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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.

Almost as regular as the Santa Ana winds blow through Southern California, Jimmy Johnson won his third straight fall race at Auto Club Speedway finishing ahead of teammate Jeff Gordon to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup Pepsi 500.

Vickers turned a lap at the 2-mile speedway in 38.453 seconds Friday (187.242 mph) to win the top starting spot for Sunday’s Carfax 400. The pole was Vickers’ third consecutive at MIS, dating to last August, and his sixth overall this season, tops in the Cup Series.

The National Stock Car Racing Commission denied Long’s appeal at a hearing Tuesday, the driver said. The commission isolated Long’s suspension to the Sprint Cup Series, meaning he can find work in one of the sport’s lower levels.

NASCAR’s longest race of the season became a day longer last night when the Coca-Cola 600 was postponed by rain for the first time in 50 years.

They say what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. While true at some level it doesn’t happen when TMZ is around and you’ve just gone from last to first in winning at your home town track.

Hear how Kyle Busch made history last weekend at Auto Club Speedway and how Matt Kenseth is attempting to enter the record books this upcoming weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

 

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What do NASCAR fans want? Not your average fan, I speak of the fan base that only sees a half empty glass. They see phantom yellow flags and grand conspiracies involving favoritism in the way rule violations are handled.

Digger, an animated gopher, popped up on Fox’s NASCAR coverage last year to hype the network’s use of TV cameras embedded in tracks.

Day 2 of Champ Week featured Jimmie Johnson & Co. conducting photo shoots at various NYC landmarks, Honest, the landmarks are there. If you can see past the Sprint Cup trophy that seems to be the “star” of each image.

Jimmie Johnson moved closer to an historic third consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Championship. Following are images from Sunday’s Checker O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 at Phoenix International Raceway.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — NASCAR officials confirmed Friday that Camping World is negotiating to become the new title sponsor of the truck series next season, replacing Craftsman Tools.

Never saw this one coming?
Wait, save that Cod for lunch, I saw it coming.
Robby Gordon Motorsports and Gillett Evernham Motorsports have announced that they have agreed to terms for resolution of the issues growing out of proposed plan to merge the two Sprint Cup teams.
Disagreements over the merger led to the recent filing of a [...]

Be advised the headline is pure speculation, it’s what was called during my time in the U.S. Navy a SWAG, a Surface Warfare Wild-Assed Guess.
Regardless of his destination Autosport is reporting Steve Hallam, F1 McLaren’s head of race operations, is to leave the team at the end of this year to move to NASCAR.
Hallam is [...]

Sam Hornish Jr’s Sprint Cup crew chief Chris Carrier has been shown the garage door of Penske Racing South.
He’s being replaced by Travis Geisler who’s previously been the race engineer for Ryan Newman’s #12 Dodge.
This is kind of a strange move in one sense (unless it’s somehow linked to Newman leaving Penske) Hornish is the [...]

The Southern 500 was first run in 1950 and became one of NASCAR’s most prestigious events. It became a Labor Day weekend tradition until that race was moved to California Speedway after Darlington’s race in 2003.

Former Formula One and CART champion Jacques Villeneuve will make his debut in NASCAR’s second-tier series Nationwide on Saturday on a very familiar track.

North Carolina Motorcycle dealer Click Baldwin died in Montana from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident that occurred on Tuesday morning.
Baldwin was riding through Montana with 14 other members of the Hamsters Motorcycle Club. The group was meeting other members for the 68th annual Sturgis Rally in Sturgis, S.D.
Click Baldwin was riding a 2009 Harley-Davidson [...]

As you can tell I have had my thinking cap on since the end of the Sprint Cup…. ahem… race, at Indy.
You should also know my having gone to outside devices to assist in thinking about the event doesn’t guarantee any token amount of success.
That said, and already being in a mood prone to laughter [...]