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    • Body of Robert Hight’s Funny Car flies into stands

      No fans sustained serious injuries when the body of Robert Hight's Funny Car flew into the grandstands at zMax Dragway at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Saturday.

      Hight was making a run during qualifying when the explosion from his engine catapulted the carbon fiber body of his Funny Car in the air. The car body twisted and turned in the wind before bouncing off a grandstand fence and then coming to rest perched atop another fence in front.

      Two fans sustained minor scrapes.

      Nitro dragster engine explosions can be quite powerful, so it's not uncommon to see the force of them propel the car bodies skyward in funny car. Matt Hagan's car body was obliterated when his engine exploded last year at Charlotte.

      This isn't the first major auto race where car parts have made it into the grandstands. At least 28 fans were injured at Daytona International Speedway when Kyle Larson's car was launched into the catchfence in a final lap crash during the season-opening Nationwide Series race in February.

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    • Caption Contest: Matt Kenseth and his car

      Matt, that may not work out too well for you. (Getty)

      After winning the pole at Kansas Speedway on Friday, Matt Kenseth got that car. How is Matt going to drive that? Is he going to race it on Sunday?

      Give us your best captions below. Winner gets... a round of applause? Or maybe a bar of Ricky Stenhouse Zest soap?

    • Matt Kenseth sets track record in Kansas qualifying

      (Getty)KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Matt Kenseth snatched the pole from former teammate Carl Edwards and will start first in Sunday's STP 400 at Kansas Speedway.

      Kenseth, the next-to-last car to qualify, went out two cars after Edwards and his lap of 191.864 MPH is a track record on the newly repaved and reconfigured surface. The previous record was set before last year's fall race in the first race on Kansas' steeper progressively banked track. This year, the combination of cool temperatures and a new car helped Kenseth break that record.

      Ricky Stenhouse, the man who replaced Kenseth in the No. 17 when Kenseth moved to Joe Gibbs Racing before 2013, qualified third and Sam Hornish will start fourth in his first Cup start of the season.

      Jeff Gordon crashed on his qualifying lap and will take the green shotgun on the field in a backup car. The back end of Gordon's car came around on him in turn two as he was in the throttle and the impact pancaked the rear of his car.

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    • Jimmie Johnson says that Hendrick did not ‘rat out’ Penske at Texas

      Brad Keselowski and Jimmie Johnson: side by side on the track and in the garage. (Getty)

      KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Jimmie Johnson said that the Penske Racing penalties for rear end housing violations did not stem from Hendrick Motorsports telling NASCAR that Penske was doing something wrong.

      "No, the Hendrick group and the 48 team did not rat out the Penske cars," Johnson said. "There are two decisions teams are faced with in the garage area. Everybody has teams they're watching and we've been very impressed with the 2 car's staff and their ability to have someone just standing and watch other teams. So this environment does take place in the garage area."

      "So yeah, there are blinds open. But when a team sees them they have two options. One, they go home and try to adapt to their car and understand it and see if they can learn from it when they go on the track and say something. We don't say something. We're a company well-honed on performance. We're a company that tries to understand the rulebook as close as we can to the law, and truly, we've had our issues with it, but

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    • MIT officer killed was brother of Hendrick Motorsports employee

      Sean Collier (AP)Sean Collier, the officer at MIT who according to authorities was killed by the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, was the brother of Andrew Collier, a machinist in the engine department at Hendrick Motorsports.

      "The thoughts and prayers of everyone at Hendrick Motorsports are with Andrew Collier and his family," the team said in a statement. "Andrew, a machinist in the Hendrick Motorsports engine department, tragically lost his brother, Officer Sean Collier, last night in Cambridge, Mass. We ask that the family’s privacy be considered during this difficult time."

      "A very sad time, my thoughts and prayers are with the family, and I certainly know it's the same throughout Hendrick Motorsports," Jimmie Johnson said. "We're one big family and it's sad and unfortunate to see a fellow teammate and his family have such a tough time."

