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By JENNA FRYER (AP) LAS VEGAS — Rick Hendrick capped a record-making season with NASCAR's highest award, and the car owner had to stop to compose himself during the annual awards ceremony that honored driver Jimmie Johnson's fourth consecutive title. Johnson's championship gave Hendrick Motorsports its 12th NASCAR title, and capped a year that saw Hendrick sweep the top three spots in the standings. For his efforts, Hendrick was given the Bill France Award of Excellence. It was presented by ...

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Rick Hendrick speaks with ESPN's Marty Smith about a ninth Hendrick Motorsports NASCAR Championship -- and a relationship with four-time NASCAR Champion Jimmie Johnson.

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By JENNA FRYER (AP) HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Jimmie Johnson has won a NASCAR record fourth consecutive championship with a fifth-place finish in the finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Johnson needed only to finish 25th or better to beat teammate Mark Martin in the race, won by Denny Hamlin, to give team owner Rick Hendrick his own NASCAR record, a 12th championship. Johnson did better than that in a sometimes-testy Sunday drive into history. He was at times annoyed at rival drivers and even Jeff ...

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By JENNA FRYER (AP) AVONDALE, Ariz. — Jimmie Johnson rebounded from a rare bad race with a dominating victory at Phoenix International Raceway that pushed him to the edge of a NASCAR record fourth consecutive championship. Johnson led 238 laps Sunday to win for the fourth time in the last five races at Phoenix. It was his seventh victory of the season, and fourth since the start of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship. More important, it stretched his lead to 108 points over Hendrick ...

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By STEPHEN HAWKINS (AP) FORT WORTH, Texas — Jimmie Johnson's drive to history took a hard hit against the wall and Kyle Busch ran out of gas trying to complete an unprecedented NASCAR trifecta. Kurt Busch won at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday, taking over the lead with 2 1/2 laps left when his younger brother's car suddenly slowed on the backstretch after leading 232 of the 334 laps. Johnson, the series points leader trying to become the first Sprint Cup driver to win four consecutive season ...

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By JENNA FRYER (AP) TALLADEGA, Ala. — Jamie McMurray has snapped an 86-race winless streak with a victory at Talladega Superspeedway. Three-time defending series champion Jimmie Johnson is being credited with an eighth-place finish — enough to likely wrap up a NASCAR record fourth consecutive title. The race ended under caution because of a last lap accident that sent Mark Martin's car flipping across the track. It was the second harrowing accident in the final five laps. Ryan Newman's car ...

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By WILL GRAVES (AP) TALLADEGA, Ala. — Kyle Busch finally found a way to pass Todd Bodine. Taking advantage of a generous tap from teammate Aric Almirola a few hundred yards from the finish, Busch won the NASCAR Camping World Trucks race at Talladega Superspeedway on Saturday to end Bodine's winning streak at restrictor-plate tracks. Busch and Almirola pulled wide behind Bodine on the final lap and Almirola nudged Busch's No. 51 Billy Ballew Motorsports Toyota to the front. They overtook ...

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HANK KURZ Jr. MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Denny Hamlin didn't need to do anything funny to exact his revenge from Jimmie Johnson at Martinsville Speedway. He just drove right by him. And then he drove away with ease on three restarts over the final 52 laps, ending the three-time defending series champion's remarkable run of five trips to Victory Lane in the previous six races at the shortest circuit in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series. Hamlin used an out-of-sequence pit stops after about 160 laps to move ...

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MEMPHIS, Tenn.—An aggressive Brad Keselowski won his fourth Nationwide Series race of the season, banging his way to victory in the Kroger On Track For The Cure 250 at Memphis Motorsports Park on Saturday afternoon. Keselowski was involved in at least three incidents in the race, the last when he bumped Carl Edwards with a handful of laps remaining. Keselowski then got the lead when he whipped past the front row of Michael Annett and Tony Raines on a restart with 12 laps to go. He then held ...

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JENNA FRYER (AP) CONCORD, NC — Jimmie Johnson has a commanding lead in the race for the Sprint Cup title. He's practically on cruise control to a NASCAR-record fourth consecutive championship. Yet he refuses to claim this title, even after a "perfect weekend" at Lowe's Motor Speedway gave Johnson his third win in five Chase for the championship races this season. He has a 90-point lead over Hendrick Motorsports teammate Mark Martin at the halfway point of the 10-race Chase. "I think it's a ...

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