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WBKR NASCAR Report: Budweiser Duels at Daytona Blake Smith here.  If you haven’t heard the news from Sunday’s Daytona 500 qualifying, you may be living under a rock. Danica Patrick captured the pole position for this Sunday’s Daytona 500, becoming the first female to win the pole for a Sprint Cup Series race...

Danica Patrick has always made headlines as a Sprint Cup driver. Sometimes for her semi-racy GoDaddy.com commercials, sometimes for her latest romantic status or which late-night talk-show she'll be appearing on. This time...she's made headlines for making history. Racing history...

Our NASCAR expert, Blake Smith is here to look at tomorrow night's race. WBKR Preview: The Sprint Unlimited                 The turkey has been eaten, presents unwrapped, the ball has dropped in New York City and Cupid has made his yearly visit so it can only mean it’s time for one thing … NASCAR...

WBKR is your NASCAR station and when the cars are not racing, we keep up with the off-season, too. Blake Smith is here with: WBKR NASCAR Report: Charlotte Media Tour   Charlotte was filled with motorsports media members from around the country for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Media Tour hosted by Charlotte Motorspeedway...

As we get closer to the start of the NASCAR season, more news starts rolling in. This week we have news from our NASCAR reporter Blake Smith on this week's testing at Daytona: Thirty-Five NASCAR Sprint Cup Series teams have arrived in Daytona for Pre-Season Thunder Testing in Daytona...

Well we are about 6 weeks out from the 2013 NASCAR season and news is starting to come in about who is going to be driving where. The latest news comes to us from our ace reporter Blake Smith about Danica Patrick: Announcements concerning NASCAR’s Most Popular Female Driver, Danica Patrick flooded NASCAR Media today...

I follow CNN HLN morning anchor Robin Meade on Twitter. Not only is she gorgeous, has a great voice but she is also a NASCAR fan and a country music singer. Here she is with Owensboro's Michael Waltrip at the NASCAR Awards Banquet in Las Vegas Nov...

I wrote about tonight's big bash elsewhere, but our season long reporting ace, Blake Smith, has arrived with even more details, especially about Junior. The glitz and glam of the Las Vegas strip has had a “revved up” feeling about this week as the NASCAR community has been celebrating Championship week in Sin City. The cars of the top 12 in points have lined the strip since Wednesday, giving fans

Well, my man Dale Earnhardt Jr. gave it his all this 2012 race season: he had 1 win and numerous top 10 finishes and was locked in for the Chase for the Sprint Cup. After this past Sunday's Talladega race and a big crash on the last lap, it turns out Dale Jr. has a concussion, according to Hendrick Motorsports. Earnhardt will sit out Charlotte and Kansas, and Regan Smith will replace him in the No

After a drama and rain-filled Federated Auto Parts 400 in Richmond, the 12-driver field for the “Chase for the Championship” was decided in the wee hours of Sunday morning. The Chase field which is separated by only 12 points includes points leader Denny Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson, Tony Stewart, Brad Keselowski, Greg Biffle, Clint Bowyer, Dale Earnhardt Jr, Matt Kenseth, Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex Jr

Moon here with Blake Smith's review of the Federated Auto Parts 400. Ever since the season-opening, Daytona 500 fans have heard drivers and teams talk about the “Chase for the Championship.” After 25 races, the touring series will make their 26th and final stop of the regular season, Saturday night in Richmond, Va. At the conclusion of Saturday night’s 400 miles, the field of 12 drivers will be se

After a rain shortened the Pocono 500 declaring Jeff Gordon the winner, tragedy happened when lightning struck the car of a 41-year-old Pennsylvania man who was either in or around his car. Mutiple lightning strikes also occurred behind the grandstand injuring nine others...