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Sprint Cars Redesigned for 2013
Sprint Cars Redesigned for 2013

27 Jan 2011, 10:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After earlier this week Chevrolet previewed the big change in design which is expected to surface on the 2013 Sprint Cup cars, the sanctioning body is shedding a bit more light on how exactly the ca...

 
Nationwide Points Not for Full-Time Sprint Racers
Nationwide Points Not for Full-Time Sprint Racers

24 Jan 2011, 08:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The second racing series in NASCAR announced this week that starting this season, championship points would be awarded only to the drivers chasing the series championship, and not for those who, at ...

 
Simpler Points System for the Sprint Cup
Simpler Points System for the Sprint Cup

24 Jan 2011, 07:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The year of change for NASCAR is about to begin with one major announcement, expected to be made by the sanctioning body over the next few days: the change of the current point system, considered to...

 
Steve Wallace to Race Daytona Sprint Race
Steve Wallace to Race Daytona Sprint Race

20 Jan 2011, 15:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The 2011 season is about to kick off with a bang for Steve Wallace, as he has been confirmed on the starting grid of US' most famous race, the Daytona 500. By debuting in the Sprint Cup, Wallac...

 
Dave Blaney to Drive for TBR
Dave Blaney to Drive for TBR

18 Jan 2011, 07:07 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The final touches are currently being made by the NASCAR teams before the start of the next season, with the little modifications brought to the strategy for the upcoming season involving both the c...

 
Johnson Gets Fourth Driver of the Year Title
Johnson Gets Fourth Driver of the Year Title

16 Dec 2010, 13:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A remarkable year for the man named the most complete driver in NASCAR history, Jimmie Johnson, will end with another win added to his name. The five time Sprint Cup champion has been selected, for ...

 
NASCAR to Drop FanView
NASCAR to Drop FanView

3 Dec 2010, 16:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / FanView, the technology which since 2006 has tried to “bring NASCAR fans closer to the sport they love,” has pretty much had its final say in the motorsport, as the contract between the ...

 
Fifth Sprint Made Jimmie Johnson Sell Better
Fifth Sprint Made Jimmie Johnson Sell Better

29 Nov 2010, 20:05 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Those who kept an eye on the NASCAR Sprint Cup this season were watching history in the making. Jimmie Johnson, the man who had already broke a record in 2009 by winning the fourth consecutive Sprin...

 
Ford NASCAR Car Design Contest Winner Announced
Ford NASCAR Car Design Contest Winner Announced

14 Oct 2010, 10:21 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Car Design Contest has finally found its winner, Ford announced today, with an eight-year-old’s ‘Fired Up for A Cure’ paint scheme selected to appear o...

 
Tony Stewart Signs Multi-Year Deal with ExxonMobil
Tony Stewart Signs Multi-Year Deal with ExxonMobil

13 Oct 2010, 10:11 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / It must be great to be in Tony Stewart's shows right now, as the man has a week to remember. After winning the 4th Chase event of the 2010 Sprint Cup campaign at Fontata, last Sunday, Stewart f...

 
First Cup Win for Tony Stewart in 2010
First Cup Win for Tony Stewart in 2010

6 Sep 2010, 12:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's never too late in the Sprint Cup Series to score a win and, truth be told, the first victory may be seen as even sweeter when it comes in the late stages of the Cup. It is this situation i...

 
Regan Smith to Race for Furniture Row Through 2012
Regan Smith to Race for Furniture Row Through 2012

30 Aug 2010, 08:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Sprint Cup Series team Furniture Row Racing announced this weekend that it has signed driver Regan Smith for at least another two years behind the wheel of the No. 78 Chevrolet, giving the 2008 Rook...

 
Reutimann Wins Second Career Sprint Race at Chicago
Reutimann Wins Second Career Sprint Race at Chicago

12 Jul 2010, 06:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After a race which he says almost made him cry, Michael Waltrip Racing driver David Reutimann managed to add the second Sprint Cup race win of his career to a resume, after the LifeLock.com 400 even...

 
The First Ever NASCAR Team Run by Fans
The First Ever NASCAR Team Run by Fans

7 Jul 2010, 10:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In what will certainly be the talk of the week for NASCAR fans in the US, America's Racing Team (ART) announced its entry in the Sprint Cup and with it the beginning of a new way to manage a NA...

 
Reigning Champion Johnson Wins New Hampshire
Reigning Champion Johnson Wins New Hampshire

28 Jun 2010, 07:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After what up until now can be considered a bit of a dry season when it comes to winning races, four time defending champion Jimmie Johnson managed to take the Lenox Industrial Tools 301 at New Hamp...

 
NASCAR Panel Denies Front Row Appeal
NASCAR Panel Denies Front Row Appeal

23 Jun 2010, 09:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After two weeks ago NASCAR hit Front Row Motorsports with a hard penalty for violating equipment related rules, the National Stock Car Racing Appeals Panel rejected the team's appeal, meaning t...

 
Mears Replaced by Sorenson at Red Bull
Mears Replaced by Sorenson at Red Bull

17 Jun 2010, 13:42 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Reed Sorenson will take Casey Mears' spot in the #83 Red Bull Toyota starting the 17th round of this year's Sprint Cup Series, as confirmed by the Red Bull Racing team via an official stat...

 
Busch Wins Richmond Unchallenged
Busch Wins Richmond Unchallenged

3 May 2010, 08:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The first Sprint win for Kyle Busch in the 2010 season entered the books this weekend at Richmond, where the recently Joe Gibbs Racing driver led for no less than 226 out of the 400 laps of the Crow...

 
Record Number of Lead Changes at 'Dega
Record Number of Lead Changes at 'Dega

28 Apr 2010, 08:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Sunday's Sprint race at the Talladega Superspeedway proved to be a great treat for those attending, as it set the record for the number of leaders and lead changes: 29 and 88, respectively. Coi...

 
Talladega, 29 Leaders, 1 Winner: Kevin Harvick
Talladega, 29 Leaders, 1 Winner: Kevin Harvick

26 Apr 2010, 07:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Aaron 499 race at the Talladega Superspeedway proved to be one of the most disputed ones so far in the Sprint calendar, as it set Sprint Cup records for the number of leaders and lead changes: 2...