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Hard to script a better NASCAR Sprint Cup competitive season than one where the championship goes to the last lap and the winner takes all or goes home second.

Drag racing fans in the Pomona Raceway grandstands could have been excused if they thought they were at a NASCAR race witnessing a last-second drafting pass for a win.

Only three months ago Tony Stewart won his third Cup championship in dramatic fashion, and NASCAR crowned new champions in its Nationwide and Trucks series .

Tony Stewart, then fresh off his third Sprint Cup championship, waves during a fan event at NASCAR's season-ending championship celebration in Las Vegas.

Racin' with Russ - Well, it's time to drop the first NASCAR green flag of the season and what better way to kick things off than with a high-speed, high dollar Sprint Cup race known as the Budweiser Shootout.

This past week, the rumor began circulating through the short-track racing community in Southern California that Irwindale Speedway, inarguably one of the best short tracks in the country, was closing.

This week demonstrates what happens to creatures of habit. The Daytona 500 is Feb.

The couple refuses an anonymous $1,000,000 offer to name the baby "Jimmy John," as well as an anonymous $2,000,000 offer to name the baby "Kyle Hates." Instead, the Harvick's name the child "Richard Childress Harvick." Then in July during an incident in the New Hampshire Motor Speedway garage area, Kyle Busch is punched by a "Richard Childress" for ... (more)

Racing scenes such as this at Irwindale Speedway will be a thing of the past after it was revealed the facility will be closing.

NASCAR driver Carl Edwards, runner-up for the Sprint Cup championship in 2011, answers questions from fans at the Canadian Motorsports Expo at the International Centre in Mississauga on Saturday, Feb 11, 2012.

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver John Wes Townley was charged with driving under the influence after crashing his 2012 BMW into a telephone pole in Georgia, the Athens Banner-Herald reported Friday .

NASCAR driver Kasey Kahne is expected to be ready for Daytona next week following knee surgery.

Kurt Busch came in #10 on Forbes.com's "Most Disliked Atletes in America", since he's the only NASCAR driver in the group..that makes him NASCAR's Most Dislike Driver.

As many NASCAR fans know the revelry at Talladega Superspeedway extends from the spacious infield to the ample campground acreage surrounding NASCAR's longest oval track.

Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has apologized for calling British singer Adele "a little too fat", saying he is a huge fan.

The Lubbock County Medical Examiner's Office has ruled Mason Vanstory's death a suicide, more than four months after the Texas Tech student fell from RaiderPark parking garage.

Maine native Ricky Craven will continue to work with ESPN as an in-studio analyst for its "NASCAR Now" show and will also be a color analyst for five Nationwide Series races.

Rock star Lenny Kravitz is scheduled to perform at the Daytona 500 pre-race show, Daytona International Speedway announced Thursday.

A few years ago, NASCAR touted its new vehicle design as the Car of Tomorrow. Now that car is finally being updated with technology that is, oh, about three decades old.

As owner and driver of his own National Hot Rod Association Funny Car operation, two-time champion Cruz Pedregon nearly makes himself dizzy, switching hats as budgeter, marketer, hiring manager, tuner and racer.