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Racing on Memorial Day weekend will be nothing new for Danica Patrick. But for 2012, the car, location, track length and distance will be brand new for the Go Daddy Girl.

For the past seven years on Memorial Day weekend, Patrick has competed in [...]

The 2012 All-Star race was, from a competitive standpoint, dead in the water, a glorified qualifying session that’s best forgotten by anyone who’s not endorsing the million-dollar winner’s purse. Decision time, though: Was this NASCAR’s fault for setting up a new system that rewarded sandbagging[...]

The NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race is a non-points, high-stakes show with the sport’s best drivers. Action can be dramatic as drivers go for it all, purely for the pride of winning and that one million dollar reward.

Charlotte Motor Speedway is never a track to hold back on showmanship. [...]

Saturday night’s Darlington pit road altercation between Kurt Busch’s boys and Ryan Newman’s crew has resulted in fines and penalties for both sides. Here’s how it shakes out, per a Tuesday ruling by NASCAR:

• Kurt Busch was fined $50,000 [...]

DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) Rick Hendrick only got to watch the last 100 miles of the Southern 500. Turns out he saw the best part.

Jimmie Johnson broke free on a restart three laps from the end Saturday night to give Hendrick Motorsports its 200th Sprint Cup victory. [...]

TALLADEGA, Ala. – It’s been a rough year for Jeff Gordon, and Talladega was the cruelest kind of torture: a weekend that began so well yet ended in wreckage. Gordon started on the pole at Talladega, but couldn’t even lead a single lap. Constant problems with overheating dogged him all afternoon long, and finally on [...]

TALLADEGA, Ala. — Rochester Hills native Brad Keselowski has won the Sprint Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway, where he used a huge push from Kyle Busch to steal the race from Matt Kenseth. Kenseth was the leader on the green-white-checkered flag restart and lined up on the outside line so that teammate Greg Biffle [...]

Welcome to the latest Happy Hour mailbag! You know how these work: You write us with your best rant/ joke/one-liner at happyhournascar@yahoogroups.com or on Twitter at @jaybusbee, we respond to your messages, everyone goes away with a smile on their face. I’ll be doing both the Kentucky Derby and Talladega this weekend, with a pronounced [...]

A native of Roscoe, Illinois, and former Miss Illinois Teen USA, Nicole Briscoe, previously known as Nicole Manske, and today sometimes known as Nicole Manske Briscoe graduated from Hononegah High School in 1998. She and future auto racer/sports advertising megabrand Danica Patrick were cheerleaders there together in 1996.

Nicole got a lot of national media coverage when she started co-hosting [...]

Yes all the talk in Nascar when it comes to female drivers is centered on Danica Patrick, But there is another female driver in the Nationwide Series. Her name is Johanna Long, she drives the #70 Foretravel Chevy Impala.

Johanna is running a limited schedule this season while competing for the NNS rookie of the year. At the season opening DriveforCOPD 300 [...]