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Distance: 500 miles; 200 laps around the asphalt-on-brick Indianapolis Motor Speedway track, a 2.5-mile rectangular oval.

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service CONCORD, N.C.--Another race. Another record.

A match race - on an oval, street course or drag strip - between Detroit Lions head coach Jim Schwartz and San Francisco 49ers counterpart Jim Harbaugh? It's not out of the question, and it could be the best way to settle any differences that may still exist between the pair after their postgame run-in at Ford Field in 2011, when the 49ers beat the ... (more)

Kasey Kahne topped the speed chart in first Saturday NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice Saturday morning, clocking a fast lap of 191.591 mph as he prepares a defense of his Coca-Cola 600 victory last year.

From prerace flyovers to stirring renditions of the national anthem to entertaining veterans and families of soldiers who paid the ultimate price fighting for the United States, NASCAR traditionally has had close ties to the military.

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Mario Andretti was hanging out in the media center at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Carb Day on Friday, speaking fluent Italian to a stoutly built friend in the front of the room.

Profiles of the 33 drivers in Sunday's Indianapolis 500, in starting order with car number in parentheses, age, hometown, engine, race team, and biographical information : 1. Ed Carpenter, 32, Indianapolis; Chevrolet, Ed Carpenter Racing.

For as long as Jimmie Johnson can remember, the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend has been every bit as hallowed as Super Bowl Sunday for football fans, the Kentucky Derby for horse racing fans or Sunday at the Masters for golf fans.

Danica Patrick made no secret of the fact she wanted to try and do the 'double' -- both the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 -- this year.

The National Stock Car Racing Appeals Panel heard the appeal of the No. 2 Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Nationwide Series team on Friday and chose unanimously to uphold the penalties issued by NASCAR.

Denny Hamlin easily broke the track qualifying record at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Thursday night to earn the pole for Sunday's Coca-Cola 600 -- the longest race of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season.

Eutechnyx and Activision continue to bring NASCAR fans weekly DLC in the form of Inside Line Highlights for NASCAR The Game: Inside Line , available for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation3.

Astonishingly, although approximately 200 feet of steel guard rail was down in the first turn, the Southern 500 rolled on at Darlington Raceway on on Sept.

Matt Kenseth is ready to get back to work. Kenseth and his first-year team at Joe Gibbs Racing have had plenty to celebrate this season with a Sprint Cup-best three victories and seven top-10 finishes in 11 events.

"The Greatest Spectacle in Racing" and a UFC heavyweight title bout highlight the upcoming sports calendar.

IndyCar officials may be about to give the series a retro look and bring back the chase for track records at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

COLA FAMILY TRACK WALK FRIDAY: Many race fans will never have a chance to walk on the hallowed 1.5-mile quad-oval of Charlotte Motor Speedway, or to see firsthand the steep 24-degree banking, or to do all this while walking alongside their favorite driver.

The 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray will lead the field and a hungry pack of Chevy powered Indy Cars to the green flag of the Indy 500, serving as the pace car for the 97th running of the Memorial Day weekend classic.

There will soon be five new faces adorning the walls of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.