Brad Keselowski

Flyers center Jeff Carter was among the 60,000-plus sun-baked fans who were treated to a rare NASCAR doubleheader at Dover International Speedway yesterday, with enough on-track skirmishes to mangle a garage full of sheet metal and strain at least one team's camaraderie. "This is wild, this is the best," Carter said from a suite above the start/finish line. Even the sight of Brian Keselowski's No. 26 black Dodge Charger - carrying the Detroit Red Wings logo on the hood, "Go Wings" on the rear quarterpanels, and "Hockeytown" across the back bumper - couldn't put a damper on Carter's enthusiasm.

LOUDON, N.H. - Tony Stewart made it 2-for-2 in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship, pulling ahead when Clint Bowyer ran out of gas with two laps left to win at New Hampshire Motor Speedway yesterday. Stewart is on a roll when the season matters most, following last week's Chase opening victory at Chicagoland Speedway with another strong performance at New Hampshire. Both of his victories this season have come in the Chase and have propelled him to the top of the points standings.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. - That'll teach everyone to count out Jimmie Johnson. The five-time defending Cup champion dominated yesterday at Kansas Speedway, weathering a series of late cautions and holding off Kasey Kahne to win for the first time since April. Johnson stumbled through the first two races in NASCAR's version of a postseason, and was 10th in the standings heading to Dover. A second-place finish last weekend gave Johnson confidence, and his first win since Talladega moved him into third in the Chase behind Carl Edwards and Kevin Harvick.

TUMS Fast Relief 500 Martinsville Speedway, Martinsville Va. When: 1:30 p.m. Sunday TV/Radio: ESPN/WNPV (1440-AM) Race course: .526-mile oval Race distance: 500 laps/263 miles Race forecast: sunny, high 50s Last year's winner: Denny Hamlin Last year's pole: Hamlin Track qualifying record: Tony Stewart (98.083 mph), October 2005 Wins: Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick, 4 each; Brad Keselowski, Jeff Gordon, Matt Kenseth, 3 each; Tony Stewart, Kurt Busch, Jimmie Johnson, 2 each; Carl Edwards, Trevor Bayne, Regan Smith, Denny Hamlin, David Ragan, Ryan Newman, Paul Menard, Marcos Ambrose, Clint Bowyer, 1 each.

Dickies 500 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth, Texas TV/Radio: Channel 6/WNPV (1440-AM), WDSD (94.7-FM) Race course: 1.5- mile tri-oval Race distance: 501 miles/334 laps. Last year's race winner: Carl Edwards Last year's pole winner: Jeff Gordon Track qualifying record: Brian Vickers, 196.235 mph (27.518 seconds) in November 2006. Track facts: Edwards hasn't won since last year's season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. He swept Texas' races in 2008 ... Brad Keselowski will replace David Stremme in the No. 12 Dodge this weekend at Texas Motor Speedway.

Kurt Busch and Sam Hornish Jr. will have a new teammate next year at Penske Racing. Brad Keselowski will drive the No. 12 Dodge for Penske in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, replacing David Stremme. Tim Cindric, president of Penske Racing, said on a conference call yesterday that Stremme will continue driving the No. 12 the rest of this year. Stremme is 31st in points. "When I woke up [yesterday], I felt it was the right one," Keselowski said. "I want to be the guy that gives Penske Racing its first NASCAR championship.

GLADEVILLE, Tenn. - Carl Edwards claimed his fifth career victory at Nashville Superspeedway, holding off Kyle Busch to win the Nashville 300 on Saturday. Edwards celebrated the Nationwide Series victory with his trademark back flip and a brief trip to the edge of the grandstands to acknowledge cheering fans. Edwards' victory kept Busch from pulling off the first double at the track. Busch had dominated in winning the Trucks Series race Friday night. Edwards led 148 of the 225 laps Saturday and took the lead for good on lap 191, passing Busch and opening up a slight lead and weaving past a slower car on the final lap. It was Edwards' second Nationwide victory of the season and 31st overall.

TALLADEGA, Ala. - The leader on the last lap isn't supposed to win at Talladega Superspeedway. Everybody knows that. Brad Keselowski disagrees, and he showed how to do it Sunday with a calculated plan that sent him to Victory Lane. Keselowski used a big push from Kyle Busch to pass leader Matt Kenseth, and after leaving the Daytona 500 winner in their wake, Keselowski staved off Busch's attempt to snatch the win. Using a move Keselowski said he had dreamed about, he held on for his second win of the season and second at Talladega.

Auto Club 400 Auto Club Speedway, Fontana, Calif. When: Sunday, 3 p.m. TV/Radio: Fox/WNPV (1440-AM) Race course: 2-mile oval Race distance: 200 laps/400 miles Race forecast: partly cloudy, low 60s Last year's winner: Kevin Harvick Last year's pole winner: Juan Pablo Montoya, 184.653 mph Track qualifying record: Kyle Busch, 188.245 mph (February 2005) Track facts: Kevin Harvick passed Jimmie Johnson on the final lap to win last year's race.

BRISTOL, Tenn. - Brad Keselowski used Bristol Motor Speedway last fall to cement his spot in NASCAR's championship race. Back at the track Sunday, Keselowski again made his way to Victory Lane. And he again began to think about a Sprint Cup title. Keselowski led a career-best and race-high 231 laps, then held off Daytona 500 winner Matt Kenseth on a late restart to cruise to his first victory of the season. "What can I say? I love Bristol and Bristol loves me," said Keselowski, who immediately began taking pictures in Victory Lane to send to Twitter.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Want to capture the nation's attention? Try a giant fireball. It certainly worked for NASCAR, which salvaged its marquee event despite the first-ever rainout in 54 runnings of The Great American Race. The first prime-time Daytona 500 in NASCAR history was a win for Fox, with 36.5 million viewers, up 22 percent from 30 million last year. And NASCAR, surprisingly, continued its momentum from last season, partly because of the freak crash in which Juan Pablo Montoya's car hit a truck loaded with jet fuel, injuring no one but scorching the track and forcing a 2-hour delay.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - First came the rain. Then came the fire. NASCAR races rarely come off without a hitch, but what happened Monday night on the 160th lap of the Daytona 500 is without precedent. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong. Journeyman driver Dave Blaney was leading when a problem with Juan Pablo Montoya's car sent him spinning under caution into a safety truck. The truck, which holds 200 gallons of jet kerosene, burst into flames. Montoya's car slid into the grass, and he gingerly climbed from it as fire trucks rushed to the scene.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - NASCAR has raced on the beach at Daytona, under the lights and even around a pesky pothole. But never on a Monday - until now. The Daytona 500 was postponed yesterday for the first time in its 54-year history after heavy rain saturated Daytona International Speedway. NASCAR officials spent more than 4 hours waiting for a window to dry the famed track, but it never came. When the latest storm cell passed over the speedway around 5 p.m., they had little choice but to call it a day. The 500-mile race was rescheduled for noon today.

MARTINSVILLE, Va. - Tony Stewart passed Jimmie Johnson on a restart with three laps to go yesterday and surged into contention for his third NASCAR Sprint Cup championship with three races left. The victory was the third for Stewart in the first seven races of the 10-race playoffs, and he was easily the leading benefactor as the points race was significantly jumbled. Stewart moved from 19 points behind leader Carl Edwards and in fourth place to just eight points behind in second as several contenders got caught up in a season-high 18 caution flags.