Nextel Cup stars need to raise game
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This is not the kind of start to the 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup season that Dale Earnhardt Jr. envisioned.
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That&#39;s what the public relations folks at Talladega Superspeedway dubbed the next stop in NASCAR&#39;s new playoff-style championship, and it would be hard to find many drivers who would argue with the label.
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In races during the Nascar Chase for the Nextel Cup, drivers not in the Chase often drive cautiously around cars racing for the season title.
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Recent history tells me a lot when it comes to picking the top contenders for Sunday&#39;s Nextel Cup race at Dover (Del.) International Speedway.
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Tony Stewart once said he should be fired if he failed to make NASCAR's Chase for the championship. If his car owners take him up on the offer, the two-time and defending Nextel Cup champion could be looking for work.
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The conspiracy theorists are already concocting potential plots. They speculate whether an out-of-contention driver would sabotage someone in the top 10, how teamwork might make an
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Joe Nemechek is 24th in the Nextel Cup standings, his championship chances long sunk. He realizes there&#39;s only one way to get any recognition for his team and his sponsor, US Army: the old-fashioned way.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. &#151; Rick Hendrick already had a pretty good team. The successful NASCAR Sprint Cup car owner with the syrupy Virginia drawl had assembled as strong a lineup of sponsors, cars, and drivers as any team in the sport.
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On Sunday fans of NASCAR&#39;S Nextel Cup will have a far better idea who is likely to be this year&#39;s champion. Because while Saturday night&#39;s Chevy Rock &amp; Roll 400 at Richmond&#39;s tight three-quarter
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Denny Hamlin is second in the NASCAR Nextel Cup points standing going into Sunday's race in New Hampshire, but the second-year driver needs some wins.
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TONY STEWART, NO. 20 HOME DEPOT CHEVROLET MONTE CARLO - was today&#39;s NEXTEL Wake-up call guest. In three races at Kansas Speedway, Stewart has finished in the top 10 every time.
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Rare it is that going into the final race we don&#39;t already have a Cup winner. Rarer still that we have more than one driver that could still pull it out.
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It seems that the players in the Chrysler Championship all have different goals.
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MARTINSVILLE, Va., Oct. 20 -- The good news for the drivers chasing Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson in the Nextel Cup Series championship is that five opportunities remain to cut into their lead and ruin their season-long domination.
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It&#39;s been a dozen years since the final race of the NASCAR season could promise this kind of suspense. When the checkered flag drops Sunday with the Nextel Cup Chase championship on the line, three of the
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Danica Patrick just wanted a chance to drive in the IRL. Now she has to prove she&#39;s worthy of it. Patrick will join Indianapolis 500 champion Buddy Rice and Vitor Meira as drivers on the Rahal-Letterman team
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Jeremy Mayfield needs more than a victory at Dover International Speedway in Delaware to get back in the thick of the Nextel Cup championship race.