Denny Hamlin won Monday's rain-delayed NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Martinsville Speedway. Hamlin won a sprint to the finish for his first race win of the season.
Carl Edwards has been placed on three weeks' probation by NASCAR for intentionally wrecking Brad Keselowski's car during last weekend's race at Atlanta.
Jimmie Johnson won for the second straight week, taking the NASCAR Sprint Cup race in Las Vegas. Johnson passed Jeff Gordon with 17 laps to go and drove to the win.
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Race fans who were present when a woman was killed by a tire that flew off a crashing dragster at a suburban Phoenix racetrack Sunday say they feel safe at the track despite the deadly accident. The woman's identity hasn't been released yet.
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Jimmie Johnson got a huge break on his last pit stop, getting on pit road only seconds before the caution flag came out, and held off a charging Kevin Harvick in the closing laps to win at California on Sunday.
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Jamie McMurray talks about what it took to win the Daytona 500 last weekend and what it felt like to have Dale Earnhardt Jr., in his rear-view mirror for the last lap.
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Jamie McMurray held off a hard-charging Dale Earnhardt Jr. over a wild, two-lap sprint to win the Daytona 500 Sunday. The race was stopped twice and delayed for more than two hours because of a pothole.