Nascar Rules

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Keselowski wins, Stenhouse savors championship

Roush Fenway Racing claims both the driver, owners' championship in finale

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Gloves come off as Cup championship bout nears

Stewart says he'll do anything to hoist the trophy; Edwards is ready to rumble

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well this is it race fans, we're down to the final race & 3 points separate 1 & 2. carl will be starting on the pole, while tony rolls off 15th. can carl hold off tony's charge for the championship. according to tony, "I'll wreck your mom to win a championship. I respect [Edwards] as a driver, but this isn't about friendships this weekend. This is a war. This is a battle. This is for a national championship. It's no holds barred this weekend. I didn't come this far to be one step away from it and let it slip away, so we're going to go for it." and carl's reply to was, "Did you say something?"
And that's the way it went, back and forth, the two trading verbal punches as if the press conference was overseen by Don King. "You can come visit my trophy in the room at Vegas when you come out there," Stewart said, referring to the season-ending championship banquet. Body blow!
"He's got the talking part figured out," Edwards responded. "Problem is, you haven't led the points yet this year, have you?" Right cross!
Actually, Stewart did lead the points twice, once after Las Vegas in March -- ironically, Edwards' only victory this season -- and after the New Hampshire Chase race, the second of his four playoff wins. Not that any of that mattered Thursday. "They say there's talkers and doers. I've done this twice," replied Stewart, the champion of NASCAR's premier series in 2002 and 2005. Edwards is still searching for his first crown.
"That's the funny thing," Edwards shot back. "I've listened to you talk a lot today. You've talked a lot about your past successes. That is very respectable. And truly, all joking aside, that will make it more fun if we're able to beat you. It will make me more proud. But this is going to be a good competition, you guys. Don't think for a second that either one of us are going to let anything slide. We're going to go out here, we're going to race hard, and we're going for this championship. I don't think you could find two harder racers than us up here and we both know that about each other."
well the battle is on. who will win? you'll just have to tune in on sunday & watch the exciting finale.

[the H team]

well here we are at homestaed florida for the last race of the nascar season. a side from deciding the championship between tony & carl, there are 41 other drivers that have their own agenda. last year denny came into homestead the leader, got into trouble that race & jimmie ended up winning his 5th championship. hopefully they will all race clean & one of them will be crowned. this would be carl's first & tony's third.

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carl's crew chief bob osborne says for the most part they will race their own race but will keep an eye on what tony's doing as well.

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tony says he has nothing to lose, so he's laying it all on the line.

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here we go, the ford 400 is under way, tony 3 wide on the first lap

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edwards leads lap1. that gives him 1 bonus point for leading.

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kurt's car smoking & backing up. kurt says the tranny or driveshaft broke. he's heading to the garage.

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jr goes by jimmie & tony up to 10th.

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jeff up to 4th, jr 6th & jimmie 7th.

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jr goes by kenseth for 5th

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14 laps into the race, caution out for rain.

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carl leads off pit road. jr gets out 3rd.

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they're working on tony's car at the front. looks like he hit something but he doesn't remember doing so.