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Sam McQuagg, the 1965 NASCAR Rookie of the Year, died Saturday, his son said. He was 73. McQuagg died at St. Francis Hospital, Sam McQuagg Jr. told The Associated Press. Preliminary medical reports show McQuagg died from cancer. McQuagg began racing in the 1950s and entered his first NASCAR race in 1962. His son remembered his father’s racing career as something that seemed normal to McQuagg Jr.

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Elliott Sadler, released last month as driver of the No. 19 Dodge, claims Gillett Evernham Motorsports is in breach of contract.

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Sam McQuagg, the 1965 NASCAR rookie of the year, died of cancer Saturday in Columbus, Ga. He was 73.

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Larry Gunselman stared at the timing board in disbelief. “Dang!” Gunselman said. “He got me by a hundredth. We were up by 15 hundredths for a while. Sandbagger!” Former Craftsman truck champion Todd Bodine and brakeman Kenneth Stout, of Ogdensburg, N.Y., beat Gunselman and brakeman Matthew Golovach, of Morrisonville, N.Y., by that slim margin — 52.20 seconds to 52.21 — to win qualifying for the…

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Qatar’s Nasser Al Attiyah won the first stage of the Dakar Rally on Saturday, a 231-mile dusty run in which he held off a posse of Volkswagens led by former world champion Carlos Sainz. Al Attiyah, winner of the UAE Desert Challenge, completed the leg in his BMW from Buenos Aires south to Santa Rosa in 2 hours, 36 minutes, 15 seconds.

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Admittedly, the collapse of Kyle Busch’s No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota team in the Chase tainted an otherwise phenomenal season in which Busch won eight of the first 22 Cup races in his first year with JGR. Nevertheless, Busch deserves high praise for what he was able to accomplish during a transition year.

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Whether through happenstance or through foresight bordering on prescience, NASCAR’s development of the Car of Tomorrow was a brilliant move, says four-time Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon.

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Three-time Daytona 500 winner Jeff Gordon is the latest driver added to the driver appearance schedule for the annual Preseason Thunder Fan Fests at historic Daytona International Speedway on Jan. 16-17.

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Hundreds of thousands of people overwhelmed the capital of Argentina on Friday to see the vehicles competing in the first Dakar Rally in South America.

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