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Dakar Rally leader Nasser Al Attiyah was disqualified for skipping part of the sixth stage he won on Thursday.

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STATESVILLE, North Carolina (Ticker) — Gillett Evernham Motorsports and Petty Holdings have agreed in principle to form a new four-car team that will run in the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

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Just like usual in early January, Kurt Busch was back in the cockpit of a car at a track doing testing.

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Gillett Evernham Motorsports has reached a merger agreement with Petty Enterprises, creating a four-car team that will ensure the famed No. 43 races in 2009.

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Richard Petty will remain a prominent figure in the garage. However, Petty Enterprises — a 60-year staple in the Cup Series — has closed its doors.

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Qatari Nasser al-Attiyah won the sixth stage of the Dakar Rally on Thursday to increase his overall lead. However he could face a time penalty after a review of whether al-Attiyah went through all the control points on a shortened 178-kilometer stage between San Rafael and Mendoza in Argentina.

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Phase 3 of Dover International Speedway’s “Monster Makeover” is currently underway. Construction crews in Dover have already removed the existing frontstretch pit wall and preparations are underway to install a longer, SAFER (Steel And Foam Energy Reduction) wall in time for the May 29-31, 2009 NASCAR race weekend. The end result will be a wider, safer pit road, and one additional pit stall.

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Talladega Superspeedway just gave its fans another reason to help celebrate its 40th anniversary, by reducing more than 20,000 Sprint Cup Series tickets to only $40 each. Beginning Jan. 8, tickets in the Gadsden and Lincoln grandstands will be available at the reduced price for both the April 26 Aaron’s 499 and the Nov.1 Amp Energy 500 Cup races.

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Nasser Al Attiyah and Marc Coma widened their leads in the car and motorbike divisions of the Dakar Rally on Thursday, covering a route through the Andes foothills so difficult it had to be shortned by more than half. Al Attiyah raced through the sixth stage in 2 hours, 7 minutes, 26 seconds to complete the 111-mile route, cut from 245 miles due to difficult terrain between San Rafael and Mendoza…

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South African Giniel de Villiers scored his first stage win of the 2009 Dakar Rally and moved into second place overall after Stage 5 on Wednesday.

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