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      <title><![CDATA[Edwards introduces golf ace Westwood to NASCAR]]></title>
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CONCORD, N.C. (April 30, 2013) – UPS NASCAR driver, Carl Edwards, introduced fellow UPS ambassador and PGA Tour golfer, Lee Westwood, to the world of NASCAR prior to Westwood’s participation in the Wells Fargo Championship Tournament at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, North Carolina. 

Edwards provided NASCAR driving tips to Westwood as the two athletes took laps around a road course ... <a class="more" href="http://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/news/edwards-introduces-golf-ace-westwood-to-nascar/">Keep reading</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 18:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Keselowski honored in White House ceremony]]></title>
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Washington, D. C. – For winning the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship, Brad Keselowski was honored by President Barack Obama in a brief but colorful ceremony on the south lawn of the White House on Tuesday afternoon.  Honoring the newly crowned champion has become an annual event over the years, and NASCAR’s leaders and its participants look forward to the recognition ... <a class="more" href="http://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/news/keselowski-honored-in-white-house-ceremony/">Keep reading</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Texas race in April will have new title sponsor: The NRA ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Texas Motor Speedway and the National Rifle Association have signed a one-year agreement with a renewal option for America’s oldest civil rights and sportsmen’s group to serve as the title sponsor for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race on April 13, 2013.  The announcement was made at the annual TMS Media Day on Monday, March 4th on the 9th floor of the Speedway Club overlooking the ... <a class="more" href="http://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/news/texas-race-in-april-will-have-new-title-sponsor-the-nra/">Keep reading</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 07:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Johnson's nickname becomes "Seven Time" after Daytona 500 win]]></title>
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Daytona Beach – Since winning his fifth NASCAR Sprint Cup Series title, Jimmie Johnson has become known as “Five Time,” but with his second Daytona 500 victory, his new nickname seems to be “Seven Time.”  At the early-morning Champion’s Breakfast on Monday, Johnson, crew chief Chad Knaus, team owner Rick Hendrick and the crew all held up seven fingers in recognition of their ... <a class="more" href="http://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/news/johnson-s-nickname-becomes-seven-time-after-daytona-500-win/">Keep reading</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Five-time champ Jimmie Johnson reaches 400 starts at Daytona]]></title>
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DAYTONA BEACH – Few athletes have ascended to the top of their sport like
Jimmie Johnson, who will be making his 400th NASCAR Sprint Cup Series start in the 55th running of
the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on Feb. 24.

 ... <a class="more" href="http://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/news/five-time-champ-jimmie-johnson-reaches-400-starts-at-daytona/">Keep reading</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Legends of racing return to the beach at Daytona]]></title>
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Daytona Beach, Fla. – Prior to the opening of the Daytona International Speedway, racing took place on the beach on the south end of the famed beach.  Racers careened around a unique 4.1-mile oval half on pavement (A1A) and half on the packed sand of the beach.  Although the last race on the sand took place in 1958, old-timers gather annually to reminisce and tell tall tales.

One of ... <a class="more" href="http://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/news/legends-of-racing-return-to-the-beach-at-daytona/">Keep reading</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Tiny Lund and the Wood Brothers’ improbable run to Ford's first Daytona 500 win]]></title>
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DEARBORN, Mich. — The Daytona 500 wasn’t always the first race of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
season.

In NASCAR’s formative years, the schedule often started at places like Concord and Champion
Speedway in North Carolina, and sometimes made a quick west coast stop at Riverside International
Raceway for a road course race before landing in NASCAR’s backyard. 


 ... <a class="more" href="http://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/news/tiny-lund-and-the-wood-brothers-improbable-run-to-ford-s-first-daytona-500-win/">Keep reading</a>]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The 2013 Ford Fusion 'stock car' makes its debut at Daytona]]></title>
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DEARBORN, Mich., – Today, the “stock car” officially returns to NASCAR.

After more than two years of development, including extensive work by the Ford Design Center and
Ford aerodynamic experts, the 2013 NASCAR Fusion will take to the race track as practice opens for
the 54th running of the Daytona 500.

 ... <a class="more" href="http://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/news/the-2013-ford-fusion-stock-car-makes-its-debut-at-daytona/">Keep reading</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[NASCAR, Swan Racing and Michael Waltrip partner to pay tribute to Newtown, CT., community]]></title>
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Using the biggest race of the year as a backdrop, NASCAR, Swan Racing and two-time Daytona 500 champion Michael Waltrip announced today a special tribute to raise awareness and contributions for the Sandy Hook School Support Fund.
 
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      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Patrick and Stenhouse grab media spotlight during Valentine's Day at Daytona]]></title>
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Daytona Beach, Fla. – On the eve of the start of Speedweeks, 50 NASCAR Sprint Cup, Nationwide Series and Camping World Truck Series drivers met with the media to discuss their plans for the upcoming season.  During the day-long session, the drivers came in uniform to be photographed and interviewed by television, radio and the print media.  The event is well organized and gives every ... <a class="more" href="http://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/news/patrick-and-stenhouse-grab-media-spotlight-during-valentine-s-day-at-daytona/">Keep reading</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Wood Brothers Racing honor 1963 Daytona 500 win, first for Ford]]></title>
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DEARBORN, Mich. — The date of this year’s Daytona 500 is an important landmark for Ford and Wood
Brothers Racing. The green flag for this year’s “Great American Race” marks the 50th anniversary
of the day substitute driver Tiny Lund drove a 1963 Ford Galaxie built by Leonard Wood to the Blue
Oval’s first Daytona 500 win in 1963.

