [...]

By Nick Bromberg | Staff Writer
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Fort Worth, Texas – It had nothing on the fight between Cale Yarborough and Donnie and Bobby Allison in the 1979 Daytona 500, but by modern NASCAR standards, this was a slobberknocker.
Jeff Gordon confronted Jeff Burton after the two got together during Sunday’s AAA Texas 500 at Texas Motor Speedway. [...]

By John Sturbin | Senior Writer
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Fort Worth, Texas – Denny Hamlin emerged from the circus-like atmosphere at Texas Motor Speedway Sunday as NASCAR’s new Sprint Cup Series point leader, on a day when the sight of a monkey selling programs ultimately proved mundane.
Hamlin held off Matt Kenseth to win the AAA Texas 500 in a [...]

By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor
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Last week, Kevin Harvick said that it would be better for NASCAR if Jimmie Johnson did not win a fifth straight championship this year.
Harvick – who will be third in points behind Johnson when today’s Texas 500 at Texas Motor Speedway starts – repeated that contention again on Friday.
“I think [...]

Elliott Sadler led a charge by Ford teams in Sprint Cup qualifying at Texas Motor Speedway on Friday.
Sadler, a non-Chase driver for the Ford team of Richard Petty Motorsports, won the pole for Sunday’s AAA Texas 500 with a lap at 195.397 mph.
Earlier in the day, Sadler announced a deal to drive Nationwide cars for [...]

By Jeff Hood | Senior Writer
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Fort Worth, Texas – The tightest points battle between a trio of drivers with three races remaining in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship rolls into Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday.
Four-time defending Cup champion Jimmie Johnson and challenger Kevin Harvick had a light-hearted exchange following Sunday’s AMP Energy 500 [...]

By Rick Minter | Senior Writer
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A few random observations as the Sprint Cup and Nationwide circuits head to Texas Motor Speedway and the NASCAR season nears the end of the road:
Hopefully the Cup debut of Trevor Bayne won’t be totally overshadowed by the Chase, as was the case with Jeff Gordon, who made his Cup [...]

Larry Woody | Senior Writer
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First we were forced to witness the somber demise of Petty Enterprises.
Now we’re watching an equally wrenching battle to keep Richard Petty Motorsports afloat.
No family has meant more and contributed greater to any sport than the Pettys have to NASCAR. Somehow it seems unfair that they should be in such a [...]