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NASCAR fans do have a voice after all! Well, sort of ...
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[Editor's note: Carol Fitzgerald continues her analysis of all things NASCAR. She's a fan, and she's not particularly pleased with how fans are being treated. -- JB] That's right, ladies and gentlemen, just when you thought the good old days of real racing were over...
Running wide open: Keselowski. Hamlin. Who ya got?
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Special Saturday Nationwide version of Running Wide Open today, as we've got a fine little showdown later this afternoon in the season-ending Nationwide race. Sure, Kyle Busch has already locked up the championship, but that's not what everyone wants to see -- we're waiting...
Get to know Dave Rogers, Kyle Busch's new crew chief
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We all know Kyle Busch's team is running with a new crew chief. Seemed the perfect time to make the swap, considering the old one, Steve Addington, had just won the Wypall Crew Chief of the Week Award by helping Kyle come from 41st to finish fourth at Martinsville. So who's...
Kasey Kahne's eyes are beginning to wander from RPM
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We're inside 48 hours from the final race of the season, and with the drama all but squeezed out of the Chase for the Sprint Cup, we're forced to look elsewhere for our storylines of interest.So thank you, Kasey Kahne, for giftwrapping this one for us. Kahne, as you know, is...
The Chrome Horn, episode 28: Richard Childress
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We're back with a brand-spankin' new Chrome Horn podcast, this time featuring owner Richard Childress. He joins us for a quick visit to talk his team's disappointing seasons, his wine, his history with NASCAR and -- because these things often have a price -- his involvement...
Call in to be part of the next Chrome Horn podcast!
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Quick-hitter here -- we're going to give something a try that could be a lot of fun, or could crash and burn totally. Or both at once. As you (hopefully) know, we don't shut the doors here when the season ends, and one thing we'll be doing throughout the offseason is our...
The Pace Lap: The Ford 400 @ Homestead-Miami Speedway
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Welcome to The Pace Lap,
your catchall preview post! Let's get you started on race weekend with
a metric truckload of stats, facts, opinion and innuendo. The race: Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway The specs: 267 laps at a 1.5-mile track.The broadcasts: ABC, plus the live chat...
Create-a-caption: Nobody wants Kyle's autograph
2 days ago by
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A South Beach autograph session for several NASCAR drivers! Above you can see Kyle Busch, Ron Hornaday, Carl Edwards and assorted other NASCAR luminaries ... surely you can come up with a fine caption or two for this. Enjoy!After the jump, Junior's pit crew takes its sweet time...
Taillights fade: Looking back on David Stremme's 2009
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We're getting within sight of
the end of the season, and so it's time to begin our look back. In a
feature shamelessly ripped from Puck Daddy's Death Watch and Big League Stew's Walk Toward The Light, we'll
be counting down each and every car that fell short of...
How Jeff Gordon could still win the Sprint Cup championship*
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The Sprint Cup championship is all but sewn up for Jimmie Johnson, but there's still an outside chance Mark Martin could win. With a single race left, Mark Martin is 108 points behind Johnson. Using this points system as a guide, we break it down.If Johnson finishes 25th or better...
Four Wide: NASCAR's rolling into South Beach
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Bringing you the best in NASCAR news and opinion. Get your day rolling right ... or left, whichever. • Considering the heat between Denny Hamlin and Brad Keselowski, Denny's got himself an interesting Nationwide sponsor for this coming weekend. [Stock Car Spin] • Keselowski...
Junior in USA Today: 'Hang with pigs, you get dirt on you'
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. is under more scrutiny than anybody in NASCAR, but interestingly, he doesn't run from the spotlight -- he stands up and takes the tough questions, week after week, time after time. USA Today's Nate Ryan has a fine, long Q&A with Junior today in which...
Jamie McMurray is now #1 ... on his car, at least
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This is how silly season ends, not with a bang but with a long-expected and finally-confirmed move: Jamie McMurray will be driving the #1 car for Earnhardt-Ganassi Racing in 2010.McMurray, of course, was the odd man out when NASCAR laid down a four-car maximum rule for team owners...
