Kurt Busch won’t be racing at Pocono this weekend after NASCAR suspended the 2004 Cup champion for one race following yet another run-in with a reporter.Â
Following Saturday’s Nationwide race at Dover, Busch was asked if being on probation limited his ability to defend himself on the race track. Busch took issue with the question posed by Bob Pockrass of the Sporting News, responding  … More
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DANICA PATRICK SHAKES HANDS like a man. It is a wince- inducing, finger-crushing, are-you-seriously-not-a-Marine kind of shake. “Hi [crunch], I’m Danica.” Coming from someone who is 5-foot-2, 109 pounds and looks like a brunette Barbie doll, it’s kind of like shaking hands with a lightning bolt. It makes you (okay, me) jump back a bit and go, “Ow! F–!,” which is the point. There should be no surprise here. The woman drives race cars for a living; of course she has grip.
“So I don’t always like to talk about racing,” Danica says. This is honestly the second thing she says, right after hello. It is a warm spring night in Chicago, and Danica, who will be  … More
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Danica Patrick emerged from her bright green No. 10 car Sunday night with a smile.
No, she didn’t win. Not even close.
She finished five laps down in 30th place in NASCAR’s longest race, the Coca-Cola 600. That hardly mattered to Patrick, who completed her third Sprint Cup race without wrecking, another step in  … More
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That’s been standard operating procedure for Rick Hendrick since 2002, when the championship car owner expanded to accommodate a fourth Sprint Cup program headlined by a then-unknown driver named Jimmie Johnson. Hendrick paired the new outfit in a building with the more experienced team of Jeff Gordon, and the result was an explosive progression that netted 71 combined victories for the stablemates during the ensuing eight years.
So three seasons ago when Hendrick faced the prospect of rebuilding a No. 88 team that was languishing deep in the standings, he used the same approach … More
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