Mayfield, Kahne positioned for charge
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Jeremy Mayfield and Kasey Kahne, Evernham teammates who are just outside the top 10 in the NASCAR Nextel Cup points, qualified second and fifth for Sunday&#39;s Pop Secret 500 at Fontana, Calif.
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It&#39;s been a dozen years since the final race of the NASCAR season could promise this kind of suspense. When the checkered flag drops Sunday with the Nextel Cup Chase championship on the line, three of the
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Jeremy Mayfield needs more than a victory at Dover International Speedway in Delaware to get back in the thick of the Nextel Cup championship race.
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DOVER, Del. -- Nextel Cup rookie sensation Kasey Kahne set a Busch series qualifying record by taking the pole Friday at Dover International Speedway.
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FONTANA, Calif., Sept. 3 -- Kasey Kahne overcame a penalty and a series of challenges Sunday night at California Speedway to win his fifth race of the season and close in on a spot in NASCAR's Chase for the Nextel Cup championship with one race remaining.
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You can bury them in the standings but you can&#39;t break their spirit. Tony Stewart and Jeremy Mayfield, both victimized by Robby Gordon&#39;s retaliatory strike directed at Greg Biffle
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The task was clear for Jeremy Mayfield: Win the race and don't worry about the race to make NASCAR's playoffs.
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The race for the Nextel Cup championship is down to the wire and the points leader is running away from the field. Suddenly, a slower car gets in his way, holding him up until the other contenders catch up. It just so happens, the slower car is a teammate of one of the contenders. Impossible? Think again.
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Auto racing Sunday's confrontation between Roush Fenway Racing teammates Carl Edwards and Matt Kenseth was more than just a clash in the heat of the moment. According to Edwards, it's been festering for a while. Following the Nextel Cup race at Martinsville, Edwards grabbed Kenseth, pushing him down pit road. Before walking away, Edwards balled his right hand into a ...
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Kasey Kahne has made a late-season rally and put himself back in position to contend for one of the 10 spots in the Chase for the Nextel Cup.
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With five drivers compressed in the clutches of a pressure-filled Nextel Cup Championship Chase, the season finale&#39;s shaping up to be a Miami-vise.
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For the 10 drivers competing in NASCAR's new 10-race playoff, there will be one key goal Sunday in Talladega: staying out of trouble.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. charged from 11th place to a victory and the series points lead in the last five laps of Sunday's NASCAR Nextel Cup race.
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FONTANA, Calif. -- In the years B.C. -- Before the Chase -- few would have paid much attention to Kasey Kahne, who is in 11th place entering today's race at California Speedway.
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If Jamie McMurray were in the Chase for the Nextel Cup, he&#39;d be second in the standings. Under last year&#39;s points system, McMurray would be sixth.
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Ryan Newman will start tomorrow&#39;s NASCAR Nextel Cup Series race from a familiar spot â-he pole. Newman won his third straight pole and eighth of the season last
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Recent history tells me a lot when it comes to picking the top contenders for Sunday&#39;s Nextel Cup race at Dover (Del.) International Speedway.