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Stewart speaks of sadness following fatal collision

12:38 PM Anonymous 0

<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-21KtQ9-QF2U/U-fKIbF2AMI/AAAAAAAAAEI/B_yickdCZak/s1600/595467header.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Stewart speaks of sadness following fatal collision" border="0" height="213" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-21KtQ9-QF2U/U-fKIbF2AMI/AAAAAAAAAEI/B_yickdCZak/s1600/595467header.jpg" title="Stewart speaks of sadness following fatal collision" width="320" /></a>Tony Stewart has spoken of his sadness after being involved in a collision that took the life of fellow driver Kevin Ward Jr. on Saturday.<br />
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According to authorities and eye-witness accounts, the three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion hit and killed Ward Jr. who had walked towards Stewart's car after the two had an altercation during a race at Canandaigua Motorsports Park.<br />
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The Ontario County (N.Y.) Sheriff’s Office confirmed in a news release that Ward Jr. had been declared dead 45 minutes after the incident upon arrival at Thompson Hospital.<br />
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Some reports suggested that Stewart would still take part in Sunday's Cheez-It 355 Sprint Cup Series event in Watkins Glen, New York, but Stewart-Haas Racing vice president of competition Greg Zipadelli confirmed the 43-year-old's withdrawal earlier in the day.<br />
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And Stewart has now released his own brief statement.<br />
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"There aren't words to describe the sadness I feel about the accident that took the life of Kevin Ward Jr.," it read.<br />
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"It's a very emotional time for all involved, and it is the reason I've decided not to participate in today's race at Watkins Glen.<br />
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"My thoughts and prayers are with his family, friends and everyon affected by this tragedy."<br />
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In relation to Saturday's tragedy, Sheriff Philip C. Povero had earlier told reporters: "Right now, this is an on-track crash investigation.<br />
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"There are no criminal charges pending at this time. We are not making any inferences of any criminal conduct at all.<br />
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"He [Stewart] was visibly shaken by this incident and promised his continuing cooperation of this investigation."

Tony Stewart has spoken of his sadness after being involved in a collision that took the life of fellow driver Kevin Ward Jr. on Saturday. According to authorities and eye-witness accounts, the three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion hit and kil…

Nascar schedule JULY 2014

2:09 PM Anonymous 0

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<span class="articleDescription   " style="background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">This week the NASCAR Nationwide Series heads to Chicagoland Speedway for the EnjoyIllinois.com 300. </span></div>
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<b style="background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.fortodays.com/2014/07/nascar-schedule-sunday-july-2014.html">PRE-RACE SCHEDULE:</a></b></h2>
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<span class="articleDescription   " style="background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">--7:54 p.m.: Official Welcome by Scott Paddock, President of Chicagoland Speedway</span><br />
--8 p.m.: Driver introductions begin<br />
--8:30:30 p.m.: Presentation of colors: Inspector-Instructor Staff 2nd Battalion, 24th Marines, 4th Marine Division, Chicago<br />
--8:31:30 p.m.: National anthem by Blake Rayne, City of Peace Recording Artist and star of the upcoming film "The Identical"<br />
--8:33 p.m.: End of anthem: Team Fastrax lands in ballfield with large American flag<br />
--8:38 p.m.: "Drivers, Start Your Engines" by Mark Ruffalo, actor and co-founder of The Solutions Project</div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">--8:44 p.m.: Green flag: EnjoyIllinois.com 300 (200 laps, 300 miles)</span><br />
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This week the NASCAR Nationwide Series heads to Chicagoland Speedway for the EnjoyIllinois.com 300. PRE-RACE SCHEDULE: --7:54 p.m.: Official Welcome by Scott Paddock, President of Chicagoland Speedway --8 p.m.: Driver introductions begin --8:30:30 …

Winners and Losers from NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Richmond

