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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IndyCar's Danica Patrick discusses her testing session in an ARCA stock car at Daytona International Speedway in preparation for part-time driving in the Nationwide Series next year.
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