 ... <a class="more" href="http://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/news/wood-brothers-racing-honor-1963-daytona-500-win-first-for-ford/">Keep reading</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 02:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[NASCAR Hall of Fame welcomes five new members]]></title>
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NASCAR inducted five more men -- Buck Baker, Cotton Owens, Herb Thomas, Rusty Wallace and
Leonard Wood -- into its Hall of Fame in uptown Charlotte, N.C., during a special ceremony at
the Hall of Friday night.


Baker was one of the early stars of NASCAR, becoming the first driver to win consecutive
premier-level championships in 1956 and 1957. More impressively, Baker finished first ... <a class="more" href="http://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/news/nascar-hall-of-fame-welcomes-five-new-members/">Keep reading</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 15:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bill Elliott looks back on Daytona record ]]></title>
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On Feb. 9, 1987, Ford Racing’s Bill Elliott set a Daytona International Speedway track record of
210.364 miles per hour in his famed No. 9 Coor’s Thunderbird.  To this day, Elliott considers that
one of the most impressive accomplishments of his stellar career and he talked with Ford Racing
about what made that so special.

 ... <a class="more" href="http://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/news/bill-elliott-looks-back-on-daytona-record/">Keep reading</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Michael Waltrip Racing riding high]]></title>
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Concord, NC – Going into the 2012 season,  Michael Waltrip Racing was guardedly optimistic about doing well but as the season progressed, the team’s fortunes spiraled upward as it put newcomer Clint Bowyer and returnee Martin Truex Jr. into the Chase for the Sprint Cup crown.

And Bowyer was in contention for the championship until the end.  If not enough, veteran Mark Martin grabbed ... <a class="more" href="http://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/news/michael-waltrip-racing-riding-high/">Keep reading</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[NASCAR media tour continues in Charlotte]]></title>
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Concord, N. C. – The NASCAR Sprint Media tour presented by the Charlotte Motor Speedway continued with a visit to Richard Childress Racing, a Goody’s announcement involving Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt Jr., followed by time with Front Row Motorsports in a living-room setting and thereafter with Michael Waltrip Racing.

At RCR, team owner Childress led the way and Sprint Cup ... <a class="more" href="http://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/news/nascar-media-tour-continues-in-charlotte/">Keep reading</a>]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Media tour kicks-off in Charlotte with SHR]]></title>
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Concord, N. C.  – For the 31st time, the NASCAR Sprint Media Tour hosted by the Charlotte Motor Speedway kicked off.  The four-day event has drawn some 220 motorsports journalists from around the United States and a handful from overseas.  Major media outlets, such as the Associate Press, ESPN, Fox Sports, Reuters Newswire, Sports Illustrated and USA Today, are among the entities ... <a class="more" href="http://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/news/media-tour-kicks-off-in-charlotte-with-shr/">Keep reading</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Top moments of 2012, #3: Keselowski, Penske and Dodge beat the odds]]></title>
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At the start of the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season, the odds on Brad Keselowski winning the championship ranged from 10:1 to 20:1.  Until the season started, Keselowski had driven in just 89 Cup events and had won only four times, plus his Penske Racing Dodge team was up against the powerhouse teams of Hendrick Motorsports and Roush Fenway Racing, the New York Yankees and the ... <a class="more" href="http://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/news/top-moments-of-2012-3-keselowski-penske-and-dodge-beat-the-odds/">Keep reading</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 03:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Top moments of 2012, #11: A fight in NASCAR: Nothing new right?]]></title>
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Drivers in America's premiere series have been getting into on and off track brawls since the very start.  Cale Yarborough vs Donnie Allison, Darrell Waltrip vs Rusty Wallace, Kyle Busch vs everyone… the list goes on, and feuds begin, honestly making the sport even more entertaining.

NASCAR has had this amazing way of turning these fisticuffs, which normally would delegitimize any ... <a class="more" href="http://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/news/top-moments-of-2012-11-a-fight-in-nascar-nothing-new-right/">Keep reading</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 19:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Dillon, Buescher, Patrick among next wave of superstars just over the horizon]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – NASCAR has a talent-laden farm system loaded with the stock car racing’s future stars.

 

From the NASCAR Nationwide and NASCAR Craftsman Truck series through the sanctioning body’s touring divisions and on the Whelen All-American tracks, there’s a single common denominator: Youth, lightning fast youth.

 

The pipeline leading to the ultimate destination – the ... <a class="more" href="http://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/news/dillon-buescher-patrick-among-next-wave-of-superstars-just-over-the-horizon/">Keep reading</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2012 19:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Logano and Stenhouse Jr. bring holiday cheer on USO tour]]></title>
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Joey Logano and two-time and reigning NASCAR Nationwide Series champion Ricky Stenhouse Jr. recently teamed up with the USO to deliver good times and holiday cheer to troops overseas in the Middle East and Germany.

 ... <a class="more" href="http://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/news/logano-and-stenhouse-jr-bring-holiday-cheer-on-uso-tour/">Keep reading</a>]]></description>
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