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By Michael Vega, Globe Staff Three laps. That’s all it took. Just three laps. In that span, reigning NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson had his 184-point lead in The Chase shrink by 111 when he wrecked on the third lap of last Sunday’s Dickies 500 at Texas Motor Speedway. For Johnson, it turned what appeared to be a le...

By Alex Nunez The official pace car for last weekend's Dickies 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup race was none other than the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS. This, in itself, is no biggie. What's interesting is how the car was delivered to the Texas Motor Speedway prior to the race. If you watched sports over the weekend, you...

By SceneDaily Staff Pat Tryson, crew chief for the No. 2 Penske Racing driven by Kurt Busch, has been named the Wypall Wipers Crew Chief of the Race for Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Dickies 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.

By SceneDaily Staff Kevin Harvick’s Richard Childress Racing crew won the Tissot Pit Road Precision Award for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Dickies 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.

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By Stephen Hawkins, Associated Press FORT WORTH - After Jimmie Johnson’s drive to history took a hard hit against a wall, Kyle Busch ran out of gas trying to complete an unprecedented NASCAR trifecta, leaving Kurt Busch to drive to Victory Lane at the Dickies 500 yesterday.

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FORT WORTH, Texas -- Two hours before Sunday's Dickies 500, NASCAR chairman Brian France conceded that dramatic storylines in the sport "aren't what they have been in the past or will be in the future,'' in citing a reason for NASCAR's slumping TV ratings.

By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas – It was a dramatic beginning and a dramatic end in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Dickies 500 at Texas Motor Speedway Sunday.

Following Jeff Burton's wreck in Turn 2 during first practice for the Dickies 500, team owner Richard Childress has decided to replace him with Casey Mears for the NASCAR Nationwide Series race on Saturday.

By Luke What, you’ve never heard of On Pit Row? They’re only the biggest NASCAR radio show in the Midwest, syndicated on the Fox Sports radio network, hailing and broadcasting from the Toledo Speedway in Toledo, Ohio. Expanding onto the web, they have one of the best NASCAR news and information si...

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