Kenseth and Gordon still play blame game
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Jeff Gordon apologized to Matt Kenseth &amp;#151; sort of.
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Questions linger after Nascar officials allowed the race to continue as one crash led to a chain reaction of wrecks behind the leaders during the last lap.
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Despite winning Sunday's race and taking the overall Nextel Cup lead, Dale Earnhardt Jr. could lose points after cursing in an interview.
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It was what every NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series driver competing in the Chase for the Championship feared - a DNF (Did Not Finish). A poor finish with the accompanying
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FOXBOROUGH -- The car was unreliable, pocked with rust, perilously close to qualifying as a lost cause.
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It seems the pressure is definitely off now that NASCAR's Chase for the Nextel Cup championship is ready to begin.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. is still smarting from the penalty that knocked him out of first place in the NASCAR&#39;s Nextel Cup series for cursing during a live TV interview last weekend.
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Robby Gordon apologized Monday for intentionally causing an accident at New Hampshire International Speedway that involved championship contenders Tony Stewart and Jeremy Mayfield.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. admits he was wrong to cuss in a live TV interview last weekend but says NASCAR was wrong to penalize him so harshly.
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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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Ryan Newman ran away from the field, while four-time series champion Jeff Gordon took the NASCAR Nextel Cup points lead yesterday at the MBNA America 400 at Dover (Del.) International Speedway.
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IRL officials penalized driver Helio Castroneves for jumping a restart late in the Chevy 500k. Castroneves, driver of the No. 3 Marlboro Team Penske Dallara/Toyota/Firestone
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MARTINSVILLE, Va. - 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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That we are writing about racing and championships in the wake of the tragedy that befell Rick Hendrick and Hendrick Motorsports on Sunday seems crass and insensitive at best, but the truth is the racing will continue and a Nextel Cup champion will be
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They&#39;re only four years apart in age, and it seems everywhere Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson go, the gap is even less. The Hendrick Motorsport drivers aren&#39;t brothers, according
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Jeff Burton has been racing long enough to know about luck. So the longtime NASCAR Nextel Cup star is only mildly upset that, after enjoying good fortune aplenty for most of the season, things haven't been going his way lately.
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That, at least, was Fernandez&#39;s momentary assessment when the hydraulic air jacks on his G Force chassis failed during the second pit stop.