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Alex Bowman Wins the Race, Chris Buescher Wins the Championship

Oct 19, 2012
Rookie of the year Alex Bowman won the final race of the ARCA Racing Series Friday night at Kansas Speedway in dominating fashion, leading 67 of the 100 laps. Finishing in second 2.017 secs behind Bowman was Kevin Swindell. Grant Enfinger, Brennan Poole, and Brennan Newberry rounded out the top five. However, the real winner …

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Kasey Kahne Breaks Track Record, Wins Pole

Oct 19, 2012
Kasey Kahne set a new track record at Kansas Speedway to win the pole for Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400. Kahne’s lap of 28.219 sec and 191.360 mph beat out Mark Martin’s time of 28.237. Martin will start on the front row alongside Kahne for Sunday’s race. Last week’s winner Clint Bowyer was third, followed by …

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Dillon, Logano Lead Nationwide Series Practice Sessions at Kansas Speedway

Oct 19, 2012
Two practice sessions were held for the NASCAR Nationwide Series on Friday at Kansas Speedway and the new surface created some blisteringly fast speeds. Championship contender Austin Dillon set the pace in the first practice session of the day at a speed of 179.826 mph. Sprint Cup Series regular Joey Logano was second, followed by …

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Stewart-Haas Racing Restructures 10, 39 Teams

Oct 19, 2012
Stewart-Haas Racing is getting a jumpstart on the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. Both Danica Patrick and Ryan Newman will see new faces atop their pit boxes in 2013, but those changes will be implemented before the 2013 season even begins. For her last two races of the Sprint Cup Series season—Texas and Phoenix—Tony …

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NASCAR Capitulates! “No Brainer” Seen As “Good Idea”!

Oct 18, 2012
Once again, a mere 11 or so years after the first time, an Earnhardt has lit a fire under the assess of the NASCAR brass, forcing them face the pain in the name of safety. In 2001, it took the tragic death of NASCAR’s most popular driver, Dale Sr., before NASCAR would mandate simple, existing safety equipment that would have saved his life. Those were the HANS device and SAFER barriers. This time, the son, again NASCAR’s most popular driver, is forcing NASCAR to back peddle when it comes to brain injury testing.
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40 Cars to Freedom: Change is Coming for the 2013 Nationwide Series

Oct 18, 2012
It’d take an act of God to get this writer to declare that NASCAR has left the state of denial, but they did take a step in the right direction on the Nationwide Series front this week with the announcement that the field will be cut from 43 to 40 cars for the 2013 season. It’s been a change long overdue; though NASCAR’s AAA series has largely dodged short fields over the last eight months, the start-and-park entries filling the starting grids week after week have accounted for nearly 30% of those “full” fields. Coupled with the return of testing, this week’s announced competition changes are absolutely radical alterations for the Nationwide Series, as 43-car fields have been the norm for a decade-plus. And even at only a three-car reduction, it will have an impact across the series. While it’s impossible to tell just how much of an impact this will have until the entry list for Daytona is released in February, it’s never too early to play a little fact or fiction.
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Michael Annett Driver Diary: Happy Halloween!

Oct 18, 2012
Charlotte was actually a really interesting weekend. We were OK last time we were there, but we were definitely not as good as we’d like to be so we unloaded with a baseline deal. Charlotte is kind of tricky because they give us an hour to practice when the sun is out and the track is just hot and slick and completely different than race time conditions. We kind of used that first hour of practice in the sun just to work up some ideas we had, not real practice for that race on Friday night. We tried some things and put them in our notes and then we had 50 minutes in the evening when it was closer to race time conditions. We picked up right where we left off and weren’t real good, but we thought we were competitive, probably a top ten, just needed to tweak on it a little bit throughout the race.
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Professor Of Speed: A Difficult Lesson To Learn

Oct 18, 2012
It’s all-too-common knowledge that men hate going to the doctor. The thought of turning heads, coughing, getting shots, and any procedure involving rubber gloves can transform a chronic ailment into a mere nuisance. Men often downplay their health complaints until the pain/illness/swelling/oozing cannot be ignored. If the patient seeks help promptly, his potentially-dangerous problem can be diagnosed and corrected. If the patient waits too long, his minor condition can quickly turn into a major concern.
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Truckin’ Thursdays: Rule Changes, Off Weekends and Back to Dirt?

Oct 18, 2012
The Camping World Truck Series takes another week off in its final extended break before the end of the year. While most of the drivers are taking their time to relax and refresh, I’ve got a few more odds and ends to take a closer look at before everyone heads back to the track next weekend at Martinsville Speedway. *Truck Series on Dirt in 2013?* Earlier this week, “ESPN.com’s David Newton reported”:http://espn.go.com/racing/nascar/truck/story/_/id/8513382/truck-race-possible-eldora-speedway-dirt-sources-say that NASCAR may be looking at the possibility of hosting a Truck Series event on the dirt at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio. According to Newton, “multiple sources with the series said they’ve been told a dirt track could be added to the 2013 schedule.”
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Beyond the Cockpit: James Buescher On Starting Out, Moving Up, and Title Hopes

Oct 18, 2012
_The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series is immersed in a tight championship battle, with James Buesher and Ty Dillon at the forefront, each battling for his first series title. Buescher knows how intense the heat of the battle is; he was a contender in 2011 as well, finishing third–could that, along with his four wins, give him the edge this year? Buescher was in Charlotte last weekend, racing in the Nationwide Series, and he took some time to sit and chat with our Amy Henderson to discuss his beginnings as a hobby racer, growing up on the track, racing smart in the championship hunt…and much more._
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Frontstretch Fan Q&A: Finding NASCAR Drivers Old and New

Oct 18, 2012
For the first time since 1979, we watched a NASCAR Cup Series race without an Earnhardt in it. The world never stopped turning, the sky never started falling, and it was not the end of the world as we knew it. Though Earnhardt certainly wasn’t “feeling fine”, he made the right decision by sitting out. The ensuing panic that happened as soon after the announcement was made, was tantamount to another crash in the stock market. It was ridiculous. Yet even after that, there were reports of likely reduced attendance and campers leaving the area, and post-race attendance reports had the numbers the lowest they had been in years. Somehow, the show _did_ go on and no one really noticed he was gone other than his fans.
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What’s Vexing Vito?: Not Dale Earnhardt Jr. Taking a Concussion Break

Oct 17, 2012
The news this week that Dale Earnhardt Jr. was sitting out the Bank of America 500 at Charlotte came as a total shock to those in the sport and fans alike. Despite being in the midst of a title fight, and heading to what is essentially his home track, Junior pulled the plug and opted …

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