MRN – Million Dollar Night for Carl Edwards
Million Dollar Night for Carl Edwards
NNS Race Recap: Stenhouse Scores First Win At Iowa
NEWTON, Iowa—Ricky Stenhouse Jr. won Sunday’s John Deere Dealers 250 at Iowa Speedway for his first career victory in the Nationwide Series.
Making his 51st start, Stenhouse, 23, outdueled Carl Edwards and Brad Keselowski, the only Sprint Cup Series regulars in the race, for the win.
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NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race Recap: Flawless Pit Stop Propels Edwards To All-Star Win
CONCORD, N.C. — Carl Edwards’ No. 99 crew didn’t win Thursday’s Sprint Pit Crew Challenge—they waited until it really counted.
NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race 5.21.11
Flawless work during mandatory four-tire pit stops before the final 10-lap shootout in Saturday night’s Sprint All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway got Edwards off pit road first, ahead of Kyle Busch. That proved decisive in Edwards’ first All-Star win as he became the eighth different winner of the event in the last eight years.
Edwards, who finished .443 seconds ahead of runner-up Busch, collected $1.2 million for the victory. David Reutimann ran third, followed by Tony Stewart and Greg Biffle. Matt Kenseth, Denny Hamlin, David Ragan, Kevin Harvick and Ryan Newman completed the top 10.
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NCWTS Race Recap: Busch Outduels Bowyer for Truck Series Win
CONCORD, N.C.—As he put it, Kyle Busch had an angel on board in Friday night’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway—an angel that helped him find a way to win.
With the name of murder victim Zahra Baker of Hickory, N.C., on his No. 18 Toyota, Busch took the lead for the first time on Lap 128 of 134 and held off runner-up Clint Bowyer the rest of the way to win the North Carolina Education Lottery 200.
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Kyle Busch Sprint All-Star Race Advance
KYLE BUSCH
‘Double or Nothing’
HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. – Las Vegas native Kyle Busch plays a game of “Double or Nothing” every time he straps himself into a racecar.
While double or nothing in this case doesn’t necessarily have to do with gambling, the driver of the No. 18 M&M’s Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) will get to show everyone what he means by double or nothing as the series head into the second non-points event of the season – Saturday night’s $1 million-to-win Sprint All-Star Race at Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway.
Cody Hodgson Iowa Speedway Race Preview
Cody Hodgson: NASCAR K&N Pro Series East
Iowa Speedway Race Preview
THE STORY
Cody Hodgson of Escalon, Calif., will compete in the Pork ‘Be Inspired’ 175 at Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa, on Saturday, May 21 – a combination race for the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East and NASCAR K&N Pro Series West. Hodgson enters the fourth race of the season sitting 10th in the East Series standings, and the Sunoco Rookie of the Year contender is looking for his second Top-10 finish of the season. Iowa — a sister track to Richmond International Raceway, where the series last competed – represents the largest track Hodgson has ever raced on at .875-miles.