Lose your voice all over again. Watch Sunday’s Sprint Cup race at Talladega from beginning to end right here.
Lose your voice all over again. Watch Sunday’s Sprint Cup race at Talladega from beginning to end right here.
After faltering early at ‘Dega, it would have been easy for Kyle Busch to give up. Instead, he drove to victory, Lee Spencer says.
Tony Stewart stood over his battered race car. One crew member shaved off a huge chuck of sheet metal and tossed it over by the shredded tire. Another guy banged away with a hammer.
Smoke’s race was over.
Talladega got the best of him again.
One day after finally breaking through for his first win on the high-banked oval in a Nationwide Series race, Stewart started from the outside of the front row and spent much of the Aaron’s 499 running up front Sunday.
Buoyed by a hospital-room endorsement from an injured Dario Franchitti, David Stremme had an eventful one-and-out run.
Stremme put the No. 40 Dodge out front for two laps in the Sprint Cup Series race Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway before getting caught up in the race-ending 12-car crash. He was filling in for Franchitti, who broke his left ankle Saturday.
“We ran well. There’s not much we can do,” Stremme said after ultimately finishing 28th. “I ended up in a bad position at the end.
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Kevin Lepage apologized Sunday for starting a 15-car accident in the Nationwide Series that he initially insisted wasn’t his fault.
Lepage started the crash at Talladega Superspeedway when he was coming out of the pits with 47 laps to go Saturday. He tried to blend back onto the track as the pack of traffic raced toward turn 1, effectively entering the racing line at half the speed the rest of the cars were traveling.
Carl Edwards practically ran over Lepage’s car to trigger the massive wreck.
Kyle Busch rebounded from going down a lap early and motored to the front on his way to winning at Talladega Superspeedway.
Joe Gibbs joked he’d rather be at Talladega Superspeedway than in the war room at the NFL draft.
Dario Franchitti knew his ankle was broken the moment he was involved in a hard crash at Talladega Superspeedway. He also knew he could have been hurt much worse.
“From experience, unfortunately, I said ‘this is broken’ as soon as I was hit,” Franchitti said Sunday, delicately balancing on a set of crutches as kept his left foot, covered in a cast and bandage, elevated.
“But it could have been a lot worse, and that’s the thing. I’m very lucky these cars are as safe as they are.
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