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Motor Sports
Dale Earnhardt Jr. has been on a media tour since winning Sunday’s Daytona 500. Now he must refocus with races in Phoenix and Las Vegas coming up.
When he was only 24, Jacques Villeneuve won the Indy 500 before moving on to Formula 1 and winning that championship. This year, at 42, he will drive at Indianapolis again, for a team headed by Henderson’s Sam Schmidt.
By the time Daytona 500 winner finished with media responsibilities, it was 3 a.m., and his crew was “out of spirits” But they found some more.
That Kyle Busch won a truck series race was hardly unusual. It was his 36th victory in those pick-’em-up trucks. Busch the Younger also has thanked his sponsors 63 times after winning Nationwide series races.
Through rain and wrecks, Dale Earnhardt Jr. ended the only drought that mattered.
NASCAR’s first lady of speed isn’t often a leader on the track, but she sure has a lot of followers off it on social media.
Jimmie Johnson’s phone started blowing up Sunday while he was sitting in his motorhome — nowhere near Victory Lane.
The idea was so out there that Kenny Bartram couldn’t believe what he was hearing. Motorcycles, both freestyle and endurocross, sharing the same course and the same race with all-terrain and utility-task vehicles.
I was introduced to Cowboy Kenny Bartram on Wednesday morning. I almost didn’t recognize him. He wasn’t flying through the air hanging from the handlebars of a dirt bike; there weren’t a bunch of pretty girls waiting for his autograph.
Danica Patrick takes the high road after NASCAR legend Richard Petty says she was capable of winning a Sprint Cup race only “if everybody else stayed home.”
As ESPN/ABC enters its final season covering NASCAR, pit road reporter Jamie Little has mixed emotions.
Three young local drivers made a little history last year in putting together championship seasons.
Before the gentlemen start their engines for the Boyd Gaming 300 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, before the announcers tell TV viewers to “crank it up” after coming back from a Chevy commercial — even before Kyle Busch makes another driver mad by passing in a place where one is not supposed to pass — somebody must first sing the national anthem.
Long before his 22-year run on “The Tonight Show,” our columnist found Jay Leno in Albuquerque, waiting to catch a flight to Farmington, N.M., to do stand-up comedy at the Best Western.
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