NASCAR Cup Series

Daytona International Speedway, home to the prestigious season-opening Daytona 500, is giving race fans the opportunity to witness the season-ending championship celebration at the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Awards in Las Vegas.

With two full seasons left on their current television contract, NASCAR and FOX Sports Media Group (FSMG) announced today an extensive new eight-year, multiplatform media rights agreement that ensures FSMG’s broadcast of NASCAR racing through 2022.

Coming into the 2012 season Clint Bowyer was one of those drivers that had yet to have a breakout season. In the six previous full seasons prior to 2012, Bowyer had only won five races in 216 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) starts.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. announced this past Thursday that he would not compete in the next two Sprint Cup Series races after suffering two concussions in the past six weeks.

Richard Childress Racing teammates finished 11th (Kevin Harvick), 27th (Paul Menard) and 28th (Jeff Burton). According to NASCAR's Post-Race Loop Data Statistics, Harvick completed the sixth-most Green Flag Passes (131) during the 334-lap event, with 76 coming while running in the top 15 (Quality Passes), positioning him third in the loop data category.

After finishing 21st in his Furniture Row Racing debut a candid Kurt Busch said, “It was an uneventful race, but an eventful weekend.”

Trevor Bayne and his No. 21 Good Sam/Camping World Ford Fusion hung onto the lead lap for the first third of Saturday’s Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, but the race’s long stretches of green-flag racing worked against them and they came away with a 22nd-place finish.

Camry driver Clint Bowyer earned his third victory of the 2012 season in Saturday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Brad Keselowski (No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger R/T) Finished 11th TONIGHT FUEL MILEAGE BIT YOU, SOMETHING THAT’S BEEN GOOD FOR YOU MOST OF THE YEAR. “Yeah, it’s like playing blackjack. Sometimes you’re going to get a good deal but you’re not going to win ‘em all. You know that. You hope that you’re sitting there with 13 and not have a lot of chips in the pile."

Five-time NASCAR Sprint Cup series champion Jimmie Johnson, led the way for Team Chevy with a third-place finish in the Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Fuel management was key in the 334-lap race and Johnson put his No. 48 Mylowe's Chevy in fuel-save mode during the final laps, a move that aided Johnson in closing the gap on series point leader Brad Keselowski (Dodge). Johnson sliced his 14-point lead in half, and is now just seven (7) points shy of Keselowski, who finished 11th.