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Tony Stewart won at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway over the weekend. He said, “I'm not sure we had the dominant car today, but we had an awful fast Chevy,” he continued, “I m just glad to finally get one at Vegas."

After last weeks rain soaked Daytona 500, the beautiful weather in Phoenix was a welcome change as the boys of NASCAR took to the Phoenix International Speedway and when all was said and done Denny Hamlin took the number 11 Fed Ex car to victory lane as he won the second NASCAR Sprint Cup race of the 2012 season.

It took three days to get in "The Great American Race" finished and like James Taylor sang " I've seen fire and I've seen rain" but when it all was said and done Matt Kenseth was the champion of the 2012 Daytona 500.

The field is now set for the 54th running of the "Great American Race" the Daytona 500 on Sunday. As I told you in an earlier post this week the front row for the Daytona 500 was set on Sunday with Carl Edwards taking the top spot and Greg Biffle getting the number 2 spot in the race.

It's time to rev up the engines and break out your favorite drivers items that adorn your living rooms on Sunday afternoons and start bragging about how good your favorite driver is, it's NASCAR season and time for 54th running of the Great American Race! And the season get underway this Sunday with the Daytona 500 and the top two starting spots have been claimed.

NASCAR owner Rick Hendrick has been involved in a Monday evening plane crash in Key West, Florida.

Justin Moore gets the dog, Carl Edwards gets the girl. In Moore’s just released video for ‘Bait a Hook,’ Edwards’ pretty boy shows up the country singer. He’s got a bigger boat, a bigger truck and in the end a bigger fish. It’s Moore’s funniest video since his debut single ‘Back That Thing Up.’

Everyone who is a NASCAR fan remembers Pastor Joe Nelms' pre-race prayer at the NASCAR Nationwide series race in Nashville TN July 23, 2011. But now that prayer has been turned into a song ! Here is the original and the song version.  Enjoy!

In a prayer before Saturday night’s NASCAR Nationwide Series race in Nashville, Tennessee, Pastor Joe Nelms name-checked several big sponsors and supporters of the sport, thanking the Almighty for things like “GM performance technology,” “Goodyear tires” — and of course his “smoking hot wife Lisa.” He wraps up the whole thing “in Jesus’ name, boogity boogity boogity, amen.”

Yesterday marked one of the best-named sporting events of our time, “The Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips 400 NASCAR Sprint Cut Race” at the Michigan International Speedway. The entertainment didn’t stop there: during the post-race interviews, a TV cameraman positioned behind Kyle Busch mimed slapping around the third-place finisher in his lens. You know, like when you close one of your eyes and prete

It was a tight race right down to the finish which was tied for the narrowest margin of victory in Nascar history as Jimmie Johnson won at Talladega on Sunday. Johnson claimed his first win of the season and 54th of his career.

Gordon wins at Phoenix.  Check out these pictures of the race!