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We can all pretty much agree that football, baseball, soccer, basketball and hockey are "sports" and those who play those sports are athletes. But for many years some people have refused to accept that car racing is a sport and that drivers are athletes...

AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Kevin Harvick sat on a podium in the middle of his most successful track on the 15th anniversary of his first Sprint Cup victory and insisted he's not job hunting. Two days before he seeks a record eighth victory at Phoenix International Raceway, the 2014 Cup champion said he expects to be driving for Stewart-Haas Racing next year when the team switches from Chevrolets to Fo

TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) — Joey Logano completed a sweep of the second round of NASCAR's playoffs by winning in a controversial finish Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway. NASCAR said earlier this week it would make just one attempt to finish the race under green-flag conditions, and Logano was the leader on what was supposed to be the final restart...

Joey Logano raced past an out-of-fuel Kevin Harvick on the final lap to win the Cheez-It 355 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Watkins Glen, N.Y., on Sunday afternoon.

LONG POND, Pa. (AP) — Matt Kenseth stretched his fuel and zipped past the fading leaders in the final thrilling laps Sunday to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Pocono Raceway. The 400-mile race came down to fuel and which cars had it — and which ones didn't...

DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) — Tanya Tucker and Grand Funk Railroad will perform at the Bojangles' Southern 500 NASCAR race. Tucker will sing the national anthem, and Grand Funk will perform a pre-race concert. The race is September 6 in Darlington, South Carolina, and it will be shown on NBC...

Carl Edwards conserved his fuel en route to winning the Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina on Sunday night.

Denny Hamlin outran Kevin Harvick to win the NASCAR All-Star race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C. on Saturday night.

Sprint Cup part-timer Brian Vickers scored his third career victory in the Camping World RV Sales 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, breaking a nearly four year winless drought by holding off Kyle Busch and Jeff Burton during a green-white-checkered finish...

Washington state native Kasey Kahne won for the first time in 19 career starts at Bristol yesterday, holding off a hard-charging Brad Keselowski, at the Food City 500.