From the Couch: Pemberton found in translation
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This is great. Really great. Totally stoked. The Jays pulled some strings (no they didn't) and got me, your inherently lazy couch commentator, an interview with Robin Pemberton (well, no*). Robin Pemberton, to refresh your memory, is currently the Vice President of Competition...
Midnight Marbles, where it's a hideous wedding day
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Because nothing's funnier than wacky NASCAR Photoshops, we bring you this, the work of reader Timid Observer -- Jimmie Johnson the bride and Mark Martin the bridesmaid. (Mark's hair looks lovely!) This here is your regular Midnight Marbles thread, where you can discuss the...
They make it 'cause we buy it: NASCAR driver nuts
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No sport offers up a more bewildering array of souvenir crap
memorabilia than NASCAR, and They Make It digs deep into the corners of
the Internet to bring all that strangeness to light. Today: NASCAR driver nuts. Peanuts. Stop giggling.The item: Planters' NASCAR nuts, branded with...
Four Wide: The Hendrick boys are always one-uppin' each other
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Bringing you the best in NASCAR news and opinion. Get your day rolling right ... or left, whichever. • Jimmie Johnson's competition in the Hendrick stable is what's spurring him and Chad Knaus on to higher levels every year. [Scene Daily] • The race for the Cup isn...
2010 is a rookie-less NASCAR season, so far
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So Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Kurt Busch and Mark Martin are dueling for the Cup championship. Tony Stewart is right there behind them. And Dale Earnhardt Jr. is sitting in the top 5, on the cusp of a possible championship run. What? I'm talking about this day in 2004, not 2009...
Wreck of the week: Same old, same old for Junior
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At some point, you've got to start feeling a little bad for Dale Earnhardt Jr. This has been the most wretched season imaginable for NASCAR's most famous driver. On Sunday, he added to his litany of unfortunate 2009 races as he got loose in Turn 4 at Phoenix and collected some...
Join us for the Marbles' Chat, Wednesday at 1 p.m. ET
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It's the final Marbles chat of the NASCAR season! (But not the final Marbles chat. We'll be running these all offseason, don't worry.) Come hang and put a bow on 2009 with us! See you at 1:00 Eastern on Wednesday.<a href="http://www.coveritlive...
Cher's got Kyle, babe: The oddest celeb charity pair ever
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Quick-hitter for you here -- spotted this ad for some kind of charitable gala in Miami Thursday night, featuring -- of all people -- Cher and Kyle Busch. Wha ... ? (Also slated to attend: Helio Castroneves and DJ Jazzy Jeff, who's a nice guy as long as you don't mention that...
Jeff Burton putting it all together as everything wraps up
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One of the most inexplicable elements of this entire 2009 season has been the sudden, precipitous drop of Richard Childress Racing from near the summit of NASCAR to ... well, not the bottom ... maybe a low-level base camp? Yeah, that works. Anyway, by now you know the deal. Three guys...
Scenes from a coronation: In the trenches at Phoenix
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[Occasionally, From the Marbles asks its readers to provide their unique insights. Where does the Jimmie Johnson hate come from? Who are the fire-suited people who bring us reports each week from the track? So we asked Dennis Tarwood ("Tuffy" in the weekly Sunday chats)...
Create-a-caption: The 88 pit crew lacks a sense of urgency
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Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s crew is extremely casual about their duties, yes? Running 20-minute pit stops is no way to make up ground, gentlemen! Post your thoughts on what may be happening right here.After the jump, the Intimidator whips his crew into shape. Rick C:YOU....join my conga...
Taillights fade: Looking back on Paul Menard's 2009
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We're getting within sight of
the end of the season, and so it's time to begin our look back. In a
feature shamelessly ripped from Puck Daddy's Death Watch and Big League Stew's Walk Toward The Light, we'll
be counting down each and every car that fell short of...
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