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The NASCAR Nextel Cup Leader Bonus is $70,000 at California Speedway for leading the points and winning the race (Matt Kenseth last won the award, $30,000 at Las Vegas on March 7, 2004). The $360,000 annual award is paid at $10,000 per race to the point leader at the end of each event if the driver is ... the winner. The award increases by $10,000 each week the it goes unclaimed. If the point leader is not the race winner at the end of the year, the balance of the award is distributed among the top-10 finishers in the drivers point standings(4-25-2004)
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Busch was below legal alcohol limit: Nextel Cup champion driver Kurt Busch had a 0.017 blood-alcohol level on a preliminary sobriety test, far below the state's impairment limit, Maricopa County sheriff's office said Tuesday. Busch was detained Friday on suspicion of drunken driving and cited for reckless driving after a confrontation with Maricopa County deputies. He was suspended by Roush Racing for the rest of the season. Maricopa County sheriff's spokesman Lt. Paul Chagolla said the preliminary test is not admissible in court, but is designed to help indicate the presence of alcohol. The legal limit in Arizona is 0.08. Chagolla said deputies tried to administer an official alcohol breath test but the machine malfunctioned. None of the six signs that would indicate impairment during another test were present either.
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EAST HANOVER, N.J., Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- NASCAR NEXTEL Cup driver Greg Biffle, the Ford 400 three-time defending champion, crowned a new kind of racing winner today -- America's fastest twister, licker and dunker. William Reed Hair of Eliot, Maine became the first grand prize winner in the Oreo Double Stuf Race and took home $10,000 for literally licking his competition.
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Busch wrecks early, down many laps: Defending NASCAR Nextel Cup champion Kurt Busch was knocked out of the opening race of the 2005 Chase for the championship on the second lap of Sunday's Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire International Speedway. Busch, one of 10 drivers qualified for the 10-race title playoff, started 12th in the 43-car field and was running side-by-side with Scott Riggs when Riggs appeared to lose control of his car, slid up into Busch's No. 97 Ford and sent it spinning into the outside wall between turns one and two on the banked 1.058-mile oval.
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Last week the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup race in Dover was plagued with errors by the drivers, officials and safety crews. As a result of the official errors NASCAR made a couple of minor rule changes to try to avoid having the same problem pop up again. It seems maybe they are on to something, but there are still kinks to work out.
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MBNA Mid-Race Leader Award: The MBNA Mid-Race Leader Award is worth $10,000 to any eligible NASCAR Nextel Cup driver who leads a race at the halfway mark. An additional $5,000 is earned if that driver ... wins the race. If the race-win bonus is not earned, the $5,000 rolls into the next week’s award. Tony Stewart claimed the biggest MBNA Mid-Race Leader payout when he took home $85,000 ($10,000 for the award, $75,000 for the race-win bonus) by winning last year’s UAW-GM Quality 500 after leading the race at the halfway point.
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