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FILE - In this June 28, 2020, file photo, Denny Hamlin celebrates after winning the NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Pocono Raceway, in Long Pond, Pa. Denny Hamlin and Kevin Harvick flipped their 1-2 finish in Pocono’s doubleheader weekend last year but they each come back for this weekend’s races winless and trying to chase Kyle Larson. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)
NASCAR Cup Series at Pocono
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FILE - In this Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020, file photo, Chad Knaus, crew chief for William Byron, watches a practice session for the NASCAR Daytona 500 auto race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla. Chad Knaus will move off the pit stand and into a management role with Hendrick Motorsports, ending his crew chief career after seven championships. Hendrick on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, announced Knaus will move to vice president of competition.(AP Photo/Terry Renna, File)
NASCAR Cup Series at Daytona
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FILE - In this May 22, 2013, file photo, Jack Ingram, right, is congratulated by a guest after being named to the next class of inductees during an announcement at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, N.C. Ingram, a hard-hosed, hot-tempered racer who won five NASCAR championships and more than 300 races, has died, the NASCAR Hall of Fame said Friday, June 25, 2021. He was 84. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)
NASCAR-HALL OF FAME
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FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2014, file photo, former driver Jack Ingram makes his way to the podium to accept his ring during the NASCAR Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Charlotte, N.C. Ingram, a hard-hosed, hot-tempered racer who won five NASCAR championships and more than 300 races, has died, the NASCAR Hall of Fame said Friday, June 25, 2021. He was 84. (AP Photo/Bob Leverone, File)
NASCAR Hall of Fame Inductions
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Kyle Larson shoots pistols as he celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR Cup Series All-Star auto race at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas, Sunday, June 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
Lane United FC vs Pdx FC 6/13/2021
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FILE - Jeff Gordon, right, celebrates his victory with team owner Rick Hendrick after the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Pure Michigan 400 auto race at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Mich., in this Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014, file photo. Jeff Gordon will leave the Fox Sports booth for a daily role at Hendrick Motorsports as vice chairman ranked second only to majority owner Rick Hendrick. The new job positions the four-time champion and Hall of Famer to eventually succeed Hendrick at the top of NASCAR’s winningest organization. (AP Photo/Bob Brodbeck, File)
NASCAR-Pure Michigan 400 8/17/2014
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Joey Logano drives enroute to the pole during qualifying for the NASCAR cup series race at Michigan International Speedway, Saturday, June 8, 2019, in Brooklyn, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
NASCAR Cup Series at Michigan
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FILE - In this July 15, 2020, file photo, Chase Elliott celebrates after winning the NASCAR All-Star auto race at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tenn. Texas is the third track in three years to hold NASCAR's All-Star race. Elliott won last summer at Bristol, where the annual non-points exhibition was moved from Charlotte because of COVID-19 restrictions. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
NASCAR Cup Series at Bristol
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FILE - In this July 19, 2020, file photo, Texas Motor Speedway president and general manager Eddie Gossage, right, holds a "Winner" sign as Austin Dillon, left, celebrates by firing six-shooters after winning the NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas. NASCAR is providing quite a night to mark the 25th season of racing at Texas Motor Speedway, and sendoff for track president and showman Eddie Gossage, whose last race is Sunday after overseeing the track from its groundbreaking in 1995, two years before it opened. (AP Photo/Ray Carlin, File)
NASCAR Cup Series at Texas
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FILE - In this May 26, 2013, file photo, Tony Kanaan, of Brazil, celebrates on the start/finish line after winning the Indianapolis 500 auto race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Kanaan will get to race 5 oval events, including the Indianapolis 500, in what will be called his “farewell tour” this upcoming IndyCar season. (AP Photo/Tom Strattman, File)
IndyCar Indy 500 Auto Racing
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FILE - Bill Elliott waves to fans on pit road before the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla., in this Saturday, July 7, 2012, file photo. Superstar Racing Experience was conceptualized as a series for former greats who still had the skills and desire to compete to square off in identically prepared cars at six of America’s classic short tracks. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)
NASCAR Daytona Auto Racing
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NASCAR Xfinity Series driver Noah Gragson before the Alsco Uniforms 300 race at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 29, 2021 in Charlotte, NC. (AP Photo/Ben Gray)
FC van vs FC Noah 5/28/2021
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FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2012, file photo, Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel, right, of Germany U.S. Grand Prix , leads the field into the first turn for the start of the Formula One U.S. Grand Prix auto race at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. The promoters of Formula One’s U.S. Grand Prix blew a deadline to collect their annual $25 million in Texas taxpayer money to help pay for the 2018 race. Now state lawmakers are about to give them another chance, and make it easier to get the funds in the future. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
F1 US Grand Prix Auto Racing
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File - In this Feb. 10, 2019, file photo, Matt DiBenedetto (95) makes his way through Turn 4 during qualifying for the NASCAR Daytona 500 auto race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla. DiBenedetto drove his Leavine Family Racing Toyota at the Sprint Cup Series auto race in Sonoma, Calif., Sunday, June 23, 2019, to his first top-five finish in the 156th career start of a career spent with underfunded, back-of-the-pack teams. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)
NASCAR Cup Series at Daytona
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Kurt Busch, left, and team owner Chip Ganassi, right, celebrate after announcing a multi-year contract for Busch with Ganassi racing during a NASCAR news conference at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Roger Steinman)
NASCAR Cup Series at Texas
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