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By SceneDaily Staff Forty-six teams are on the preliminary entry list for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 at Phoenix International Raceway.

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By SceneDaily Staff Eleven Sprint Cup competitors are among the 46 drivers on the preliminary entry list for Saturday’s NASCAR Nationwide Series Able Body Labor 200 at Phoenix International Raceway.

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By SceneDaily Staff Kevin Conway will attempt to run all three NASCAR national touring series races this weekend at Phoenix International Raceway, with sponsorship from ExtenZe in all three endeavors.

By SceneDaily Staff Red Horse Racing officials announced Monday that defending ARCA Re/Max Series champion Justin Lofton drive the team’s No. 7 Toyota for the full NASCAR Camping World Truck Series schedule in 2011.

By SceneDaily Staff It looks as if Danica Patrick is headed to JR Motorsports for a partial Nationwide Series schedule for 2010, and it has created a great debate of how Patrick will do in a Nationwide car.

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By SceneDaily Staff Penske Racing's Kurt Busch said he was uncertain about the car that his team wanted to bring to the race track last weekend at Texas Motor Speedway, but after leading 89 laps and winning Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Dickies 500, the driver decided that perhaps he should just focus on the driv...

By SceneDaily Staff Is NASCAR's Chase For The Sprint Cup back on? Or is Hendrick Motorsports driver Jimmie Johnson still a lock for his fourth consecutive Cup championship?

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By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas – Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Dickies 500 at Texas Motor Speedway was just the kind of outing that Richard Childress Racing wanted.

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By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas - Roush Fenway Racing's Matt Kenseth knew he was going to need fuel to finish the race, so he went ahead and stopped with 25 laps to go in Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Dickies 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.

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By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas - Joe Gibbs Racing's Denny Hamlin didn't seem to be having the best race. He said he lost positions on pit road and then bounced off the wall – but then crew chief Mike Ford opted to keep the driver on the track and conserve fuel late to net a runnerup finish in Sunday's NASCAR Sp...

By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas – A dejected Jeff Gordon didn’t attempt to hide his frustrations about a golden opportunity missed in Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Texas Motor Speedway.

By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas – The No. 1 Earnhardt Ganassi Racing car of Martin Truex Jr. was too low in postrace inspection Sunday following the Dickies 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Texas Motor Speedway.

By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas – Just when it appeared that Mark Martin’s bid for the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup championship might be over, Martin is back in the hunt.

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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.

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By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas – Juan Pablo Montoya’s already-dwindling hopes of winning the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup title suffered another blow with a wreck on lap 174 of Sunday’s Dickies 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.

By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas – Front Row Motorsports plans to field two NASCAR Sprint Cup cars full time in 2010, but who will drive them is still to be determined, team owner Bob Jenkins said Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway.

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By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas ˆ Kyle Busch likely woke up this morning with one thing on his mind: History.

By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas - As with most sports, sometimes the only way to improve in NASCAR is to first be willing to change. The top teams in the Sprint Cup Series clearly subscribe to this ideology. And they’re proving it more than ever in 2009.

By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas - Hendrick Motorsports' Jimmie Johnson led final practice Saturday in preparation for Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Dickies 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.

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By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas – Richard Childress Racing officials announced Nov. 6 that driver John Wes Townley will compete for the team next season in the NASCAR Nationwide Series.

By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas - Michael Waltrip Racing's David Reutimann was fastest in the morning practice Saturday in preparation for Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Dickies 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.

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By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas - The top six drivers in the Chase For The Sprint Cup have driven in a total of four NASCAR Nationwide Series races this season, including none by Sprint Cup point leader Jimmie Johnson.

By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas – Kyle Busch booted Ron Hornaday out of the way and held off a hard-charging Matt Crafton en route to victory in Friday night’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Texas Motor Speedway.

By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas – NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers Mark Martin and Tony Stewart said last weekend’s race at Talladega Superspeedway was hardly boring, contrary to what many fans and critics have said.

