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It is a conundrum as to how some drivers with lesser credentials have a full dance card of sponsors, while Matt Kenseth, NASCAR's 2003 Cup champion, has been without a primary sponsor for a good chunk of the 2012 season. There was a vortex of sponsorship expirations at the end of the 2011 season at Roush Fenway Racing. Crown Royal, the primary sponsor of Kenseth's No. 17, jumped ship after two years. Prior to Crown Royal, DeWalt had been the primary sponsor for 10 years. Now a group of corporate sponsors have been cobbled together with Best Buy as the primary

sponsor for nine races. Valvoline, Zest and Ford Eco Boost picked up a few other races, but the search for a primary sponsor for the remaining 15 races continues. At RFR, a fourth team for the No. 6 was dropped for lack of sponsorship. Greg Biffle re-signed 3M and Carl Edwards has a variety of companies covering his sponsorship for 2012. Most sponsorship agreements are made prior to the start of any given season because corporations need to have their financial plans in order. It is hard to pick up major sponsors once the season is underway. Next, we look at the economy and the struggle to regain strength. Just as we start to see improvements, spiking fuel prices feed through every part of the economy....(Read Full Article)

After the race at Bristol on March 19th produced lots of long green flag stretches and many fans dressed as empty aluminum bleachers, SMI Chairman Bruton Smith said that changes to the track would be possible before the Sprint Cup … Continue reading →

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Bristol Motor Speedway owner Bruton Smith said Wednesday he'll make changes to the track after spending a week reviewing input from fans.

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Dale Earnhardt Jr. won a career-high six races in 2004 and mounted a decent challenge for the championship.

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In his 10 th full-time season with Roush-Fenway Racing in the Sprint Cup Series, Greg Biffle finds himself in an unfamiliar place five races into the 2012 season: first. A quick scan of Biffle's statistics at Racing-Reference.info reveals the last time he ranked first in...

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W elcome to the latest Happy Hour mailbag! You know how these work: You write us w ith your best rant/ joke/one-liner at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or on Twitter at @jaybusbee , we respond to your messages, everyone goes away with a smile on their face. So I was off NASCAR duty this past weekend covering the NCAAs. While the Cali race was proceeding, I was in the Georgia Dome watching Kentucky treat Baylor the way Juan Pablo Montoya treats jet dryers. And it got me to thinking: there were about 60,000 people in the Dome, and the place was absolutely

rocking. We need to just start running NASCAR in smaller arenas. No more superspeedways. We ought to run NASCAR in, like, municipal auditoriums. Sellouts every week! Your letters. And a rather dull race at Cali resulted in ... well, a mixed mailbag. Let's begin with an old favorite. If I hear Ray Evernham or Marty Smith say one more time that the expectations placed on Danica Patrick are "unfair," I may smack them both! She chose this path and she is mentally tough - she can handle the expectations and doesn't need to be coddled. I am astonished when I hear these journalists/commentators say I shouldn't expect her to be in the mix at the end...(Read Full Article)

Bruton Smith is taking the bulldozer to Bristol Motor Speedway -- but exactly what changes he'll make to the world's fastest half-mile are yet to be seen.

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BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) - Bristol Motor Speedway owner Bruton Smith said Wednesday he'll make changes to the track after spending a week reviewing input from fans.

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HOUSTON (AP) - IndyCar added a race in Houston for the first weekend of October 2013, a step toward expanding the circuit's reach in the United States.

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The fans have spoken. Bristol Motor Speedway will undergo a facelift before the August night race. Speedway Motorsports Inc. chairman Bruton Smith announced on Wednesday that he has ordered the "go ahead to make changes to the track surface."

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