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          <title>Johnson cruising into finale after Phoenix victory</title>
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AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) &#8212; Jimmie Johnson won&#8217;t plan any parties this week, or waste a minute pondering his place in NASCAR history.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Kurt Busch wins at Texas, Johnson 38th after wreck</title>
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) &#8212; Jimmie Johnson sat in his car going nowhere for more than an hour, his NASCAR Sprint Cup lead shrinking with every passing lap.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Bump and Run: Despite new rule, last laps turn into free&#45;for&#45;all</title>
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TALLADEGA, Ala. - NASCAR demanded drivers be on their best behavior at Talladega Superspeedway, where a ban on bump-drafting sanitized what&#8217;s usually one of the most spectacular races of the season.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Denny Hamlin holds off Jimmie Johnson for Martinsville win</title>
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Denny Hamlin felt a little d&#233;j&#224;-vu in the closing laps at Martinsville Speedway on Sunday afternoon.           ]]></description>
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Jimmie Johnson should consider making some room in his trophy case.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Earnhardt Jr. cut down 3 tires, finished 4 laps down</title>
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Dale Earnhardt Jr.&#8217;s nightmarish season rolled on, or, more precisely, continued limping along into the wall as Little E struggled to a 29th-place finish in the TUMS Fast Relief 500 on Sun-day at Martinsville Speedway.           ]]></description>
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          <title>NASCAR&#8217;s first family: Two Frances make the cut for Hall of Fame&#8217;s inaugural class</title>
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CHARLOTTE - Bill France Sr., NASCAR&#8217;s founder, headlines stock-car racing&#8217;s first Hall of Fame class, but the group drew mixed reactions with the inclusion of France&#8217;s son instead of driver David Pearson.
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FONTANA, Calif. (AP)&#8212;Jimmie Johnson insists NASCAR&#8217;s Chase for the championship isn&#8217;t over. That his dominating victory in Sunday&#8217;s Sprint Cup race at Auto Club Speedway doesn&#8217;t mean his fourth straight title is in the bag.           ]]></description>
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FONTANA, Calif.&#8212;Jimmie Johnson is back in control of NASCAR&#8217;s Chase for the Championship.           ]]></description>
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          <title>North Carolina striving for place at Indianapolis 500</title>
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Daniel Herrington is making his mark as an open-wheel driver from stock-car country.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Cup contenders make the call on who they think will win it all</title>
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From a historical perspective that really doesn&#8217;t have much history to it, Tony Stewart may have been better off not winning NASCAR&#8217;s regular season.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Hamlin rolling into race with momentum</title>
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Denny Hamlin, a first-time winner in Richmond, has 10 top-10 finishes in his last 12 starts.           ]]></description>
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          <title>At 67, Shepherd still going strong</title>
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Experience was once the most prized commodity in NASCAR.           ]]></description>
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          <title>White House honors NASCAR champions, drivers</title>
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson had the gas to get to the White House on Wednesday, where President Barack Obama honored the 2008 winner as well as auto racing.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Bristol achievies another sellout</title>
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Bristol Motor Speedway officials had 160,000 reasons to celebrate Tuesday morning.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:44:52 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Driver loses temper after receiving black flag at South Boston</title>
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SoBo track officials say Greg Dejarnette was black flagged and parked for rough driving. Dejarnette didn&#8217;t take that news well.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Northern drivers have edge on Southern Modified Tour</title>
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So far this season, Northern drivers have been a force on the Southern tour.           ]]></description>
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After weeks of negotiations, International Speedway Corp. officials announced yesterday that the Indy Racing League event won&#8217;t return next year to Richmond International Raceway.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Sixth in points, but Hamlin sees room to improve</title>
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If only numbers mattered, Denny Hamlin&#8217;s fourth Sprint Cup season would be something to brag about.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Calling the night at Southside Speedway</title>
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It&#8217;s about 5:45 on a Friday night and the tower at Southside Speedway is starting to come alive. Score keepers are arriving and setting up the electronic keypad for the scoreboard overlooking turn three; drivers and teams are mulling around the infield; and the controlled scramble is on to get concession stands up and running. Co-race directors Chris Stefi and Gary Fox are just sitting down to hash out some last minute notes for the drivers&#8217; meeting at 6 p.m. and catching one last moment of solitude before a night where they will have to deal with everything from storms to wrecks, to technical difficulties and the inevitable unhappy driver.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Sorry season, 90&#45;race drought puts Kevin Harvick&#8217;s future in doubt</title>
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They called him &#8220;Happy Harvick&#8221; at the start of his NASCAR career, when success came so easy that Kevin Harvick had a seemingly perpetual smile. It&#8217;s been quite some time since the nickname fit. 
