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His broken right shoulder blade is getting to be a sore subject for Tony Stewart. Stewart conceded that Sunday's 110-lap race around Infineon's hilly 1.99-mile road course will put demands on the shoulder that Pocono and Michigan did not. 
  -- Chicago Sun-Times

Is Jeff Gordon slowing, or have his rivals caught up to him? He hasn't won since last October at Martinsville, Va., and he's 499 points behind series leader and teammate Jimmie Johnson. Even rookie Denny Hamlin, in eighth, is higher in the points this year than Gordon.
  -- Los Angeles Times

With three straight victories on NASCAR's two road courses, Stewart is the new King of the Road and has wrestled the title from Gordon. Gordon is still the all-time road king with eight victories. He has four victories at Infineon, and nobody else has more than two. Gordon also has four wins at Watkins Glen, but Stewart has won three, including three of the past four there. Gordon acknowledged that Stewart had passed him on the road.
   -- Oakland Tribune

Boris Said wants to be a full-time NASCAR driver so badly he is willing to share the one advantage he has -- his road-racing skills -- with his competitors in the hope that they might one day help him achieve his goal. For years, Said has coached NASCAR drivers, who usually make only left turns on oval tracks, on the finer points of braking and turning both right and left on winding, multiple-turn tracks.
  -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution

During the race season, Kurt Busch sneaks away whenever he can for a baseball game, preferably watching his beloved Chicago Cubs. (He's from Las Vegas but his family's roots are in Chicago.) He's visited 18 major-league ballparks and plans on getting to the remaining 12.
  -- San Francisco Chronicle

David Gilliland had one valuable asset at Kentucky. Jerry Nadeau, who has been out of the driver's seat in the Cup series since a bad crash during practice at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway in May of 2003. Nadeau has served as driving coach for Gilliland. He goes to the races with Gilliland's team and works from the pits.
  -- Kansas City Star

NASCAR gun-for-hire Scott Pruett will be pulling double duty while traveling 10,000 miles this weekend for Chip Ganassi Racing. Pruett, a former CART star, will compete in Saturday's Grand American Rolex Series race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course and in Sunday's NASCAR Nextel Cup event at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif.
  -- Detroit Free Press

Brian Vickers and Ken Schrader are among the Nextel Cup drivers scheduled to join NASCAR's AutoZone West Series' regular field in the race Saturday.
  -- Los Angeles Times

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