| Ready to roll | | And so, here we are on Sunday, nine months to the day since the 2006 Nextel Cup season was born just a few hundred miles up the eastern Florida coast in Daytona Beach. And like a typical pregnancy that runs its full course of gestation, Sunday's... | |
| | What a year | | It was the theme song for countless numbers of baby boomers, one that that meant so much and marked so many milestones in so many lives – from the theme for hundreds of proms to the recessional at even more high school and college graduations.... | |
| | Johnson wins elusive first Nextel Cup title | |
HOMESTEAD, Florida (Ticker) -- Greg Biffle's "three-peat" gave Jimmie Johnson an unprecedented first. Despite winning Sunday night's NASCAR Ford 400 for the third year in a row, Biffle took a back seat to Johnson, who finished ninth en route... | |
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| Kenseth and other contenders come up short | |
Matt Kenseth made the most of his fighting chance, coming up with the strong performance he'd been missing in the last few races of this Chase for the championship. He wound 56 points short of the title with a sixth-place finish.
Denny... | |
| | Homestead Observations | |
Thoughts, observations and a few questions following Sunday's season-ending Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway: Even though Jimmie Johnson didn't have to win Sunday's race to secure his first Nextel Cup title, his team did have to deliver a... | |
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