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Carl Edwards did all he could to try to steal this year’s NASCAR Sprint Cup championship from Jimmie Johnson in NASCAR’s season-closer at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Sunday. Edwards led the most laps and scored his ninth win of the year – more than any other driver – but it wasn’t…
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Nov 10 2008
Gentleman Jimmie Johnson dominates in Arizona
Jimmie Johnson drove another superb race on Sunday, scoring his seventh win of the year and all but guaranteeing his third consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup championship. Johnson enjoyed a perfect race on the one-mile Phoenix, Arizona oval, qualifying his Hendrick Chevrolet on the pole, leading most of the way and…
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Nov 3 2008
Carl Edwards makes his case
Carl Edwards has kept his NASCAR Sprint Cup championship hopes alive with a pair of excellent wins over the last two weekends. Edwards scored his seventh win of the year at the high-banked Atlanta Motor Speedway on October 26th, then took his eighth win in dominant style on Sunday at…
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Dear Nigel,
I’ve been an avid reader of your ‘Ask Nigel’ columns since the Autosport days, so it’s great to see you going strong with Motor Sport. Keep it up. My question is this: following the sad news of the passing of movie and motor sport legend Paul Newman, just how good a driver was he?
It’s obvious he had more than a little natural talent, but do you think he could have become a top-line driver in either F1, CART or sports cars had he decided to hang up the acting shoes in favour of a full-time racing helmet? What did drivers who worked with him, the likes of Mario Andretti, Alan Jones and Dick Barbour make of his wheel skills?
Neil Briscoe
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Oct 13 2008
Can anyone beat Jimmie Johnson?
Halfway through NASCAR’s ten-race Chase for the Cup play-off with just five of a whopping 36 races to go and it looks like it’s going to be difficult for anyone to deflect Jimmie Johnson and his Hendrick Racing Chevrolet team from winning their third Sprint Cup championship in a row.…
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Sep 22 2008
Steve Hallam’s move to NASCAR
It was confirmed last weekend that Steve Hallam (below) will leave his post as McLaren’s head of race operations at the end of the F1 season to join Michael Waltrip’s Toyota team in NASCAR as director of race engineering. Hallam has worked in F1 for 27 years, first with Lotus,…
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Sep 15 2008
The Sprint Cup’s chase for the title is underway
NASCAR’s ‘Chase for the Cup’ championship playoff was designed to shake things up and that’s exactly what happened at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway last Sunday in the first of ten ‘Chase’ races. Championship leader Kyle Busch lost his long-held position atop the points to Jimmie Johnson and Carl Edwards…
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Sep 9 2008
America’s sad decline in international motor sport
Both of last weekend’s Indycar and NASCAR races featured fierce, side-by-side duels to the flag, with Hélio Castroneves shading new IRL champion Scott Dixon at the Chicagoland Speedway and defending NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson beating Tony Stewart in a similar battle on the tighter, slower Richmond Raceway in Virginia.
In the…
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Sep 3 2008
Franchitti to replace Wheldon in Ganassi’s ‘09 IndyCar team
Chip Ganassi (above with Franchitti) announced on Tuesday that Dario Franchitti will replace Dan Wheldon in his Indycar team next year. Ganassi had decided to drop Wheldon (below) after a disappointing year and move Franchitti from his NASCAR team to his IRL squad. Wheldon sealed his fate by qualifying in…
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Aug 20 2008
Can Carl Edwards beat Kyle Busch?
Carl Edwards has emerged as the strongest challenger to Kyle Busch for this year’s NASCAR Sprint Cup championship. The 29-year old Edwards scored his fifth win of the year at the high-banked Michigan superspeedway last Sunday, beating championship rival Busch who again led his share of the race and came…
