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Denny Hamlin isn't ready to say he's back, even after winning the pole for the Coca-Cola 600 with a record-setting qualifying lap Thursday night.

Jimmie Johnson joked after his win in the Sprint All-Star Race last week that he just got lucky, like always.

Overview: Kasey Kahne won last year's race for the third time. He'll be pushed by Jimmie Johnson, Matt Kenseth, Brad Keselowski, Dale Earnhardt Jr., and Kyle and Kurt Busch.

After Eyewitness News at 11, the WSOC Sports team will have the 9 Racing Report live from the Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Every once in a while we get a rookie who gleefully walks it to the veterans of the sport and turns heads along the way.

Denny Hamlin broke the track record Thursday with a lap of 195.624 mph to capture the pole for the Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Cars race through the tri-oval during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 27, 2012 in Concord, North Carolina.

You can almost sense a war of words is ready to begin between two of NASCAR 's top drivers, Matt Kenseth and reigning Sprint Cup Series champion Brad Keselowski after this morning's press conference in the media room at Charlotte Motor Speedway as preparations are made for the Coca-Cola 600 .

This week RFR turns its attention to Charlotte Motor Speedway and NASCAR's longest event of the season; the Coca-Cola 600.

The stick and ball sports have their All-Star games but, it is usually more of a social event instead of a hard fought competition.

Matt Kenseth, driver of the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, is the recipient of the first-quarter Driver of the Year Award 2013.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. finished 12th in the season-opening Daytona 500, a result that would come to define his consistent rookie season.

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.