| Ready to roll | | And so, here we are on Sunday, nine months to the day since the 2006 Nextel Cup season was born just a few hundred miles up the eastern Florida coast in Daytona Beach. And like a typical pregnancy that runs its full course of gestation, Sunday's... | |
| | What a year | | It was the theme song for countless numbers of baby boomers, one that that meant so much and marked so many milestones in so many lives – from the theme for hundreds of proms to the recessional at even more high school and college graduations.... | |
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| Johnson wins elusive first Nextel Cup title | |
HOMESTEAD, Florida (Ticker) -- Greg Biffle's "three-peat" gave Jimmie Johnson an unprecedented first. Despite winning Sunday night's NASCAR Ford 400 for the third year in a row, Biffle took a back seat to Johnson, who finished ninth en route... | |
| | Kenseth and other contenders come up short | |
Matt Kenseth made the most of his fighting chance, coming up with the strong performance he'd been missing in the last few races of this Chase for the championship. He wound 56 points short of the title with a sixth-place finish.
Denny... | |
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| Homestead Observations | |
Thoughts, observations and a few questions following Sunday's season-ending Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway: Even though Jimmie Johnson didn't have to win Sunday's race to secure his first Nextel Cup title, his team did have to deliver a... | |
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| Chase champ survives tough times | | Grace under pressure -- what better way to describe Jimmie Johnson and the No. 48 team? It's pretty simple: Present Johnson with a challenge and he will show you how he shines -- and right now, he's the brightest light in NASCAR. His arduous... | |
| | 2006 a time of change for NASCAR | | Jimmie Johnson opened and closed the 2006 season on top, for very different reasons. The year began with the controversial suspension of his crew chief, who was caught cheating before the Daytona 500 and kicked out of the garage for four... | |
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| Top stories of 2006 | |
It's never easy recapping the top 10 stories of a typical NASCAR season. Try as you may, something notable invariably misses the cut. This year it was particularly difficult to come up with a top-10 list because newly crowned Jimmie... | |
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