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Bill Elliott driving a Wal-Mart car at Daytona is pretty much the most NASCAR thing ever
Bit of a splash from the final day of NASCAR Media Day on Thursday, as Bill Elliott announced he'll return to the Sprint Cup series for one race: the July Coke Zero 400 at Daytona. He'll be driving the car you see above, the No. 50 Wal-Mart Chevy Impala, for Turner Motorsports. He'll also be getting some engineering/equipment assistance from Hendrick Motorsports. Elliott claims that...
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18 days ago
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Elliott Sadler to drive fourth Childress car at Daytona
Elliott Sadler will be back in the Sprint Cup Series for the Daytona 500.
Sadler, who is driving a full Nationwide Series schedule for Richard Childress Racing, will drive the No. 33 for the team on February 26 with sponsorship from General Mills and Kroger.
"It's great to be back in the Daytona 500," Sadler said in a release. "I've had a lot of success in...
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18 days ago
NASCAR announces that it will disclose all fines
NASCAR announced Wednesday that it will stop the practice of 'secret fines' and publicly announce all monetary punishments.
"NASCAR will no longer issue fines that are undisclosed," a NASCAR statement said. "We looked at this issue from every angle and gathered feedback from the industry. While there are always sensitivities related to sponsor relationships ...
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18 days ago
Happy Hour: Where will Brian Vickers end up?
Welcome to the latest Happy Hour mailbag! You know how these work: You write us with your best rant/ joke/one-liner at happyhournascar@yahoogroups.com (note new address) or on Twitter at @jaybusbee, we respond to your messages, everyone goes away with a smile on their face.
NASCAR is in the middle of its media week, and look, I have to say this: as much as we all complain about...
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18 days ago
Join us for the latest Yahoo! Sports NASCAR chat, Wednesday at noon ET (new time)
Time again for another NASCAR chat as the season draws ever closer! We're meeting up on Wednesday at noon Eastern (note: one hour earlier than usual) and we'll talk media tour news and other breaking info. Be here!
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19 days ago
Get your first look at the Ford Fusion NASCAR will use in 2013
On Tuesday, a few hours ahead of Ford's scheduled announcement of the redesigned Ford Fusion for 2013, pictures began to leak out of the new model. Check 'em out here, and see a larger gallery at Speed. The new design is part of a wide-ranging effort by NASCAR and the manufacturers to visually distinguish the cars from one another.
Here's an unpainted prototype of the...
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19 days ago
Join the Yahoo! Sports/Marbles fantasy league! Do it now!
All right, here's the deal: Fantasy NASCAR is coming up soon, and we at Yahoo! Sports want to fantasize with you. (Wait, that sounded really wrong.) Anyway, you need to get in on this action. Go to the Fantasy NASCAR homepage and sign up for a team. Then make sure you jump in on our special private league:
Fans of From The MarblesGroup ID: 31Password: marbles(sneaky password, yes...
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20 days ago
Ganassi on 2011 Montoya/McMurray performance: ‘pathetic’
The NASCAR winter media train rolls on, and Tuesday brought us the Earnhardt-Ganassi stop. And at the press conference, Chip Ganassi didn't hold back.
The public face of a team that had drivers finishing 21st and 27th last year, Ganassi said that 2011 was "pathetic for a team of our ability and our resources." Both Jamie McMurray and Juan Pablo Montoya underperformed relative tohttps...
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20 days ago
Relive the speeches from the 2012 NASCAR Hall of Fame induction ceremony
Friday night, Richie Evans, Dale Inman, Darrell Waltrip, Glen Wood and Cale Yarborough were the third class inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Did you miss the tape delayed broadcast of the 2012 NASCAR Hall of Fame inductions on Sunday evening or simply want to watch the speeches again? We've got you covered.
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20 days ago
Why Danica Patrick’s decision to run Charlotte over Indy makes sense
On Monday, Danica Patrick announced that she would run the Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 on May 27 instead of the Izod IndyCar Series Indianapolis 500 in 2012.
As Patrick has transitioned over to the stock car world -- 2012 will be her first full season in NASCAR -- the door to Indy has always publicly been left open a smidge. It's a race that she, like her car owner Tony Stewart...
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20 days ago
Danica Patrick unveils lucky GoDaddy St. Patrick’s Bristol car
Over the weekend, Danica Patrick unveiled a special shamrock-themed GoDaddy No. 7 Chevy Impala that she'll run in the St. Patrick's Day Nationwide race at Bristol on March 17. Naturally, there will be plenty of merchandising tie-ins, like t-shirts and caps and what have you, and you can find out about it all at the rolls-off-the-tongue website DanicaGoesGreenAtBristol.com...
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21 days ago
Trevor Bayne tours CNN, duels with Dominique Wilkins
Trevor Bayne's one year of fame as the Daytona 500 winner is fast coming to a close — if he doesn't win again this year, of course — and so he's taking full advantage, touring Atlanta's CNN Center, Turner Broadcasting and Philips Arena. Best part? The way Bayne remembers the cartoons at Cartoon Network like he saw 'em yesterday. Which he probably did.
