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Next Season’s Race Cars Take Laps In Preparation For 2013

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Oct. 3, 2012) – Redesigned race cars that will debut next season in the 55th running of the Daytona 500 got its first taste of restrictor plate racing today as seven teams put the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series car through its paces at Talladega Superspeedway.

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Crank ’Em Up Gang: Engines Fire On 2013 With NASCAR Acceleration Weekend
Season-Launching Fan Festival Ramps Up Anticipation For 2013

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Oct. 3, 2012) – This season’s champion claims his crown in mid-November, and is then regaled during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Awards in Las Vegas at month’s end. Then, silence. NASCAR’s offseason begins, as does the wait before a season begins anew.

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Quicken Loans Doubles Down on NASCAR Sponsorship;
Celebrates by Paying Up To Five Lucky Winners’ Mortgages for a Year

Nation’s Largest Online Lender To Sponsor 18 Races with Newman,
Remains Associate Sponsor of Tony Stewart; Announces New Sweepstakes Promotion

KANNAPOLIS, N.C. (Oct. 2, 2012) – Quicken Loans, the nation’s largest online mortgage lender, today announced that it will double down on its partnership with Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) and Ryan Newman, driver of the No. 39 Chevrolet in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

Through the new agreement, Quicken Loans will serve as Newman’s primary sponsor for 18 Sprint Cup races in 2013, marking the majority of the season. When not the primary sponsor, the company will be an associate sponsor on Newman’s Chevrolet. Additionally, Quicken Loans will remain as an associate sponsor on the No. 14 Mobil 1 Chevrolet driven by three-time and reigning Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart throughout the 2013 season.

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Brad Keselowski conserves fuel, wins Chase race at Dover

Sept. 30, 2012

By Reid Spencer
NASCAR Wire Service

DOVER, Del. — To his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series rivals, Brad Keselowski has the annoying habit of doing what he’s not supposed to do — as in winning Sunday’s AAA 400 at Dover International Speedway.

Adroitly saving fuel over the final 79-lap green-flag run, the devil in the Blue Deuce, Detroit’s consummate wheel man, triumphed in what was perhaps the fourth- or fifth- or sixth-best car in the third Chase for the Sprint Cup race.

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