The No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports team has kept a flag bearing the late Dale Earnhardt’s famed No. 3 in its hauler since last July, just awaiting Jeff Gordon’s next NASCAR Nextel Cup win.
It was a long wait, but the crew was finally able to break out the flag Saturday night after Gordon, getting a little [...]

FIN, ST, CAR, DRIVER, MAKE, SPONSOR, PTS/BNS, LAPS, STATUS, WINNINGS
1 1 24 Jeff Gordon Chevrolet DuPont 190/5 312 Running 251,411
2 9 20 Tony Stewart Chevrolet The Home Depot 180/10 312 Running 209,411
3 3 11 Denny Hamlin Chevrolet FedEx Kinko’s 170/5 312 Running 158,150
4 5 48 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet Lowe’s 160/0 312 Running 158,046
5 17 17 Matt Kenseth Ford DEWALT 155/0 312 Running 149,766
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NASCAR will look into whether Juan Pablo Montoya violated any of its rules by using an obscene gesture that was telecast by a Speed in-car camera during the final Busch Series practice Friday, NASCAR spokesman Ramsey Poston confirmed.
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Tony Stewart made headlines when he said he was “ready to retire” after a frustrating race at Texas Motor Speedway last Sunday. Although Stewart later said he had spoken in the heat of the moment, retirement remains a possibility when his contract with Joe Gibbs Racing expires at the end of the 2009 season.
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Kentucky Speedway has backed away from its demand that a jury award a Nextel Cup race to its track as part of its antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR and International Speedway Corp.
But the track is demanding that NASCAR change the way it does business in a revised complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Kentucky.
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Former motocross champion Ricky Carmichael will make his second start in a stock car this weekend, running the 50-lap Super Late Model feature at New Smyrna (Fla.) Speedway.
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Craftsman Truck Series team owner Billy Ballew said that he purchased two Nextel Cup cars from Dale Earnhardt Inc. and plans to enter four races with Mableton’s Bill Lester as the driver.
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