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Jeff Gordon dominated Sunday’s race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway by leading 218 of the 267 laps. But it was Jimmie Johnson who won his second straight race by passing teammate Gordon with 16 laps to go. Johnson took four tires and restarted fourth. When the race resumed he latched onto Gordon’s bumper and followed More >
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It was the 48th career win for Jimmie Johnson and team 48, and it was an early-season sign that Hendrick Motorsports’ No. 1 team is rolling along just fine only two weeks into the long and winding Sprint Cup schedule. Johnson led the final 24 laps and won Sunday’s Auto Club 500 at Auto Club More >
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The Daytona 500 was delayed for 1 hour and 40 minutes earlier today due to a pothole in the pavement. It was unclear how or when the hole developed on an area between turns one and two, but officials stopped Sunday’s race with 78 laps remaining in the 200-lap season-opening race. NASCAR’s biggest race has More >
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Jimmie Johnson nipped Kevin Harvick by 0.005 seconds in the first race, then Kasey Kahne edged Tony Stewart by 0.014 seconds to set the field for this weekend’s season-opening
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Jimmie Johnson was named the Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year for 2009. For Johnson, the first race car driver to be named the AP’s Athlete of the Year in its 78-year history, the award is the validation he’s been waiting for since he began his historic run in 2006. “We’d been wondering the More >
Kurt Busch survived two overtime restarts and a spectacular crash involving Carl Edwards and Brad Keselowski to win Sunday’s wild Kobalt Tools 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