By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas – Matt Kenseth and David Ragan took the top two starting spots for Saturday night’s O’Reilly Challenge NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Texas Motor Speedway, giving Roush Fenway Racing a sweep of the front row.

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By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas – As the winner of the most recent NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Texas Motor Speedway, Jeff Gordon is fairly confident he can get back to victory lane this weekend at the 1.5-mile track.

By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas – Teammate Casey Mears is replacing Richard Childress Racing's Jeff Burton as driver of the No. 29 Chevrolet in this weekend’s NASCAR Nationwide Series event at Texas Motor Speedway.

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By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas – A freshly shaven Brad Keselowski arrived at Texas Motor Speedway Friday eager to jump in the No. 12 Penske Racing Dodge for the first time in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

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By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas – Ryan Newman has clearly embraced the U.S. Army’s sponsorship of his Stewart-Haas Racing NASCAR Sprint Cup team this season. So he and team co-owner Tony Stewart took time Friday to say their thoughts were with the victims of a shooting at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas.

By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas – All Roush Fenway Racing driver Carl Edwards says he needs to catch up to Kyle Busch in the NASCAR Nationwide Series is a little more power.

By SceneDaily Staff Tums officials announced Friday a multiyear partnership with Michael Waltrip Racing to sponsor David Reutimann’s No. 00 NASCAR Sprint Cup entry beginning with the 2010 season.

By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, TEXAS – Juan Pablo Montoya certainly doesn’t have room to harbor much regret over the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup season. After all, this is the first year the Earnhardt Ganassi Racing driver made the Chase For The Sprint Cup – and the season when he showed the promise of his young stoc...

By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas - Richard Childress Racing's Clint Bowyer led Friday's lone practice session in preparation for Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Dickies 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.

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By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas. - Stewart-Haas Racing's Ryan Newman met with NASCAR officials Wednesday to discuss his crash during Sunday's Sprint Cup race at Talladega Superspeedway and potential changes that could prevent similar incidents.

By SceneDaily Staff Richard Childress Racing says that John Wes Townley will compete in the NASCAR Nationwide Series for the team in 2010, with primary sponsorship from Zaxby's.

By SceneDaily Staff LAS VEGAS – Shelby Automobiles will return as sponsor of the NASCAR Sprint Cup event at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas - Roush Fenway Racing has the teams to beat in NASCAR Nationwide Series practices this weekend at Texas Motor Speedway, posting the three fastest times in the second Friday practice.

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By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas – New Kyle Busch crew chief Dave Rogers had the similar role in the NASCAR Cup garage in 2005, and he has a pretty blunt assessment of his job as crew chief for 13 races for J.J. Yeley at Joe Gibbs Racing.

By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas – Marcos Ambrose has enjoyed a strong run in his first full NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season, and 2010 is already shaping up to be a continuation of his success.

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By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas - Roush Fenway Racing's David Ragan led the opening practice Friday in preparation for Saturday's NASCAR Nationwide O'Reilly Challenge at Texas Motor Speedway.

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By SceneDaily Staff Crown Royal, a subsidiary of Diageo and primary sponsor of Roush Fenway Racing's Jamie McMurray in the NASCAR Sprint Cup series, is making a donation in honor of the driver's recent victory at Talladega Superspeedway.

By SceneDaily Staff LAS VEGAS – Las Vegas Motor Speedway and Speedway Children’s Charities are auctioning off four tickets to the NASCAR Awards Banquet in Las Vegas, to be held Dec. 4 at the Wynn Resort and Casino.

By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas – James Buescher knows what is expected of him next year when he will drive for Phoenix Racing in his rookie NASCAR Nationwide Series season.

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By SceneDaily Staff Jeff Burton has two NASCAR Sprint Cup victories at Texas Motor Speedway and a third in Sunday's Dickies 500 would tie him with Carl Edwards for most wins at the 1.5-mile track.

