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Blistering Pace at a Blistering Place

BROOKLYN, Mich. (NASCAR/Newsfeed) — Michi­gan Inter­na­tional Speed­way proved to be blis­ter­ingly fast Fri­day, which isn’t nec­es­sar­ily a good thing. With prac­tice speeds once again top­ping 200 mph, sev­eral dri­vers expe­ri­enced issues with blis­ter­ing tires on the recently repaved 2-mile oval. It was so fast, indeed, that Goodyear will make a tire change for the race — a deci­sion that came after a sig­nif­i­cant num­ber of cars ended up with blis­tered tires. To accom­mo­date the switch — a new, and “tougher” left-side tire from Char­lotte, accord­ing... 

Johnson-Earnhardt Jr. Collaboration Paying Off

CONCORD, N.C. (NASCAR/Newsfeed) — Two cars, one roof. That’s been stan­dard oper­at­ing pro­ce­dure for Rick Hen­drick since 2002, when the cham­pi­onship car owner expanded to accom­mo­date a fourth Sprint Cup pro­gram head­lined by a then-unknown dri­ver named Jim­mie John­son. Hen­drick paired the new out­fit in a build­ing with the more expe­ri­enced team of Jeff Gor­don, and the result was an explo­sive pro­gres­sion that net­ted 71 com­bined vic­to­ries for the sta­ble­mates dur­ing the ensu­ing eight years. So three sea­sons ago when Hen­drick faced... 

Kyle Busch Scores Four-in-a-Row as Cautions Are Key in Richmond

The last two yel­low flags defined the 2012 Cap­i­tal City 400 pre­sented by Vir­ginia is for Lovers at Rich­mond Inter­na­tional Raceway. Jim­mie John­son was in con­tention and received a penalty on pit road to ruin his day. Carl Edwards was penal­ized by NASCAR for jump­ing the restart while leading. Tony Stew­art had the race in hand when the final cau­tion erased his lead. Then his team was beat on pit road which was the final nail in his hopes. Kyle Busch had the fastest car in the clos­ing laps and claimed his fourth con­sec­u­tive spring win in Richmond. Our sports betting news features unique sports betting articles as well as current sports news compiled from leading wire services.... 

Johnson Focuses on Positives in Face of Near-Miss at Richmond

RISHMOND, Va. (NASCAR/Newsfeed) — Jim­mie John­son fin­ished a respectable sixth in the Cap­i­tal City 400 Sat­ur­day night at Rich­mond Inter­na­tional Raceway. He felt like he passed enough cars to fin­ish much higher than that, though. That’s because he did pass a lot, but it didn’t mat­ter because of a penalty he had to serve when his No. 48 Chevro­let pit crew failed him on a late stop. As John­son came to pit road on Lap 311, the cau­tion flag flew and it looked as it was all going to work to his advan­tage as long as he could wheel the car back out onto the track before... 

Keselowski Gets Push From Busch to Win Talladega

TALLADEGA (NASCAR/Newsfeed) — The leader on the last lap isn’t sup­posed to win at Tal­ladega Super­speed­way. Every­body knows that. Brad Keselowski dis­agrees, and he showed how to do it Sun­day with a cal­cu­lated plan that sent him to Vic­tory Lane. Keselowski used a big push from Kyle Busch to pass leader Matt Kenseth, and after leav­ing the Day­tona 500 win­ner in their wake, Keselowski staved off Busch’s attempt to snatch the win. Using a move Keselowski said he had dreamed about, he held on for his sec­ond win of the sea­son and sec­ond at Talladega. “I had this... 

Eric McClure Released From Alabama Hospital

CHARLOTTE (NASCAR/Newsfeed) — NASCAR dri­ver Eric McClure has been released from an Alabama hos­pi­tal on Mon­day, two days after he was injured in a crash at Tal­ladega Superspeedway. McClure was air­flifted to UAB Med­ical Cen­ter in Birm­ing­ham fol­low­ing Saturday’s crash in the Nation­wide Series race at Tal­ladega Superspeedway. His team said Mon­day that McClure suf­fered a con­cus­sion and inter­nal bruis­ing in the acci­dent. A state­ment says he’s expected to make a full recov­ery, but will visit with spe­cial­ists this week regard­ing his injuries. McClure... 

Earnhardt Jr. Steps Up His Performance

RICHMOND, Va. (NASCAR/Newsfeed) — Dale Earn­hardt Jr. has been creep­ing up on his first Sprint Cup Series win in four sea­sons, and he might have taken a giant step Sat­ur­day night at Rich­mond Inter­na­tional Raceway. The best part, both crew chief Steve Letarte and Earn­hardt said, was that the team fin­ished bet­ter, sec­ond to Kyle Busch in the Cap­i­tal City 400, than what the car should have — even if Earn­hardt didn’t get Hen­drick Motor­sports’ 200th Cup victory. Earn­hardt Jr. at Hendrick Rich­mond results Year Start Fin­ish 2012 10 2 2011 (fall) 27 16 2011... 

Busch Capitalizes on Caution for Richmond Win

RICHMOND, Va. (NASCAR/Newsfeed) — Pulling away from Dale Earn­hardt Jr. after a restart with eight laps left in Sat­ur­day night’s Cap­i­tal City 400 at Rich­mond Inter­na­tional Race­way, Kyle Busch streaked to his fourth con­sec­u­tive vic­tory in the spring race at the .75-mile track. The win was Busch’s first of the sea­son and the 24th of his career, tying him with his brother, 2004 Sprint Cup cham­pion Kurt Busch, for 26th all-time. Tony Stew­art, the race leader before the fifth and final cau­tion for debris in Turn 2, lost ground on the restart and fin­ished third.... 

RPM’s Hiring of Ford Marks Start of Silly Season

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (NASCAR/Newsfeed) — Nobody thought Mike Ford would be out of work very long when Joe Gibbs Rac­ing dis­missed the crew chief in Decem­ber after a dis­ap­point­ing 2011 sea­son with Denny Ham­lin. Because JGR still owed him for the final year on his con­tract, Ford was in no rush to climb back atop a pit box. And if he had to spend the entire sea­son sit­ting at home, it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world. But crew chiefs don’t sit idle for very long in NASCAR, and that was proven once again Mon­day when Richard Petty Motor­sports pulled Ford back into... 

Daytona 500 Winner Ready for More at Talladega

Day­tona Beach, Fla. (NASCAR/Newsfeed) — Matt Kenseth’s 2012 Day­tona 500 win­ning car is sit­ting in the Day­tona 500 Expe­ri­ence fan attrac­tion in Day­tona Beach, Fla., so it will be of no use to him and his Roush Fen­way Rac­ing team this week­end at Tal­ladega Superspeedway. But Kenseth’s expe­ri­ence at Day­tona last Feb­ru­ary, which included win­ning his Gatorade Duel 150 qual­i­fy­ing race and then eas­ily cap­tur­ing his sec­ond edi­tion of the “Great Amer­i­can Race,” has him feel­ing pretty spe­cial as he trav­els later this week — par­tic­u­larly...