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21 days ago
Did Steven Tyler one up Saving Abel in the ‘horrible anthem’ category?
Remember all the way back to the August Michigan race and Saving Abel's rendition of the National Anthem?
Oh, you've cleansed that from your memory? Sorry, I apologize for bringing it up.
Before Sunday's AFC Championship game between the Patriots and Ravens, Aerosmith lead singer and current 'American Idol' judge Steven Tyler sang the National Anthem. As fellow...
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21 days ago
2012 class inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame
Friday night, Richie Evans, Dale Inman, Darrell Waltrip, Richie Evans and Cale Yarborough were inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
Here are the some highlights of their remarks. The induction ceremony will be broadcast on SPEED on Sunday at 6 p.m. ET.
Evans won eight Modified Series championships in a row from 1978-1985. He passed away at a practice session in Martinsville in...
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23 days ago
Ten drivers who desperately need a Daytona 500 win
We're almost close enough to Daytona to hear the rolling surf, but before then there's planning to be done and guesses to be made. Specifically, which drivers need to win NASCAR's crown jewel the most? With tandem racing still a likely possibility, anyone in the field still running at the end can end up winning, as Trevor Bayne could tell you. Some, though, need it more...
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24 days ago
In which we forecast the future of the 2012 NASCAR season
The NASCAR season is almost upon us, so it's time to begin peering into that old crystal ball and seeing what might take place. Your Yahoo! Sports/From The Marbles crew offers up these predictions, which should not be used as a basis for wagering. Unless, of course, we're right, in which case you owe us a cut.
Someone is going to have a "Carl Edwards 2011" — and...
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24 days ago
Kyle and Kurt Busch join forces in Nationwide Series
Kyle Busch announced Thursday that he and brother Kurt Busch will team up to compete in the Nationwide Series in 2012 for Kyle's team, Kyle Busch Motorsports, with full-season sponsorship from Monster Energy.
Kyle Busch will drive 13-15 races for his team as it moves up from the Camping World Truck Series, while Kurt Busch will drive the rest, including standalone Nationwide...
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24 days ago
Peugeot withdraws from 24 Hours of Le Mans
Peugeot, a major player in sports car endurance racing, has announced that it has pulled out of racing this season for financial reasons.
The French company is Europe's second biggest carmaker.
From Reuters via Yahoo! Eurosport:
"This decision has been taken in the context of a difficult economic environment in Europe," the French carmaker said in a statement on the...
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25 days ago
Emily Maynard to be this season’s ‘The Bachelorette’
Now you have another NASCAR-related reason to watch reality television.
Emily Maynard, the former fiancee of Ricky Hendrick, NASCAR owner Rick Hendrick's late son, will be the main contestant on ABC's new season of 'The Bachelorette.'
Maynard won the 'The Bachelor' last season, but her relationship with Brad Womack quickly fizzled. And to accommodate Maynard...
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25 days ago
Happy Hour: Who wins the Chase in a single-elimination knockout?
Welcome to the latest Happy Hour mailbag! You know how these work: You write us with your best rant/ joke/one-liner at happyhournascar@yahoogroups.com (note new address) or on Twitter at @jaybusbee, we respond to your messages, everyone goes away with a smile on their face.
There's something about single-elimination, winner-take-all battles that gets everyone fired up. We talked...
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25 days ago
Join us for the latest Yahoo! NASCAR live chat at 1 ET Wednesday
Time again for another offseason-but-almost-not Yahoo! Sports NASCAR chat! Join us right here as we kick around the news of the day. Bring a dish to share.
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26 days ago
Hot/Not: Jeff Gordon’s Daytona qualifying idea is pretty good
Welcome back to the first Hot/Not of this glorious new year. Since we last talked, Kurt Busch found a ride, Brian Vickers didn't and A.J. Allmendinger hit the the lottery. Oh, and we've had some honest-to-goodness rubber to the road at Daytona preseason testing. Let's jump in:
HOT: It came to me amid one SPEED's 3,764 interviews about social media during their broadcast of last week...
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27 days ago
Try not to vomit as you ride with Paul Menard around Daytona
So, feel like taking a spin around Daytona International Speedway? Here's what it's like if you were taped to the steering wheel, courtesy of Paul Menard's cell phone. Tandem driving isn't the issue here; it's not throwing up as you come out of Turn 4. Enjoy!
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27 days ago
Carl Edwards will halt Nationwide run; ESPN next?
Hey, here's good news for some of the Nationwide drivers tired of getting beaten down like LSU in the national championship: Carl Edwards is leaving the Nationwide series.
Not that it matters from a standings perspective, as Edwards and other Sprint Cup drivers aren't eligible to win the Nationwide championship, but on the track, Edwards was one of the most dominant drivers...
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27 days ago
Power Rankings: The biggest stories of the offseason
Sure, it's the offseason, but that doesn't mean we can't throw out a few Power Rankings now and then. Today, we focus on the most important developments in one of the wildest offseasons in recent memory. And we start exactly where you'd expect we would ...
1. The saga of Kurt Busch. Has any former champion in NASCAR ever gone through such a dramatic decline in fortune...
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28 days ago
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