Mon, 11/08/2010 - 10:44 by harsheeb
Fort Worth -- Denny Hamlin grabbed the lead with 28 laps left Sunday and went on to win at Texas Motor Speedway, also claiming the Sprint Cup points lead.
Hamlin passed Mark Martin with 28 laps remaining and later held off a stiff challenge from Matt Kenseth during a three-lap shootout to the finish. It was Hamlin's eighth Sprint Cup victory of the season.
The victory also enabled Hamlin to establish a 33-point championship Chase lead over Jimmie Johnson, who came in ninth Sunday -- first time in five years that Johnson hasn't led in points with two races to go.
Kenseth finished second, followed by Martin, Joey Logano and Greg Biffle.
Kevin Harvick. meanwhile, fell 59 points behind Hamlin with his sixth-place finish.
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Mon, 10/25/2010 - 07:57 by harsheeb
Martinsville -- Denny Hamlin gained ground on Jimmie Johnson in the championship Chase Sunday with his Sprint Cup victory at Martinsville, Va., Speedway.
Hamlin shaved Johnson's lead to six points with his Tums Fast Relief 500 win.
Hamlin overcame car problems early in the race, during which he fell back as far as 15th place. After his team made the right adjustments, he roared back into contention and grabbed the lead from Kevin Harvick with 29 laps left to post his third straight Martinsville win.
Mark Martin came in second after overcoming a two-lap deficit while Harvick ended up finishing third.
Kyle Busch and Johnson completed the top five spots.
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Sat, 10/23/2010 - 10:06 by Rakhi
Martinsville, Va. -- Denny Hamlin, seeking his third straight win at Martinsville Speedway, won the pole Friday for Sunday's running of the Tums 500.
Hamlin will begin the sixth of the 10 races in the Sprint Cup Chase for the Championship in second place behind four-time defending series titleholder Jimmie Johnson.
The pole-sitter traveled around the half-mile oval in 97.018 miles per hour. It was his second pole of the season and the ninth of his Sprint Cup career.
"We decided today we were going to just focus on qualifying, knowing that the No. 1 pit stall is very critical here at Martinsville," Hamlin said. "I love it when a plan comes together."
Hamlin is 41 points behind Johnson, who qualified 19th.
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Sun, 09/12/2010 - 09:41 by Rakhi
Richmond, Va. -- Denny Hamlin earned a spot in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship after winning Saturday's Air Guard 400 at Richmond, Va., International Raceway.
Hamlin, a Virginia native, led most of the way but had to hold off a determined charge from Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch during the final 40 laps.
Hamlin, however, prevailed to notch his Sprint Cup-best sixth win this season and the 14th of his career.
Second place went to Busch, who has followed by Jimmie Johnson, Joey Logano and Marcos Ambrose.
Johnson's third-place finish Saturday, coupled with his five wins so far this year, earned him the second seed in the Sprint Cup championship chase. Hamlin's 5,060 points are 10 ahead of Johnson.
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Mon, 06/14/2010 - 09:47 by Pankaj Damin
Brooklyn, Mich. -- Denny Hamlin collected his fifth win of the season Sunday, breezing to a convincing victory at Michigan International Speedway.
Hamlin continued his hot streak by dominating the Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips 400, leading for 123 laps and holding a 10-second gap over Kasey Kahne at the last caution with 19 laps remaining.
After the restart with 14 laps remaining, he sped away from Kahne and then cruised to his Sprint Cup-best fifth victory of the season.
Kahne ended in second place, pole sitter Kurt Busch earned the third spot and Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart came in fourth and fifth respectively.
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Mon, 06/07/2010 - 09:43 by Rakhi
Long Pond, Pa. --- Denny Hamlin pulled away from the field after a late restart Sunday, going on to win his fourth Pocono 500 championship.
The second of two late-race restarts came just after Hamlin had entered the final lap, triggered when Kevin Harvick bumped Joey Logano to put Logano into a spin.
Hamlin quickly lengthened his lead as the race resumed, holding off Tony Stewart and Joe Gibbs teammate Kyle Busch to take the Gillette Fusion ProGlide 500 and extend his Sprint Cup-best 2010 championship total to four.
Busch passed Stewart to gain second place with only one lap to go, giving the Gibbs team a 1-2 finish at the unique 2.5-mile triangular track.
