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2017 News

• Ryan Blaney wins his first Cup race at Pocono Raceway
• Jimmie Johnson edges out Kyle Larson on a late restart at Dover
• Austin Dillon wins the Coca-Cola 600 at CMS (his first career Cup win)
• Kyle Busch wins the 2017 ASR (his first win at CMS)
• Martin Truex Jr wins at Kansas
• Fanatics to change tent merchendise structure, will bring back some haulers
• Ricky Stenhouse Jr wins his first career Cup race at Daytona
• Ricky Stenhouse Jr wins Talladega Pole
• Dale Earnhardt Jr announces he will retire at the end of 2017 season (Cup). May still run limited Xfinity for JRM.
• Brad Keselowski wins the STP 500 at Martinsville
• Martinsville qualifying rained out, Kyle Larson awarded the pole
• Kyle Larson wins the Auto Club 400 at Fontana
• Clint Bowyer gets first top five in 52 races at Fontana
• Kyle Larson takes the Fontana pole
• Dale Earnhardt Jr and Jimmie Johnson reportedly working on extensions with HMS
• No. 77 hauler involved in an accident on the way to Auto Club Speedway (Link)
• No. 2 and No. 4 team's penalized after PIR (Link). The No. 4 team will appeal.
• Ryan Newman wins Camping World 500 at PIR on a late race restart
• Joey Logano takes the PIR pole
• Martin Truex Jr wins the Kobalt 400 at LVMS
• Brad Keselowski takes the Las Vegas pole
• 2018 NASCAR Hall of Fame nominees announced (Link)
• NHMS will lose its playoff Fall race to LVMS in 2018. NHMS will only have one race in 2018 and LVMS will now have two.
• Starting in 2018 the second Charlotte Motor Speedway race will be held on the road course (the playoff race at CMS). 
• Goodyear and NASCAR working on extension (Link)
• No. 47 fined for loose lug nuts following Atlanta (Link)
• Cole Whitt finishes top 20 at AMS (20th) with TriStar Motorsports
• RFR run well all day at AMS
• Brad Keselowski wins the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta
• Kevin Harvick takes the Atlanta pole
• Atlanta Stage Lengths: 85 laps, 85 laps, 155 laps (325 total) (Link)
• Cody Ware is making his Cup debute at Atlanta Motor Speedway
• 39 cars entered for the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway
• Martinsville showed off new lights for the first time (Link)
• Fall race at Martinsville will include qualifying and racing on same day (Link)
• No. 43 penalized for loose lug nuts after Daytona (Link)
• Kurt Busch wins the 2017 Daytona 500
• Joey Logano, Pennzoil, and Team Penske reach an extension through 2022
• Jeff Gordon will drive the 2017 Daytona 500 pace car
• Martin Truex Jr., AJ Allmendinger, and Chris Buescher fail Duel post race inspection
• Chase Elliott and Denny Hamlin win their respective Duels
• Denny Hamlin and FedEx reach an extension with JGR
• Chase Elliott takes the Daytona 500 pole, Dale Earnhardt Jr grabs the other front row spot

• 2016 NASCAR News Central