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NASCAR Sprint Cup
Dickies 500
Site: Fort Worth, Texas Motor Speedway (oval, 1.5 miles, 24 degrees banking in turns)
TV schedule: Friday, qualifying (ESPN2, 3:30 p.m.); Sunday, race (ABC, 2 p.m.)
Race distance: 501 miles/334 laps
2007 winner: Jimmie Johnson
Fast facts: Eastman Kodak Co. is ending its 22-year sponsorship in NASCAR and putting more sports marketing dollars into professional golf. ... Jimmie Johnson, who has a string of 12 consecutive top-10 finishes in Chase races, has a whopping 183-point lead over Carl Edwards with just three races left. ... Edwards has overcome an early 100-point penalty and six-week suspension to start the Chase. He has seven wins, including the Samsung 500 on April 6 at Texas Motor Speedway. ... Cale Yarborough (1976-78) is the last driver to win three consecutive championships.
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NASCAR Nationwide
O'Reilly Challenge
Site: Fort Worth, Texas Motor Speedway (oval, 1.5 miles, 24 degrees banking in turns)
TV schedule: Friday, qualifying (Speed Channel, 5:30 p.m.); Saturday, race (ESPN2, 2:30 p.m.).
Race distance: 300 miles/200 laps
2007 winner: Kevin Harvick
Fast facts: Carl Edwards, with his fifth series win last week at Memphis, pulled within 116 points of series leader Clint Bowyer, who finished 16th. There are three races remaining on the schedule. ... The polesitter has never won any of the 15 Nationwide races at Texas. ... Kyle Busch, starting from pole position No. 31, took the O'Reilly 300 at Texas Motor Speedway on April 5.
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NASCAR Craftsman Trucks
Chevy Silverado 350k
Site: Fort Worth, Texas Motor Speedway (oval, 1.5 miles, 24 degrees banking in turns)
TV schedule: Friday, race (Speed Channel, 8 p.m.)
Race distance: 219 miles/146 laps
2007 winner: Ted Musgrave
Fast facts: Camping World will replace Craftsman as the title sponsor for NASCAR's truck series in 2009. ... Ron Hornaday Jr.'s second-place finish last week at Atlanta moved him within 31 points of Johnny Benson's lead in the championship standings. ... Hornaday won the Sam's Town 400 at Texas Motor Speedway on June 6 and Benson finished third. ... Five of the 21 truck races at Texas have been won by the polesitter.
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Formula One
Brazilian Grand Prix
Site: Sao Paulo, Interlagos, Jose Carlos Pace (road course, 2.677 miles)
TV schedule: Saturday, qualifying (Speed Channel, 11 a.m.); Sunday, race (Speed Channel, 10:30 a.m.)
Race distance: 190.067 miles/71 laps
2007 winner: Kimi Raikkonen
Fast facts: This is the last Formula One race using grooved tires, a feature of the sport for the past 11 seasons. Next year, new rule changes mean that teams will use slick rubber for the first time since 1997. ... Formula One's governing body is moving forward with its plan to have a sole engine and transmission supplier beginning in 2010. ... For the second straight year Lewis Hamilton takes a seven-point lead into the final race of the year. Hamilton, at 23, would be F1's youngest champion, eclipsing the mark set by Fernando Alonso, who was 24 years and 59 days when he won in 2004 for Renault. ... Felipe Massa is second in the standings and would need to win and have Hamilton finish no higher than seventh, or finish second while the Briton finishes out of the points to keep the drivers' title from going to McLaren for the first time since 1999.
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NHRA
ACDelco Las Vegas Nationals
Site: Las Vegas, Nev., The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway
TV schedule: Saturday, qualifying (ESPN2, 9 p.m., taped); Sunday, eliminations (ESPN2, 6 p.m., taped)
2007 winners: Rod Fuller (Top Fuel), Tony Pedregon (Funny Car), Greg Anderson (Pro Stock), Andrew Hines (Pro Stock Motorcycle)
Fast facts: Rob Flynn will take over as crew chief on Kenny Bernstein Racing's Budweiser/Lucas Oil dragster at the end of the season. Mike Guger has been named assistant crew chief. ... Don Prudhomme Racing has signed Fort Worth resident Spencer Massey to a multiyear agreement with plans to put him behind the wheel of a new Top Fuel dragster team beginning with the 2010 NHRA Full Throttle season.
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