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"I'll tell one thing that changed, and it changed for the better, is the guy sitting to my right. Steve Addington has taught me how to drive cars different, how to look at them differently. When you want to get up on the wheel for somebody like Steve, good things happen."
- Kurt Busch, after winning Sunday's Kobalt Tools 500

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3/7/2010 Kurt Busch Wins In Aftermath Of Edwards-Keselowski Wreck HAMPTON, Ga.—Kurt Busch won two races Sunday: the Kobalt Tools 500 and the Carl Edwards 25. In a race that went 16 laps—nearly 25 miles—past its scheduled distance, after Edwards retaliated against Brad Keselowski for an incident earlier in Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Busch took advantage of a strong restart to grab the lead during the second attempt at a green-white-checkered-flag restart and crossed the finish line .482 seconds ahead of runner-up Matt Kenseth.... Read More
3/5/2010 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Claims Pole At Georgia Power Qualifying Night It has been a long drought for Dale Earnhardt Jr., but he took a cool sip of water during Friday's Georgia Power Qualifying Night at Atlanta Motor Speedway, earning his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series pole position since April 2008. Earnhardt Jr.'s lap of 192.761 (28.761 seconds) will put him in front of the field for Sunday's Kobalt Tools 500. "The car did everything I asked it to do," Earnhardt Jr. said. "The Amp Energy/National Guard Chevrolet was pretty good ... Read More
3/1/2010 Johnson Rolls To Vegas Victory On Four-Tire Call LAS VEGAS—Jimmie Johnson didn’t need luck in Sin City—he was just that good when it counted in Sunday’s Shelby American at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. A week after parlaying a lucky break on pit road at Fontana, Calif., into his first win of the season, Johnson pulled away to beat Kevin Harvick by 1.874 seconds at the 1.5-mile track. Johnson’s 49th career victory leaves him alone in 12th place on NASCAR’s Sprint Cup list, one win behind Ned ... Read More
2/27/2010 Pit-road Woes Can't Keep Harvick From Win LAS VEGAS — The best car in the Sam's Town 300 finally got to the front — just in time to win the race. Frustrated by slow stops on pit road and a variety of different tire strategies on the part of his competitors, Harvick passed Denny Hamlin for the lead with 25 laps left in Saturday's race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and pulled away to beat Hamlin by 1.361 seconds. The victory was Harvick's first of ... Read More
2/25/2010 Burton On A Roll Heading To Vegas The talk about the fate of Jeff Burton’s career began to seep into racing conversations early last season and it picked up serious steam during the summer. It was the kind of talk that affixes itself to all athletes whose fortunes waver around that arbitrary point where they start being labeled as “aging.” And in the fall, after Burton had missed the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup for the first time since 2005, his first full season with ... Read More