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	NEXTEL Cup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		From 1950 through 1971, the top tier NASCAR series was called the Grand National, not to be confused with the current Busch Grand National Series, the second tier division of NASCAR.
		For all NASCAR series Championships, (including Busch and Truck) points are given out for each race based on two categories: Final Position, and Laps Led.
		After the 26th race with ten races to go, the Driver's Championship points are changed in accordance with the "Chase for the Cup", with the leader in championship points having their total altered to 5050 points, second place altered to 5045, and so on for all eligible drivers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Winston_Cup (890 words)

	Articles - NASCAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The first NASCAR race ever was held at the old Charlotte Speedway in North Carolina on June 19, 1949 (this is not the same speedway as Lowe's Motor Speedway that is near Charlotte).
		The first NASCAR competition held outside of the U.S. was in Canada, where on July 1, 1952, Buddy Shuman won a 200-lap race on a half-mile (800 m) dirt track in Stamford Park, Ontario, near Niagara Falls.
		NASCAR changed its stance on this after the sport's most popular driver, Dale Earnhardt was killed in a racing accident on the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500.
	gaple.com /articles/NEXTEL_Cup_Series?mySession=791075981a68b212c897... (4034 words)

	NASCAR Championship Challenge
		NASCAR Drivers residing on the contestant's team will receive points using the following formula: Winston Cup points earned by the driver for position of finish, plus lap led bonuses and most laps led bonuses awarded by NASCAR following each Winston Cup points race.
		Employees of NASCAR, EIV, Chase Authentics, Inc., ESPN, and Starwave Corporation, Infoseek, and the distributors, affiliates, divisions and subsidiaries, licensees, licensed retailers and the immediate families of all of the foregoing are not eligible.
		NASCAR and EIV reserve the right to change these Official Rules at any time, in their sole discretion.
	games.espn.go.com /nascar/rules.html (1753 words)

	KnoxNews: Nascar
		With all five of his stock car teams in the title chase, car owner Jack Roush may be the odds-on favorite to win his third straight NASCAR championship.
		NASCAR on Thursday suspended crew chief Glenn Darrow indefinitely for violating its substance-abuse policy.
		NASCAR doesn't revolve around only its 10 title contenders, as Dale Jarrett showed Sunday at Talladega.
	www.knoxnews.com /kns/nascar/0,1406,KNS_325,00.html (430 words)

	NASCAR Championship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The NASCAR Championship is the championship held in NASCAR's top stock car racing series.
		The championship is currently known as the NEXTEL Cup.
		From 1972 through 2003, it was called the Winston Cup; before 1972, it was known as the Grand National.
	www.lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Winston_Cup (764 words)

	Kalamazoo Speedway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		To ensure championship eligibility, drivers must become a NASCAR member within 30 days of their first start of the 2005 season.
		NASCAR championship points will be awarded for any NASCAR championship division races held between Jan. 1 - Sept. 18, 2005.
		NASCAR has developed this new format for the NASCAR Dodge Weekly Series in order to better serve the needs of its teams, tracks, drivers, fans and media.
	www.kalamazoospeedway.com /weeklypointfaq.asp (1476 words)

	Tony's Place: Welcome to DeVille82's Site
		But it was his NASCAR championship in 2002 that Stewart puts first on his list of accomplishments.
		Even with Stewart’s experience of winning three karting championships, four USAC titles and one IRL crown, the 36-race grind that comprises the Nextel Cup schedule makes the series championship one of the most difficult and elusive in all of motorsports, regardless of one’s racing background.
		The Berlin, Conn., native first began working on a NASCAR Featherlite Modified Tour car owned by his father at the age of seven, and by age 14, he was preparing race cars for his family-owned Sherwood Racing Team.
	www.freewebs.com /tonysplace (2703 words)

	Auto Racing: Rusty races towards NASCAR championship
		NASCAR veteran Rusty Wallace is always in the top 10 in Winston Cup points.
		Rusty Wallace is currently third in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series point race.
		The first two races are at tracks where he won last year, Michigan and Pocono, and the third is a road race at Sears Point, where he has historically been strong.
	www.buzzle.com /editorials/6-6-2001-3526.asp (690 words)

	NASCAR championship comes down to final race (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nine months and 35 races after it began, the inaugural NASCAR Chase for the Nextel Cup championship is about to motor to an end.
		Their only hope would be to dominate on a track where they have had questionable success, and even then they need the other three drivers to finish near the back of the pack.
		To win the championship, Earnhardt would have to win the race and lead the most laps, then hope Busch finishes 15th or worse, Johnson 10th or worse and Gordon ninth or worse, all without leading a lap.
	www.azcentral.com /sports/speed/articles/1119nascar1119.html (637 words)