7:48 AM Tukiyooo 0

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="Hi-res-167689107_crop_650x440" src="http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/003/139/256/hi-res-167689107_crop_650x440.jpg?1367211561" /><br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 29px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Richmond International Raceway signifies the quarter mark of the Sprint Cup season, and by now it's clear who the contenders and pretenders are this year. The usual suspects—former champions like <a href="http://bleacherreport.com/jimmie-johnson" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003366; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jimmie Johnson</a>, Brad Keselowski and Matt Kenseth—are running up front and chasing many of the victories.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-right: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Except something funny happened at Richmond: Somebody else won. In fact, not only did Kevin Harvick win, a trio of drivers on the fringes of the top 20—Kurt Busch, Juan Montoya and even Jeff Burton—had chances to pull it off.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-right: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Truth be told, as much as we get the feeling we know who's going to win it all this year, Richmond proved that we have no idea. Just check out this list of winners and losers if you need proof.</div></div>

NASCAR Winners and Losers from NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Richmond

Richmond International Raceway signifies the quarter mark of the Sprint Cup season, and by now it's clear who the contenders and pretenders are this year. The usual suspects—former champions like Jimmie Johnson, Brad Keselowski and Matt Kenseth—are r…

NASCAR fan dies following ‘self-inflicted injury’ at Texas Motor Speedway Sprint Cup race

11:16 AM Tukiyooo 0

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="Dale Earnhardt Jr. captures the pole for the 53rd running of the Daytona 500." src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.136253.1313981721!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/alg-nascar-jpg.jpg" /><br /><br /><div class="story-img" itemid="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.136253!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/alg-nascar-jpg.jpg" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;"><h4 class="caption" itemprop="description" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">An unidentified man died of a “self-inflicted injury” following a verbal altercation during a NASCAR race at Texas Motor Speedway Saturday night.</div></h4></div><div class="story-rail p402_hide" style="border: 0px; clear: both; float: right; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 200px;"></div><div class="story-body p402_premium" itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A man died of a “self-inflicted injury” following a verbal altercation in the infield during a NASCAR race at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday night, police said.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Police spokeswoman Cpl. Tracey Knight didn’t specify how the man died, and said he was believed to be in his late 30s or early 40s.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She said alcohol may have been a factor in the incident, which occurred late in the Sprint Cup race.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Knight did not identify the man and wasn’t sure of the man’s relationship with others involved in the altercation. Several people witnessed the incident, but nobody was in danger, Knight said. The death occurred “in or around a pickup truck” in part of the infield near the middle of the backstretch, track spokesman Mike Zizzo said.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Police blocked off the area around the incident, and investigators could be seen looking into a truck.</div></div><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><br /></span></div>

NASCAR NASCAR fan dies following ‘self-inflicted injury’ at Texas Motor Speedway Sprint Cup race

An unidentified man died of a “self-inflicted injury” following a verbal altercation during a NASCAR race at Texas Motor Speedway Saturday night.A man died of a “self-inflicted injury” following a verbal altercation in the infield during a NASCAR rac…

NASCAR: Kevin Harvick secures 3rd spot behind Danica Patrick, Jeff Gordon in Daytona 500

