Jimmie Johnson broke free on a restart three laps from the end in the Southern 500 and held on Saturday night to give Hendrick Motorsports its 200th Sprint Cup victory.
”I can’t believe we won 200 of these things,” team owner Rick Hendrick said. ”I can’t believe it took this long after we won 199.”
Johnson seemed short on fuel and tires and looked vulnerable with Tony Stewart and Kyle Busch right behind and ready to pounce  … More
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DARLINGTON, S.C. — The first time Danica Patrick hit the wall was in her first run during Nationwide Series practice Friday morning, when she clipped it with the right-rear of her No. 7 car. In opening Sprint Cup practice, she hit it again entering Turn 3. Later, she scraped it in almost the same place in almost the same way. With minutes remaining in the session she hit it one more time, this time harder in between Turns 3 and 4, the impact leaving a long, white streak down the right side of her green automobile.
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Travis Pastrana has leaped from an airplane without a parachute and jumped a rally car nearly 300 feet off a pier to a floating barge. Yet, he’s seldom felt anything as extreme as his first trip around Darlington Raceway on Friday.
It was the ”most cared I’ve been in a vehicle, in anything with a roll cage for sure … More
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DARLINGTON, S.C. – Danica Patrick received a pleasantly rude introduction Friday to Darlington Raceway.
After being warned for weeks that her first trip to the track “Too Tough To Tame” would be a stiff challenge, Patrick happily earned her stripes — the right-side scrapes that appear on virtually every car during a NASCAR practice or race on the 1.366-mile oval.
“This is a tough place and everything they said about it is true,” Patrick said. “This ‘Lady in Black’ is  … More
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