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Could Turner Be The Next Big Team?

T.C. — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 03:51:10 +0000

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Danica Patrick Warns NASCAR Drivers She’s No Pushover

Holly Cain — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:50:00 +0000

CONCORD, N.C. -- A week ago, Danica Patrick was wrecked while in the midst of what would have been her best NASCAR finish -- an unnecessary victim of bullying as far as she was concerned.

So this week, Patrick warned the guilty party, fellow rookie James Buescher, that he better not push the issue in Friday night's race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

"I think it's pretty safe to say I'm not going to make it my mission to take him out because I don't want to do anything to take away from my race,'' said Patrick, who will be making her ninth start in Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s No. 7 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet.

"But if he, in any way, starts to act up out there, yeah, I'm going to do something about it.''

"I hope that he thinks about what he did last weekend. If he plays well with others then you know we'll be able to carry on. But if he doesn't, there's going to be a need for something to happen because you can't get pushed around out there. You can't.''

Patrick was referring to an accident with nine laps remaining in last Saturday's race in Fontana, Calif., when she was on pace for her first top-15 finish. While running 14th in a tight pack of cars she was hit from behind by Buescher, ending her day while he went on and finished 17th.

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Danica Patrick Crashes Late, Kyle Busch Wins Nationwide Series Race

A.J. Perez — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 20:45:00 +0000

Filed under: NASCAR Crashes, Nationwide Series, NASCAR

FONTANA , Calif. -- Danica Patrick was kept from her best career finish in the Nationwide Series by what her crew chief described as a "blatant" retaliatory collision late in the CampingWorld.com 300 at Auto Club Speedway on Saturday.

As Kyle Busch crossed the finish line for his record 12th victory of the season, Patrick's mangled No. 7 JR Motorsports Chevrolet sat in the garage. Busch finished 1.034 seconds ahead of Brad Keselowski, who extended his points lead to 384 points with the second-place finish. Kevin Harvick, Carl Edwards and Joey Logano rounded out the top five.

Patrick, who finished 30th, hinted her collision with James Buescher that collected two other cars with eight laps left may not have been by chance. She had raced as high as 10th and was in 13th at the time of the wreck, primed to finish on the lead lap for the first time and best her highest career finish through her first seven starts, 24th, in the Nationwide Series.

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Catch Cans, Turner Motorsports, & Marc Davis

T.C. — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 02:56:35 +0000

Even though the NASCAR Silly Season has quieted down some, there are still plenty of rumors floating around. Here are a few of the bits we’ve heard over the last week or so. Catch Can Man Back in April we told you that NASCAR was considering eliminating the catch can man for both the Nationwide [...]

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Mr. Turner Comes To NASCAR

Journo — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:30:39 +0000

In all fairness to Steve Turner, he’s been here for a while. But as an owner he’s relatively new to the game – and it sounds like he could soon be one of the biggest independents in the sport. FoxSports first reported on Saturday about the possible sale of Braun Racing to Turner. We are [...]

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Jason Leffler Latest to Test NASCAR’s “Have at it, Boys” Mandate

Geoffrey Miller — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:25:00 +0000

Filed under: NASCAR Crashes, Nationwide Series

As the latest driver to test NASCAR's much-publicized "Have at it, boys" policy, Nationwide driver Jason Leffler found out Tuesday what the sanctioning body's follow-up punishment is: a three-race probation period.

Staying consistent, NASCAR levied the same mild rebuke to Leffler for wrecking James Buescher in Saturday's Nationwide race at Nashville Superspeedway that it did to Carl Edwards for intentionally wrecking Brad Keselowski in what turned out to be a far more serious incident at in the Sprint Cup race at Atlanta in March.

Assuming he doesn't get into more trouble, Leffler's probation will run until April 28 and will cover this weekend's race at Phoenix as well as the events at Texas and Talladega.

In the Nashville race, won by Kevin Harvick, Leffler came back out bent on revenge against Buescher after an earlier encounter between the two put him in the wall. In the first incident, on lap 43, Buescher's No. 1 slipped up the race track in turns one and two, making contact with Leffler's black No. 38. Leffler spun and backed hard into the outside wall, effectively ending his day. But the repairs made by his crew got him back in the race -- albeit many laps down.

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Payback For Accidental Contact Not Cool

Journo — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 04:13:07 +0000

Two incidents, two very similar stories. Two drivers enter a turn, two wide. The one on the bottom slips up and wrecks the one on top. The one who was wrecked has his car repaired and returns to track. He goes out and wrecks the one who wrecked him. One incident ends with a car [...]

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Can A Non Cup Driver Challenge for the Nationwide Title?

T.C. — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:24:13 +0000

Now that Danica is taking a NASCAR hiatus for a few months, can we please get back to talking about the actual competition in the Nationwide Series? Three races into the season, the top ten in NNS points could be mistaken for the top ten in the Cup Series. Seven of the top ten are Cup [...]

Big TV Ratings Upcoming for ARCA Opener?

T.C. — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:00:35 +0000

The 2010 racing season is officially upon us! The Rolex 24 at Daytona kicked it off Saturday, and haulers carrying stock cars will roll into DIS this week. Daytona 500 qualifying and the Budweiser Shootout headline a busy upcoming weekend. Along with the NASCAR events, the ARCA Series will open it’s season with the Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200 [...]

A Possible Miccosukee Exit and Finally Some Racing at Daytona

Journo — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:34:44 +0000

The Charlotte Observer’s Jim Utter reported earlier in the week about the potential exit of Miccosukee from NASCAR. The Florida Indian Tribe was set to sponsor a truck for Kyle Busch Motorsports and Nationwide and Cup Series teams for Phoenix Racing. For Kyle Busch Motorsports, the potential move by the tribe would certainly cause headaches. In [...]