      Collier, 26, responded to a disturbance on the MIT campus on Thursday evening. He was found shot in his vehicle when other officers responded to the

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    • The Chrome Horn Episode 8: Texas I

      Texas! We heard there was a race. Join Geoffrey Miller and yours truly as we talk about a myriad of topics, including Jimmie Johnson, Kyle Busch and of course, the Penske penalties.

      Click here to download the podcast or here to listen to in your browser. And we're now on iTunes! Find us in the Podcast section right here and subscribe. It'll soon be #1 in comedy.

      As always, we'd love to hear from you. Email us your thoughts, questions, rants, etc here and we'll talk about them on our next episode. (Sorry for the late upload this week, folks)

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    • Mark Martin's number on the side of his car at Kansas. (Michael Waltrip Racing)

      This is a pretty cool gesture from the Michael Waltrip Racing teams to honor the victims of the Boston Marathon explosions at Kansas. The numbers on the side of the cars of Clint Bowyer, Martin Truex Jr. and Mark Martin will be emblazoned on a replica Boston Marathon Racing bib.

      Team owner Waltrip ran the event in 2000.

      “The news coming out of Boston this week was very personal to me,” Waltrip said in a statement. “When I ran the Boston Marathon in 2000, I remember thinking about what a privilege it was to be able to participate and all the hard work it took to be there. When you can see those international flags flying in Copley Square, you know you are about to complete your journey. I know the joy those runners were feeling at that moment when their worlds changed."

      In addition, Roush Fenway Racing, of which 50 percent is owned by the Fenway Sports Group, will run a decal with the Boston Red Sox logo and the word "strong" below it on each of its cars.

      NASCAR video from Yahoo!

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    • Warped Wednesday: Teams return to true stock cars after Penske penalties

      NASCAR's new car had a short-lived existence, as teams are returning to stock cars for the foreseeable future. (Getty)

      Welcome to Warped Wednesday. On this, we'll put out the rush to judgment mat, go a little too far and have a little fun. Will it be funny? Sometimes. Will it be crazy and largely unbelievable? Probably. Will not everyone get it? Definitely.

      Reacting to the penalties that NASCAR levied against the Penske teams on Wednesday, sources exclusive to Yahoo! Sports' Warped Wednesday have learned that all teams in the Sprint Cup Series garage are returning to stock car racing's roots.

      Both Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano were docked 25 points and crew chiefs Paul Wolfe and Todd Gordon were, among others suspended for six races. The crew chiefs were fined $100,000 as well, all for the setups that the cars had in their rear end housings.

      When NASCAR Vice President of Competition Robin Pemberton discussed the confiscation of parts from the Penske teams on Saturday, he said that what they had done to the backs of the cars was "not in the spirit" of NASCAR rules. There's no word if that spirit

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    • Caption Contest: Brad meets the President

      (Getty)

      What's Brad explaining to President Obama? You know the drill, drop us a line in the comments.

    • Power Rankings: Five-time is feeling the heat for first from Kyle Busch

      It's time for Power Rankings! After every race, we'll opine about who we think is at the top of the Sprint Cup heap and how and why they got there. Remember, this isn't scientific, as our formula is the perfect blend of analytics and bias against your favorite driver. So let's get on with it, shall we?

      1. Jimmie Johnson (LW: 1): At one point during Saturday night's NRA 500, Fox TV analyst Darrell Waltrip opined that the rest of the field needed to capitalize on Jimmie Johnson's struggles. He was sixth at the time. Waltrip quickly corrected himself, seemingly after taking a glance at the scoring monitor or getting word from the production truck that Johnson was much closer to the front than he was to 20th. But such is the NASCAR world that we live in where the first instinct is to call running just outside the top five a "struggle" for the 48 team.

      2. Kyle Busch (LW: 5): Hello, Kyle. You've got some elite company above and below you. We're not doubting that you belong here by any means,

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