	NASCAR Establishes New Format For NASCAR Dodge Weekly Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For the first time in 15 years, a traditional NASCAR championship points system will replace the Competition Performance Index (CPI), which ranked the drivers by a statistical index and was used to determine the series champion each year from 1990-2004.
		NASCAR has discontinued its ShorTrack Division, which provided prizes for second-tier drivers only, in favor of a wider distribution of point fund awards to the top 10 competitors in each of these three classes.
		NASCAR is a registered trademark of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing.
	www.nascardodgeweeklyseries.com /story.asp?News_ID=8427&Series_ID=15 (1032 words)

	NASCAR DODGE Weekly Series - New England Region
		NASCAR championship points will be awarded for any NASCAR championship division races held between Jan. 1 – Sept. 18, 2005.
		The driver who accumulates the most NASCAR divisional points at their home track will represent that track on the divisional leaderboard (and ultimately collect a share of the divisional prize money at the end of the season).
		NASCAR divisional points are kept separately from track points, therefore a driver is not required to lead their track point standings to be represented in the divisional standings.
	www.weeklyracingseries.com /info.asp?Series_ID=17 (1618 words)

	NASCAR.com - Championship collectibles to take home - December 11, 2003
		The most aggressive championship commemorative merchandise program of all time continues to gain momentum at record pace with new Matt Kenseth 2003 NASCAR Winston Cup Champion product hitting the market each week.
		Going back several years, the Ohio-based clock maker was one of the first to create a championship commemorative collectible that actually served a purpose in everyday life.
		The Kenseth Championship time piece embraces JEBCO's classic graphic design with an image of a jubilant Kenseth with a shot of his car in the foreground -- the 2003 NASCAR Winston Cup trophy resting on its roof.
	www.nascar.com /2003/comm/collectibles/news/12/11/kenseth_champion (619 words)

	Marshfield News Herald - Busch holds off Johnson, Gordon to capture NASCAR championship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On a day of high drama, with the season championship seemingly changing lap to lap, pass to pass, Busch held on to finish fifth behind teammate Greg Biffle in Sunday's Ford 400 and wrap up his first Nextel Cup title.
		The dramatic finish was a fitting end to the new 10-man, 10-race Chase for the Nextel Cup Championship, which proved a bigger success than new NASCAR chairman Brian France could have hoped for.
		After years of ho-hum championships, often decided weeks before the final race, Busch came into the finale leading Johnson by 18 points and Gordon by 21, with Dale Earnhardt Jr.
	www.wisinfo.com /newsherald/mnhsports/281993751577252.shtml (740 words)

	Nascar at Row12 Sports
		NASCAR is moving ahead full speed with its new concept car, a bigger, boxier number with which it plans to replace the super slick aerodynamic car - NASCAR chairman Brian France calls it a `...
		Several matters have floated to the top of the cranium in the midst of the mind-monopolizing and numbing final weeks of NASCAR's championship playoff, and now is a good time to address them.
		After opening the 2005 season with Nicorette as the first quit-smoking sponsor in NASCAR, GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare is closing the year with its CommitÂ® stop smoking lozenges as the primary sponsor of a car for two Cup Series races.
	nascar.row12.com (463 words)

	Nascar Racing
		NASCAR creates and enforces rules to ensure that cars racing against each other are evenly matched and as safe as possible.
		Nascar Rules and Regulations points table; the points system rewards drivers for leading races, finishing near the front and for consistency throughout the season.
		This is the current name of the Nascar Championship, previously known as the Winston Cup and before that The Grand National.
	sportsvl.com /wheel/nascardetail.htm (1181 words)

	NASCAR INCREASES POST-SEASON PRIZE MONEY AT
		Whether they are in contention for a regional championship or not, these are the drivers who make their hometown speedways come alive with excitement.
		Race results from each track are entered into the NASCAR Competition Performance Index (CPI), which establishes a regional ranking of drivers based on each driver’s statistics (including wins, top-five finishes, starts and the number of cars in the starting field).
		A large number of NASCAR Members are crew members or mechanics and NASCAR and its sponsors have several special awards to recognize this important group — those who help put the cars on the track each weekend.
	www.jennerstown.com /04press/april14-2.html (1268 words)

	DIERCKS HONORED FOR FIRST NASCAR MIDWEST CHAMPIONSHIP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Justin Diercks, of Davenport, Iowa, capped off a dream season that saw him honored as the 2004 NASCAR AutoZone Elite Division, Midwest Series Champion, Saturday night at the Radisson Hotel and Conference Center. The title was the first for the 24-year-old Diercks.
		NASCAR Managing Director of Brand and Consumer Marketing, Roger VanDerSnick delivered the “state of the Midwest Series” speech.
		The top-10 drivers from Midwest Series will be in action one final time in 2004, for the second running of the NASCAR Toyota All-Star Showdown, November 11-13, at California’s Irwindale Speedway. The Midwest Series drivers will face the top-10 in final points from the three other Elite Division Series: Northwest, Southwest and Southeast.
	www.51sportsracing.com /nascar_tournews_mws.html (595 words)

