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2010 Team Reviews: Roush Fenway Racing Charts Upward Trend

Roush Fenway Racing, coming off a 2009 season that started with a bang after Matt Kenseth's Daytona 500 win and ended with the thud of being largely uncompetitive, moved in the right direction again in 2010. Carl Edwards, Greg Biffle and Matt Kenseth all raced their way into the Chase for the Sprint Cup field this time...

Roush-Fenway Drivers Coming Up Short Again in Chase

A year ago, two drivers of the Roush-Fenway Racing team found their way to NASCAR's illustrious Chase for the Sprint Cup. They finished rather unspectacularly. Greg Biffle held the banner highest for the proud Ford operation, winding up seventh after the season's final race at Homestead-Miami Speedway last November. His...

Gateway Incident Adds to Carl Edwards' Dark Side

Carl Edwards certainly has been full of what marketing-types like to call "crossover appeal." He's been the star of AFLAC's main Olympic commercial. He's glanced the cover of Men's Health magazine while becoming a spokesman for healthy fast food chain Subway. And, of course, he's become a favorite of the "SportsCenter"...

Matt Kenseth's Confidence Down at Chicago With Ford Still Struggling

JOLIET, Ill. -- There hasn't been a better Ford driver at Chicagoland Speedway than Matt Kenseth, but an underperforming race car had the former champion feeling pretty low Friday afternoon after practice. "I don't know what is going on, to be honest," Kenseth said quietly inside the media center before qualifying. "I...

Jamie McMurray Sets Track Record to Win Darlington Pole

DARLINGTON, S.C.(AP) -- Jamie McMurray couldn't help smiling after setting a track record Friday at Darlington Raceway to lead qualifying for Saturday night's Southern 500. Turned out, he was one of the few to leave the track happy. McMurray made it around the 1.366-mile egg-shaped superspeedway at 180.370 mph to surpass...

Matt Kenseth News From the Web

05/28/12 Matt McLaughlin's Thinkin' Out Loud: World 600 Recap... Source: The Frontstretch The Key Moment â On lap 332, Kasey Kahne passed Denny Hamlin and pretty much put it on cruise control for the final 100 miles of NASCAR 's longest event.
05/27/12 Speedy Sunday: Detailing one of the biggest racing... Source: Detroit Free Press - Detroit MI Today is one of the biggest race days of the year.
05/22/12 Mixed results for All-Star Race Source: SceneDaily CONCORD, N.C.âA big change to the Sprint All-Star Race format and a small tweak to the cars didn't produce the fireworks fans and NASCAR officials hoped for Saturday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
05/21/12 Fantasy NASCAR Preview: Charlotte - Coca-Cola 600 Source: Bench Racing with Steve and Charlie If you have found the intermediate track races to be boring in 2012, I hope you're prepared for this week's event, as it may be the most difficult one to get through.
05/21/12 NASCAR Sprint Cup Leaders Source: The Garden Island - Lihu'e HI 1, Greg Biffle, 411. 2, Matt Kenseth, 409. 3, Dale Earnhardt Jr., 397. 4, Denny Hamlin, 394. 5, Jimmie Johnson, 372. 6, Martin Truex Jr., 372. 7, Tony Stewart, 369. 8, Kevin Harvick, 361. 9, Kyle Busch, 349. 10, Carl Edwards, 337. 11, Clint Bowyer, 335. 12, Brad Keselowski, 328. 13, Paul Menard, 308. 14, Ryan Newman, 307. 15, Joey Logano, 293. 16, Kasey Kahne, 283. 17, Jeff Burton, 275. 18, Marcos Ambrose, 274. 19, Juan Pablo Montoya, 272. 20, Jamie McMurray, 263. 1, Matt Kenseth, $3,236,967. 2, Greg Biffle, $2,514,378. 3, Denny Hamlin, $2,485,141. 4, Tony Stewart, $2,437,265. 5, Jimmie Johnson, $2,337,634. 6, Dale Earnhardt Jr., $2,333,330. 7, Kyle Busch, $2,320,461. 8, Kevin Harvick, $1,974,556. 9, Martin Truex Jr., $1,971,737. 10, Carl Edwards, $1,887,646. 11, Jeff Burton, $1,868,750. 12, Brad Keselowski, $1,863,045. 13, Ryan Newman, $1,816,401. 14, Jeff Gordon, $1,783,834. 15, A J Allmendinger, $1,692,990. 16, Clint Bowyer, $1,633,152. 17, Marcos Ambrose, $1,578,388. 18, Aric Almirola, $1,574,511. 19, Jamie McMurray, $1,573,068. 20, Juan Pablo Montoya, $1,545,666.

Background on Matt Kenseth

Matthew Roy "Matt" Kenseth (born March 10, 1972) is a NASCAR driver. He currently drives the No. 17 Ford Fusion in the Sprint Cup Series for Roush Fenway Racing.

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