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NASCAR asked a federal judge Monday to reverse the ruling that lifted driver Jeremy Mayfield&#8217;s indefinite suspension for failing a random drug test.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Rain helps teenager Logano get first Cup win</title>
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Joey Logano isn&#8217;t apologizing for getting a lucky win. Especially when it&#8217;s his first one &#8212; and it made him the youngest winner in the history of the Sprint Cup series.           ]]></description>
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SONOMA, Calif. &#8212; Richard Petty Motorsports has made news this season for all the wrong reasons. Caught in the financial crunch of Chrysler&#8217;s bankruptcy, the team had a recent round of layoffs and companywide salary reductions.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Racing is fun again for Martin</title>
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When Mark Martin got the opportunity to return to NASCAR Sprint Cup racing full time this season, he and wife Arlene had a couple of heart-to-heart talks.            ]]></description>
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DOVER, Delaware (AP) &#8212; Jimmie Johnson nosed past Tony Stewart with two laps left in a thrilling battle to the finish and won the NASCAR Autism Speaks 400 at Dover International Speedway.           ]]></description>
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 Timothy Peters can now say with certainty that he is racing all the way through Homestead.           ]]></description>
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. &#8212; Dale Earnhardt Jr. stayed loyal to his cousin and crew chief through last year&#8217;s frustrating finish and this year&#8217;s slumping start.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Race car driver Wayne Patterson dies</title>
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BY RALPH N. PAULK

Media General News Service           ]]></description>
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          <title>Bristol Dragway, NHRA feeling economic pinch</title>
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BRISTOL, Tenn. - Drag racing is fueled by a potent mix of courage, nitromethane, high-octane racing fuel - and money.           ]]></description>
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Don&#8217;t let Mark Martin&#8217;s joyful demeanor fool you &#8212; he knows how well he&#8217;s running and knows where that could lead this season.           ]]></description>
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 NASCAR driver Kevin Grubb committed suicide by a gunshot wound to the head, the Henrico County medical examiner determined yesterday.           ]]></description>
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Kevin Grubb, whose NASCAR career was cut short because of alleged substance abuse, was found dead yesterday morning at a motel in Henrico County.           ]]></description>
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They aren&#8217;t quite the Hatfields and McCoys, but Kyle Busch and Dale Earnhardt Jr. aren&#8217;t exactly fishing buddies, either.           ]]></description>
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Winning is supposed to be the name of the game, but if the game is NASCAR, winning is secondary.           ]]></description>
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A year ago, Denny Hamlin appeared to be cruising to a victory at Richmond International Raceway.           ]]></description>
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Virginians Eddie Pardue and Joey Cohen have developed a reputation as one of the best crew chief/engineer tandems in the Nationwide Series.           ]]></description>
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ABINGDON, Va. &#8211; As he was about to be sentenced Monday for federal income tax fraud, those in the courtroom stood up for Larry McClure.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Ageless Martin races back to Victory Lane</title>
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Mark Martin puts in long hours in the gym and thinks the last time he ate fast food was a Burger King run some 15 years ago. He lives his life like a man half of his age. And drives like it, too.           ]]></description>
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Bryan Pittman eagerly hopped behind the controls of a forklift on Christmas Eve to help unload a new toy at Virginia International Raceway.           ]]></description>
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That Texas-sized drought ended for Jeff Gordon in the most unexpected place.           ]]></description>
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MARTINSVILLE - Tony Stewart seemed uncomfortable with Joe Gibbs Racing&#8217;s decision to switch from Chevrolet to Toyota.           ]]></description>
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MARTINSVILLE &#8212; Kevin Harvick was born and raised in California. But he felt right at home at Martinsville Speedway on Monday afternoon. 