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Sun, 05/09/2010 - 10:27 by Rakhi
Darlington, S.C. -- Denny Hamlin took advantage of pit mishaps by Jeff Gordon and Jeff Burton Saturday to win the Showtime Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway.
Hamlin crossed the finish line nearly two seconds ahead of pole sitter Jamie McMurray to grab his third win in the last six Sprint Cup races. He also won Friday's Nationwide Series race at Darlington, giving him a weekend sweep.
Gordon fell back to the last car on the lead lap after he was blocked by Tony Stewart and missed the entrance to make his final pit stop.
Burton passed Hamlin with 26 laps left, but during a caution, Hamlin took only two tires on the final pit stop and exited first while Burton had to serve a pass-through penalty after running over his air hose.
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Mon, 11/23/2009 - 09:53 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
Homestead, Fla. -- Denny Hamlin won Sunday's Sprint Cup 400 at Homestead, Fla., but Jimmie Johnson won his fourth straight points title in the season-ending race.
Johnson had an advantage after winning the pole Friday and finished fifth. His boss, Rick Hendrick, the head of Hendrick Motorsports, missed the race due to an undisclosed family emergency.
Hamlin's victory was his fourth in 2009. Jeff Burton's second-place finish was his best this season.
"It takes awhile to sink in because I haven't let my mind think about it (but) to win four championships in eight seasons is amazing," Johnson said in a post-race interview. "I felt we had a shot late in the summer, but I was devastated after Texas (a 13th place finish at the Dickies 500)."
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Mon, 11/09/2009 - 10:22 by shalini.bahadur
Fort Worth, Texas, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Kurt Busch drove to his second Sprint Cup victory of the season Sunday, winning the Dickies 500 at the Texas Motor Speedway.
Busch conserved enough fuel to finish ahead of the field after taking the lead from his younger brother, Kyle, who ran out of gas with less than three laps to go.
Denny Hamlin ended up in second place, Matt Kenseth finished third, Mark Martin fourth and Kevin Harvick fifth.
"I saw (Kyle) peel off a couple of laps before us, and I wanted to get to him, but I didn't want to get there too fast because you got to save a little bit of fuel, but yet I knew what we had for fuel mileage," said Kurt Busch, who also won a race in Atlanta in March.
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Mon, 10/26/2009 - 05:00 by surajdogra
Martinsville, Va. -- Denny Hamlin fought off championship leader Jimmie Johnson in two late restarts Sunday to win the Tums Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway.
Johnson increased his lead in a bid to win a record fourth straight Sprint Cup title but he could not prevent Hamlin from capturing his third race of the season.
Although his car sustained front-end damage during a pit stop early in the race, Hamlin came back and took the lead from Johnson with 139 laps remaining. During the final caution of the race, Hamlin beat Johnson out of the pits and eventually finished two car lengths in front.
It was Hamlin's seventh career Sprint Cup victory.
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Sat, 10/10/2009 - 08:18 by harsheeb
Fontana, , Oct. 9 -- Denny Hamlin, sixth in the Sprint Cup points list with seven races to go, captured the pole Friday for Sunday's running of the Pepsi 500.
Hamlin, the third driver to make his qualifying attempt, produced a lap of 183.870 miles per hour around the 2-mile Fontana track. It was his seventh career pole and his first since May 2008.
He is 99 points behind front runner Mark Martin in the 10-race Chase for the Championship.
"It's been a long time for me, especially on a track like this," Hamlin said. "Our big track program -- mile-and-a-half and two-mile programs -- have been getting better and better. It's kind of our strong suit at this point."
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Mon, 08/10/2009 - 10:52 by preet_20
Watkins Glen, N.Y. Aug. 9: A thunderstorm Sunday forced the postponement of the Sprint Cup Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips auto race in Watkins Glen, N.Y.
This is the second straight week a race was postponed by rain. Last week, it was the Pennsylvania 500 at Pocono.
Officials announced the postponement until noon Monday just before the command was given to start engines at 4 p.m. EDT.
NASCAR decided there was not enough daylight left to run the advertised 90-lap distance in its second road course race this season.
Jimmie Johnson will start on the pole after winning Friday's qualifying session. He has yet to win at either Watkins Glen or Sonoma, Calif., the site of the Toyota/Save Mart 350 in June.
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