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By PaddockTalk.com Staff Writers The NASCAR Sprint Cup series has completed the final practice session at Charlotte Motor Speedway in preparation for the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race .

The Frontstretch: NASCAR Mailbox: Missing Fans, Employees, And Ghosts Of All-Stars Past by Summer Bedgood -- Thursday May 16, 2013 Kyle Busch appeared to be headed for another weekend sweep after winning the Nationwide race at Darlington on Friday night.

Matt Kenseth won the NASCAR all-star race in 2004. The accomplishment was incorrectly stated in a report in Thursday's We welcome your comments on this story, but please be civil.

Joe Gibbs Racing enters this weekend's Sprint All-Star Race with one surprising fact weighing on its collective shoulders: the team has never won an All-Star Race.

Former NASCAR racer Dick Trickle, 71, died from a reported self-inflicted gunshot wound shortly after noon on Thursday, May 16, in Boger, N.C. The long-time Lincoln County resident was found next to his pick-up truck near a cemetery.

EXPRESS NOTES: All-Star Race Preview: Denny Hamlin will climb into the #11 FedEx Express Toyota in Saturday night's NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway, the seventh start for Hamlin in the non-points exhibition event.

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.

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

You know, a few weeks ago at Talladega, I was in the garage area and did an interview with Kyle Busch.

Kyle Busch appeared to be headed for another weekend sweep after winning the Nationwide race at Darlington on Friday night.

Richard Petty, Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Sr. are but a few of the sports greats who have gone to victory lane in the Southern 500.

Clint Bowyer, series runner-up last year, looks to be one of the six locks to make what's looking like a wide-open NASCAR Sprint Cup Chase field.

Matt Kenseth passed Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch with 13 laps left to win the Southern 500 on Saturday.

Busch and Kahne tangled during a fierce battle for the lead with 35 laps to go, sending Kahne into the wall.

Kyle Busch and the No. 54 Monster Energy team won Friday night's VFW Sports Clip 200 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Darlington Raceway.

Matt Kenseth was in Canada when J.D. Gibbs sent him the results of Joe Gibbs Racing's appeal of NASCAR penalties against the team.

The 2013 Sprint Cup season isn't even one-third of the way complete, but odds makers clearly have a Fave Four.

Last year, Jimmie Johnson won the Bojangles' Southern 500, giving Hendrick Motorsports team owner Rick Hendrick an emotional 200th Sprint Cup victory.

Dale Jarrett won three times at Darlington in a racing career that included 32 Cup victories.