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RJ Johnson won the NASCAR Super Trucks season finale race and the Super Trucks championship by the narrowest of margins at Toyota Speedway at Iriwndale on Saturday night. Johnson, a driver from Canyon Country, and Pat Mintey Jr. of Quartz Hill entered the 100-lap season finale in the Super Trucks division tied for first in the Super Trucks standings at the track. Johnson won his eighth race of the season on a green-white-checker restart with Mintey close on his tail over the last two laps ...

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RJ Johnson and Pat Mintey Jr. were tied for the lead in the NASCAR Super Trucks standings at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale. Johnson, a driver from Canyon Country, has won seven Super Trucks races at Irwindale this season, the most of any driver in the division. He has won three of the last four races. Mintey has won four races this year and is the reigning Super Trucks champion at the track.

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Pat Mintey Jr. and RJ Johnson were tied for the lead in the NASCAR Super Trucks standings at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale on Saturday night. The championship was going to be determined in a 100-lap season-finale race. Mintey, a driver from Quartz Hill, is the reigning Super Trucks champion at Irwindale. Johnson has won seven Super Trucks races and three of the last four.

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Ryan Tuerck won the season finale Formula Drift event at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale on Saturday night. Tuerck, driving a Pontiac Solstice GXP, won when Tyler mcquarrie hit the wall in turn 3 and spun out in the final round. mcquarrie, a driver from Walnut Creek in a Nissan 350 ZX, finished second. Tanner Foust of Laguna Beach, in a Scion tc, was third. Tuerck, a driver from Derry, NH, beat Matt Waldin in the first round, then knocked out Ken Gushi in the second round, Robbie Nishida in the ...

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Justin Pawlak, a driver from Long Beach, was the top qualifier for the Formula Drift season finale at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale on Friday night. The 30-year-old transplant from Michigan put his Mazda RX-8 in the top spot for Saturday night races at Irwindale. The top-32 drivers earned spots in the final race of the Formula Drift season. Chris Forsberg, the leader in the Formula Drift standings, qualified seventh. Ryan Tuerck, the second place driver in the Formula Drift standings ...

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Kevin Harvick showed two sides of his personality at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana on Sunday. He showed his generous side before the race started, providing 75 at-risk students with tickets to the race and spending time with them before the driver introductions. He showed his prickly side after the race when he rushed out of the garage area not wanting to talk much about his 10th place finish. Harvick can be that way. It was great to see Harvick spend time with some kids who might not ...

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Gil Martin, the crew chief for Kevin Harvick's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team, had to make some tough choices at the end of the race at Auto Club Speedway on Sunday. He admitted his team took a fifth-place car and wound up in 10th place. Harvick battled tire air pressure and aerodynamic problems after the second round of pit stops. He had a great car on long runs, but got killed on restarts. That's just one of the factors of these new cars, Harvick said. We have great power under the hood ...

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MK Kanke, a driver from Frazier Park, won the Stockcar Racing League Southwest Tour Series race at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale on Saturday night. It was his fourth SRL Southwest Tour race of the year. Rip Michels, a driver from San Fernando, was second, followed by Mike Mendenhall of Santee in third.

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Dave Rogers, the crew chief for Joey Logano's NASCAR Nationwide Series team, called Greg Biffle a coward after Biffle pushed Logano into the wall during the race at Auto Club Speedway on Saturday. Logano rallied through the field and worked his battered car to the front. Biffle ended up getting collected in a wreck late in the race and finished 14th. Logano and Rogers said after the race the best revenge was winning.

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Joey Logano won the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Auto Club Speedway on Saturday. It was his second Nationwide Series win in a row and his sixth career Nationwide Series win in 38 starts. He has won five Nationwide Series races and has 15 top 10s in 2009. It was his first win at Auto Club Speedway and his third top 10 in three Nationwide races at Auto Club Speedway. Logano said after the race, "It was not the race I thought I had a shot at winning."

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