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		Still, it would be hard not to notice what Johnson and his No. 48 Chevrolet team have done since reaching NASCAR's elite Winston Cup series.
		Johnson is proud of the record he and his team have compiled in their two years together, but he came into this season with higher goals.
		"I had hoped we might be in a position to possibly win the championship this year, based on our rookie year when we led the points and were a part of that whole battle," Johnson said.
	www.firstcoastnews.com /news/news-article.aspx?storyid=10800 (609 words)

	BIFFLE WINS FORD 400; BUSCH WINS NASCAR CHAMPIONSHIP
		The driver’s championship is the seventh all-time for Ford in NASCAR’s top division and marks the second time that the manufacturer has won back-to-back titles.
		This is in parallel to the Super Bowl or to the World Series to snag this first championship that NASCAR put together with this new format and to be the first Nextel Cup champion, it took so much from within.
		We can’t expect to win two championships in a row with all the hazards that are out there, so this is a feast or famine business.
	www.theautochannel.com /news/2004/11/22/285931.html (6250 words)

	Motorsport.com: News channel
		DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Jan. 20, 2004) -- NASCAR announced today a modification in how the champion of its premier series is determined, creating a NASCAR NEXTEL Cup "Chase for the Championship" covering the last 10 races of the 36-race NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series season.
		In addition, NASCAR is making a change to the current point system for the first time since the system's 1975 inception, awarding 180 points to a race winner, compared to the previous award of 175 points.
		The last time the point system for NASCAR's premier series was altered was in 1975 when the current system, designed to reward consistency, was introduced.
	www.motorsport.com /news/article.asp?ID=144399 (578 words)

	Busch collects championship reward - NASCAR - MSNBC.com
		He was on the way to lead a noisy, colorful procession of stock cars in a slow parade lap across Manhattan with hundreds of people lining the streets to take in the strange sight.
		We knew we had a championship team and championship equipment, and Jimmy gave me so much of his experience to draw from to learn to be a championship driver.”
		Each of the drivers who made it into NASCAR’s first-ever 10-man, 10-race Chase for the Nextel Cup championship was honored Friday night.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/6647661 (752 words)

	Kalamazoo Speedway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The divisional and national championships are open to drivers competing in the top class at each NASCAR Dodge Weekly Series track - including Late Model Stock Cars, Modifieds, Dirt Modifieds, Dirt Late Models, Late Model Sportsman, Super Late Models, Super Stocks and other styles of cars.
		Championship points will be awarded as follows: 50 points to the winner of each race, 48 points for second place, 46 points for third place, 44 points for fourth place, and so on.
		NASCAR Dodge Weekly Series competitors will continue to receive a championship point fund of nearly $1.7 million - the largest point fund of any short track racing series in North America.
	www.kalamazoospeedway.com /newformat.asp (1042 words)

	USATODAY.com - A glance at drivers in NASCAR's championship chase (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		While the resetting of points puts the championship out of their reach, they still have something to race for _ the driver who finishes the season in 11th place will win $250,000 and the right to attend the year-end banquet in New York.
		Under NASCAR's scoring rules, the maximum a driver can score at one race is 190 points, while the second-place driver can earn no more than 180.
		He's been a surprising success this season, and knows a championship in his final season would be the best way for him to leave a lasting impression.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/motor/nascar/2005-09-10-glance-chase_x.htm (721 words)

	NASCAR Championship Challenge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Darrell Loverin has been named the official champion of the second segment of the 2000 NASCAR Championship Challenge.
		Nascar Challenge has finished its greatest season yet and firmly established its place as the best Nascar fantasy game on the internet.
		James Steffen has taken over sole possession of first place in the third segment of this year's NASCAR Championship Challenge.
	games.espn.go.com /nascar/00 (331 words)

	WOODSIDE CLINCHES NASCAR WW CHAMPIONSHIP - RacingWest
		The team had settled on running conservatively until the championship was finalized, and then pushing for a strong finish.
		The Coca-Cola 500 is scheduled to air in the United States on Saturday, December 11, beginning at 3 p.m.
		In addition to winning the 1999 NASCAR Winston West championship, they led the series in the Gatorade Front Runner Award, the Clevite Engine Builder Award and Bud Pole Award races, laps led, laps completed and best average finish.
	www.racingwest.com /news/story.php3/340 (351 words)

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		NASCAR will not make any changes to its points system this season, sticking with the ten race shootout format that created the closest championship race in series history in 2004.
		NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France says last year's finish was proof that the system worked.
		France kicked off his first year as head of NASCAR by overhauling the decades-old points system and creating a playoff structure for ten drivers over the last ten events of the season.
	www.wbir.com /sports/news.aspx?storyid=22529 (271 words)

	JimmieJohnson48.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the opener of the Chase, Robby Gordon and Kasey Kahne overshadowed the 10 championship contenders with outbursts.
		Several of their opponents charged that their Chevrolets were running with their rear ends too high off the ground, but NASCAR gave the cars a few moments to settle in the postrace inspection and both passed.
		NASCAR and the crew chiefs know that the trunk area needs to be sealed solid and the overflow valve should be in place.
	www.jimmiejohnson48.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=812 (2818 words)

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