Danica Patrick feels pressure to win
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Danica Patrick is confident she'll get her first win on the IRL circuit &#151; she's just not going to make a prediction about when it will happen.
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Martinsville track can be difficult: Midway through their 10-race playoff, the Nextel Cup Series contenders are at the shortest and slowest oval on the NASCAR circuit - a place four-time series champion Jeff Gordon insists can be as damaging to title
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As much as Bobby Labonte wants to liken finishing 11th in NASCAR&#39;s revised points system to winning a table centerpiece, he finds consolation in spoils such as a $250,000 points fund
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Kurt Busch has been doing everything right in his bid for his first Nextel Cup championship. He now has one big hurdle to clear entering Sunday&#39;s Ford 400.
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BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- Phil Mickelson was hoping this was the season when he finally could wear the title of &quot;major champion.
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Tonightâs all-or-nothing NASCAR Nextel Cup race at Richmond offers an interesting mix of desperation, anticipation and appreciation.
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Dontrelle Willis is one of the few Florida Marlins players to have felt the pressure of playing in the postseason.
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During the weeks leading up to the Daytona 500, Richard Childress kept telling his race team he had a feeling they were going to win NASCAR's biggest event.
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There have been times during the Pilot Pen Tennis tournament when Nathalie Dechy has made it look easy. During Friday nightâs semifinal, however, she appeared to have hit a bump in the road.
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The key to winning a NASCAR race is understanding the forces that impact the car  -  and how to cope with them. Here's a look at the physics of NASCAR's much vaunted Car of Tomorrow
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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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Five drivers, 82 points apart, NASCAR&#39;s Nextel Cup championship at stake, and the scenarios are interminably endless for deciding the title in the season&#39;s final race.
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If experience counted for everything, Jeff Gordon would be a lock to win NASCAR&#39;s first 10-man, 10-race championship playoff. The four-time series champion goes into Sunday&#39;s Sylvania 300, the first event
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Al Unser Jr. may not stand much of a chance at winning the Indianapolis 500, but racing has become a catharsis for him.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr goes into Sunday&#39;s NASCAR Nextel Cup finale believing he&#39;s under no pressure. The Budweiser Chevrolet sits 72 points behind title leader Kurt Busch, and while it would be easy to reflect
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TALLADEGA, Ala. -- Mark Martin has decided he isn't ready to slow down.
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As ever, the big question mark hanging over today&#39;s race is strategy. Thanks to the difficult conditions in qualifying we now have a fairly muddled grid, however, it&#39;s only in the opening laps that of the