Harvick&#8217;s KHI Inc. team earned a 1-2 finish in the Kroger 250 Camping World Truck Series race. Harvick picked up the victory while his employee and teammate, Ron Hornaday Jr., ended up in second.
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Kyle Busch was furious when his pit crew cost him a win at Bristol Motor Speedway, where he angrily ditched his car on the race track and headed to his motorhome on foot. A day later, he drove it to Victory Lane.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Sam Bass makes mark as painter in NASCAR world</title>
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Ask Sam Bass about Bristol Motor Speedway, and he gets as giddy as a youngster watching his first race at the famed half-mile oval.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Nostalgia rings true at Bristol</title>
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It&#8217;s one of the most popular topics of the NASCAR campground. In fact, the debate sessions can stretch into the early morning.           ]]></description>
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BRISTOL, Tenn. - Harry Gant will never forget his first step into the modern NASCAR world.           ]]></description>
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          <title>It&#8217;s a wrap: Legends&#8217; cars to look like new</title>
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BRISTOL, Tenn. - Paint is so pass&#233;.           ]]></description>
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A dejected Brad Daugherty sat in his late-model stock car, unwilling at that moment on Saturday morning to try to extract his 7-foot frame from behind the wheel.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Kurt Busch dominates Atlanta race</title>
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Kurt Busch grabbed the checkered flag, shifted his car into reverse and headed off on a unique victory lap. 
Backward. 
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          <title>Engine woes doom Kenseth</title>
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Matt Kenseth knew his bid to make NASCAR history was over before the race even started Sunday. 
Kenseth, seeking to become the first driver to win the first three races of the season, sensed a problem in his engine during the warmup laps at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. A caution on the second lap gave him a chance to head to pit road, where his crew quickly tried to fix the problem.            ]]></description>
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Kyle Busch has had plenty of highlights in his short NASCAR career: setting a record as the youngest winner in series history, giving Toyota its first victory and returning Joe Gibbs Racing&#8217;s flagship car to prominence. 
None of it compared to winning at home. 
Busch notched the biggest win of his young career Sunday by driving from the back of the field to win at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, his hometown track. 
Although there are far more hallowed tracks in NASCAR, this 1.5-mile oval in the desert was where &#8220;The Wild Thing&#8221; most wanted to win. He proved that with an elaborate victory celebration that ended with him on his knees, kissing the finish line.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Southern 500 brings back fond memories for Jarrett</title>
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DARLINGTON &#8212; What&#8217;s in a name? Everything, according to Ned Jarrett.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:34:59 EST</pubDate>
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Daytona 500 winner Matt Kenseth made it two victories in a row Sunday, holding off a late challenge from Jeff Gordon to win the Auto Club 500.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Sputtering economy forces teams to cut back</title>
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For years, NASCAR drivers and teams reaped the riches of a sport confidently bankrolled by corporate America.           ]]></description>
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          <title>A soap opera at Daytona</title>
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Soap operas end all the time, but they never really end.           ]]></description>
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DAYTONA BEACH &#8212; Dale Earnhardt Jr. hadn&#8217;t even climbed out of his car after winning last year&#8217;s Budweiser Shootout, and his fans were already counting his future championships.           ]]></description>
