The Nascar Sprint Cup Series remains the second highest rated regular season sport on television.
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Patrick, 30, is in her first full year as a NASCAR Sprint Cup Driver.
The five-time defending NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion is the only driver to win five consecutive championships.
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The incident occurred on lap 121 of the 400-lap NASCAR Sprint Cup race.
Patrick, 30, is currently enjoying her first full year as a NASCAR Sprint Cup driver after racing open-wheel IndyCars for several years.
Already she is the first female driver to win the pole position for a NASCAR Sprint Cup race, with a qualifying lap speed of 196.434 mph.
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The history-making potential has racing experts predicting the largest TV audience in years for the premier NASCAR Sprint Cup event, the Super Bowl of stock car racing.
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Last week, Ford announced that the 2012 Focus Electric would be the pace car at the Richmond 400, making it the first all-electric pace car to ever lead the field for a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race.
Launched by NASCAR, Sprint and Turner Sports, the app allows fans to follow their favorite drivers and stay on top of all the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup race action, including access to race day content, schedules, standings, breaking news and more.
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Last year, Sprint Cup Series events ranked among the top two sports of the weekend on television 20 out of 36 points event weekends, with an average of 4.1 million households and 5.8 million viewers tuned into each NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event.
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Jimmie Johnson, Nascar's Sprint Cup Series champion every year since 2006, isn't particularly charismatic.
Though Trickle never managed a victory in NASCAR's premier Sprint Cup series, he did have 15 top-five finishes and won two Nationwide Series races before his retirement in 2002.
Daytona, the season's kickoff extravaganza, marks the race-day debut of Nascar's "Gen-6" Sprint Cup car, the series's most innovative overhaul since 2007.
"The Great American Race" also proved an impressive debut for Nascar's new "Gen 6" Sprint Cup car, the most innovative overhaul the series has seen since 2007.
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As drivers prepare to start their engines for the final Sprint Cup Series race in the 2012 NASCAR season, the sanctioning and governing body has much to celebrate with respect to the growth of its sport.
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As fans prepare for the Chase for the Sprint Cup this September, Utah-based NASCAR Car Wash Company will be opening the first-ever NASCAR branded car wash.
Although the NASCAR season is now in the books with Brad Keselowski taking home the Sprint Cup Championship, Patrick is still racing during the off season.
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