Motor Racing Digest

Written By: Brian Eberly, @beberly18 May 14, 2013 Winners Joe Gibbs Racing – The three Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota’s finished first, second, and sixth in Saturday night’s Bojangles’ Southern 500.  Matt Kenseth brought the No. 20 Home Depot/Husky machine to the checkered flag first, taking the lead from teammate Kyle Busch and pulling away to [...]

Posted: May 14th, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Sprint Cup Series, Results.
Tags: Bojangles' Southern 500, Brad Keselowski, Darlington Raceway, Denny Hamlin, Jeff Gordon, Joe Gibbs Racing, kasey kahne, Kyle Busch, Mark Martin, Matt Kenseth, Ryan Newman, Stewart-Haas Racing
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Written by Stephen Conley May 11th, 2013 Busch—that was the name for nearly all of the weekend here in Darlington. A win and pole in the Nationwide series for Kyle, A pole for the Bojangles Southern 500 for Kurt and the most laps led for Kyle, but with an ever changing race track, a long [...]

Posted: May 11th, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Sprint Cup Series.
Tags: Denny Hamlin, Jeff Gordon, Joe Gibbs Racing, Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth
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  Posted by: Dave Thompson, follow @phillyfan17 May 10, 2013 Denny Hamlin has no plans to step out of the No. 11 SportsClips Toyota on Saturday night at Darlington Raceway for the Bojangles’ Southern 500. Hamlin returned last weekend at Talladega for the first time since suffering a compression fracture in a vertebra in his [...]

Posted: May 10th, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Sprint Cup Series.
Tags: Bojangles' Southern 500, Brian Vickers, Darlington Raceway, Denny Hamlin
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Written By: Brian Eberly, @beberly18 May 8, 2013 Winners David Ragan – Restarting in 10th position for the green-white-checkered finish, Ragan took his No. 34 Farm Rich Ford Fusion to the front of the pack and took the checkered flag first.  The trip to Gatorade Victory Lane was the second of his career in 228 starts [...]

Posted: May 8th, 2013
Categories: Nascar Sprint Cup Series, Track News.
Tags: Aaron's 499, Aric Almirola, Brian Vickers, David Gilliland, David Ragan, Denny Hamlin, Front Row Motorsports, Joe Gibbs Racing, kasey kahne, Matt Kenseth, Richard Petty Motorsports, Talladega Superspeedway
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Written By: David Morgan – Follow on Twitter at @damorgan86  May 8, 2013 With a weekend full of rain delays, wild wrecks, close finishes, and underdog winners at Talladega Superspeedway behind them, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and NASCAR Nationwide Series head to Darlington Raceway, NASCAR’s first superspeedway, for some night racing on Mother’s Day weekend [...]

Posted: May 8th, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Nationwide Series, Nascar Sprint Cup Series.
Tags: Austin Dillion, Bojangles' Southern 500, Brad Keselowski, Darlington Raceway, Denny Hamlin, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Joey Logano, Justin Allgaier, Matt Kenseth, Nascar Nationwide Series, Nascar Sprint Cup Series, Sam Hornish Jr.
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Written By: David Morgan – Follow on Twitter at @damorgan86  May 5, 2013 After starting under bright sunshine and ending as darkness moved in at Talladega Superspeedway, the Aaron’s 499 delivered a great finish for the die hard fans that endured a race that took approximately seven hours to complete after rain moved in halfway through [...]

Posted: May 5th, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Sprint Cup Series, Results.
Tags: Aaron's 499, Brian Vickers, Carl Edwards, David Gilliland, David Ragan, Denny Hamlin, Front Row Motorsports, Jimmie Johnson, Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch, Michael Waltrip, Nascar Sprint Cup Series, Talladega Superspeedway
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Written By: David Morgan – Follow on Twitter at @damorgan86  May 4, 2013 As was feared during the two practice sessions on Friday at Talladega, rain washed out Sprint Cup qualifying for Sunday’s Aaron’s 499 and the field will be set by practice speeds from Friday’s first practice session. Carl Edwards was fastest in that session, [...]

Posted: May 4th, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Sprint Cup Series, Results.
Tags: Aaron's 499, Carl Edwards, Denny Hamlin, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Joey Logano, kasey kahne, marcos ambrose, Martin Truex Jr., Matt Kenseth, Nascar Sprint Cup Series, Ryan Newman, Talladega Superspeedway
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Written By: David Morgan – Follow on Twitter at @damorgan86  May 3, 2013 Several drivers, including Danica Patrick, Jeff Gordon, Kevin Harvick, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Clint Bowyer, and Denny Hamlin met with the media throughout the day at Talladega Superspeedway on Friday. Below is a compilation of their thoughts during their various press conferences. Danica Patrick [...]

Posted: May 3rd, 2013
Categories: Nascar Sprint Cup Series, Track News.
Tags: Aaron's 499, Clint Bowyer, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Danica Patrick, Denny Hamlin, Jeff Gordon, Kevin Harvick, Talladega Superspeedway
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  Written By: Katie Copple     Follow @Katie_Copple May 3, 2013 Welcome to the fifth edition of Katie’s Komment’s, a place to find the latest NASCAR news and my opinion on it! All comments are my views only but feel free to leave your own! Denny Hamlin: Hamlin announced late this week that he was cleared [...]

Posted: May 3rd, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Sprint Cup Series.
Tags: Brian Scott, Denny Hamlin, Nelson Piquet Jr., Talladega Super Speedway
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Written By: David Morgan – Follow on Twitter at @damorgan86  May 3, 2013 With wet weather threatening, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series took to the track for two practice sessions on Friday in preparation for Sunday’s Aaron’s 499 at Talladega. If rain were to wash out tomorrow’s qualifying session, the speeds from practice would set the [...]

Posted: May 3rd, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Sprint Cup Series.
Tags: Aaron's 499, Aric Almirola, Brad Keselowski, Brian Vickers, Carl Edwards, Dale Earnhardt Jr., David Stremme, Denny Hamlin, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Joey Logano, kasey kahne, marcos ambrose, Martin Truex Jr., Michael Waltrip, Nascar Sprint Cup Series, Ryan Newman, Talladega Superspeedway, Travis Kvapil
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