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Car owners get access to new NASCAR Media Group data

Sports Business Journal reports that car owners have gained access to some of NASCAR Media Group's data, including an overview of its operations and some top-line financial information. Sports Business Journal, citing multiple sources, said in a story Monday that MWR...
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NASCAR Implements Team Owner Charter Agreement for NASCAR Sprint Cup Series

During a historic event held today in Charlotte, N.C., NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France joined with NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team owners to announce a landmark long-term agreement that provides teams with increased business certainty and the ability to work more...
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Race Team Alliance expands membership

UPDATE: Race Team Alliance, Inc. is pleased to announce the expansion of its membership to 18 full-time NASCAR Sprint Cup teams, comprising 37 full-time entries. The RTA, formed in July, is a not-for-profit business league comprised of race teams participating in the...
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Race Team Alliance expects to add NASCAR teams

Race Team Alliance chairman Rob Kauffman said Sunday the rest of NASCAR's full-time teams should soon be added to the group that is working on issues facing the sport. The RTA formed this month as an alliance of nine of NASCAR's top teams. Kauffman met with other owners...
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Richard Petty comments on the Race Team Alliance

Richard Petty doesn't agree with Brian France's comments that the new Race Team Alliance (RTA) is a bad idea. "It's really kind of a bad idea from the standpoint that NASCAR should be doing what we're doing," said Petty, who is part of the nine-owner association. "...
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France comments on Race Team Alliance

NASCAR chairman Brian France says listening to the consensus voice of the newly formed Race Team Alliance would be a "bad idea." France, in his first extensive interview on the RTA since the organization of major team owners was announced two weeks ago, told Sirius...
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Race Team Alliance will talk to NASCAR through attorneys

If the new Race Team Alliance wants to communicate with NASCAR and its sister company International Speedway Corp. it will have to do so through attorneys. NASCAR President Mike Helton said Friday there is no animosity between the team owners and NASCAR, although NASCAR...
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Gordon talks about the RTA and minimum speed

#24-Jeff Gordon was the guest of this week's NASCAR Teleconference and discussed many topics including the RTA and minimum speeds, the transcript in part...
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Kauffman, RTA talking to prospective members

Five days after its formation was announced, the Race Team Alliance is in the opening stage of expanding its membership beyond nine charter Sprint Cup teams. RTA chairman Rob Kauffman said he's talked over the past few days with Tommy Baldwin, Tad Geschickter (JTG ...
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Bruton Smith blasts Race Team Alliance

Speedway Motorsports Inc. chairman Bruton Smith, a longtime critic of NASCAR, became the sanctioning body's biggest supporter Friday, blasting the recent formation of the Race Team Alliance. "What I know about it, of course I don't like it," Smith said after Sprint...
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NASCAR president: no animosity towards RTA

NASCAR president Mike Helton says there is no animosity from the governing body toward the recently formed nine-team Race Team Alliance that will collaborate on initiatives and issues facing the sport. Michael Waltrip Racing co-owner Rob Kauffman was elected chairman...
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Sprint Cup teams form Race Team Alliance

UPDATE2: A group of nine multi-car teams participating in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) announced today they have formed a collaborative business association called the Race Team Alliance (RTA). The purpose of the organization is to create an open forum for the...
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NASCAR ‘Loopies” Awards announced

Sometime in the middle of November, as NASCAR prepared for its 2013 culmination, the good folks at Oxford announced 'selfie" as their word of 2013. Well, since then, a new word has taken the sports world by storm: Loopie. As in: Statistically based awards using NASCARs...
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FAS Lane and Go Green Racing enter joint venture

FAS Lane Racing owner, Frank Stoddard, and Go Green Racing owner, Archie St. Hilaire, announce that they have entered into a joint venture for the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season and beyond. 'Frank has a great program here at FAS Lane Racing and we believe that...
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UPS to end NASCAR involvement after 2014

UPS notified NASCAR and Roush Fenway Racing that it plans to end its sponsorship of the sport and team following the 14 Sprint Cup season. The move comes after UPS in 2012 dropped its full-season primary sponsorship of the #6 Cup entry then driven by David Ragan. The...
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Top 13 Driver Ratings at Charlotte

#48-Jimmie Johnson... 110.0...
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Kansas TV Ratings

ESPNs live telecast of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway on Sunday, Oct. 6, earned a 2.6 U.S. household rating, averaging 4,162,371 viewers, according to Nielsen Media. The rating and viewership for the fourth race of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint...
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Few races for Robby Gordon in 2013

indications are that Gordon will not run many, if any, Sprint Cup races in 2013 after making the Daytona 500 in 2012 he ran two more races, at Phoenix in Feb and Sonoma in June. Gordon failed to qualify for the races at Las Vegas and Fontana in March. He could run ...
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2013 silly season notes for #1-Jamie McMurray / Earnhardt Ganassi Racing

McMurray signed a contract extension with Earnhardt Ganassi Racing for 2013, no word if it is long-term or just for 2013. Longtime #1 sponsor, Bass Pro Shops, will move to #14-Tony Stewart's Chevy, but supposedly sponsor the #1 for a race in 2013. McDonald's will be...
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Kenseth declines to discuss future….to Gibbs? Penske?

#17- Matt Kenseth declined to discuss his future with Roush Fenway Racing before Sunday's race at Sonoma, where there was rampant speculation he's been talking to other race teams. Kenseth acts as his own agent, and has been with Roush his entire career. But his #17...