8:10 AM Tukiyooo 0

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="loc" style="border-right-color: rgb(196, 196, 196); border-right-style: solid; border-width: 0px 1px 0px 0px; float: left; font-family: nimbus-sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.7em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 900; height: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.07em; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 2px 10px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA</span>Kevin Harvick claimed the first of two qualifying races Thursday to secure third spot on the starting grid for the Daytona 500 and establish himself as favorite to win Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup season opener.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><a data-assetid="50141519" data-assettypeid="14" data-nodeid="400" data-overlay="1" data-overlayenabled="true" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50141519n" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #b12124; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="storyEmbed" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; clear: left; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 4px 20px 20px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 220px; zoom: 1;"><figure class="video" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px -32px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 40px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 220px;"><img class="image220" src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2013/02/21/en_0221_danicapatrick_220x157.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 140px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 220px;" /></figure><div class="meta" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 0.85em; font-style: italic; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 4px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 220px; z-index: 11;">Play <span style="border: 0px; color: #b12124; font-family: nimbus-sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">VIDEO</span></div><h3 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; color: #202022; font-family: nimbus-sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.07em; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 220px;">Danica Patrick on Daytona 500, NASCAR gender barrier</h3></div></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"></span><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">With Danica Patrick and Jeff Gordon having claimed the top two spots in initial qualifying last weekend, Thursday's two races set the rest of the grid for the season's showpiece event.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Only nine of Daytona's 54 previous pole winners have gone on to take the checkered flag -- about one in five, <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57570634/danica-patrick-set-to-make-history-at-daytona" style="border: 0px; color: #b12124; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann reports</a>.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Harvick also won an exhibition race at Daytona last weekend and his strong performances give him a favorites tag for Sunday's race that he'd rather be without.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"We like to be the lame-duck underdog. That's what we're shooting for," Harvick said.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"If it's meant to be, it's meant to be. We definitely have the car and team to be in contention to do that."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><ul class="arrows gray" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background-image: url(http://asset2.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/cbs/generic/genericSprite.png); background-position: -15px -911px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 1.1em; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57570634/danica-patrick-set-to-make-history-at-daytona/" style="border: 0px; color: #b12124; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Danica Patrick set to make history at Daytona</a></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But nobody is quite sure what the 500 will look like with NASCAR's new Gen-6 race car. Sunday's race will go off with a full 43-car field, double the amount of cars that ran in Thursday's qualifying races. There were 19 cars in last Saturday's exhibition.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kyle Busch, winner of the second qualifying duel Thursday and fourth spot on the grid, believes more cars on the track will create a much more dynamic race than is usual for season openers, when drivers are becoming accustomed to new cars.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><a data-assetid="50141496" data-assettypeid="14" data-nodeid="400" data-overlay="1" data-overlayenabled="true" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50141496n" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #b12124; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="storyEmbed" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; clear: left; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 4px 20px 20px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 220px; zoom: 1;"><figure class="video" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px -32px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 40px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 220px;"><img class="image220" src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2013/02/21/en_0220_PREVIEW_220x157.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 140px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 220px;" /></figure><div class="meta" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 0.85em; font-style: italic; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 4px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 220px; z-index: 11;">Play <span style="border: 0px; color: #b12124; font-family: nimbus-sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">VIDEO</span></div><h3 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; color: #202022; font-family: nimbus-sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.07em; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 220px;">Danica Patrick: NASCAR embraced "my difference"</h3></div></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"></span><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"With more cars out there, we might see it be a little bit different come Sunday," Busch said. "There's going to be twice as many good cars, twice as many middle of the pack cars, twice as many back of the pack cars. If you can get your car handling, driving, feeling good, you'll be able to be one of the guys that's up front."