NSCS Recap: Stewart wins Coke Zero 400 at Daytona
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (July 4, 2009) — With Kyle Busch slamming the frontstretch wall after an unsuccessful attempt to block, Tony Stewart won Saturday night’s Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway.
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The victory was Stewart’s second of the season, his second as an owner/driver for Stewart-Haas Racing and the 35th of his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career.

With a push from teammate Denny Hamlin, Busch had taken the lead approaching the white flag and held it through Turn 4 of the final lap. But Stewart drove his No. 14 Chevrolet to the left rear of Busch’s No. 18 Toyota off the corner, forcing Busch to go to the bottom of the track to maintain control of his car.

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QUICK RECAP | DAYTONA UNDER THE LIGHTS
10 Jamie McMurray
9 Matt Kenseth
8 Juan Pablo Montoya
7 Brian Vickers
6 Marcos Ambrose
5 Kurt Busch
4 Carl Edwards
3 Denny Hamlin
2 Jimmie Johnson

VICTORY LANE

1 Tony Stewart grabs his 2nd win of the season after leading the most laps.  A spectacular wreck when Kyle Busch found Tony Stewart’s front bumper as the two closed in on the finish line, most of the field wrecked it seemed.

OTHER STORIES ON THE DAY

-Matt Kenseth and Mark Martin got into each other, Martin wrecked and finished 38th

-The Big One started with Kasey Kahne and David Stremme and also took out Dale Earnhardt Jr. (39th), David Reutimann, Clint Bowyer, Jeff Gordon, and more.

-Jeff Burton, while leading, cuts a tire down with 32 laps to go.

NNS Recap: Elated Bowyer Wins At Daytona In Overtime
By Reid Spencer
Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service

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(July 3, 2009)

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — With cars spinning wildly behind him in Turn 4,  Bowyer claimed his first NASCAR Nationwide Series victory of the season and the seventh of his career in Friday night’s Subway Jalapeno 250 at Daytona International Speedway.

Bowyer also delivered the first victory of the season for beleaguered Richard Childress Racing, which has suffered cutbacks from Chevrolet in the wake of General Motors’ reorganization under bankruptcy.

Bowyer had just taken the white flag during an attempt at a green-white-checkered finish that took the race two laps past its scheduled 100 laps when a six-car wreck froze the field under caution and made a winner of the 2008 series champion, who is running a partial schedule this year.

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1 14 Tony Stewart
2 24 Jeff Gordon
3 48 Jimmie Johnson
4 2 Kurt Busch
5 99 Carl Edwards
6 11 Denny Hamlin
7 39 Ryan Newman
8 18 Kyle Busch
9 16 Greg Biffle
10 17 Matt Kenseth
11 5 Mark Martin
12 42 Juan Pablo Montoya
13 9 Kasey Kahne
14 00 David Reutimann
15 33 Clint Bowyer
16 31 Jeff Burton
17 83 Brian Vickers
18 47 Marcos Ambrose
19 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr.
20 07 Casey Mears

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (July 2, 2009) – The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) announced today a history-rich list of 25 nominees for the inaugural NASCAR Hall of Fame induction class. From that list, five inductees will be chosen via a process that includes a nationwide fan vote on NASCAR.COM; the inductees will be announced in October and honored next May at the new Hall of Fame facility in Charlotte, N.C.

The nominees, which include many of the sport’s legendary names, were selected by a 21-person nominating committee consisting of representatives from NASCAR, the NASCAR Hall of Fame and track owners from both major facilities and historic short tracks.

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