Carl Edwards News

Q: Greg, other than the distance of the race event, what makes the Coca-Cola 600 so challenging to win? Well, certainly the timeframe that you go through for a 600-mile race and how much the track changes, the temperature changes, all those things create a huge factor.

Kurt Busch was leading the NASCAR All-Star race when rain forced a delay 13 laps into it.

Ken Venturi, who overcame dehydration to win the 1964 U.S. Open and spent 35 years in the booth for CBS Sports, died Friday afternoon.

Carl Edwards will start on the pole for the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race after posting the quickest time in Friday's qualifying at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Just three months into the season, Johnson has built a 44-point lead over second place Carl Edwards and is positioning himself for a run at a sixth NASCAR Cup Series championship.

Trickle, who died Thursday at the age of 71 of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, was not particularly successful in a Sprint Cup-level career that covered more than 300 races, but his wins elsewhere were - literally - incalculable.

WHERE HE STANDS: Jimmie Johnson remained in first place for the sixth straight week after Darlington.

The chase to set NASCAR's 12-driver field for 2013 Chase for the Sprint Cup is on.

If you were to build a prototypical NASCAR driver, he'd likely have parts from Tony Stewart, Carl Edwards and Kevin Harvick, among others.

By no means set, the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup field does seem to be taking shape.

"I think there are explosions in almost every episode. Some of the explosions mean that the contestants won, and some of them mean that they failed miserably," says Kal Penn, host of Discovery's competitive reality show for engineers, The Big Brain Theory: Pure Genius .

You know the NASACAR narrative by now: Personality is too vanilla. Has a crew chief who cheats.

Sprint Cup standings DARLINGTON, S.C. -- Want to know who's a lock to make the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup this year? I'll give you six names: Jimmie Johnson , Carl Edwards , Matt Kenseth , Dale Earnhardt Jr.

"We've just got a great team," team president J.D. Gibbs said. "So from top to bottom, drivers, crew chiefs, guys that travel, guys back at the shop, I think that really pays off on the weekend.

Since winning the Daytona 500, Johnson has since won another race and currently leads the NASCAR Sprint Cup Standings by 41 points over Carl Edwards.

Gordon, at age 41, will make his 700th career start -- all consecutively -- in the Sprint Cup Series.

ADVANCE NOTES A Edwards at Darlington Carl Edwards will make his tenth NASCAR Sprint Cup Series start at Darlington Raceway.

Nick Bower was last seen at approximately 11 p.m. Saturday in the South Park area of the campgrounds, according to a sheriff's news release.

Congratulations to the Challenger Angels cheer team for performing earlier this afternoon in front of the President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition in Washington, D.C. The team includes 14 special needs kids from Capital Region schools, including my daughter, Julia.

Those types of Cinderella stories are written at Talladega, a track that shakes things up quicker than a green-white-checkered restart.