Daytona 500 build-up marred by cheating furor
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DAYTONA BEACH, Florida  - Allegations of cheating and a flurry of sanctions have set the tone in the build-up to Sunday's Great American Race, the Daytona 500.
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Tony Stewart made outrageous remarks on his radio show and teammate Denny Hamlin openly criticized his team's performance. Controversial at the time, both incidents now seem rather tame considering how frustrated the two must be.
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A second day of scandal hit the Daytona 500 on Wednesday when two-time winner Michael Waltrip's crew chief and team director were thrown out of NASCAR's biggest race for cheating.
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The confidence Dale Earnhardt Jr. conveyed last month in Pocono, Pa., about his chances of making the Chase for the NASCAR Nextel Cup Championship went up in a white plume of engine smoke here in Saturday night's Chevy Rock &amp; Roll 400. It was replaced by shock, anger, frustration, and, in the end, acceptance of his fate as ...
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Carl Edwards has gone from one of NASCAR's golden boys to one of the sport's "bad boys," struggling on the track and tangling with fellow drivers such as Dale Earnhardt Jr. off it.
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Of all places to bring NASCAR&#39;s new Chase for the Championship, this is the chanciest. Restrictor-plate racing here is more about luck than speed or skill.
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It only seemed fitting that Rusty Wallace would announce his coming retirement at Daytona Speedway. After all, that&#39;s where Wallace&#39;s friend and competitor Dale Earnhardt lost his life in a 2001 accident.
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With five drivers compressed in the clutches of a pressure-filled Nextel Cup Championship Chase, the season finale&#39;s shaping up to be a Miami-vise.
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NASCAR faces an unsightly cheating mess, with Carl Edwards, the winner of a demolition derby of a Deleware race, caught with an illegally low rear bumper.
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Nascar could have slapped wrists and played down the infractions found on the racecars of Michael Waltrip and four other drivers. Instead, it has made an unprecedented public display of enforcement.
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They showed up as favorites, endured their share of failures and found a way to stay at the front of the Daytona 500.
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It is a new format, but it still encompasses all the old problems. NASCAR begins its 10-race shootout for the Nextel Cup Championship Sunday at New Hampshire, a system that essentially wipes
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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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E-mails and text messages expose details of the Formula One espionage that has rocked motor racing and resulted in a $100 million fine for one of the sportâs top teams.
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Jeff Gordon could have thrown a monkey wrench into the works and undermined Hendrick Motorsports's addition of Dale Earnhardt Jr. through the subtraction of Kyle Busch.
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THEY HOPED - MAYBE they prayed â-or this, but stock-car racingâs officials could not have realistically expected the mad, mad, mad scramble that has evolved in the battle for the 2004 title.
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Itâs 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