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Dale Earnhardt Jr. held off Jimmie Johnson to win the GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama on Sunday afternoon.

Kurt Busch led 291 of the 400 laps and easily won the Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond International Speedway in Virginia on Sunday.

On April 21, NASCAR 2014 Sprint Cup champion Kevin Harvick and his #4 Chevrolet were honored at the White House. The ceremony took place on the south lawn and the car was big point of interest to the President.

Matt Kenseth snapped a 51-race losing streak by winning a rain-delayed Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee on Sunday night.

Jimmie Johnson passed Kevin Harvick and Jamie McMurray on the same lap, and hung on to win the Duck Commander 500 at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday night.

Kurt Busch was cleared on Wednesday to return to the racetrack and attempt to rebuild his career. Busch was suspended by NASCAR two days prior to the Daytona 500 for allegedly assaulting his ex-girlfriend.

The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series will be at Kansas Speedway for the May 9th race and will be called the SpongeBob SquarePants 400.

Jeff Gordon, four-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion, announced today that the 2015 season will be his last as a full-time driver.

Fort Kent's Austin Theriault is getting his chance to race in the NASCAR Truck Series and its with the Brad Keselowski team.

It was the Winston Cup, then the Nextel Cup and now the NASCAR sponsor is Sprint. It is called the Sprint Cup and will remain that way through the 2016 season but after that NASCAR will be looking for a new sponsor.

The current secondary NASCAR race is the Nationwide series but that may change soon. NASCAR and Comcast’s Xfinity are in negotiations to become the title sponsor. It would be a five to six year deal at more than $100 million with the first year’s rights and activation fees $9 million for each or $18 million.

Tragedy last night (Aug. 9) during a dirt-track race in upstate New York. NASCAR driver Tony Stewart hit and killed another driver, Kevin Ward, Jr.

Austin Theriault, from Fort Kent, Maine, finished in a solid 15th place in his first ever NASCAR Nationwide race this past Sunday at the Get to Know Newton 250 at Iowa Speedway.

Fort Kent's Austin Theriault makes his NASCAR Nationwide Series debut this weekend at Iowa Speedway in front of ESPN cameras. Not bad for the 20-year-old from Aroostook County.

Austin Theriault, 20, from Fort Kent, Maine is preparing to get behind the wheel for his first NASCAR Nationwide Series race. He's on the JR Motorsports team and has been practicing with 18-year-old Chase Elliott, son of NASCAR legend Bill Elliott.

The Robertson’s from Duck Dynasty fame and owners of the Duck Commander Company are the new sponsors for the Independence Bowl played in Shreveport, Louisiana. It will now be known as the Duck Commander Independence Bowl