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September 11, 2016
Denny Hamlin celebrates after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup auto race at Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Va., Saturday, Sept. 10, 2016. (A

Denny Hamlin wins Richmond race; Tony Stewart makes most noise

Tony Stewart wrecking a rival's car in anger became the biggest story.
Motorsports
September 5, 2016
Martin Truex Jr. raced into Turn 1 during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Darlington Raceway on Sunday.

Truex holds off Harvick to win Southern 500 at Darlington

Kevin Harvick led 214 laps, but Martin Truex Jr. won another "crown jewel."
Motorsports
September 4, 2016
Martin Truex Jr. celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at Darlington Raceway on Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016, in Da

Martin Truex Jr. wins Southern 500

Martin Truex Jr. held off Kevin Harvick to win the Southern 500 on Sunday for his second NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victory of the season. Truex spoke afterwards.
Motorsports
August 28, 2016
Kyle Larson, 24 years old, entered Sunday’s race with 14 top-five finishes but no victories as a Sprint Cup driver.

Larson wins first Sprint Cup race

First Sprint Cup victory comes in 99th career start.
Motorsports
August 21, 2016
Kevin Harvick waved the checkered flag to celebrate his win after he and Stewart-Haas Racing co-owner Tony Stewart performed dual burnouts following a

Harvick wins at Bristol, takes series lead

Pass with 70 laps left set up winning a rain-delayed race.
Motorsports
August 17, 2016
Leah Pritchett's Top Fuel car, in 2016

Top Fuel racer Pritchett learns skills to keep team viable

Leah Pritchett talks like a full-time philosopher, a full-time marketer and a full-time drag racer, among other things.
Motorsports
August 8, 2016
Denny Hamlin sent the smoke flying Sunday after winning at Watkins Glen.

Denny Hamlin wins at Watkins Glen

First career road course victory atones for earlier failure at Sonoma.
Business
July 28, 2016
Crew members for Dario Franchitti, of Scotland, celebrate as he wins IndyCar's Indianapolis 500 auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapol

Target to end long-running IndyCar sponsorship as it changes sports marketing approach

For 27 years, Target's bull's-eye has been a triumphant fixture on the IndyCar scene, connected to more than 101 victories including four Indianapolis 500 wins.
Motorsports
July 24, 2016
Winner Kyle Busch drove through the first turn during the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday.

Kyle Busch dominates in winning Brickyard 400

Kyle Busch won the Brickyard 400 on Sunday to make it clean sweep at Indianapolis. He led a race-record 149 of the 170 laps and beat Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Matt Kenseth to the finish line by 2.126 seconds.
Motorsports
July 24, 2016
Kyle Busch kisses the yard of brick at the start\finish line after winning the Brickyard 400 NASCAR auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indian

Kyle Busch wins Brickyard 400

Kyle Busch won Sunday's Brickyard 400 to complete a sweep of Sprint Cup and Xfinity races at Indy Motor Speedway this weekend. Busch spoke afterwards.
Motorsports
July 14, 2016
Brothers Jeremy Martin (left, second place) and Alex Martin (right, first place) finished 1-2 in the season-opening race in San Bernardino, Calif. Bro

Martin brothers return to race on home motocross track

Alex and Jeremy Martin are in the top five overall, separated by just a few points as they head into this weekend's La Crescent Wine & Spirit Spring Creek National in Millville
Motorsports
July 3, 2016
Martin Truex Jr. (78), Greg Biffle (16), Jimmie Johnson (48) and Jamie McMurray (1) are at the head of a multi-car accident between Turns 1 and 2 at D

Brad Keselowski wins for the first time at Daytona

He fended off Kyle Busch to land first Daytona win.
Motorsports
June 26, 2016
Tony Stewart, center, celebrated after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race Sunday, June 26, 2016, in Sonoma, Calif.

Stewart wins at Sonoma to end 84-race drought

Passed on the last lap by Denny Hamlin, Tony Stewart returned the favor to win.
Motorsports
June 14, 2016
lJoey Logano drives during the NASCAR Sprint Cup series auto race at Michigan International Speedway, Sunday, June 12, 2016 in Brooklyn, Mich. (AP Pho

Joey Logano wins at Michigan, helps make NASCAR history

Joey Logano pulled away from the pack to win the FireKeepers Casino 400 and was followed by 20-year-old Chase Elliott and 23-year-old Kyle Larson, the youngest top three in NASCAR Sprint Cup history.
Motorsports
June 6, 2016
Kurt Busch celebrated with his team in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup series auto race at Pocono Raceway on Monday.

Kurt Busch squeezes out just enough fuel to win at Pocono

Busch maneuvered his car with the help of interim crew chief Johnny Klausmeier and conserved enough fuel to win the Sprint Cup Series Axalta "We Paint Winners" 400 on Monday afternoon at Pocono Raceway.
Motorsports
May 29, 2016
Alexander Rossi kisses the bricks on the start/finish line after wining the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 auto race at Indianapolis Motor Spee

Alexander Rossi pulls off stunning upset in 100th Indy 500

Rossi was a 66-to-1 long shot and certainly not the driver anyone would have picked to win. But the 24-year-old Californian used fuel strategy to outsmart a handful of drivers who had the most dominant cars in the race.
Motorsports
May 22, 2016
James Hinchcliffe of Canada celebrated winning the pole during qualifying for the Indianapolis 500.

Hinchcliffe passes Newgarden on final run for Indy 500 pole

James Hinchcliffe watched the Indianapolis 500 last year from his hospital bed. He had nearly died from injuries six days earlier in a crash at famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Motorsports
May 22, 2016
Joey Logano celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR All-Star auto race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., Saturday, May 21, 201

Logano wins $1M NASCAR All-Star race

Joey Logano won NASCAR's annual All-Star race by snatching the lead away from Kyle Larson with two laps remaining at Charlotte.
Motorsports
May 8, 2016
Kyle Busch (18) celebrates after winning a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kan., Saturday, May 7, 2016. (AP Phot

Kyle Busch finally wins at vexing Kansas oval

The vexing tri-oval had served up plenty of misfortune over the years for Kyle Busch.
Motorsports
May 2, 2016
Ryan Dungey

Minnesota motocross star completes a special year with title

Ryan Dungey of Belle Plaine rolled through a lot of memories in the past year while speeding toward a goal he reached Saturday night in New Jersey.

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