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kasey Kahne, who settled for second behind Busch, said timing will be critical and nobody is sure just yet what move will be needed to win the Daytona 500.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"It's tough because you don't know when you get that push. You don't know when it plays into your time," said Kahne. "You need to be ready at any time to get to the front, to second, to third, try to move up. I don't think waiting till the last lap is a ticket the way things are right now."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And Kahne wasn't ready to give Harvick the win in the big race, either.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"He can be beat, yeah. There's a few of us in the second race who had really good cars, and I could move around really well, similar to what Harvick did in the first race."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the first race, Harvick held off Greg Biffle over a four-lap sprint to win. Harvick and Biffle also went 1-2 in last Saturday's exhibition race.</div></div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="Tony Gibson, left, shakes hands with driver Danica Patrick" src="http://static.foxsports.com/content/fscom/img/2013/02/21/022113-Nascar-Danica-Patrick-Tony-Gibson-DG-PI_20130221195806759_660_320.JPG" /><br /><br /><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #1a303a; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">DAYTONA BEACH, FLA.</h3><div style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 14px;"><a href="http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/cup/driver/danica-patrick/288175" style="color: #5c6e70; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Danica Patrick</a> was teasing us all along.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 14px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 14px;">Patrick promised to mix it up during the first Budweiser Duel qualifying race on Thursday. But the polesitter for Sunday’s Daytona 500 never led a lap. She quickly fell out of the lead pack in the first few circuits and after 10 laps was 22nd in the field.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 14px;">After the 60-lap exercise, Patrick finished 17th in her qualifier — not that it matters since she’s locked in to the pole position.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 14px;">“Yeah, it’s not an exciting mission when you’ve just got to bring it home,” Patrick said. “But, it is for the Daytona 500, so you’ve got to keep that in mind. I learned that the outside (line) is strong and it carries a lot of good momentum.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 14px;">“And then I learned that you need some friends. I also learned that you can’t be too tight because that outside is what’s good but you can’t be too tight, which mine was. It was way too tight at the start. But we wanted to be conservative. We didn’t want to have any issues with the GoDaddy car. We wanted to make sure we’ve got it on that front row for Sunday."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 14px;">Patrick acknowledged that her afternoon was far from scintillating. With the exception of her tachometer breaking — which made it impossible to ascertain her speed on pit road — Patrick had no major mechanical issues.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 14px;"></div><div class="parentWrapper" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #252525; float: right; font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 0px 4px 8px;"><div class="fs-partner-includes" style="border-left-color: rgb(186, 192, 196); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-right: -10px; margin-top: 11px; padding-left: 20px; width: 240px;"><a href="http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/gallery/The_best_of_Danica_Patrick" id="inline-num-1 - link-num-1" style="color: #265970; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="best of danica"><img align="middle" alt="best of danica" href="http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/gallery/The_best_of_Danica_Patrick" src="http://o.static.foxsports.com/content/fscom/img/2013/01/10/danica_20130110124048156_202_97.JPG" style="border: none; margin-bottom: 16px; outline: none;" target="_blank" /></a><h3 style="color: #1a303a; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><a href="http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/gallery/The_best_of_Danica_Patrick" id="inline-num-1 - link-num-2" style="color: #265970; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">DANICA'S BEST</a></h3>There's no one like Danica, both on and off the track. Check out some of our favorite <a href="http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/gallery/The_best_of_Danica_Patrick" id="inline-num-1 - link-num-3" style="color: #265970; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">photos of Danica in action</a>.</div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 14px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 14px;">“I knew there was something wrong and then when I got out there on the track it showed I was going 10,000 rpm,” Patrick said. “I’m sure I’d love to have the kind of speed that comes with 10,000 rpm gives you, but it wasn’t right. So, it’s good to get those little bugs out of the way. We’ll fix them and be solid for Sunday.”</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 14px;">For crew chief Tony Gibson, surviving the Duel was the goal for his rookie driver.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 14px;">“The important thing is the car is in one piece for Sunday,” Gibson said. “She learned what she needed to learn, but the car is in one piece for the big race. We’ll tear the car down and change everything out, the tachometer obviously too, and do some practice on Friday and Saturday.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 14px;">“It’s always a challenge to get through the Duels clean and we did that.”</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 14px;">Patrick will make her second Daytona 500 start on Sunday. Last year the No. 10 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet barely made it to the second lap before she was collected in a wreck. Patrick soldiered home in an ill-handling car and finished 38th, 64 laps down.</div></div>

