Breaking Down the Chase Picture Before Richmond

By Jerry Bonkowski It’s come down to this: win and you’re in. Anything less and you’re done. That’s the scenario for Saturday night at Richmond International Raceway, the final qualifying race for the Chase for the Sprint Cup. Fourteen drivers are left with one last chance to make the Chase: Aric Almirola, Kasey Kahne, Greg Biffle, Kyle Larson, Austin Dillon, AJ Allmendinger, Casey Mears, Danica Patrick, Tony Stewart, David Ragan, Sam Hornish Jr., Trevor Bayne, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Justin Allgaier. Given the hard-luck season most of them have had in 2015, it’s hard to envision them winning in the season’s most…

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5 Lessons Learned: The Chase Is All But Settled

By Jared Turner Joe Gibbs Racing Is Still The Team To Beat Just when you thought Joe Gibbs Racing couldn’t be any more dominant, think again. With Carl Edwards win in the Bojangles’ Southern 500, a JGR driver has now gone to Victory Lane in seven of the past 10 races. At Darlington, JGR drivers accounted for three of the top seven finishing positions, with Denny Hamlin (third) and Kyle Busch (seventh) joining race winner Edwards in the top 10. So can the JGR juggernaut be stopped? Don’t count on it happening this weekend at Richmond, a track where Hamlin and Busch…

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Southern 500 Belongs on Labor Day Weekend

  By Aaron Burns It just felt right for NASCAR to have a race at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway on Labor Day weekend. The last time the Sprint Cup Series race at Darlington in September, the series was still known as Winston Cup. Only 11 of the 43 drivers in that race also took part when the 12-year hiatus officially ended on Sunday night. Thank goodness. Thank NASCAR, too. Sunday’s Bojangles’ Southern 500 descended from the Rebel 400, not the original Labor Day race, which moved to Auto Club Speedway in 2004 and later to Atlanta Motor Speedway. But the same late-summer feel…

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NPP Richmond Edition Now Available

NASCAR Pole Position Richmond edition is now available. Please head to Walmart, or other area retailers that offer free magazines, to pick up your free copy. You can find a list of preferred retailers distributing NASCAR Pole Position here. Magazines were shipped to area Walmarts that feature Tire & Lube Express departments. Be sure to tell them NASCAR Pole Position sent you! And remember the magazine is free for all race fans! If you are not in the race market, you can get a subscription to NASCAR Pole Position here right now. WANT A FREE WEEKLY NASCAR MAGAZINE? ROAR! is a digitally-delivered, weekly magazine that reviews the week…

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Stellar pit stop earns Carl Edwards dramatic Southern 500 win

Sept. 6, 2015 By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service DARLINGTON, S.C. – On a night when throwback paint schemes recalled NASCAR’s past in vivid color, and a low-downforce aerodynamic package suggested the future direction of the sport, Carl Edwards overcame early misfortune to win an exhilarating race at the Lady in Black. Grabbing the lead thanks to a blisteringly fast pit stop under the track-record 18th caution of Sunday night’s Bojangles’ Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway, Edwards pulled away after a restart with eight laps left and beat polesitter Brad Keselowski to the finish line by .902 seconds to win his first…

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