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Harvick tops all drivers in season winnings:

Kyle Busch capped his 2015 championship season by earning a combined $8,393,925 from race winnings, special awards and from the Sprint Cup points fund. But it was Kevin Harvick who earned the most money among Sprint Cup drivers in 2015 at $11,730,460, according to ...

Some 2015 season caution stats:

If the Cup drivers are so good, why do they tend to wreck more than their counterparts in the Xfinity and Trucks series? Well, OK, the Cup races include more cars (43, compared to 40 in Xfinity and 32 in Trucks) and the races are about twice as lengthy. But still, ...

Oddsmakers have Harvick the 2016 Championship favorite:

#18- Kyle Busch may have just won NASCAR's Sprint Cup, but when setting odds for the 2016 season, the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook went with last year's champion, #4-Kevin Harvick, as the 5-to-1 favorite, while installing Busch and two others as co-second favorites...

SHR announces new crew chiefs for Stewart, Patrick:

Stewart- Haas Racing has made new appointments within its competition department as the championship-winning race team wastes no time preparing for the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. Michael Bugarewicz has been promoted from race engineer on the #4 team to crew...

Best average finishes of 2015:

Even if you win the most races in a year, you're not guaranteed a championship or the best average finish over the season's 36 races. Just ask #22-Joey Logano, who finished 2015 with the second best avg finish after winning six times. NASCAR Talk takes a look at the...

Chase For The NASCAR Sprint Cup: Facts and Notes:

Ã· Homestead-Miami Speedway has been a part of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup since the playoff's inception in 2004. This season the track will host its 12th Chase event. Ã· The winner of the Homestead-Miami Chase race has gone on to win the championship during...

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series – Championship Fast Facts:

#18-Kyle Busch has won his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship, becoming the 31st different series champion, and the first to win the title after missing the first 11 races of the season. Busch won the Ford EcoBoost 400 claiming the title. Busch joins Kevin...

Unofficial Top 25 in 2015 Sprint Cup Driver Points Standings (not the Chase):

[after Homestead, race 36 of 36] (using current points system, but not the Chase rules, unofficial) 1) #4-Kevin Harvick(C1), 1321 2) #22-Joey Logano(EC), 1299, -22 3) #2-Brad Keselowski(EC), 1217, -104 4) #88-Dale Earnhardt Jr. (EC), 1198, -123 5) #78-Martin Truex ...

Kenseth and Logano before practice at Homestead:

#20- Matt Kenseth met with #22-Joey Logano and NASCAR officials before practice Friday morning at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Kenseth, in his first race weekend back from a two-race suspension, met face-to-face with the driver he has feuded with over the past few weeks...

Brian France defends “quintessential NASCAR” comments on controversy:

NASCAR Chairman Brian France defended his "quintessential NASCAR" comments in reference to #22-Joey Logano bumping #20-Matt Kenseth in the closing laps at Kansas Speedway during his year-end state-of-the-sport news conference Friday morning. The second year of the...

Teams receive warnings at Phoenix:

Six Sprint Cup teams - including championship contender #18-Kyle Busch's team - received warnings for inspection issues last weekend at Phoenix International Raceway, NASCAR announced Wednesday. Busch's team received its third warning after it failed pre-race inspection...

Mechanix Wear names their pit crew of the year:

Mechanix Wear has named their NASCAR Sprint Cup Series pit crew of the year. This year the award goes to the #41 of Stewart Haas Racing for driver Kurt Busch. Each quarter the crew chiefs voted on their pick of the best pit crew. At the end of the year the four pit...

Kenseth, Hattori building toward 2016:

Ross Kenseth will attempt to make his second NASCAR Camping World Truck Series start on Friday at Homestead-Miami Speedway in the #18 Green Brave/Saitama Toyopet Toyota Tundra for Hattori Racing Enterprises (HRE). Kenseth made his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series ...

NASCAR Sprint Cup Laps Led Leaders:

(after Phoenix, 35 of 36 races) 1. #4-Kevin Harvick, 2,248 2. #22-Joey Logano, 1,359 3. #2-Brad Keselowski, 1,098 4. #20-Matt Kenseth, 927 (33 races) 5. #41-Kurt Busch, 788 (32 races) 6. #18-Kyle Busch, 695 (24 races) 7. #78-Martin Truex Jr., 564 8. #48-Jimmie Johnson...

NASCAR asks to meet with Matt Kenseth UPDATE:

NASCAR has asked to meet with Joe Gibbs Racing driver #20-Matt Kenseth on Monday in advance of the driver's return to the track this weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Kenseth was suspended for the past two races following his role in an on-track incident with #22...

Kenseth: no regrets over wrecking Logano:

Pushed to his limit after three races worth of slights, #20-Matt Kenseth firmly believed he had no choice but to retaliate against #22-Joey Logano. His deliberate wrecking of Logano drew a two-race suspension from NASCAR, and Kenseth said Friday he would have handled...

Phoenix Pole Notes & Facts – Friday:

Ã· Geoffrey Bodine won the first pole at Phoenix in 1988 at a speed of 123.203 mph (29.220 sec.). Ã· There have been 21 different Coors Light pole winners, led by Ryan Newman with four. Ã· Ryan Newman, Jeff Gordon and Carl Edwards are the only drivers to win ...

Phoenix Goodyear Tire Notes:

Teams in all three NASCAR national series will run the same tire set-up at Phoenix this week . . . this is the same combination of left- and right-side tires that Sprint Cup and Xfinity teams ran at this track in March . . . Goodyear reconfirmed this tire set-up at...

Splitters confiscated from Gibbs cars before Texas race:

The Joe Gibbs Racing Toyotas driven by #11-Denny Hamlin, #18-Kyle Busch and #19-Carl Edwards were all forced to surrender their front splitters and replace them with ones that were unaltered as the cars rolled through pre-race inspection for the AAA Texas 500. NASCAR...

NASCAR Sprint Cup Laps Led Leaders:

(after Texas, 34 of 36 races) 1. #4-Kevin Harvick, 2,105 2. #22-Joey Logano, 1,359 3. #2-Brad Keselowski, 1,094 4. #20-Matt Kenseth, 927 5. #41-Kurt Busch, 788 (31 races) 6. #18-Kyle Busch, 694 (22 races) 7. #78-Martin Truex Jr., 564 8. #11-Denny Hamlin, 529 9. #48...