NASCAR Patrick saves her car for 500 start

DAYTONA BEACH, FLA.Danica Patrick was teasing us all along.Patrick promised to mix it up during the first Budweiser Duel qualifying race on Thursday. But the polesitter for Sunday’s Daytona 500 never led a lap. She quickly fell out of the lead pack i…

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line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">It only took 15 laps for a demolition derby to begin in Saturday night's Sprint Unlimited.</span></h2><div class="article-metadata-wrap" style="float: left; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; height: auto; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 30px 0px 60px; position: relative;"><aside class="single-photo expandable-collapsed" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 20px; position: relative; width: 180px; z-index: 100;"><div class="image-wrap" style="box-shadow: rgb(200, 200, 200) 1px 1px 5px; cursor: pointer; padding: 3px; position: relative;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;"><img alt="2-16-2013 kevin harvick victory lane" class="expand-img-horiz" itemprop="url" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/media/USATODAY/USATODAY/2013/02/16/2-16-13-harvick-celebrates-4_3_r536_c534.jpg?1b79b3da202957124496e3768cfb7b67cdb10c81" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 131px; vertical-align: middle;" /><span class="toggle" style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/sprites/asset-sprite.png); background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; bottom: 0px; height: 21px; position: absolute; right: 0px; width: 21px; z-index: 200;"></span></span></div><div class="image-credit-wrap" style="color: #646464; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 6px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;"><span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: Kevin Liles, USA TODAY Sports)</span></span></div></aside><div class="article-metadata" style="position: relative;"><aside class="comp story-highlights " style="clear: left; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 20px; min-height: 60px; width: 180px;"><h3 class="hlts" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #999999; font-family: 'Futura Today Bold', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px auto; text-transform: uppercase;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">STORY HIGHLIGHTS</span></h3><ul class="hlt" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; left: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><li class="hlt-item" style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/components/story_highlights_bullets.png); background-position: 0px 17px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #646464; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; padding: 12px 0px 12px 15px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">Kevin Harvick won the race formerly known as the Budweiser Shootout for the third time</span></li><li class="hlt-item" style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/components/story_highlights_bullets.png); background-position: 0px 17px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #646464; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; padding: 12px 0px 12px 15px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">Tony Stewart triggered an early crash just 15 laps into the three-segment race</span></li><li class="hlt-item" style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/components/story_highlights_bullets.png); background-position: 0px 17px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; color: #646464; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; padding: 12px 0px 12px 15px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">Jimmie Johnson, Denny Hamlin, Jeff Gordon and Kyle Busch were among those collected</span></li></ul></aside></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Most people think Kevin Harvick's lame duck season at Richard Childress Racing will limit his success.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">Harvick and his No. 29 team beg to differ; they think it's unlimited.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">NASCAR's season-opening Sprint Unlimited exhibition race went to Harvick on Saturday night, the third time he's won the race formerly known as the Shootout in the last five years. Harvick is leaving RCR for Stewart-Haas Racing after this season.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">"I don't think it's been that big of a deal," Harvick said of his situation. "...Our guys, they don't care. They just want to win."</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;"><b>RESULTS: </b><a href="http://sportsdirect.usatoday.com/motorsports/nascar/nascar-races.aspx?page=/data/nascar/results/2013/race985.html" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://sportsdirect.usatoday.com/motorsports/nascar/nascar-races.aspx?page=/data/nascar/results/2013/race985.html">Sprint Unlimited finish</a></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;"><b>FIVE LESSONS: </b><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nascar/2013/02/17/sprint-unlimited-daytona-shootout-gen-6-nascar-car/1925491/" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nascar/2013/02/17/sprint-unlimited-daytona-shootout-gen-6-nascar-car/1925491/">What drivers learned in the Unlimited</a></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">It was a special night for Harvick, who killed his engine trying to do a burnout and had to be pushed to Victory Lane. His son Keelan, who sat in his father's car and left a shoe in it before the race, performed his first forward crawl.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">Confident his team will be able to stay together in a potentially awkward situation, Harvick said the group is "going to have a helluva lot of fun racing, having a good time, doing our jobs.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">"The atmosphere is great, honestly," he said.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">Crew chief Gil Martin, buoyed by the exhibition victory and a promising start to the new season, vowed to do "whatever it takes" to win the championship this season.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">Anyone who thinks otherwise, he said, is "sadly mistaken."</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">"Pride also comes in there pretty good, too," Harvick chimed in. "It's fun to prove people wrong."</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">Harvick quieted the lame duck talk -- at least for a night -- with a bold move to block Greg Biffle's last-lap charge.