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RACE RECAP | HOMESTEAD-MIAMI SPEEDWAY
10 Martin Truex Jr.
9 Tony Stewart in his final ride in the #20 car
8 Casey Mears
7 Travis Kvapil
6 Kasey Kahne
5 Clint Bowyer
4 Jeff Gordon was winless in 2008
3 Jamie McMurray with yet another top 5
2 Kevin Harvick also winless in 2008, came up 1 short

VICTORY LANE

1 Carl Edwards led the most laps and wins his 9th of the 2008 season, the most of any other driver.  Once again he needed to slow way down for a fuel mileage win with a 13 second lead on second place.  Even still, he came up short on the championship by 69 points.

Stewart-Haas Racing Announces Hires for
Director of Competition, Crew Chief for No. 39 U.S. Army Team

Bobby Hutchens to Serve as Director of Competition for SHR, Tony Gibson to be Crew Chief for Ryan Newman

KANNAPOLIS, N.C. (Nov. 14, 2008) – Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) announced today that two NASCAR industry veterans will take leadership positions with the team.

Bobby Hutchens, formerly the vice president of competition at Dale Earnhardt, Inc. (DEI), will serve as SHR’s director of competition. Tony Gibson, currently the crew chief for DEI’s No. 8 team, will continue in the crew chief role, but with SHR’s No. 39 U.S. Army team and driver Ryan Newman.

“These are two really important hires for our race team,” said Tony Stewart, co-owner of SHR. “Bobby Hutchens brings a ton of technical and management experience to SHR, and Tony Gibson has helped a lot of well-known drivers earn their recognition by getting them to victory lane. I’m very proud to have both of these guys as a part of my team.”

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Despite being nearly 200 points behind standings leader Jimmie Johnson (No. 48 Lowe’s Chevrolet) with four races left, Carl Edwards (No. 99 Office Depot Ford) never gave up hope of winning his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship. He spent his time at the track telling anybody who would listen that the battle would come down to the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Now, two races later, Edwards has done his best to back up his word. He won the last two races in rather convincing fashion and has cut Johnson’s lead in half with two races remaining.

The deficit is now 106 points heading into Phoenix International Raceway. Edwards sat on the pole for this race last year and led the first 87 laps before engine trouble knocked him out of the race. Johnson won the race to all but lock up his second championship.

Edwards’ back-to-back wins increased his season total to eight, tying him with Kyle Busch (No. 18 Pedigree Toyota) for the series lead. Johnson is second with six victories.

FORT WORTH, TX. — “It ain’t over til it’s over,” baseball legend Yogi Berra once said.

NASCAR driver Carl Edwards is a believer.

The Missouri native, who cut his racing teeth on dirt tracks throughout the Midwest, dominated the field Sunday to win the Dickies 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.

A huge, sun-baked crowd watched Edwards skillfully cut into Jimmie Johnson’s lead in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship with two races to go in the 2008 season.

Edwards coaxed his Roush Ford home on fumes ahead of the field after a series of caution flags put him behind when all the top-running cars took two tires while Edwards took four.

While those cars had to stop for gas, Edwards stayed on the track and held off on the gas pedal for the final dozen laps.

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RACE RECAP | TEXAS

10 44 David Reutimann
9 17 Matt Kenseth
8 1 Martin Truex Jr.
7 29 Kevin Harvick
6 18 Kyle Busch
5 16 Greg Biffle
4 07 Clint Bowyer
3 26 Jamie McMurray led a bunch of laps
2 24 Jeff Gordon fuel mileage paid off

VICTORY LANE

1 99 Carl Edwards - For the second week in a row, and 3rd time at Texas, Carl Edwards picks up the win. The 99 stayed out while his teammates came in for fuel with 13 laps to go, Carl ran really slow lap times with under 10 laps to go. The team managed 69 laps on a fuel run, 103 miles on a tank of fuel. He closed the gap on Jimmie Johnson’s points lead to 106. Carl also led the most laps.

FULL RACE RESULTS

OTHER STORIES ON THE DAY

Jimmie Johnson went a lap down early on after Carl Edwards passed him and the 48 team ends up 15th

David Gilliand and Juan Pablo Montoya (running 10th) mix it up, with Gilliland hooking the 42 into the wall hard. Gilliand was parked for the rest of the race

Dale Earnhardt Jr. ran out of fuel with 5 laps to go trying to gamble, and finished 20th