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Tracking the Trucks: 2009 MemphisTravel.com 200 at Memphis

Jun 29, 2009
In a Nutshell: Ron Hornaday Jr. took the checkered flag 0.653 seconds ahead of Brian Scott to win the MemphisTravel.com 200 Saturday afternoon (June 27) at Memphis Motorsports Park. Hornaday maintained the lead during a green-white-checkered finish after Tayler Malsam and Dennis Setzer brought out the caution with five laps to go. David Starr, Aric …

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Joey Logano’s Pit Strategy Pays Off Big Time at Loudon, Wins 2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301

Jun 28, 2009
In NASCAR, anything can happen during races. On lap 180, Joey Logano blew out a left-rear tire in turn 3. He had to make multiple pit stops under the caution (during one stop, the crew had to remove part of the tire that had wrapped itself around the left rear hub) and lost a lap. …

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Kyle Busch Wins 2009 Camping World RV Sales 200, Becomes 23rd Different Winner at NHMS

Jun 27, 2009
LOUDON, N.H. – Kyle Busch stormed to the checkered flag in Saturday’s Camping World RV Rental 200 Presented by Turtle Wax (June 27), but his win was overshadowed by a New Hampshire Motor Speedway milestone: Busch was the 23rd different winner in the 23 Nationwide Series races that the track has hosted. “That’s pretty cool. …

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Drivers Looking Forward to Taking on New Hampshire’s Magic Mile

Jun 26, 2009
LOUDON, N.H. – New Hampshire Motor Speedway is one of the Sprint Cup Series’ northernmost stops and the track itself certainly provides a unique challenge. It’s a flat 1-mile oval with long straightaways and tight turns – think Martinsville on Popeye’s spinach. It’s notoriously hard to pass on and hard to get the setup perfected …

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Happy Hour: Scott Wimmer Is Worthy of a Better Shot

Jun 25, 2009
While Dale Earnhardt Jr. was being interviewed on 60 Minutes, he said that there’s a Dale Earnhardt Jr. or a Jeff Gordon on short tracks around the country. In sports – in the entertainment industry in general – there are thousands of talented people who toil away for the best years of their lives and …

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Holding a Pretty Wheel: Need a Date? Sorry, Kentucky, NHMS Isn’t Your Type!

Jun 25, 2009
The NASCAR Sprint Cup circuit swings north this week for the first of two visits to New Hampshire Motor Speedway. The quirky little 1-mile oval, dubbed the “Magic Mile” years back, is a bit of a shock to those driving up Route 106 and caught unaware. Coming from the north, as I do, you pass …

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Driven to the Past: Remembering an Old Friend

Jun 25, 2009
Reading an article about the old Langhorne Speedway recently took me back a lot of years. Langhorne, for those of you too young to remember, was a dirt track in Pennsylvania known as the “big left turn.” It was a mile circle. In its final year or so, it was paved and made into a …

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Scott Speed Driver Diary: A Windy DNQ & Getting Hitched!

Jun 25, 2009
I certainly experienced something new in my Sprint Cup career this past weekend when I got way off track during my qualifying run in Sonoma. Basically what happened is that the wind pushed us off the track, which I wasn’t taking into consideration. It was the first time we ever had to deal with something …

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Tearing Apart the Trucks: Truck Series Pit-Road Rules Save Money – Are They Worth the Savings?

Jun 25, 2009
As the Camping World Truck Series rolls into Memphis Motorsports Park for another weekend of great racing, I find myself looking back at the major rule change for the series this season. Prior to the season opener at Daytona International Speedway, NASCAR announced major pit-road rule changes that would affect every team and their race …

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Matt McLaughlin Mouths Off: NASCAR – The Intimidator vs. The Irritator

Jun 24, 2009
Something remarkable happened Saturday night in Milwaukee. The Nationwide Series race featured a lot of side-by-side racing not only for the lead, but for positions in the top five and top 10 and throughout the field. With the majority of the Cup regulars, save Carl Edwards and Kyle Busch, a half continent away, some of …

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Voices From the Heartland: Win NASCAR on Sunday… Sell Out on Monday?

Jun 24, 2009
For years, the Voices author and this column have been stating the obvious and perhaps now, people will begin to finally see the light! For those that have missed the obvious in the past, I will state it again… very slowly. Read my lips – the old adage of ‘win on Sunday, sell on Monday’ …

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Thompson in Turn 5: Believe It, a Generic Race Engine Will Come to NASCAR

Jun 24, 2009
The ‘shoe’ continues to fall in what this column has foretold will be the future of NASCAR racing with the news that NASCAR and folks from Detroit have discussed a generic ‘spec’ engine or ‘crate’ engine that would, if reports are believed, be used at least initially in the Nationwide and Camping World Truck series. …

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