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By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas – Danica Patrick will be good for NASCAR but she will need to help promote stock-car racing and the Nationwide Series, said Texas Motor Speedway President Eddie Gossage.

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By SceneDaily Staff ESPN reports ABC’s live coverage of the Amp Energy 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup race Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway earned a final national household rating of 4.2, the highest rating so far among the seven races in the Chase For The Sprint Cup and down 8.7 percent from the 4.6 rating in 2007 and 20...

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By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas – Ricky Carmichael will have a new home next season in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.

By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas – ThorSport Racing’s Matt Crafton paced Thursday’s final NASCAR Camping World Truck Series practice in preparation for Friday night’s WinStar World Casino 350 at Texas Motor Speedway.

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By SceneDaily Staff Roush Fenway Racing says David Ragan’s Ford will carry a paint scheme supporting the Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s UPS Road Code safe-driving program in this weekend’s Dickies 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Texas Motor Speedway.

By SceneDaily Staff FORT WORTH, Texas – Billy Ballew Motorsports driver Kyle Busch led the first NASCAR Camping World Series practice Thursday at Texas Motor Speedway, with teammate Aric Almirola second.

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By SceneDaily Staff Motorsports Authentics, the primary provider of NASCAR-related merchandise, has lost $20.1 million in the first nine months of 2009, Speedway Motorsports Inc. reported in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission today.

By SceneDaily Staff Hendrick Motorsports' Jeff Gordon brings an interesting perspective to this weekend's NASCAR Sprint Cup Dickies 500 at Texas Motor Speedwaty.

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By SceneDaily Staff LAS VEGAS – Dale Earnhardt Jr. said Wednesday night that his JR Motorsports team is still negotiating with IndyCar Series driver Danica Patrick about driving a partial Nationwide Series schedule in 2010 and that he still believes that there’s competition to land Patrick.

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By SceneDaily Staff Kyle Busch has been nearly perfect this year in pursuit of the NASCAR Nationwide Series championship. But with Joe Gibbs Racing at Texas Motor Speedway, he has been perfect.

By SceneDaily Staff James Buescher will drive Phoenix Racing’s No. 1 NASCAR Nationwide Series Chevrolet full time and Turner Motorsports’ No. 31 Camping World Truck Series Chevrolet part time in 2010, a spokesperson for Buescher announced Wednesday.

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By SceneDaily Staff Joe Gibbs Racing driver Kyle Busch and crew chief Dave Rogers will work their first NASCAR Sprint Cup race together this weekend at Texas Motor Speedway, but they do have a successful, albeit brief, history.

By SceneDaily Staff Stewart-Haas Racing's Ryan Nemwan is sore and has a couple of chipped teeth, but he’s ready to return to action in his No. 39 Chevrolet for this weekend’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Dickies 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.

By SceneDaily Staff Donnie Wingo, crew chief for the No. 26 Roush Fenway Racing Ford driven by Jamie McMurray, has been named the Wypall Wipers Crew Chief of the Race for Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Amp Energy 500 at Talladega Superspeedway.

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By SceneDaily Staff TALLADEGA, Ala. – It’s easy for Jeff Burton to notice the difference in the new Nationwide car, and it’s the same thing he said when he went from the old Sprint Cup car to the new one.

By SceneDaily Staff Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway will mark a homecoming of sorts for Joey Logano in at least two ways.

By SceneDaily Staff Roush Fenway Racing's Carl Edwards is sixth in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series standings heading into Sunday's LifeLock 400 at Michigan International Speedway. BROOKLYN, Mich. - Carl Edwards and his Roush Fenway Racing team have ...

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MANSFIELD, Ohio - Unofficial results from the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Ohio 250 at Mansfield Motorsports Park with position, driver, team, laps completed, and status:

NASCAR officials have suspended Craftsman Truck Series crew chief Lance Hooper for the next two races and fined him $1,000 for a rule violation at Lowe's Motor Speedway.