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Smoke Will Win It All This Season

If I had said this six months ago, you would have insisted that I'd lost my last marble. But now the notion doesn't seem so crazy, does it? I pick Tony Stewart to win the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship.

That's right - my money's on "Smoke" and I'm feeling pretty confident given the way he's behaving lately. Taking the point lead at Dover, and winning for the first time as a car owner a week later at Pocono, sealed the deal for me, but let me point out that six months ago I was in the minority who believed in the notion that Stewart-Haas Racing would actually succeed.

Numbers: Shrub's Richmond B-Day Bash

Kyle Busch celebrated his 24th birthday Saturday night with his third win in Richmond. Here's a look at it from a feature we like to call Sprint Cup Numbers:

2.751 - Kyle Busch's margin of victory in seconds over Tony Stewart, the largest of the 2009 season

3 - Wins Kyle Busch had over the weekend after also taking the Nationwide Series race and a Denny Hamlin charity race

4.895 - Average running position, behind Jeff Gordon (4.198) and teammate Denny Hamlin (3.510)

Logano Gets Nashville Confidence Boost

On the Nationwide Series' first venture of 2009 away from the shadow of the Sprint Cup Series, Joey Logano spoiled the show.

Logano, a full-time driver in both the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and the Nationwide Series, won Saturday's Nashville 300 at Gladeville, Tenn.'s 1.5-mile Nashville Superspeedway after passing teammate Kyle Busch with just 8 laps to go.

While the Joe Gibbs Racing teammates dominated much of the day, the biggest story might be a restoration of Logano's confidence in a race car.

Aric Almirola Back on NASCAR Sidelines

Just a year and change after NASCAR's most popular driver vacated the No. 8 seat, that team is suspending operations thanks to a lack of sponsorship.

Earnhardt-Ganassi Racing will not be taking Aric Almirola and his Chevrolet team any further in the 2009 season after a dismal start has failed to yield more sponsorship dollars, though the team is still actively -- and probably hopelessly -- searching for more backers.

For Almirola, though, it's just a continuation of a string of bad lack in his climb to NASCAR's highest ranks.

Back-to-Front Drive Earns Kyle Busch Hometown Win in Las Vegas


The record will show that Kyle Busch started first and finished first in Sunday's Sprint Cup Shelby 427 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

But thanks to an engine problem early in the race weekend, it wasn't quite that easy for Busch to score his first win of 2009.

Chase Hangover? Not for Kyle Busch

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Joe Gibbs Racing's Kyle Busch hasn't lost a step from 2008.

Well, the Kyle Busch from before the Chase for the Championship, that is.

Thursday afternoon, Busch took his No. 18 Toyota high and then low on the final lap of the second race of the Gatorade Duels at Daytona to block Mark Martin and Brian Vickers and score the victory in the 150-miler.

Kyle Busch on Facing Tony Stewart and Learning From Past Mistakes

After getting a hold of Sprint Cup rookie Joey Logano earlier in the week to discuss his rise to NASCAR stardom, it's now time to hear from one of the drivers who just missed out on the season championship in 2009.

Anxious, Nervous, Excited: Joey Logano Preps for NASCAR's Biggest Stage

Joey Logano should be getting ready to graduate from high school, be filling out college applications or otherwise doing things a typical 18-year-old kid does at this point in life. But Logano isn't exactly any other kid.

Instead of worrying about homework, Logano has his eyes set on becoming the youngest driver in history to start the Daytona 500 on Sunday after taking over the reigns left vacant by Tony Stewart of the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. 2009 will mark Logano's first full season in the highest form of NASCAR racing.

Last week, I had a chance to catch up Logano to talk about the upcoming season, the new NASCAR Kart Racing game for Nintendo Wii and a little on-track skirmish he had in January.

NASCAR DQ's Logano at All-Star Race

"Sliced bread" -- 18-year-old NASCAR Sprint Cup rookie Joey Logano's most-often used nickname -- didn't exactly fit NASCAR's appetite late Saturday night at Southern California's Irwindale Speedway.

Logano, as a video a little later in the post will dramatically illustrate, was closing on race leader Peyton Sellers on the final lap of the Toyota All-Star Showdown when the Joe Gibbs Racing driver in the black No. 08 car made a bonzai attempt at the lead and slammed Sellers into the Turn 4 wall as they came to the checkered flag.

Logano ended up crossing the finish line first -- a nose ahead of then-second place Matt Kobyluck -- as Sellers spun and collected multiple drivers in a big crash. The finish, however, wasn't to be for the young Logano, winner of the 2007 edition.

JGR Requests NASCAR's Reinstatement of Suspended Nationwide Crew Members

NASCAR's biggest cheating scandal of the 2008 season may finally be coming to a close for the guilty parties.

Joe Gibbs Racing's Nationwide Series crew members Dave Rogers, Jason Ratcliff and five others from the team all look to resume at-track duties at the season's second race in Los Angeles after the team applied for reinstatement last week.

The 7 team members were suspended by NASCAR indefinitely in August -- among a plethora of other fines and penalties -- after the sanctioning body discovered a plot to manipulate post-race engine data in favor of the Toyota teams following the Nationwide Series event at Michigan International Speedway.

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