Read more about the article Last-lap pass lifts Ricky Stenhouse Jr. to victory at Talladega
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Last-lap pass lifts Ricky Stenhouse Jr. to victory at Talladega

By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service TALLADEGA, Ala. – There’s no longer a goose egg in the win column next to Ricky Stenhouse Jr.’s name. With a last-lap pass in Sunday’s GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway, Stenhouse collected his first Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series victory in his 158th start and delivered the first win for Roush Fenway Racing since Carl Edwards triumphed at Sonoma in June 2014. “This is for all the guys at the shop--we’ve been terrible for a long time,” an exuberant Stenhouse said of the Roush renaissance. “This year, every race, we’re just getting better and better. We…

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May 7, 2017
Read more about the article Aric Almirola powers to NASCAR XFINITY Series win at Talladega
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Aric Almirola powers to NASCAR XFINITY Series win at Talladega

May 6, 2017 By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service TALLADEGA, Ala. – Aric Almirola charged into the lead with four laps left in Saturday’s Sparks Energy 300 at Talladega Superspeedway and held off Elliott Sadler at the finish to win the third NASCAR XFINITY Series race of his career. With the Ford of Darrell Wallace Jr. plowing into the inside backstretch wall behind him on the final lap, Almirola held the top spot to the finish, beating Sadler, the series leader, to the finish line by .142 seconds. The win was Almirola’s first of the season in four starts and his first…

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May 7, 2017
Read more about the article 5 Lessons Learned: Keselowski Up, JJ and Dale Jr. Down
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5 Lessons Learned: Keselowski Up, JJ and Dale Jr. Down

By Jared Turner 1. Brad Keselowski Is Your Title Favorite With six of 36 races in the history books, Brad Keselowski is the early favorite to capture the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series title. Despite being outperformed at times by points leader Kyle Larson, Keselowski is this year’s only multi-race winner. The Team Penske driver leads the series in top-five finishes with five, and is tied with teammate Joey Logano in top-10 finishes. Of the top five drivers in the standings, Keselowski, in fourth, in the only past champion of NASCAR’s premier series. While it’s certainly a long season, it’s obvious…

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April 3, 2017
Read more about the article Brad Keselowski ends Ford drought with Martinsville victory
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Brad Keselowski ends Ford drought with Martinsville victory

April 2, 2017 By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service MARTINSVILLE, Va. – In Sunday’s STP 500 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Martinsville Speedway, everything worked – but nothing more than Brad Keselowski’s race-winning No. 2 Ford. Yes, that’s right, a Ford. The car maker found Victory Lane at the .526-mile short track for the first time since Oct. 20, 2002, when Kurt Busch won at NASCAR’s oldest and smallest premier series track in a Roush Fenway Racing Ford. Keselowski and runner-up Kyle Busch swapped the lead during the final 64-lap green-flag run, with Busch taking the point on Lap 444…

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April 2, 2017
Read more about the article Chase Elliott wins hotly contested Martinsville Truck race
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Chase Elliott wins hotly contested Martinsville Truck race

April 1, 2017 By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service MARTINSVILLE, Va. – Polesitter Chase Elliott held off defending NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion Johnny Sauter after a restart with 12 laps left and pulled away to win Saturday’s Alpha Energy Solutions 250 at Martinsville Speedway by 1.865 seconds. Elliott grabbed the lead from third-place finisher Christopher Bell on Lap 234, when Bell’s Toyota tangled with Austin Cindric’s Ford through Turns 1 and 2. Bell lost the top spot, and Sauter charged past into the second position before NASCAR threw the 10th and final caution of the race. The decisive move, however,…

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April 1, 2017
Read more about the article Larson holds off Logano for XFINITY win at Auto Club Speedway
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Larson holds off Logano for XFINITY win at Auto Club Speedway

March 25, 2017 By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service FONTANA, Calif. – Kyle Larson kept polesitter Joey Logano at bay after a restart with four laps left in Saturday’s Service King 300 NASCAR XFINITY Series race at Auto Club Speedway and held on to win by .127 seconds. Larson and Logano had swapped the lead on three successive laps before Brandon Jones plowed into the outside wall on Lap 142 to bring out the seventh and final caution of the afternoon. The lead cars pitted for fresh tires under the yellow, with Larson exiting pit road first and Spencer Gallagher grabbing the…

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March 26, 2017