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As sponsor of the NHRAs Kenny Bernstein Budweiser has the longest running sponsorship agreement with a single team/driver surpassing the 28-year relationship STP had with Richard Petty last year.

The Kasey Kahne Foundation and the Sonoma (Calif.) Chapter of Speedway Children’s Charities will partner on an exciting fundraiser that will see one lucky race fan win a custom-built chopper at this year’s Toyota/Save Mart 350 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series weekend at Infineon Raceway, June 19-21.

NASCAR Sprint Cup driver and Team Mopar team owner/driver Kasey Kahne will return to his roots on Thursday for the 68th annual “Turkey Night Grand Prix” at Toyota Speedway/Irwindale.

“Nice” week for Carl Edwards huh?
In the last seven days he’s had too much right foot that took out more than a few in Alabama. Saturday night he didn’t have enough ignition, fell fifteen laps off the pace early and dropped to 168 off Johnson’s points pace.
Oh, and he also had TOO much “ignition” [...]

According to Patrick Carpentier’s website (that happens to be down at time of this writing) he and GEM team director Mike Shiplett engaged in a verbal tussle over Carpentier not qualifying at Talladega Saturday.
“I think it’s a complete lack of respect,” Carpentier wrote. “I never was shy to take the blame when I thought it [...]

Gillett Evernham Motorsports will rotate its three NASCAR Sprint Cup crew chiefs on the team’s No. 9 Nationwide Series entry for the remainder of this season.
The plan is to rotate Kasey Kahne, Elliott Sadler, Patrick Carpentier and Chase Miller at the wheel of #9 Dodge NS entry and match them with Kenny Francis, Mike Shiplett, [...]

For the most part those that have a decided dislike - bordering on dementia - for Toyota playing within NASCAR multi-billion dollar playground have lowered their voices and haven’t appeared with the same regularity as they did during the 2007 season.
I’m thinkin’ if the current and latest mega-billion dollar business merger rumored to be in [...]

Australian Marcos Ambrose will have his closest thing to a home event in the Carquest Auto Parts 300 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway this weekend.
Ambrose will have 30 fans from his homeland at the 1.5-mile speedway this weekend on the second Marcos Ambrose tour of NASCAR Nation. The tour is a sell-out and a second tour [...]

Talk about a million-dollar smile.
Kasey Kahne did not have the requisite victory in 2007 or ’08 needed to qualify for the annual Nascar Sprint All-Star race on Saturday night at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. And he came up short in the Sprint Showdown race for nonqualifiers earlier in the night, failing to finish high enough to [...]

With apologies to Humpy Wheeler, the president and general manager of Lowe’s Motor Speedway has nothing on Rusty Wallace and Co.
Wheeler has a history of predicting the winner of the Sprint All-Star Race at Lowe’s. But it’s the Rusty Wallace-designed Iowa Speedway that’s 2-for-2 in foreshadowing the winner with Kasey Kahne’s victory Saturday night.
Kahne, like [...]