NASCAR drivers back to business
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BROOKLYN, Mich. -- Now comes the real rumble. After Dale Earnhardt Jr. announced his decision last week to drive for Hendrick Motorsports (effective next season), the seismic tremors felt throughout NASCAR seemed to subside yesterday at Michigan International Speedway.
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Crews on all-terrain vehicles yesterday recovered the bodies of all 10 people killed in the crash of a Hendrick Motorsports plane that was carrying family and friends of one of NASCAR's top syndicates.
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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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Charlotte, NC (Sports Network) - NASCAR chairman Brian France announced that this year&#39;s new format in the Nextel Cup Series known as the &quot;Chase for the Championship&quot; will return in 2005.
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Courtesy of a five-driver, one-race fight for the NASCAR Nextel Cup championship, many have lauded NASCAR&#39;s new points system a resounding success.
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His Odysseus-like journey complete, his place in NASCARâs new points race assured, Mark Martin wanted one more thing. So last Sunday, a day after he clinched
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NASCAR&#39;s championship contenders line up at New Hampshire International Raceway today the way they stand in the Nextel Cup rankings.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr, right, talks with Matt Kenseth, left, during a break in practice at Lowe&#39;s Motor Speedway in Concord, NC, Thursday Oct. 14, 2004 before qualifying for Saturday&#39;s UAW-GM Quality 500 NASCAR Nextel Cup race.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. found the perfect cure for his struggling team's ills: Winning. Earnhardt broke out of a six-week slump Saturday night with a convincing victory in the Sharpie 500, giving him a weekend sweep at Bristol Motor Speedway that will certainly give him momentum for the upcoming championship chase.
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Rusty Wallace is the leader among active drivers at Martinsville Speedway with seven career victories, and even he's unsure how the track's new surface will respond to racing on Sunday. The surface has been commended by drivers this week for being smooth and fast, but questions remain about whether it will feature two grooves for racing when the Subway 500 in the Nextel Cup Series is run.
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MARTINSVILLE - The owners are new. The track resurfaced. The railroad is relocating. The souvenir haulers have moved. And that&#39;s since April, the last time 63,000 fans watched NASCAR Nextel Cup racing at Martinsville Speedway.
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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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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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Since leaving the family business to join the Hendrick Motorsports empire, Dale Earnhardt Jr. can't wait to get back into a racecar.
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This morning, NASCAR starts over, with a system in which leading the points after 26 races is worth no more than leading a lap. That would be five points, the margin separating each of the contenders now that
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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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NASCAR&#39;s 2004 season comes to a close in Sunday&#39;s Ford 400 with five drivers in contention for the $5.28 million Nextel Cup championship and a storyline for stock-car racing fans of every loyalty.