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Kurt Busch Wins Record-Setting, Blazing Fast NASCAR Daytona Opener

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Call it "Dancing with the Cars.'' Saturday night's Budweiser Shootout exhibition was a 200-mph tango of two-car drafts on the newly-paved, super-fast Daytona International Speedway. In a photo finish, Kurt Busch won a predictably wild NASCAR opener on the new $20 million racing surface, pushed to...

More Drivers Eligible for NASCAR's Budweiser Shootout

Fans who make it to NASCAR's first event of 2011 -- the Budweiser Shootout exhibition race held a week before the season-opening Daytona 500 -- might want to keep a program nearby. Feb. 12's Shootout, firmly removed from its days of featuring only the previous season's pole winners, got its sixth change in the past 13...

Shootout Is Good, but Tweaks Needed

Kevin Harvick's win Saturday night in the Budweiser Shootout at Daytona International Speedway placed a nice bow on the package NASCAR wanted to see for a season-opening exhibition event. But amid the solid side-by-side (and often side-by-side-by-side) racing, a highlight-pleasing, multi-car crash near the end and an...

Budweiser Shootout: N's & Q's

Thanks to some comments made after the Budweiser Shootout, a bit of controversy swelled on Saturday night about how the non-points exhibition race was really supposed to end. Kevin Harvick, in an interview with SPEED's NASCAR Victory Lane show, said he thought the entry blank he had signed for the race indicated the race...

Edwards Nips Phoenix Pole; Three Former Indianapolis 500 Winner Make Field

Carl Edwards has quietly allowed the brouhaha with fellow Roush driver Matt Kenseth to slowly disappear in the media in good fashion.Quietly enough, in fact, that he won the pole at Phoenix and no really seemed to care -- nor bring the topic up. After all, there are two races left in the "Hendrick Motorsports Trophy...

Background on Budweiser Shootout

Budweiser Shootout at Daytona, generally referred to as the Bud Shootout, is an annual invitation-only NASCAR Sprint Cup Series exhibition event held at Daytona International Speedway in February, the weekend before the Daytona 500. It is the first competitive event of the season and serves as a kickoff event for the NASCAR portion of Speedweeks.

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