2009 a year of history making

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By Amanda Vincent
The season that was NASCAR 2009 wasn’t only a historic one, it also provided a lot of surprises — both good and bad.
While Jimmie Johnson winning a Sprint Cup title is no surprise, he did claim a fourth-straight in 2009, something that has never been done.
While Johnson as Sprint Cup champion lost [...]

According to Busch, 2009 title run didn’t come easy

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By Amanda Vincent

On the surface, Kyle Busch’s run to the 2009 Nationwide Series championship may have looked easy, but Busch himself admits that staking his claim on the 2009 champion’s trophy was no easy task.
“It wasn’t a cake walk this year,” Busch said at the Camping World Truck Series/Nationwide Series awards banquet in Miami [...]

Can anybody stop HMS?

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By Amanda Vincent

NASCAR has pretty much always had both haves and have-nots among its roster of competitors, but increasingly, Hendrick Motorsports seems to be becoming the one have heads and shoulders over the have-nots
Other traditional haves in the sport, like Roush Fenway Racing and especially Richard Childress Racing seem to have fallen off their thrones [...]

Where have all the Dodges gone?

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By Amanda Vincent
It seems like just a few years ago when Dodge had a significant amount of representation in the Sprint Cup garage as far as numbers go. There was Chip Ganassi Racing, Evernharm Motorsports, Penske Racing, and Petty Enterprises to name a few.
With team mergers, Dodge seems to be the manufacturer that has [...]

Too many drivers, not enough cars

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By Amanda Vincent
With mergers over the last couple of season and teams scaling back for economic reasons or to comply with the NASCAR team limit rule, there may actually be more drivers with Sprint Cup racing experience looking for rides than actual rides available for 2010.
Among the drivers looking for rides for 2010 are:
Bobby [...]

Childress searches for solutions

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By Amanda Vincent
Richard Childress Racing has been considered one of the top-tier teams in Sprint Cup Racing for several years, going back to the mid-eighties when its driver Dale Earnhardt won six of his seven Cup titles in a span of only nine years. The RCR team, however, is experiencing one of its worst [...]

Chevy continues dominance

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By Amanda Vincent
As most NASCAR fans have probably heard by now, Tony Stewart’s win of Sunday’s Price Chopper

400 at Kansas Speedway clinched the 2009 Manufacturers’ Championship for Chevrolet in the Sprint Cup Series.
“To win the Manufacturers’ title for Chevy by winning this race is awesome,” Stewart said after his win on Sunday. “This [...]

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