NASCAR revs up quiet N.H. town
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LOUDON, N.H. - Most of the year, Loudon is a sleepy community set in fields and forests sprawling lazily across the Soucook River Valley. Most of its 5,062 residents work at greenhouses in town or commute to Boston or Concord, N.H. They eat hearty breakfasts at the Eggshell, play bingo at the American Legion post on Village Road, and check ...
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NASCAR, a sport whose history was built upon the backs on moonshine runners in the Southeast in the 1940s, returned to its roots somewhat Wednesday when it announced it would
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Six-year NASCAR Nextel Cup veteran Kevin Harvick is off to a solid startÃÂ after winningÃÂ the pole for Saturday's Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire International Speedway.
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LOUDON, NH - The 10 NASCAR Nextel Cup drivers who qualified for the 10-race Chase for the Championship all got together Friday morning at New Hampshire International Speedway for a group photo.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. was strangely subdued after his latest victory at Talladega Superspeedway.
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Hendrick Motorsports is asking for prayers and privacy, following the crash of a company plane enroute to a NASCAR race. The plane took off from Concord, North Carolina and crashed in the Bull Mountain area
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LOUDON, N.H. -- In a year of sweeping changes for NASCAR, the most notable of which was the process by which its 2004 champion will be determined, Kurt Busch yesterday made it a clean sweep at New Hampshire International Speedway.
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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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The familiar sounds that emanate from Fenway Park -- the crack of the bat, the noise of a sellout crowd -- were replaced yesterday by the roar of a 3,400-pound stock car beneath the center-field bleachers.
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Qualifying for the Pepsi 400 was washed out Friday, leaving several teams out of the seasonâs second race at NASCARâs most storied track.
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HAMPTON - Even as teams prepared for Sunday&#39;s Nextel Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, the NASCAR community continued to focus on last week&#39;s plane crash.
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The âChase for the Championshipâ begins Sunday exactly where it left off a week ago at Richmond International Speedway. After rain interrupted and washed out NASCAR Nextel Cup
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A dominating performance in the Sylvania 300 yesterday at New Hampshire International Speedway at Loudon, NH, gave Kurt Busch a sweep of the 2004 events at the New Hampshire track and lifted him into a tie with Dale Earnhardt Jr.
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The weather could play a factor today in the Chase for the Nextel Cup. Cooler temperatures, something drivers arenât accustomed to at Darlington Raceway for the Southern 500, has changed the way drivers attack the track.
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The sky was appropriately gloomy here this morning as 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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Right now, things are going Jeff Gordon's way &#151; and that should enhance his chances of winning a fifth NASCAR championship. Thanks to a rainout of qualifying Friday at New Hampshire International Speedway, points leader Gordon will start from the pole in the first event of the new 10-race playoff for the Nextel Cup championship.
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The business of racing did not stop Monday at the massive Hendrick Motorsports complex here. But as staff members returned to work to prepare for the coming Nascar