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Year in and year out, the Daytona 500 makes racing history, and race fans should witness the excitement and pageantry of The Great American Race in person ... In order to secure the best seats, we encourage our race fans to make their plans early as we kick off the new NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season with the sport's premier event.
Year in and year out, the Daytona 500 makes racing history and race fans should witness the excitement and pageantry of ’The Great American Race’ in person ... In order to secure the best seats, we encourage our race fans to make their plans early as we kick off the new NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season with the sport’s premier event.
It is probably the most I have ever looked forward to coming to Talladega other than the first time I came here ... Obviously we liked the rules package in Daytona and made it work pretty good company wide with Greg and Carl on the front row (in Daytona 500 qualifying) and our car seemed real fast in the race. Anything can happen here, so who knows.More quotes »
Newsday's coverage
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Chevrolet to debut rear-wheel-drive SS next year
(AP) -- For the first time in nearly two decades, the Chevrolet brand will have a big, rear-wheel-drive sedan in its U.S. lineup. General Motors Co. said Thursday that the 2014 Chevrolet SS will go on sale in limited numbers late next year. The V8-powere Read more »
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Jimmie Johnson, Danica Patrick crash at Daytona 500
Moments into the first Monday night primetime start in Daytona 500 history, two of the sport's biggest stars crashed.Jimmie Johnson lost control of his car on the second lap, causing a crash. Danica Patrick and defending champion Trevor Bayne were two of Read more »
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Q&A with Trevor Bayne
Trevor Bayne drives the No. 21 Ford for Wood Brothers Racing . Last year, at the age of 20 years and one day, he became the youngest driver to win the Daytona 500 . It was his only Sprint Cup win of the season. Sunday at 1 p.m. on Ch. 5, Bayne sets out t Read more »
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Long Island NASCAR owner Tommy Baldwin back in Daytona 500
During the offseason, Bellport native and NASCAR owner Tommy Baldwin relinquished one of the most precious possessions in all of motorsports -- a guaranteed spot in the Daytona 500. Thursday afternoon, he got it back. Tommy Baldwin Racing driver Dave Bla Read more »
Around the web
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CUP: Gordon Woes Put Damper On Hendrick Roll
Kasey Kahne's win was awesome, not only for him, but for that whole No. 5 team. I see a really unique situation developing now at Hendrick Motorsports. I wonder if the giant has come awake one more time. Jimmie Johnson, whose season started in Daytona wi 1:15 PM from FOX News Read more »
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NASCAR has become terrible to watch!
I love NASCAR, but it is becoming terrible to watch. When you have a race with only 9 cars on the lead lap and no challenges for any positions at the end, it is a waste. There might have only been about 5 cars on the lead lap if they didn't through a cou from CBS Sports Read more »
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Special American Flag to be unveiled tonight
Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images If the weeks between the close of the season and the Daytona 500 are a long, thirsty drought, then ... ESPN/ABC host and reporter Erin Andrews poses alongside a stock car prior to taking a ride-along around Atlanta Mo from Skirts and Scruffs Read more »
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Trevor Bayne still needs a big break
CONCORD -- At age 20, Trevor Bayne put in a striking claim as the new face of NASCAR. In his second Sprint Cup start, Bayne won the 2011 Daytona 500 in an enormous upset, becoming the youngest winner ever of NASCARs most famous race. With a squeaky-clean from The News & Observer Read more »
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Long road: Switch from Indy cars to NASCAR not so easy anymore
CONCORD, N.C.—A.J. Foyt and Mario Andretti made their names in open-wheel racing as winners of the Indianapolis 500. But both have their names on NASCAR’s Daytona 500 trophy as well, victories that solidified them as all-time great racecar drivers, no ma from Sporting News Read more »
