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Harvick wins Shootout ... again

Monte Dutton

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Kevin Harvick won the Budweiser Shootout at Daytona International Speedway for the second consecutive year. Greg Biffle’s flat right-rear tire set off a chain-reaction crash in turn three that sealed the outcome.... Full story

Gerhart wins Daytona ARCA race for sixth time

Patrick sixth in stock car debut

Monte Dutton

            DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Danica Patrick did OK, but it was a veteran, Bobby Gerhart, who excelled as darkness descended on Saturday. An alarming number of others didn’t do... Full story

Notebook: Martin, Earnhardt Jr. claim 500 front row

Biffle to test the limits of bump drafting

Monte Dutton

            DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Winning the pole hasn’t always guaranteed success in the Daytona 500. For instance, the driver who started out front a year ago, Martin Truex Jr.,... Full story

Standings

• Carl Edwards
• Kevin Harvick
• Jimmie Johnson
• Jeff Burton
• J.J. Yeley

Tracks

Daytona International Speedway

Daytona Beach, Fla.

Daytona is magical and not just because it hosts the 500. The whole area is hallowed ground for racers, from the beach where several land-speed records were set to the stretch of A1A once used for the old "beach-road course" races. Opened in 1959,... Full story

Atlanta Motor Speedway

Hampton, Ga

When drivers talk about tracks gradually improving after repaving, Atlanta represents the ideal. Since being reconfigured in the late 1990s, this track has become home to some of the sport's most exciting races. It's lightning fast, but yet there... Full story

Lowe's Motor Speedway

Concord, N.C.

Almost all the teams are nearby. The track is managed by the sport's most innovative showman, H.A. "Humpy" Wheeler, and owned by the most colorful tycoon, Bruton Smith. Wheeler has been trying to figure out how to improve the track and smooth out... Full story

NASCAR Blogs

The Sport

Column: So far, so good, so incomplete

Season's first Saturday was memorable and encouraging

Monte Dutton

            DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – After a 2009 season in which stock car racing seemed to be coming down with a bug, the season’s first Saturday was just what the doctor ordered.... Full story

Column: Daytona's getting dicey again

Monte Dutton

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – It may not be unsafe, but it’s fair to say that the racing this year is going to be more dangerous. NASCAR officials have loosened the reins. They have upped the ante. They have damned the torpedoes in order to let... Full story

Column: Johnson claims his looks are deceiving

Monte Dutton

            DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – It shouldn’t have taken four consecutive championships for Jimmie Johnson to feel so self-assured and at home, but with the countdown to the Daytona... Full story

Column: Another glamorous Media Day at Daytona

Or, if it weren't for backdrops, I'd have no luck at all

Monte Dutton

            DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The raised stage to my right is the property of ESPN. On the same side of the room, over my right shoulder, is the SpeedTV interview space. To my left is... Full story

Column: It happens every February

Everyone is oh, so happy, before the racing starts

Monte Dutton

            DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Once upon a time, back when movies were clean and stock car racers were dirty, Hollywood produced a baseball flick called It Happens Every Spring. It was... Full story

AP NASCAR News

• Money woes ease in NASCAR, sponsors seek bargains
• Patrick to make NASCAR debut at Daytona
• Harvick repeats as Budweiser Shootout winner
• Martin, Earnhardt Jr. up front for Daytona 500
• Earnhardt out front again and wants to stay there