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Stewart Wins Homestead to Win NASCAR Championship

By JENNA FRYER, Auto Rac­ing Writer HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Tony Stew­art nearly wrote off his sea­son dur­ing a sum­mer slump, then dis­missed his chances at the begin­ning of NASCAR’s cham­pi­onship chase. Then some­thing sud­denly changed– with his cars, with his atti­tude, with his dri­ving– and old Smoke was back. With a vengeance. Stew­art thrust him­self early into title con­tention, then never let up as he drove all over the com­pe­ti­tion and chased down Carl Edwards. He seized his third cham­pi­onship Sun­day night with a pow­er­ful and relent­less drive that... 

Edwards Qualifies 1st at Homestead, Stewart 15th

By JENNA FRYER Auto Rac­ing Writer HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Tony Stew­art has run his mouth for almost a month try­ing to rat­tle Carl Edwards in the race to NASCAR’s championship. Edwards has tuned it all out, and on Sat­ur­day he did his talk­ing on the track. Edwards won the pole for Sunday’s sea­son finale at Homestead-Miami Speed­way, where the Sprint Cup Series cham­pi­onship will be decided. Edwards goes into the race with a three-point lead over Stew­art, who qual­i­fied 15th. One of the two will bring an offi­cial end to Jim­mie Johnson’s record five-year run, and the... 

Drivers Who Claimed the Cup With a Win

This week­end either Carl Edwards or Tony Stew­art can close out the 2011 Chase for the Cup with a win. The best way to earn Cham­pi­onship points is to win the race so you would think that dri­vers bat­tling for the Cham­pi­onship would reg­u­larly win the last race of the year on their way to the title. How­ever, only six times in NASCAR’s his­tory has the Cham­pion won the final race of the season. Here is the entire list of NASCAR Cham­pi­ons who ended their sea­son with a win. Will Carl Edwards or Tony Stew­art join this list this weekend? BetLM's sports betting news features unique sports betting articles as well as current sports news compiled from leading wire services. This arti­cle was dis­trib­uted... 

Speeding Along With Kurt Busch

By JOHN MARSHALL Auto Rac­ing Writer AVONDALE, Ariz. — The speedome­ter approach­ing 120 mph, the out­side wall a foot or so from the door, and Kurt Busch had one hand on the wheel, the other point­ing and wav­ing as he described the nuances of the track. The pas­sen­gers — well, at least one of them — had a death grip on the door han­dles, but Busch was cruis­ing along as if he were a small-town tour guide show­ing us the sights while tool­ing along in a con­vert­ible Stude­baker: “And on the right, you’ll find the boy­hood home of pecan baron Al Crawford…” ... 

Carl Edwards’ Magic Number

What is Carl Edwards’ “Magic Num­ber” this week­end? That is, what is the low­est posi­tion that Carl can fin­ish and still clinch the title no mat­ter what Tony Stew­art does? First. That’s it. If Carl wins the race then there is noth­ing Tony can do to win the Cup. Any­thing less than a win leaves the door open for Tony Stew­art to gain three points on Carl and claim the crown. This is as close as a Cham­pi­onship bat­tle can be. The 2011 Cham­pi­onship may come down to pit strat­egy, fuel mileage, a ten-cent part, an extra quar­ter turn on a wrench or a thou­sand... 

Hornish Jr. Captures First NASCAR Victory

By JOHN MARSHALL, Sports Writer AVONDALE, Ariz. — Sam Hor­nish Jr. pumped his fist out the win­dow, made a nice grab to catch the check­ered flag and cir­cled toward Vic­tory Lane. He pulled up next to the tro­phy, climbed out of his car and had trou­ble get­ting the words out, his voice crack­ing as tears filled his eyes. After every­thing Hor­nish had been through since switch­ing to NASCAR, this vic­tory four years in the mak­ing hit him with a flood of emotion. One of the most accom­plished Amer­i­can open-wheel dri­vers in his­tory, Hor­nish took his first NASCAR vic­tory... 

Kyle Busch to Face More Penalties From JGR

By JENNA FRYER Auto Rac­ing Writer AVONDALE, Ariz. — Kyle Busch, con­trite and remorse­ful, promised Fri­day to change his behav­ior and con­duct him­self in a way that will restore the respect he lost with his road rage inci­dent at Texas. It’s a long way back for Busch, and he’ll be on a very short leash. Busch has been warned by M&M’s that the pri­mary spon­sor will not tol­er­ate any more inci­dents by him, and team owner Joe Gibbs said the dri­ver is still fac­ing fur­ther pun­ish­ment for wreck­ing Ron Hor­na­day Jr. under cau­tion in last week’s Truck... 

Grand-Am Announces Endurance Championship for 2012

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.- — The Grand-Am Rolex Series has cre­ated athree-race North Amer­i­can Endurance Cham­pi­onship for the 2012 season. Point struc­ture and purse for the cham­pi­onship have not been announced. Butthe cham­pi­onship rounds will be at the season-opening Rolex 24 at Day­tona,Watkins Glen, and the three-hour inau­gural race at Indianapolis. The cham­pi­onship series was announced Wednes­day as part of Grand-Am’s13-race sched­ule. The series will also make an inau­gural stop in Detroit andreturn to Mon­treal at the Cir­cuit Gilles Villeneuve. The endurance... 

Button, Franchitti to Drive in Memorial Kart Race

LONDON — A memo­r­ial kart race in honor of the late Dan Whel­don near hisEng­lish home­town has so far attracted For­mula One cham­pion Jen­son But­ton,Indy­Car champ Dario Fran­chitti and Le Mans win­ner Guy Smith. Race orga­nizer Johnny Mowlem, a friend of Wheldon’s, says the two-hour kartendurance event will be on Dec. 5 at Day­tona Mil­ton Keynes, about 10 miles (16kilo­me­ters) from Wheldon’s Ember­ton hometown. Oth­ers who have agreed to race with some of Wheldon’s fam­ily include for­merBritish F1 dri­ver Anthony David­son, and world tour­ing car title... 

Renault to Rebrand as Lotus for 2012 F1 Season

LONDON - There will be just one team bear­ing the Lotus name in next year’s For­mula One championship. Motorsport’s rul­ing body has approved Renault’s switch to call itself Lotus, with Team Lotus becom­ing Cater­ham. Vir­gin Rac­ing will also rebrand as Marussia. Team Lotus and car com­pany Group Lotus had been in dis­pute over the use of the famous name. With the sup­port of F1 chief Bernie Eccle­stone, the FIA said Sun­day that a meet­ing in Geneva on Nov. 3 had led to an agree­ment on the team name changes. Renault is fifth in this season’s con­struc­tors’ cham­pi­onship....