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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Sun, 11/08/2009 - 11:32 by shalini.bahadur
Fort Worth, Texas -- Kyle Busch led 179 of 200 laps of the O'Reilly Challenge in Texas Saturday and cruised to his fourth consecutive Nationwide Series victory.
Busch, driving for Joe Gibbs Racing, started sixth, but blew by pole-sitter Matt Kenseth to grab the lead after 10 laps into the race. It was his series-high eighth victory of the season and the 29th of his career.
"We out-wrestled all these guys today," Busch said. "This track is fun. It's fun when you have good cars, of course."
Casey Mears took second in his first Nationwide start since November 2007. Jason Leffler finished third, while Kenseth and Brad Keselowski rounded out the top five.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International.
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Fri, 10/16/2009 - 12:57 by shalini.bahadur
Concord, N.C., Oct. 16: Points leader Jimmie Johnson, hoping to take command of the Chase for the Championship, grabbed the pole Thursday for Saturday's NASCAR Banking 500.
Johnson, trying to become the first driver to win the series championship four straight years, took the points lead last Sunday in California.
He backed up that victory by turning in a lap of 192.376 mph at the Lowe's Motor Speedway. It was the fastest qualifying lap in the three years since NASCAR introduced major changes in the cars used for its Sprint Cup series.
Johnson won his third pole of the season and the 22nd of his NASCAR career.
He will enter the fifth of 10 playoff races with a 12-point lead over teammate Mark Martin.
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Mon, 09/28/2009 - 13:09 by shalini.bahadur
Dover, Del., Sept. 27: Jimmie Johnson was dominant Sunday on the way to winning the Sprint Cup AAA 400 auto race at the Dover International Speedway.
Johnson led the race in 271 of its 400 laps in his quest to become the points champion a record fourth straight time. He beat Hendrick Motorsports teammate Mark Martin, the points leader, to the checkered flag by nearly two seconds.
"It was just an awesome race car and an awesome day," Johnson said. "I'm just so happy to go out and get maximum points today. That's what we needed to do."
Johnson came within 10 points of Martin in the season-ending "Race for the Chase," which decides the champion.
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Thu, 07/23/2009 - 23:41 by surajdogra
Concord, N.C. -- DeWALT Power Tools has withdrawn it sponsorship of NASCAR driver Matt Kenseth, starting next season.
The announcement, made Thursday, will end DeWALT's 10-year partnership with the Roush Fenway driver, this year's winner at the rain-shortened Daytona 500 in February.
"We would like to thank DeWALT for serving as a great partner for the past 10 years," Roush Fenway President Geoff Smith said in a statement. "DeWALT's decision to not return is not a great surprise to us. During that time we have seen great success for both their company and marketing program."
Kenseth, driver of the No. 17 Ford, also won the following race, the Auto Club 500 at Fontana, Calif.
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Sun, 05/17/2009 - 09:35 by Salinder Kumar
Concord, N.C. -- Tony Stewart swept past Matt Kenseth with two laps to go to Saturday to win the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race at Lowe's Motor Speedway.
Stewart collected just over $1 million for his first victory of the annual all-star automobile race.
Kenseth wound up in second place. Kurt Busch was third, Denny Hamlin fourth and Carl Edwards fifth.
Stewart became the first driver and car owner to win the event since Jeff Bodine in 1994.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International.
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Thu, 05/14/2009 - 12:58 by Salinder Kumar
Concord, N.C. -- Drivers of all ages are fired up about Saturday's Sprint Cup Showdown at the Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C.
NASCAR's annual all-star event ran in four 25-lap segments in 2008, but this season, in celebration of its silver anniversary, the race's format will be divided into four different segments.
For the first time since 2001, the All-Star race will feature a 10-lap shootout for its final segment.
"To be a part of the All-Star race and that group of drivers is always cool, and to do it at Charlotte is a lot of fun," Matt Kenseth said.
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Sat, 05/09/2009 - 10:07 by Salinder Kumar
Darlington, S.C. -- Matt Kenseth set a track qualifying record Friday and won the pole for Saturday's Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway.
Kenseth, winner of the first two races on the NASCAR circuit this year, had a qualifying lap of 179.514 mph. He was the only driver to break the track record Greg Biffle set a year ago.
"This car has had really good speed in it all day," Kenseth said. "I didn't think we would ever be on the pole, but I felt good about how our car was driving."
It was Kenseth's fourth career pole, but his first in four years.
Jeff Gordon, who has won seven times at Darlington, will be on the outside of the first row after a qualifying time of 178.861 mph.
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Mon, 03/02/2009 - 10:57 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
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Mon, 02/23/2009 - 10:30 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
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Mon, 02/16/2009 - 10:30 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
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