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Bad luck continued to stalk Brian Vickers in last Sunday's Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 at Phoenix International Raceway, the ninth race in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup.

The Frontstretch: Did You Notice? ... Big Brother Gets To Keselowski, Marlin's "Sterling" Career, And No Championship Talk by Thomas Bowles -- Wednesday November 18, 2009 Did You Notice? ... That with only one week left to go in the season, there's plenty more to focus on than just the championship.

For a sport centered around cars that get about 5 mpg, Nascar is an unlikely incubator for some eco-friendly practices.

Jimmie Johnson, Mark Martin and Jeff Gordon sit first, second and third in the Cup Series standings, and the competition shouldn't expect the dominance of the trio to stop this weekend at Texas.

Sunday's race at Talladega was an exciting one to say the least. What? You don't agree? You think it was boring? Really? The race had fuel mileage strategies, car preservation strategies, rule changes before the race, two major crashes, a red flag period, cars running out of gas, a non-Chase winner on his way out at Roush-Fenway, etc.

Talladega has a reputation as an unpredictable track and often features at least one huge wreck: the Big One.

That's how he put it a minute ago as we stood in front of his chicken car, named El Gallo, which means rooster in Spanish.

Not exactly hybrid SUV territory there. So, to reduce the amount of fossil fuels used in each race, race organizers are looking to maybe maybe using alternative fuels in the some of the cars.

Racing fights stink. Fat-free muffins are more fulfilling. So let's hope NASCAR's bad boy and boy wonder pick up some lessons from the good folks over at WWE.

The Sprint Cup Chase for the Championship is showing how overrated momentum is. Three of the hottest drivers entering the Chase were Denny Hamlin, Kasey Kahne and Brian Vickers.

Kelly Ripa and her husband, Mark Consuelos, will return to ABC's "All My Children" for the daytime soap opera's 40th anniversary.

Off To The Races TV star Actor Kelsey Grammer visits the hauler of Brian Vickers, driver of the #83 Red Bull Toyota, prior to start of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Pepsi 500 at the Auto Club Speedway on Oct.

Misfortune struck Brian Vickers at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., site of the fourth race in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup.

THE 400-year-old mystery of whether William Shakespeare was the author of an unattributed play about Edward III may have been solved by a computer program designed to detect plagiarism.

FONTANA, Calif. A multicar crash with five laps remaining in the Pepsi 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Auto Club Speedway wiped out four Richard Petty Motorsports cars and ruined the day for Chase For The Sprint Cup driver Brian Vickers.

California native Jimmie Johnson accelerated his bid for a record fourth straight Sprint Cup Series championship with a convincing victory Sunday at his hometrack -- Auto Club Speedway.

Joey Logano avoided a late-race collision and held off Brian Vickers to win the NASCAR Nationwid ... Please log in to read the rest of this story.

Joey Logano avoided a late-race collision and held off Brian Vickers to win the NASCAR Nationwide Copart 300 on Saturday at Auto Club Speedway for his fifth series victory of the season and second in two weeks.

Vickers spins at the Price Chopper 400 in Kansas Immediately at the start of Speed's coverage of first practice Friday, drivers began reporting how similar the conditions were to last week's race in Kansas.

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