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• Winless season looms for Junior

  - 2007-11-12

  AVONDALE, Ariz. -- Unless he can solve one of his weakest tracks, the 2007 season likely will be Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s first in Nextel Cup without a victory. Earnhardt crashed off Turn2 on lap119 of Sunday's Checker Auto Parts 500 at Phoenix International Raceway, finishing a...

  Tags: car, CAREER, Ford Motor Co., NASCAR, Nextel Communications Inc., Phoenix Technologies, team

• Blaney gives Toyota first Nextel Cup pole

  - 2007-06-30

  Dave Blaney finally gave Toyota something to celebrate Friday, winning the pole for the NASCAR Nextel Cup race at New Hampshire International Speedway in Loudon, N.H. It's been a long, difficult first season in Cup for the Japanese automaker. Its teams have had trouble getting their cars...

  Tags: car, CAREER, Nextel Communications Inc., NHL, Toyota Motor Corp.

• Auto giant struggling to gain Nextel foothold

  - 2007-06-22

  SONOMA -- A Dodge car has yet to win a race on the NASCAR Nextel Cup circuit this season. And Carl Edwards' victory at Michigan International Speedway on Sunday was just the second of the year for Ford. But the shortcomings of NASCAR's newest manufacturer, Toyota, have...

  Tags: car, Cup, Nextel Communications Inc., Toyota Motor Corp.

• Edwards ends 52-race Nextel Cup drought

  - 2007-06-18

  BROOKLYN, Mich. -- Carl Edwards snapped a 52-race Nextel Cup winless streak Sunday by holding off Martin Truex Jr. to win at Michigan International Speedway. "Is it really over?'" he excitedly asked his crew as he closed in on the finish line. It was,...

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• 2007 Nextel Cup drivers

  - 2007-02-16

  22 Dave Blaney Car: Caterpillar Toyota Team: Bill Davis Racing Owner: Bill Davis Age: 44 Hometown: Hartford, Ohio Notable: Sprint Car driver...

  Tags: car, CAREER, Cup, finish, hometown, Nextel Communications Inc., Richard, team, Toyota Motor Corp.

• NASCAR hits Waltrip team with penalties for cheating

  - 2007-02-15

  This was not the way Toyota wanted to make its Nextel Cup debut. Continuing an alarming trend that grabbed headlines Tuesday, when four Nextel Cup teams were severely punished for violations found before and after Sunday's qualifying session for the Daytona 500, Michael Waltrip Racing stole the media spotlight...

  Tags: car, NASCAR, Nextel Communications Inc., team, Toyota Motor Corp.

• Switching gears

  - 2007-02-14

  DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. needs a new contract and is battling his stepmom. Nextel Cup drivers and crew chiefs are trying to tame a bigger, boxier model developed to race safer. A foreign manufacturer Toyota with unproven teams and a foreign-born driver (Juan...

  Tags: car, ESPN, Gordon, NASCAR, Nextel Communications Inc., team, Toyota Motor Corp.

• Rudd will return to Nextel Cup

  - 2006-12-22

  CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Robert Yates is bringing Ricky Rudd out of retirement to keep his sinking race team afloat, signing him Thursday to drive the full Nextel Cup schedule in 2007. Masterfoods USA will sponsor the car, with its Snickers brand as the primary paint scheme. The car...

  Tags: car, Ford Motor Co., Nextel Communications Inc., team

• Kahne wins pole for NASCAR finale

  - 2006-11-18

  The banner hanging outside Homestead-Miami Raceway proclaims that "It All Ends Here." Yesterday marked the beginning of the final weekend of the 2006 Nextel Cup campaign, with Kasey Kahne outrunning Evernham Motorsports teammate Scott Riggs for the top qualifying spot in tomorrow's Ford 400. His lap at 178.259 m.p.h. around...

  Tags: car, Cup, Ford Motor Co., NASCAR, Nextel Communications Inc.

• Leaders cutting to Chase finale

  - 2006-11-15

  Critics who find Jimmie Johnson and Matt Kenseth too bland to root for may not be happy that the dour duo will lead the pack of contenders into Sunday's season-ending Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Yet the two drivers, the most consistent ones on NASCAR's top circuit, have the best...

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