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DAYTONA BEACH &#8212; With a skeleton crew, three race cars and a firm belief sponsorship will come through, Lakeland&#8217;s Joe Nemechek is setting out to run the full Sprint Cup season as an owner/driver.           ]]></description>
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DAYTONA BEACH &#8212; It&#8217;s still the Budweiser Shootout, but the traditional non-points prelude to the Daytona 500 will have a different look and feel Saturday night.           ]]></description>
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BRISTOL, Tenn. - It&#8217;s been a winter of economic discontent in NASCAR, but Bristol Motor Speedway officials remain on the attack.           ]]></description>
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The chatty guests inside the massive hall turned silent as the graying figure entered with his trademark smile.           ]]></description>
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CONCORD, N.C. - Kyle Busch recorded one of the most amazing seasons in NASCAR history in 2008.           ]]></description>
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They said it was impossible, that Tony Stewart was just too emotional, too outspoken and just too dang unpredictable to be a team owner in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Johnson Will Flip The Switch Again</title>
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DAYTONA BEACH &#8212; Jimmie Johnson had been asked yet again to talk about his public image &#8212; about being polished, professional, bland.           ]]></description>
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The way Don Gemmell looks at it, laid-off motorsports employees can look at what just happened and either hit the brakes or the accelerator on their careers.           ]]></description>
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Elliott Sadler had hoped to jumpstart his career when midway through the 2006 Sprint Cup season he switched from Robert Yates Racing to Evernham Motorsports.           ]]></description>
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Statesville-based Gillett Evernham Motorsports will lay off about 65 employees in several departments as part of scaling back its Nationwide Series program next season.           ]]></description>
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) &#8212; When Bobby Labonte needed a fresh start, he curiously chose Petty Enterprises even though the storied organization had fallen far beyond NASCAR&#8217;s elite teams.           ]]></description>
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HOMESTEAD, Fla.- Carl Edwards and Jimmie Johnson both came up winners yesterday.           ]]></description>
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Jimmie Johnson and Chad Knaus never slowed down enough to consider what a record-tying third consecutive championship would mean to their legacy. Don&#8217;t count on them doing it now. 
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HOMESTEAD, Fla. - Jimmie Johnson probably will be the man spraying champagne and celebrating a third straight Sprint Cup championship Sunday night.           ]]></description>
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HOMESTEAD, Fla. - Is this the end of the road for Dale Earnhardt Inc., the company that the late Dale Earnhardt created and expected his family to continue?
Maybe.           ]]></description>
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AVONDALE, Ariz. &#8211; The bad economic news out of Detroit didn&#8217;t settle very well in the NASCAR garage, where hundreds of stock car racing crewmen are on pins and needles about their futures in this sport, and where drivers are sweating things, too.           ]]></description>
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PHOENIX - Lee White, the boss of Toyota&#8217;s racing arm (TRD), doesn&#8217;t consider that Toyota teams collapsed in NASCAR&#8217;s Chase for the Championship.           ]]></description>
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PHOENIX - With a little more than a week left in the season, Dale Earnhardt Inc. has four teams in the top 35 and three good drivers, including promising Aric Almirola and Regan Smith &#8230; but only one sponsor.           ]]></description>
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They popped the champagne in Victory Lane and celebrated as if Jimmie Johnson just won another championship. 
Almost. But not quite there. 
