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Jeff Gordon passed Matt Kenseth with 20 laps to go and held on to win the Goody's Headache Relief Shot 500 at Martinsville, Va. on Sunday.

Pole-sitter Kevin Harvick dominated the field on his way to winning the Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kan. on Sunday.

Jimmie Johnson dominated the field and won a record eighth career race at Dover International Speedway on Sunday in NASCAR's Chase for the Championship.

Matt Kenseth dominated the field en route to winning the Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Sunday.

Matt Kenseth raced past teammate Kyle Busch with 23 laps left and held on to win a rain-delayed Geico 400 at Chicagoland Speedway in Illinois on Sunday night.

Carl Edwards outran Paul Menard off a late restart and held on to win the Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond International Raceway in Virginia on Saturday night.

Matt Kenseth won his fifth race of the season by holding off Kasey Kahne at the Irwin Tools Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee on Saturday.

Joey Logano held off Kevin Harvick and captured the Pure Michigan 400 at Michigan International Speedway at Brooklyn, Mich. on Sunday afternoon.

Kyle Busch edged Brad Keselowski in a thrilling finish and won the Cheez-It 355 at The Glen at Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, N.Y. on Sunday.

Tony Stewart broke two bones in his right leg Monday night at the Southern Iowa Speedway when his sprint car flipped multiple times as part of a four-car wreck.

As difficult as saving the world can be, Superman never had to worry about anyone rubbing his bumper at 200 mph.

NASCAR's roots are in the American South. Before its expansion over the past two decades, the racing circuit was thought of as a regional sport, one with a great deal in common with country music. In 1985, some of the biggest names in NASCAR recorded and released an album called "Stock Car Racing's Entertainers of the Year...

Before, during and after Kyle Busch won Saturday's National Rifle Association 500 in Fort Worth, Tex., there was debate around the organization's sponsorship of the Sprint Cup event. Some critics felt that the NRA's sponsorship of the race brought the ongoing debate on gun control into the sports world...

Jimmie Johnson dominated at Martinsville Sunday, winning the STP Gas Booster 500. In fact, Jimmie Johnson dominated the entire race weekend. He was the fastest car in the first practice.  He set the track record and won the pole in qualifying...

Denny Hamlin had a rough off week during the Easter holidays. After battling for the win with newfound rival Joey Logano during the last lap at Auto Club Speedway, contact sent the #11 car crashing into the inside wall. Hamlin was taken to the hospital and diagnosed with a compression fracture in his back.

Driver Denny Hamlin will miss at least six weeks of the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series circuit after suffering fractured vertebra in a crash on the last lap of Sunday's race at Fontana, California.