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Twenty-four NASCAR Sprint Cup Series teams assembled Tuesday at Talladega Superspeedway in an R&D test session that was used to confirm that the gear ratio was compatible with the restrictor plate size for next month’s running of the Aaron’s 499.

 

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Australian NASCAR star Marcos Ambrose has pushed the limit at a Goodyear tire test at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina this week, despite recovering from a minor back injury.

NASCAR has placed Carl Edwards, driver of the No. 99 car in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, on probation for the next three series events for a rule violation he committed during the race at Atlanta Motor Speedway on March 7. Edwards’ probation will run until April 14 of this year.

Enter FT’s wayback machine a minute, “They will be their own governing body. … They will have to watch and help each other, as much as police each other.” - John Darby in Jan. 2010.

Throughout an incredibly successful career, which included three NASCAR Cup championships and 105 victories, David Pearson always looked forward to racing at Bristol Motor Speedway.

PRISM Motorsports efforts at Daytona were called “historic.” For the first time in the team’s history they entered two cars for a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event, the #66 Toyota of Dave Blaney and the #55 Toyota of Michael McDowell.

A loose tire on pitroad cost Keven Harvick a trip to the back of the field at Fontana but it allowed Jamie McMurray’s crewman Adam Mosser to put on a ballerina act by as he leapt over the hood of the No. 29 RCR machine.

A lot has been written and spoken since the Daytona 500 was flagged, mercifully, to its conclusion early Sunday evening. But there’s one thing of importance to the sport’s health that has been ignored in certain quarters.

Richard Petty may have earned his legend driving blue Plymouths in the ’60s, but the car he drove the longest in competition was actually the 1971 to 1974 Dodge Charger.

The NASCAR season starts in less than a month and the sport’s annual media gaggle starts Monday and thoughts of the 2011 season are already bubbling to the surface.

There’s been not so subtle hints from NASCAR big wigs there are changes on the horizon for the sanctioning bodies Sprint Cup Series. The two that have caught my eye are for a larger restrictor plate for Daytona and Talladega, the second being a reintroduction of a spoiler to the Cup cars.

One of the biggest names in the world of motorsport, Tony Stewart, will be heading ‘Down Under’ to compete at Sydney’s Tyrepower Parramatta City Raceway later this month.

NASCAR won a big court victory Friday as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a lower court’s summary judgment ruling in favor of NASCAR and International Speedway Corp. in an antitrust lawsuit brought by the former owners of Kentucky Speedway.

Jimmie Johnson claimed an unprecedented fourth consecutive title NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Championship by finishing fifth in the Sprint Cup season finale at Homestead.

Australia’s NASCAR star Marcos Ambrose has been thwarted in his attempt for a shock return to the V8 Supercar series for the season-ending race in Sydney.

Early this week NASCAR filed documents with U.S. District Court Judge Graham Mullen requesting that case be dismissed based on pleadings already filed with the court.

Mika Salo and Jarno Trulli each spent a day this week behind the wheel of one of Michael Waltrip Racing’s Toyota NASCAR Sprint Cup cars.

So much for a fluke accident giving any hope to Jimmie Johnson’s closest competitors. After a short run in Texas cost Jimmie Johnson a huge chunk of his points lead he did what was needed. A win and a win in convincing fashion.

The Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup heads to Phoenix International Raceway this week, for Sunday’s Checker O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 Presented By Pennzoil – the ninth event in the Chase. That will be the capper of a national series tripleheader weekend at the 1-mile track.

Kurt Busch won at Texas Motor Speedway, taking over the race lead with 21/2 laps left when his younger brother Kyle suddenly slowed down on the backstretch after leading 232 laps.