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">Biffle had a big boost of momentum on the high side, but Harvick just kept drifting up until the Roush Fenway Racing driver backed off. The mirror-driving gave Harvick a clean path to the finish line.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">Harvick, who once flipped his go-kart in a backyard race because he was unwilling to cede the position, said he had no thoughts of lifting off the gas.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;"><b>PHOTOS: </b><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/sports/nascar/2013/02/15/nascar-sprint-unlimited-practice/1923939/" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/sports/nascar/2013/02/15/nascar-sprint-unlimited-practice/1923939/">Friday's Unlimited practice</a></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">"When you're coming from white to checkered, it's whatever you have to do to try to make it happen," he said. "I guess a game of 'chicken' would be the best way to put it."</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">Said Biffle: "I had a run on him on the top there, and he kind of closed the door. Kevin did what he had to do to win that race. I didn't think there was room to stick it in there; I thought we would end up wrecked."</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">Though Harvick led 40 of the final 42 laps in a relatively tame race, a big wreck marred the first segment and took out several contenders.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">Tony Stewart came across Marcos Ambrose's nose at the exit of Turn 1 on lap 15 and got out of shape, but was able to save it. When his car started to spark, though, a three-wide group of drivers behind him wiggled and collided, triggering a crash.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">Jimmie Johnson, Denny Hamlin, Jeff Gordon, Mark Martin, Kurt Busch and Kyle Busch — last year's winner — were all collected in the crash. That left just 12 cars on the track for the rest of the night.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">"I self-cleared myself, I guess," Stewart said. "I went down before the spotter cleared me. I thought I had a big enough run that I cleared second, but I obviously hadn't and I just barely nicked him. I just needed about two more inches."</span></div><aside class="wide single-photo" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="clear: left; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 25px; width: auto;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;"><img alt="None" itemprop="url" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/media/USATODAY/USATODAY/2013/02/16/early-crash-4_3_r541_c540.jpg?729ef1a5e3c69f5da0197e57e2bd3dd3fdfcd35f" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="540" /><div style="color: #646464; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 6px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;">Denny Hamlin (11), Kyle Busch (18), Jeff Gordon (24) and Jimmie Johnson (48), are involved in multicar crash during the early stages of Saturday's Sprint Unlimited.<span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: Matthew Stockman, Getty Images)</span></div></span></aside><div class="clearfix" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px;"></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">In general, it wasn't a very good night for Stewart. He also had a shot at the win, but couldn't quite figure out which move to make on the last lap.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">"That is why I haven't won a Daytona 500 yet," he said.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">Matt Kenseth dominated the opening segment, leading 25 of the 30 laps. But Stewart passed him on the final lap of Segment 1 to "win" the first portion of the race.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">Harvick then took the lead after a pit stop and maintained it despite some shuffling in Segment No. 2.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">The Unlimited marked NASCAR's first test with its new Gen 6 cars — and there were plenty of unknowns. Thanks to wrecks in two separate test sessions when drivers attempted to draft, no one knew quite what to expect.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;"><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nascar/2013/01/20/sprint-unlimited-shootout-format-daytona-international-speedway/1849237/" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nascar/2013/01/20/sprint-unlimited-shootout-format-daytona-international-speedway/1849237/">Fans got to determine the format of the race</a>, which was three segments of 30 laps, 25 laps and 20 laps. They also voted for no eliminations to occur — though it didn't matter after the early wreck — and voted for a mandatory four-tire pit stop after the first segment.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">Though some cars were torn up, race teams won't need to worry about whether they will have enough cars for the Daytona 500; the Sprint Unlimited cars are separate from the 500 fleet (which consist of both a primary car and a backup on standby).</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">Furniture Row Racing, for example, is still good on cars despite wrecking two vehicles in two days. Richard Childress (whose team has an alliance with Furniture Row) said the organization has eight cars in Daytona and two spares at its North Carolina shop.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">The Unlimited took place on an unusually chilly night in Daytona Beach. Though it was 52 degrees at race time, the wind from an oncoming cold front made it feel much chillier.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">Formerly known as the Shootout, the race consisted of drivers who had won poles in 2012. That meant defending Sprint Cup Series champion Brad Keselowski and runner-up Clint Bowyer had to watch the race from the sidelines.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">Keselowski was a guest analyst for FOX's TV broadcast, and Bowyer initially said he wished he was in the race but was singing a different tune later.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">"I have changed my mind..." Bowyer tweeted after seeing the big wreck.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">Carl Edwards was black-flagged for losing his driver's side net and finished 12th.</span></div></div></div></div>

NASCAR Harvick holds off Biffle to win NASCAR Sprint Unlimited

Jeff Gluck, USA TODAY SportsIt only took 15 laps for a demolition derby to begin in Saturday night's Sprint Unlimited.(Photo: Kevin Liles, USA TODAY Sports)STORY HIGHLIGHTSKevin Harvick won the race formerly known as the Budweiser Shootout for the th…