Though he still is “not happy” about being pulled for Nextel Cup star Denny Hamlin during Saturday’s Busch Series race at Milwaukee, Tampa’s Aric Almirola said Wednesday he isn’t frustrated at Joe Gibbs Racing and has no plans to leave the team.
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Sprint is wiping Nextel from its slogan.
After their merger, Sprint Nextel embarked on what analysts said was a disastrous marketing campaign. And problems with Nextel’s network prompted an exodus of customers.

So now, the Reston company is hoping to reinvent its image around a new tagline — “Sprint ahead” — that ignores Nextel. It will also [...]

Roush Fenway Racing announced that Boston Red Sox sponsors, Lumber Liquidators and Gillette, have signed on as sponsors of the #99 Ford Fusion driven by Nextel Cup driver Carl Edwards during this weekend’s race at New Hampshire International Speedway (NHIS). The companies will celebrate their relationship with the Boston Red Sox and NASCAR fans by [...]

Car owner Rick Hendrick confirmed today that the sanctions levied by NASCAR on Tuesday against the #24 and #48 Nextel Cup Series teams will not be appealed by Hendrick Motorsports.
“The penalties are excessive,” Hendrick reiterated. “But we’re not going to put time and resources into issuing an appeal.
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Tony Ponturo, the vice president of global media and sports marketing for Anheuser-Busch, minces no words when talking about how badly Budweiser wants to remain as sponsor for the cars driven by Dale Earnhardt Jr.
“Every day I wake up that’s what I’m working toward,” Ponturo said this week at The Associated Press Sports Editors annual [...]

Kyle Busch is a hot commodity in the NASCAR garage. Most of the Nextel Cup teams are taking a look at him, and his older brother Kurt says his boss Roger Penske is taking a long hard gander at the 22 year old.
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If there was ever a natural born race driver, it may be said that Tim Steele fitted into that category like a glove.
But for the three-time ARCA RE/MAX Series national driving champion, it just didn’t feel natural anymore.
“It took me nine and a half years to get there,” said Steele. “But the last time I [...]

“I remember Dale coming up to me and asking if I could make a driver out of Dale Jr.,” Eury Sr. said. “My remark to him was I don’t know why we can’t. Why would you want to spend money on someone else’s kid when you can spend money on your own kid?”
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Kentucky Speedway is heading to mediation Friday in its antitrust case against NASCAR, but lawyers weren’t saying whether the two sides are any closer to a settlement that could potentially land the Sparta track a Nextel Cup race.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Gregory Wehrman has set a “settlement conference” for 10 a.m. ET Friday in Covington, according [...]

Tony Eury Sr. has resigned from Dale Earnhardt Inc.’s research and development team and will be named director of competition at JR Motorsports today, the Observer has learned.
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