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Jimmie Johnson remains the most underappreciated five-time champion in professional sports. You know the NASACAR narrative by now: Personality is too vanilla. Has a crew chief who cheats. He avoids dustups on the track, demeaning the ghosts of great...

The folks at the Martinsville Speedway are busy getting ready for their spring race weekend April 5-7, and so are the actual drivers. On Tuesday at the Speedway, truck testing was the order of the day after the morning rain showers moved out. Among...

Mark Martin may not be the oldest driver to win a pole in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series - yet - but with his top qualifying effort Friday at Phoenix International Raceway, the seemingly ageless driver remained the second oldest driver to win a pole....

Dale Earnhardt Jr. has tied Bill Elliott's record of 10 consecutive wins as NASCAR's most popular driver. Earnhardt won the award Thursday at the Myers Brothers Luncheon at The Encore at Wynn. The award is presented annually by the National Motorsports...

Carl Edwards joked that he played with Mark Martin toys as a child. But it was Martin, 53, who had the last laugh Friday, as he blew away the rest of the field in qualifying for Sunday's Pure Michigan 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Michigan...

Daytona 500 winner Matt Kenseth has won the pole for the Saturday night race at Daytona International Speedway.     Kenseth turned a lap at 192.386 mph Friday in his Roush Fenway Racing Ford to earn the top starting spot. He's trying to become the...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Daytona 500 winner Matt Kenseth will start from the pole Saturday night at Daytona International Speedway, where he'll try to pull off a season sweep.    No driver since Bobby Allison in 1982 has won both NASCAR races at...

TV SPORTS SATURDAY Cycling-Tour de France, stage seven, 7 a.m. (NBC); same-day tape, 11 a.m. (NBCSN) Tennis-The Championships, women's championship match at Wimbledon, England, 8 a.m. (ESPN) Golf-PGA Tour, The Greenbrier Classic, third round, 2 p....

DAYTONA BEACH – Tony Stewart survived several major crashes to capture the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway Saturday night. Stewart took the checkered flag while a multiple-car pile-up was taking place behind him. It was the...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — There was no fire or rain. Still, another frantic finish at Daytona International Speedway. Tony Stewart emerged the winner, charging past Daytona 500 winner Matt Kenseth on the last lap and holding on as the challengers...

Australian Marcos Ambrose has a new distinction -- he's the fastest thing in a NASCAR Sprint Cup stock car in 25 years. With a record-setting run Saturday at Michigan International Speedway, Ambrose won the pole for Sunday's Quicken Loans 400, leading 18...

Executing perfectly a move he had saved for the right occasion, Brad Keselowski pulled away from Kyle Busch on the final lap to win Sunday's Aaron's 499 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at at Talladega Superspeedway in a green-white-checkered-flag finish. Busch...