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      <title><![CDATA[Mutoh, Viso land IndyCar rides]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Race Car Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1266953901" delta="2 weeks ago"><![CDATA[2/23/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Two teams have announced their drivers for the upcoming Izod IndyCar Series season, and neither one is a surprise. Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing confirmed that Japanese driver Hideki Mutoh will join the team. Mutoh will drive the No. 06 car with sponsorship from Honda's Formula Dream and from Panasonic. This season will be Mutoh's third full year in the series, after he competed previously for Super Aguri Panther Racing and Andretti Green ...]]></text>
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    <bigarticle id="10260">
      <title><![CDATA[Johnson gets break, wins at California]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Race Car Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1266953822" delta="2 weeks ago"><![CDATA[2/23/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[FONTANA, Calif. - Jimmie Johnson was sitting on pit road when the yellow flag came out - and that is why he won at home again. The No. 48 Hendrick crew finished its work and Johnson crossed the scoring line at the end of pit road just before then-leader Jeff Burton passed him. That kept Johnson on the lead lap and the California native regained first place when everybody else, ...]]></text>
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    <article id="10259">
      <title><![CDATA[Harvick comes up short but has look of a winner]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Race Car Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1266953758" delta="2 weeks ago"><![CDATA[2/23/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Clearly the car to beat at Daytona, Harvick again had a strong car at Auto Club Speedway, finishing second in Sunday's race. An unfortunate speeding violation on pit road may have cost him a chance at the win. Four-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champ Jimmie Johnson won Sunday's race, the 48th of his career.Harvick's "speeding ticket" forced him to chase Johnson down to the wire. His car looked faster than ...]]></text>
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    <article id="10258">
      <title><![CDATA[Richard III - Childress Three Car Play Performing Well in Sprint Cup]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Race Car Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1266953713" delta="2 weeks ago"><![CDATA[2/23/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Maybe Richard Childress Racing was just meant to be a three-car operation, at least on the Sprint Cup side of the garage. After all, prior to the 2009 season, RCR had put at least one of its drivers in the Chase for the Sprint Cup each year since the Chase's inception. It was when the team expanded to four teams in 2009 that the wheels seemed to fall off RCR's ...]]></text>
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    <article id="10257">
      <title><![CDATA[BUSCH WINS AT CALIFORNIA NATIONWIDE RACE; PATRICK 31ST]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Race Car Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1266953655" delta="2 weeks ago"><![CDATA[2/23/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[FONTANA, Calif. - Danica Patrick accomplished one of her goals by finishing the race. She is still a long way from the lead packs in NASCAR. Kyle Busch barely overtook Greg Biffle out of the final turn of a green-white-checker finish to win by .051 seconds in the NASCAR Nationwide race at California on Saturday, with Brad Keselowski right behind them.It was a heartbreaking loss for Busch's Joe Gibbs Racing ...]]></text>
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    <article id="9858">
      <title><![CDATA[Could new Nationwide car disrupt Cup incursions?]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Race Car Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1264095669" delta="7 weeks ago"><![CDATA[1/21/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[ONCORD, N.C. Some short takes from the NASCAR Sprint Media Tour: NASCAR's Nationwide Series will unveil its version of the Sprint Cup's "car of tomorrow" this season. Just don't call it that. The car will be simply termed "the new Nationwide car" and will be used in four races this season – Daytona (July), Michigan (August), Richmond (September) and Charlotte (October). The car, which will have safety improvements and designs ...]]></text>
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    <article id="9857">
      <title><![CDATA[Fans know: Proof is in the NASCAR product]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Race Car Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1264095601" delta="7 weeks ago"><![CDATA[1/21/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[You can't fool NASCAR fans, not the real ones. I'm talking about fans who bow their head every time somebody invokes North Wilkesboro and drop to one knee before they enter Darlington Raceway. I'm talking about fans who drink one brand of beer, buy one brand of motor oil and shop at one home-improvement store because their driver endorses it.I'm talking about fans who supported NASCAR long before it became ...]]></text>
    </article>
    <article id="9462">
      <title><![CDATA[Being A Racecar Driver Is More Of An Athletic Endeavor Than Many Think]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Race Car Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1262625991" delta="9 weeks ago"><![CDATA[1/4/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[The negative reaction to Jimmie Johnson being named the Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year this week tripped a switch in my memory banks. It got me to thinking about my first laps in a racecar and how it only strengthened my conviction that drivers are indeed athletes. That has been the crux of the negative reaction: Stick-and-ball fans saying Johnson should not be honored with the AP award ...]]></text>
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    <article id="9461">
      <title><![CDATA[Danica and Dale Jr. NASCAR's Hot Ticket In 2010]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Race Car Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1262625655" delta="9 weeks ago"><![CDATA[1/4/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Danica and Dale, the names even flow together.  Two race car drivers that have the potential to bring the most excitement to NASCAR in 2010. Let's take a look at the possibilities. Danica may charge out of the gate in the Go Daddy ARCA car at Daytona with a a top five finish.  She was one of the faster cars in testing.  Perhaps she will win!  ...]]></text>
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    <article id="9430">
      <title><![CDATA[Tony Stewart to spend holidays racing sprint cars in Australia]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Race Car Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1260917803" delta="12 weeks ago"><![CDATA[12/15/2009]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Tony Stewart will be spending his holiday season Down Under, as the NASCAR star will be joining other top American sprint car drivers in part in four of the biggest sprint car races in Australia. The Parramatta City Raceway Web site reports that Stewart will be competing in the $50,000-to-win Scott Darley race on January 2 and 3, along with the Australian Sprintcar Grand Prix on December 26 and the ...]]></text>
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    <article id="9429">
      <title><![CDATA[Full speed ahead for 13-year-old race car driver]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Race Car Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1260917695" delta="12 weeks ago"><![CDATA[12/15/2009]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[It was late March when Vinton's Tim McGuire and his 12-year-old son, Michael, walked into the office at Orange County Speedway in Rougemont, N.C. Kim Foushee, the race track's director of operations, remembers the scene like yesterday. "Actually, I was like, 'Oh my gosh, here we go again!' " Foushee recalled. "I've had several folks to come in here and promote kids."But they didn't have the credentials and the experience ...]]></text>
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    <article id="9428">
      <title><![CDATA[Indy 500 qualifying trimmed to one weekend]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Race Car Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1260917558" delta="12 weeks ago"><![CDATA[12/15/2009]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana  Indianapolis 500 qualifying is being reduced to a single weekend and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway will open later next year, officials of the famed 2 1/2-mile oval announced Tuesday. An endurance test for man and machine that once consumed the entire month of May with two weekends of time trials is being trimmed back to reduce costs to IndyCar teams and the Speedway.The Speedway will open May ...]]></text>
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