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• Canny Bluff Propels Martin Truex Jr. to Victory at Sonoma
By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service SONOMA, Calif. – Using a contrarian strategy that included bluffing Kevin Harvick onto pit road earlier than planned in the final stage of Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350, Martin Truex Jr. pulled off a convincing victory in the 16th Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race of the season. On Lap 73, during the final s...
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• NASCAR Cup: Martin Truex Jr.’s pit strategy garners sizable Sonoma win
With a pit strategy of staying out later than the competition, Martin Truex Jr. took a convincing win for Toyota in its own race, the Toyota/Save Mart 350, at Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway, the first road-course race of the season.
Kevin Harvick took runner-up honors, about 10 seconds behind the winner, while Stewart-Haas Racing teammate Clint Bowyer fin...
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SONOMA, Calif. (AP) Martin Truex Jr. was running second as the laps dwindled in Sonoma, and crew chief Cole Pearn didn't think they were as fast as Kevin Harvick....
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NASCAR Cup Series Highlights: Kevin Harvick comments on his team's failed strategy call that led him to a second-place finish....
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• NASCAR results at Sonoma: Martin Truex Jr.'s team uses tricky strategy to win
Truex's crew chief, Cole Pearn, tricked Kevin Harvick and the No. 4 team into pitting early, giving Truex fresher tires in the final laps....
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• Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch are the drivers to watch at Sonoma Raceway
Here are five drivers to watch as the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series heads to Sonoma Raceway for the Toyota/Save Mart 350.
The NASCAR Cup Series is headed to Sonoma Raceway for the first of three visits to a road course on the NASCAR schedule.
Four of the five drivers from the last edition of who to watch finished inside the top-5 at Pocono. Erik...
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• Road warrior: Martin Truex Jr. conquers Sonoma’s road course
SONOMA, Calif. (AP) — Martin Truex Jr. won the NASCAR Cup Series race in Sonoma on Sunday, using a clever pit strategy to cruise to his second career victory on the challenging road course.
Truex easily held off Kevin Harvick for his second win in three weeks and his third victory of the season in his Furniture Row Racing Toyota.
The defending Cup ...
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• Kurt Busch Ends Final Practice at Sonoma on Top of the Leaderboard
By Luis Torres, Staff Writer SONOMA, California — Kurt Busch wasted no time during Friday’s final practice at Sonoma Raceway, scorching the fastest time of the session at 76.163 seconds (94.061 mph), edging Denny Hamlin by 0.040 seconds. Martin Truex, Jr., Jamie McMurray, Kevin Harvick, Chris Buescher, Brad Keselowski, Trevor Bayne, Aric Almirola, ...
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• Statistically Speaking: Toyota Save/Mart 350
This week the NASCAR series gets to turn left and right when they tackle Sonoma Raceway. Sonoma, in the southern Sonoma Mountains, has been on the NASCAR circuit since 1989. This weekend’s race will be the 30th running of the event. Who should we look out for this weekend?
Taking a look at the past five events at Sonoma, Kurt Busch is a steady hand...
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Martin Truex Jr.'s win at Pocono three weeks ago served notice that this year's points race might be more than a two-man showdown between Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick....
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• Back at Sonoma, Truex works to build momentum
Martin Truex Jr.’s win at Pocono three weeks ago served notice that this year’s points race might be more than a two-man showdown between Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick.
Now NASCAR’s defending champion is back at Sonoma Raceway, where he’s had plenty of success.
Truex won at Sonoma in 2013 and led several laps of last year’s road race before engine t...
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• Is lack of talent allowing 3 drivers to dominate Cup series?
Through 15 Cup races, Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex Jr. have won a combined 11. Is their experience too much for the new generation of drivers to overcome?...
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• NASCAR Monster Energy Series Mid-season Recap
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NASCAR has reached its second off week of the season, with 15 of the 36 races complete we will look back at the top 16 drivers this far in the standings, and drivers just outside. First, let us look back at each of the races so far this season. The Advance Auto Parts Clash at Daytona was won by #2 Brad Keselowski who has ye...
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• Bowyer Wins Rain Shortened Michigan Race
The luck of the Irish certainly didn’t help NASCAR get a full 400-mile race in at the Michigan International Speedway in the state’s Irish Hills.
Clint Bowyer, however, did have the luck of the Irish on his side as he was in command of the race when the rains hit, ultimately ending the race 67 laps short of the 200-lap distance.
Rain had been threa...
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• Kyle Busch continues to lead Cup points standings after Michigan
Kyle Busch has a 75-point lead over Kevin Harvick after 15 races....