New Nextel Cup champ was destined to win
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Jimmie Johnson's racing goals were a bit different before being stranded in 1994 in the Baja desert. Until then, the Southern California 19-year-old, was content to run off-road races and, maybe some day, win the Baja 1000 or an off-road title.
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The Hendrick Motorsports juggernaut just keeps on rolling.
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So much for the preliminaries. After seven months and 26 races, NASCAR's Nextel Cup series is finally ready to get down to the business of deciding a champion.
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Kurt Busch does not pretend he will suddenly become a celebrity in his hometown if he wins the Nascar Nextel Cup championship today at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
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Kyle Busch learned some hard lessons last year as a rookie in NASCAR&#039;s Nextel Cup series.
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The only winless driver to make the 12-man Chase for the Nextel Cup Championship, Clint Bowyer was so fast and dominant in recording the first victory of his Nextel Cup career before 101,000 in yesterday's Sylvania 300, he even arrived at Victory Lane at New Hampshire International Speedway before his race car.
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He became the first rookie to make the Chase for the Nextel Cup last year by going with the flow, but Denny Hamlin is emerging as a vocal presence in his second season.
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NASCAR&#39;s new playoff-style championship format has delivered nearly everything its proponents promised: more intense racing, higher television ratings and a tight title race heading into Sunday&#39;s season finale.
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It was what every NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series driver competing in the Chase for the Championship feared - a DNF (Did Not Finish). A poor finish with the accompanying
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Richmond --- With the stakes as high as they&#39;ve ever been in a &quot;regular-season&quot; Nextel Cup race, Jeremy Mayfield turned in the performance of his career, winning the Chevy Rock and Roll 400 at Richmond International Raceway and clinching a berth in the 10
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The latest champion, and possibly the most convincing.
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HOMESTEAD, Fla. - Sometimes things are not as they seem, and on those days, stock-car events are impossible to predict. The driver who won the pole for Sundayâs Ford 400 had qualified 22nd, 21st, seventh
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Jack Sprague expected Toyota to win at Daytona. He never imagined he would be the one leading the charge to Victory Lane.
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Jeremy Mayfield won the Chevy Rock &amp; Roll 400 last night and forced his way into the NASCAR Nextel Cup &quot;Chase for the Championship.
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With drivers like Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jimmie Johnson and Mark Martin in the field for Nascar&#39;s Chase for the Nextel Cup championship, there are plenty of intriguing and compelling story lines to follow.
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New track configuration, same old results for Jimmie Johnson. The defending series champion beat teammate Jeff Gordon on Sunday to win his third straight Nextel Cup race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
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BRANDON - When NASCAR announced it would experiment with a new points formula to decide the championship this year, it sounded promising, maybe even bold.