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NASCAR

Mark Martin leads Carl Edwards at Auto Club Speedway

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, abbreviated to NASCAR, is currently referred as the largest sanctioning body of stock car racing in the United States. The 63nd season is now finalized, with Tony Stewart, Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. and Austin Dillon crowned with the drivers' championships and Chevrolet and Ford with the maunfacturers' championships. The three largest racing series sanctioned by NASCAR are the Sprint Cup, the Nationwide Series and the Camping World Truck Series. The NASCAR season consists of a series of races held on purpose-built race tracks. The results of each race are combined to determine two annual NASCAR Championships for each series, one for the drivers and one for the manufacturers. NASCAR cars race at high speeds, up to 200 mph (320 km/h). The cars are capable of pulling in excess of five G-forces in some curves. Charlotte, North Carolina is NASCAR's traditional center, where most of the teams are based. However, the sport's scope has expanded significantly in recent years with races being held all over North America.

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Alan Dennis Kulwicki (December 14, 1954 – April 1, 1993), nicknamed "Special K" and the "Polish Prince", was an American NASCAR Winston Cup Series (now Sprint Cup Series) racecar driver. He started racing at local short tracks in Wisconsin before moving up to regional stock car touring series. Kulwicki arrived at NASCAR, the highest and most expensive level of stock car racing in the United States, with no sponsor, a limited budget, and only a racecar and a borrowed pickup truck. Despite starting with meager equipment and finances, he earned the 1986 NASCAR Rookie of the Year award over drivers racing for well-funded teams. After Kulwicki won his first race at Phoenix International Raceway, he debuted what would become his trademark "Polish Victory Lap". Kulwicki won the 1992 Winston Cup championship by what was then the closest margin in NASCAR history. He died early in 1993 in a light aircraft accident, and was unable to defend his championship. He has been inducted into numerous racing halls of fame and was named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers. Kulwicki was known for being a perfectionist and doing things his own way. An engineer by trade, his scientific approach to NASCAR racing inspires the way teams are now run. He was insistent on driving for his own race team, AK Racing, during most of his NASCAR career, despite lucrative offers from top car owners. Described by his publicist as "a real hard type of person to get to know", he remained a bachelor throughout his life.

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• ...that Sara Christian was the first woman to compete in a NASCAR race, one of two woman to have a Top Five finish, and the recipient of the 1949 United States Drivers's Association Woman Driver of the Year award?
• ...that in 2003 Erin Crocker became the first woman to qualify for the Knoxville Nationals sprint car race?
• ...that the Daytona Beach Road Course was the site of fifteen world land speed records, and the course was instrumental in the formation of NASCAR?
• ...that Jim Roper was credited with NASCAR's first Strictly Stock (now NEXTEL Cup) win after apparent winner Glenn Dunnaway was found to have illegally modified springs?

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The 2010 Sylvania 300 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on September 19, 2010, at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, New Hampshire. The 300 lap race was the twenty-seventh in the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, as well as the first race in the ten-race Chase for the Sprint Cup, which ends the season. Clint Bowyer, of the Richard Childress Racing team, won the race, with Denny Hamlin finishing second, and Jamie McMurray third. Pole position driver Brad Keselowski maintained his lead in the first lap, but in the second lap Tony Stewart pulled ahead. Chase for the Sprint Cup participants Jimmie Johnson, Kurt Busch, and Hamlin were in the top ten for most of the race, but in the closing laps all of them suffered spins or other problems. Hamlin was the only one to recover and finish in the top five. With two laps remaining, Tony Stewart was leading the race when he ran out of fuel, giving the lead to Bowyer, who also led the most laps in the race with 176. There were eight cautions and twenty-three lead changes among eight different drivers during the race. The race was Clint Bowyer's first win in the 2010 season, and the third of his career. The result advanced Bowyer to second in the Drivers' Championship, thirty-five points behind Hamlin and ten ahead of Kevin Harvick, but because of a penalty three days after the race, he fell to twelfth in the standings. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, thirty-two points ahead of Toyota and seventy-four ahead of Ford, with nine races remaining in the season. A total of 95,000 people attended the race, while 3.68 million watched it on television.

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Erik Darnell beats Johnny Benson to the line at Michigan International Speedway

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• May 1: NASCAR driver Kyle Busch wins 2011 spring race in Richmond, Virginia
• April 18: NASCAR: Johnson beats Bowyer for victory in Aarons' 499
• April 10: Matt Kenseth wins 2011 NASCAR Samsung Mobile 500
• March 21: NASCAR driver Kyle Busch wins 2011 Jeff Byrd 500
• March 10: NASCAR: Carl Edwards wins 2011 Kobalt Tools 400

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Current Championship Standings

Sprint Cup Series Final Standings Drivers' Championship Manufacturers' Championship Name Team Points Maunfacturer Points Tony Stewart Stewart Haas Racing 2,403 Chevrolet 248 Carl Edwards Roush Fenway Racing 2,403 Ford 195 Kevin Harvick Richard Childress Racing 2,345 Toyota 187

Nationwide Series Final Standings Drivers' Championship Manufacturers' Championship Name Team Points Maunfacturer Points Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. Roush Fenway Racing 1,222 Ford 212 Elliott Sadler Kevin Harvick Inc. 1,177 Toyota 194 Justin Allgaier Turner Motorsports 1,105 Chevrolet 174

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Final Standings

Drivers' Championship			Manufacturers' Championship
Name	Team	Points	Maunfacturer	Points
Austin Dillon	Richard Childress Racing	888	Chevrolet	193
Johnny Sauter	ThorSport Racing	882	Toyota	176
James Buescher	Turner Motorsports	859	Dodge	101

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Mario Andretti • A. J. Foyt IV • Tim Richmond • International Speedway Corporation • David Pearson • Jeffrey Pollack • Alan Kulwicki • 2010 Food City 500 • 2010 Goody's Fast Pain Relief 500 • 2010 Showtime Southern 500 • 2010 Toyota/Save Mart 350 • 2010 Auto Club 500 • 2010 Crown Royal Presents the Heath Calhoun 400 • 2010 Carfax 400 • 2010 Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips 400 • Auto Club Speedway • 2010 Sylvania 300 • 2010 Price Chopper 400 • 2010 Ford 400 • Harley J. Earl Trophy • 2011 Budweiser Shootout • 2011 Daytona 500

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