NASCAR crackdown baffles drivers, owners
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Driver Matt Kenseth and car owner Jack Roush expressed outrage Wednesday over NASCAR's decision to dock the team 50 championship points before the season-opener Daytona 500.
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Dirt-track owners are feeling the cumulative effects of a sagging economy, rising fuel prices and increased competition for the attention of racing fans.
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When Nextel Cup leader Kurt Busch was hit by engine failure at Atlanta Motor Speedway and finished 42nd last Sunday, the mishap tightened NASCAR&#39;s new 10-race championship format.
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While investigators look for clues in regards to Sundayâs fatal plane crash, NASCAR fans and Hendrick Motorsports personnel are trying to get back to normalcy.
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In the high-pressure atmosphere of the Chase for the Championship, any issue that arises will get more than its share of scrutiny from drivers, fans and media.
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DARLINGTON, SC - Darrell Waltrip used to talk about the Darlington Raceway as if it were temperamental woman. &quot;You know she&#39;s going to reach out and get you,&quot; he said.
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The new 10-race playoff instituted this season has done all that Nascar officials had hoped, turning the droning fall stretch into a manic scramble.
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NASCAR took its strongest stance against cheating Tuesday, suspending the crew chiefs for Matt Kenseth, Kasey Kahne, Scott Riggs and Elliott Sadler and docking all four drivers points before the season-opening Daytona 500 for failing inspections.
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Nascar race teams came together for the first time since the crash of the Hendrick Motorsports plane that killed 10 people last Sunday.
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It is a new format, but it still encompasses all the old problems. NASCAR begins its 10-race shootout for the Nextel Cup Championship Sunday at New Hampshire, a system that essentially wipes
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. cursed on a nationally televised Nascar broadcast on Sunday, and it cost him the lead in a close race for the Nextel Cup drivers championship.
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NASCAR officials decide to hand out smaller restrictor plates to reduce speeds before Sunday's race at Talladega Superspeedway.
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As the Daytona 500 approaches, it has become an open question whether the current fixation on cheating is helping NASCAR or hurting it.
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NASCAR officials e-mailed a bulletin to team executives Tuesday afternoon advising them that a longstanding ban on hard-liquor advertising will be lifted for next season.
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As part of a new get-tough initiative on cheating launched last July, NASCAR officials yesterday dropped the hammer on four crew chiefs, suspending two for two races and two others for four races, beginning with the season-opening Daytona 500, for unapproved modifications discovered during pre- and post-qualifying inspections last Sunday.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. wants NASCAR to change its punishment for swearing on television and radio broadcasts before another driver commits a similar slip of the tongue.
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NASCAR showed again it won't tolerate any modifications to its Car of Tomorrow by levying stiff penalties against Hendrick Motorsports drivers Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson and their crew chiefs Tuesday.