For Nascar, Playoff Gamble Wins Big
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The new 10-race playoff instituted this season has done all that Nascar officials had hoped, turning the droning fall stretch into a manic scramble.
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So much for the preliminaries. After seven months and 26 races, NASCAR's Nextel Cup series is finally ready to get down to the business of deciding a champion.
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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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The 10-race playoff for NASCAR's Nextel Cup championship starts with rain washing out qualifying Friday at New Hampshire International Speedway.
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The question&#39;s been asked ever since NASCAR&#39;s Chase for the Nextel Cup began. Who is the favorite? Whom do experts believe is going to win?
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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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Jimmie Johnson locked up his spot as the favorite for the Nextel Cup title, while Dale Earnhardt Jr. was locked out of Nascarâs Chase for the championship.
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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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If Kurt Busch goes on to win his first NASCAR title, he can point to the 500 miles at Lowe&#39;s Motor Speedway as the defining race of his season.
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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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LOUDEN, NH -- Right now, things are going Jeff Gordon&#39;s way. That should enhance his chances of winning a fifth NASCAR championship.
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HAMPTON, Ga. -- The Nextel Cup championship playoff got a major shakeup Sunday when points leader Kurt Busch went out with a blown engine early in the race at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
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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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With drivers like Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jimmie Johnson and Mark Martin in the field for Nascar&#39;s Chase for the Nextel Cup championship, there are plenty of intriguing and compelling story lines to follow.
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The reality has set in for both Mark Martin and Dale Earnhardt Jr. With three drivers ahead of them and one race left to contest, they face extremely long odds of winning the
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Before the New Hampshire International Speedway put New England on the map in the world of auto racing in 1990, NASCAR supporters looked to sportswriter S. Barry Cadigan for the twists and turns of their emerging sport.
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There is a lot at stake for teams such as Dale Earnhardt Inc., which must fill the seat of the high-profile No. 8 Chevrolet abandoned by Dale Earnhardt Jr.