Johnson moved inches closer to his record-tying third straight NASCAR title Sunday, trouncing the field at Phoenix International Raceway to deliver a knockout punch to Carl Edwards&#8217; championship hopes           ]]></description>
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PHOENIX - The latest gambit by DEI&#8217;s Teresa Earnhardt to keep her four-team operation up and running includes talks about a possible merger with fellow car owner Chip Ganassi, according to Detroit sources. But how Ganassi&#8217;s Dodge factory deal might mesh with Earnhardt&#8217;s Chevy factory deal is quite unclear.           ]]></description>
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Jimmie Johnson&#8217;s run toward an almost certain third consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup title has prompted many ideas on how to change the Chase for the championship to make it more competitive.           ]]></description>
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Sam Ard is 69 years old and suffering from both Alzheimer&#8217;s and Parkinson&#8217;s diseases. He&#8217;s not permitted to drive anywhere anymore, and no one is exactly sure how much Ard understands about the latest push to help his crumbling finances and mounting medical bills.           ]]></description>
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Taking risks is a whole lot easier when you believe you don&#8217;t have much to lose.            ]]></description>
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FORT WORTH, Texas. - Kyle &#8220;Rowdy&#8221; Busch once held sway in the Toyota camp, but he lost his groove.           ]]></description>
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FORT WORTH, Texas - Jimmie Johnson has been riding an endless wave for several years now, but his prowess could be dragging down NASCAR&#8217;s championship ratings, and his third straight Sprint Cup championship, which seems inevitable, might have NASCAR executives scratching their heads about what to do next season.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:23:00 EST</pubDate>
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FORT WORTH, Texas. - While Jimmie Johnson and Chad Knaus are getting their New York City tuxedos cleaned and pressed, the rest of the drivers in the Sprint Cup Chase for the Championship, the ones all lagging so far behind, are trying to figure out what hurricane blew through.           ]]></description>
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Cale Yarborough emerged from retirement recently to see what all the fuss is about as Jimmie Johnson prepares to join him as a three-time champion on NASCAR&#8217;s top series.           ]]></description>
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Whatever Carl Edwards and Jimmie Johnson have figured out with this new winged car, they&#8217;re certainly not sharing any secrets.           ]]></description>
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If Jimmie Johnson finishes Race 8 of the Chase for the Sprint Cup in Texas on Sunday with at least a 323-point lead, he&#8217;d need only to start the last two races to clinch a third straight championship. Or he can finish at least ninth in the last three races to clinch.           ]]></description>
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Jimmie Johnson is on a roll again, and whether he&#8217;s willing to admit it or not, while everyone else in NASCAR is chasing him, he&#8217;s chasing history. 
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SOUTH BOSTON, Va. (AP) - The long blonde hair hanging over the back of a racing suit covered with sponsor logos makes it apparent that Kristin Bumbera is not your average racer.           ]]></description>
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A win Saturday night at Lowe&#8217;s Motor Speedway rocketed Jeff Burton onto Jimmie Johnson&#8217;s bumper with five races to go to decide the championship, and Burton is convinced he&#8217;s as capable of winning a title now as he was when he was a young hotshot           ]]></description>
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 Rules, rules, rules&#8230;. what&#8217;s NASCAR without a few controversies every now and then? And, heck, maybe there aren&#8217;t enough these days - remember those classic Ford vs. Chevy arguments, which the homogenized common-template winged car has sent to the history books?           ]]></description>
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Tony Stewart was the first driver convicted of dipping below NASCAR&#8217;s out-of-bounds line, learning a valuable lesson in 2001 at Daytona that he&#8217;s carried with him the last seven years.            ]]></description>
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TALLADEGA, Ala. - Joe Gibbs Racing&#8217;s Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin and Tony Stewart, who were so strong during the regular season, have fallen to the bottom of the heap in the Sprint Cup title chase. And at 10th (Hamlin), 11th (Stewart) and 12th (Busch), they have virtually no chance to get back into contention.           ]]></description>
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Remember Kyle Busch?           ]]></description>
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Dale Earnhardt Jr.&#8216;s championship hopes this season are all but gone, and he never really ever even got in the game.           ]]></description>
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Well, it worked in the video game. 
Carl Edwards did everything he could Sunday, including purposely bouncing off the concrete wall at Kansas Speedway, but it wasn&#8217;t quite enough to beat two-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson.           ]]></description>
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KANSAS CITY, Kansas - Flat-out, wide-open, and get the heck out of my way, or eat my bumper. That&#8217;s the approach Greg Biffle, Jimmie Johnson and Carl Edwards are taking in this championship chase.           ]]></description>
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NASCAR notes.           ]]></description>
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DOVER, Del. - Greg Biffle, a NASCAR Cup winner since 2003, is a well known part of the stock car racing world.           ]]></description>
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It came down to the final four laps of the 40-lap feature to decide the 2008 championship as Walker Arthur of Goode held off a late-race challenge by Stevie Long to take Round 4 of the Victory Lap Late Model $25,000 Challenge at Bill Sawyer&#8217;s Virginia Motor Speedway.           ]]></description>
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