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Juan Pablo Montoya turned in a stellar performance on Sunday to score his second career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victory in the Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen.

Todd Bodine cemented his hold on the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series points standings with a dominant victory in the Nashville 200 at Nashville Superspeedway on Saturday night.

Ambrose cruised to his third straight Nationwide Series victory on the 2.45-mile road course Saturday, easily outrunning Joey Logano and Kevin Harvick in the Zippo 200. Ambrose joins former Sprint Cup champion Terry Labonte as the only two drivers to achieve the three-in-a-row effort the Glen.

Eric Holmes added a new track to his resume of wins as he took the victory in the Toyota/NAPA Auto Parts Bonus Challenge 150 in the inaugural visit by the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West to Montana Raceway Park on Saturday night.

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Greg Biffle won it for Jack Roush. Biffle raced to victory in an often-delayed Sprint Cup race at Pocono Raceway on Sunday to snap a 64-race winless streak and take the checkered flag for his injured team owner.

Darrell Wallace Jr. made a three-wide pass for the lead with two laps to go and held on for the victory Friday in the K&N Pro Series 125 at Lee USA Speedway.

 

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Elliott Sadler isn’t ready to be written off. On Saturday at Pocono Raceway, he showed why. Pulling away on the second attempt at a green-white-checkered-flag finish, Sadler won the Pocono Mountains 125 Camping World Truck Series race from the pole, his first victory since 2004 in any of NASCAR’s top three touring series.

NASCAR team owner Jack Roush crashed his plane while landing in Wisconsin. Roush was attempting to land his plane at the Experimental Aircraft Association’s annual AirVenture fly-in convention at Wisconsin’s Wittman Field around 6:15 PM CST.

Australian NASCAR driver Marcos Ambrose will leave JTG Daughtery Racing at the end of the 2010 NASCAR season. The news ends a long and successful partnership between Ambrose and JTG Daugherty Racing owner Tad Geschickter, which was previously announced as running until at least the end of the 2011 season.

NASCAR has fined at least two of its star drivers this season for making critical comments about the racing series, The Associated Press has learned.

Car owner Chip Ganassi got the expected result from an unexpected source in Sunday’s Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, as race winner Jamie McMurray joined one of NASCAR Sprint Cup racing’s most exclusive clubs.

JR Fitzpatrick completed his domination of the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series presented by Mobil 1 weekend at Edmonton City Centre Airport by winning the Canadian Tire 100 presented by Konica Minolta on Sunday.

For the second NASCAR Nationwide Series race in a row, Carl Edwards went side-by-side for the lead on the final lap. But Saturday night at O’Reilly Raceway Park, Kyle Busch held Edwards off to win the Kroger 200 at the 0.686-mile track.

Ron Dennis, the executive chairman of McLaren Automotive and former team boss of the McLaren-Mercedes Formula One team, is at Indianapolis Motor Speedway meeting with NASCAR officials and team owners, pitching his McLaren Electronics as the vendor of choice if and when NASCAR converts from carburetors to fuel injection.

Jacques Villeneuve and Italian racing outfit Durango have confirmed that they will bid to enter Formula One next season. Rather than search for a seat with an existing team, the 1997 Formula One champion is attempting to become an owner/driver.

It has been JR Fitzpatrick’s event, so far, at Edmonton City Centre Airport. After leading both NASCAR Canadian Tire Series presented by Mobil 1 practice sessions for the Canadian Tire 100 presented by Konica Minolta, he qualified for the pole position in record fashion.

The back-to-basics approach seems to work for Ron Hornaday Jr. and the No. 33 Kevin Harvick Inc. NASCAR Camping World Truck Series team. Hornaday Jr. snapped a 22-race winless streak in the truck series Friday night, winning the AAA Insurance 200 at O’Reilly Raceway Park.

Patrick Long showed off his road-course expertise, dominating the BI-MART Salute to the Troops 125 at Portland International Raceway Sunday. It’s Long’s second NASCAR K&N Pro Series West win.

When NASCAR officials said they wanted more on-track action this season the edict was - “Have at it boys!” - it was generally accepted to mean boys on-track and not to involve any of the fathers associated with said boys.