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NASCAR Nextel Cup Samsung/Radio Shack 500 at Texas Motor Speedway Fox Sunday 4/4 at 1 pm Eastern/noon Central/10 am Pacific (Daylight Savings time - spring forward :-)NASCAR Busch Series O'Reilly 300 at Texas Motor Speedway Fox Saturday 4/3 at 2 pm Eastern/1 pm Central/11 am Pacific (Standard time)Event Schedule Texas Motor Speedway is a motorsports haven along the historic Chisholm Trail in Fort Worth. It features seating for 150,061 fans. It represents the pinnacle in luxury for fans of auto racing, as the facility features 194 skybox VIP suites.Track Facts Banking/Turns: 24 degrees Distance: 1.5 miles Shape: Quad-oval

After taking a week off to get their equipment over to sunny Las Vegas, NASCAR's top 2 divisions are getting ready to go around Las Vegas Motor Speedway's 1.5 mile tri-oval. For the NEXTEL teams, qualifying starts at 6 pm Eastern over on Speed, with the race at 3 pm Eastern Sunday on Fox.

This thread is dedicated to the men and women in our country's armed forces defending our freedoms and land. Thank you for your service. NASCAR's premier division has charged past the halfway point, and there's 8 races left until The Chase begins in earnest. Now they head to the heart of New England, where they and the drivers of the Busch series will take on the tight 1-mile track at Loudon. The Busch drivers will go on Saturday for 200 miles, and the Cup drivers will take 300 laps on Sunday. For those of you in the FRFL, you have...

These 10 drivers have 10 races, starting with the Sylvania 300, to win the 2005 Nextel Cup - Tony Stewart (2002 Winston Cup champ)Greg BiffleRusty Wallace (1989 Winston Cup champ)Jimmie JohnsonKurt Busch (defending Nextel Cup champ)Mark MartinJeremy MayfieldCarl EdwardsMatt Kenseth (2003 Winston Cup champ)Ryan Newman They and 33 of their best friends will be running Sunday at Loudon, and the Craftsman Truck Series will be taking 200 laps around the track Saturday.

It's the second half of the season, so TNT (and to a lesser extent, NBC) return to the TV mix. This half will be NBC's swan song for NASCAR and TNT's swan song for the Busch Series. We've got a full slate of racing this weekend, as the Busch boys and Buschwhackers run a 3/4ers race Saturday afternoon, and the Truck boys and girls run over at Kentucky Saturday night.

We're halfway through the Chase, and coming into the sole short track of the Chase season, here's how the standings look: 1. Jeff Burton - 5763 points 2. Matt Kenseth - 5718 (-45) 3. Kevin Harvick - 5674 (-89) 4. Mark Martin - 5661 (-102) 5. Dale Earnhardt Jr. - 5657 (-106) 6. Denny Hamlin - 5626 (-137) 7. Jimmie Johnson - 5617 (-146) 8. Kasey Kahne - 5603 (-160) 9. Kyle Busch - 5568 (-195) 10. Jeff Gordon - 5547 (-216)