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Four races into NASCAR's 10-race playoff, half of the 12 drivers are already longshots to win. Tony Stewart says he could win the next six races 'and still not win the point championship.'
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NASCAR
Veteran gets first win at Talladega when rookie driver dips below out-of-bounds marker. >>
NEWSWIRE
Castroneves, a race car driver and 'Dancing with the Stars' winner, faces tax charges. >>
NEWSWIRE
He is a two-time Indianapolis 500 winner. >>
MOTOR RACING
Johnson holds off Carl Edwards whose tactic of bouncing off the concrete wall isn't enough to win at Kansas Speedway. >>
MOTOR RACING ROUNDUP
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton extends his championship lead in first Formula One night race. >>
NEWSWIRE
He works his way up from 19th for his fourth Nationwide Series victory of the year. >>
BILL DWYRE
Mario Andretti remembers the legendary actor as a guy who would bet, and lose, on just about anything. >>
JIM PELTZ / ON MOTOR RACING
After winning eight races during the regular season, he’s last in the Chase — 210 points behind leader Carl Edwards. >>
Greg Biffle made it two for two in the Chase for the championship, making another late pass in his Ford, this time with nine laps to go, and holding off Matt Kenseth and Carl Edwards on Sunday in the Camping World RV 400 at Dover International Speedway. >>
MOTOR RACING ROUNDUP
He leads for 157 laps in chalking up his eighth victory this season in the Nationwide Series. >>
JIM PELTZ / ON MOTOR RACING
After disastrous day because of broken part at New Hampshire, the cocky 23-year-old is 74 points behind Jimmie Johnson and Carl Edwards, who are tied for first. But there are nine races left. >>
AUTO RACING
He wins for the first time in 34 races and vaults from ninth to third in the standings. >>
MOTOR RACING
The 21-year-old German becomes the youngest driver to win a Formula One race, winning the Italian Grand Prix from the pole on a wet Monza course that made for difficult driving. >>
MOTOR RACING ROUDNUP
He takes the lead for good on a restart with 42 laps to go. >>
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Scott Dixon lost out in photo finish at Chicagoland, but he clinched the overall title to cap a year of highlights. >>
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Almost 70% of races this year were won by playoff favorites Jimmie Johnson, Carl Edwards and Kyle Busch. But Dale Earnhardt Jr., Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon and Jeff Burton are still in the picture. >>
MOTOR RACING
Two-time defending NASCAR champion wins at Richmond for his second consecutive victory and his fourth overall this season. >>
MOTOR RACING ROUNDUP
For nearly two hours Sunday afternoon, Helio Castroneves did everything in his power to deprive Scott Dixon of a second IndyCar Series championship. >>
MORNING BRIEFING
Fans of the weeklong Bathurst 1000 race are renowned imbibers, but even they have their limit. According to police, that limit is 24 cans of beer. Per person. >>
MOTOR RACING ROUNDUP
Victory is his 37th overall, in the Camping World 200. >>
MOTOR RACING
Franchitti made an ill-fated switch to NASCAR this year. Tony Schumacher reaches three major NHRA milestones. >>
MOTOR RACING
The same top dozen drivers in points coming into the race left Southern California as the top 12 as well, although some changed positions. >>
MOTOR RACING
He cruises to a third career win at the two-mile Auto Club Speedway oval and clinches a spot in the Chase for the Cup. >>
NEWSWIRE
Helio Castroneves leads much of the road race but is penalized for blocking rookie Justin Wilson and is forced to relinquish the lead with fewer than 20 laps to go. >>
MOTOR RACING
It's his best start of the year in a NASCAR Sprint Cup race. He finishes 14th. >>
MOTOR RACING
Sunday's Pepsi 500 in Fontana is the next-to-last race before the Sprint Cup's season-ending playoff, and everyone is jockeying for position. >>
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He starts on the pole and leads 144 of 150 laps at Fontana. >>
MOTOR RACING ROUNDUP
Castroneves trails Dixon by 43 points in the IndyCar standings heading into Sunday's Detroit Indy Grand Prix. >>
MOTOR RACING
The drivers were put on probation for banging their cars after last weekend's race in Tennessee. The spat is expected to rev up interest in Sunday's race in Fontana. >>
MOTOR RACING
Thousands of fans converge at the series' 36 races a year and prefer to stay in their RVs on the track's infield instead of in hotels. >>
OBITUARY
The racer, who was raised in Santa Monica, won the F1 championship for Ferrari in 1961 and was a three-time winner at both Le Mans and Sebring. He never suffered a serious injury. >>
MOTOR RACING
The series, which is already struggling in a sluggish economy, is nervously awaiting the auto company's decisions on sponsorships. >>
MOTOR RACING
Antagonism between drivers Kyle Busch and Edwards could spill over to the track Sunday in the Sprint Cup Series' Pepsi 500. >>
AUTO RACING
The Brazilian driver breaks 29-race drought with a victory in the Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma County. >>
AUTO RACING NOTES
Patrick, a 26-year-old driver, says she was proud of moving up from ninth to five on the hard-to-pass road course in the Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma County. >>
MOTOR RACING
The Ferrari driver prevails in the European Grand Prix for his fourth Formula One victory of the season. >>
MOTOR RACING
Series leader will start fifth in Sunday's Grand Prix of Sonoma. Runner-up Helio Castroneves is on the pole, but Dixon, ahead by 78 points with three races left, looks uncatchable. >>
MOTOR RACING ROUNDUP
He passes Kyle Busch with 30 laps to go at Bristol Motor Speedway. >>
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Helio Castroneves and Marco Andretti hope to turn their seasons around. >>
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The series' most popular driver earned her first IndyCar win in April, but she has only one other top-five finish through the season's first 14 races. She'll try again at Infineon this weekend. >>
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Scheduling change means Auto Club Speedway will no longer have a Labor Day race. Instead, next year it will play host to an October race as part of the late-season Chase for the Cup. >>
MOTOR RACING ROUNDUP
As the Chase looms, Edwards gets his fifth victory of this season's NASCAR Sprint Cup series, which completes a sweep of two weekend races at Brooklyn, Mich. Kyle Busch finishes second. >>
NASCAR
The Daytona 500 winner will leave Penske Racing to drive for Stewart-Haas. >>
MOTOR RACING ROUNDUP
Busch clinches his place atop the Chase with a victory at Watkins Glen, N.Y. >>
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