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.
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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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.
IndyCar driver Danica Patrick was knocked out of her first NASCAR race when she got caught up in a multiple car wreck at the Daytona International Speedway Saturday.
Jimmie Johnson and Kasey Kahne each won qualifying races for the Daytona 500 by less than a second Thursday. Johnson edged Kevin Harvick by a mere five-thousandths of a second. Kahne nipped Tony Stewart by .014 seconds.
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Four-time defending Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson was caught up in a wreck Wednesday in practice for Sunday's Daytona 500. Thursday drivers race in a pair of 150-mile qualifying races.
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Jimmie Johnson is the first driver in NASCAR history to win four straight Cup championships, clinching it in the series finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
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Three-time defending NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson has signed a contract extension keeping him with Hendrick Motorsports through 2015.
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Former Formula 1 driver and Indy 500 winner Juan Pablo Montoya is third in points in NASCAR's 'Chase' for the championship. This is just Montoya's third season in the Sprint Cup Series.
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Kyle Busch holds off Mark Martin to win at Bristol for the second time this season and improve his chances of qualifying for NASCAR's Sprint Cup Chase for the championship.
Brian Vickers won Sunday at Michigan International Speedway while Jimmie Johnson gambled and lost when he ran out of gas.
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At age 50, Mark Martin continues his strong showing this season by grabbing the Brickyard 400 pole.
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NASCAR drivers take on the track known as the 'Monster Mile' Sunday. Drivers say the one-mile oval track in Dover, Delaware poses several challenges.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr is getting a new crew chief in an effort to end a racing slump in which he has entered the winner's circle just once in 48 races.
David Reutimann takes advantage of some late-race strategy and the weather to win the Coca-Cola 600 for his first Sprint Cup victory.
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Veteran driver Ryan Newman has the pole position for the Coca Cola 600 as he tries to win for the first time at Lowe's Motor Speedway.
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Driver Jeremy Mayfield was suspended indefinitely by NASCAR for failing a random drug test.
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Three-time defending champion Jimmie Johnson says the only way to control the racing at Talladega Superspeedway is a radical transformation of the track.
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