Track tough on past winners

LOUDON, N.H. — Blame the tough racetrack, the Car of Tomorrow or simply circumstance. Whatever the reason, there have been no repeat winners in the last four years of NASCAR Sprint Cup racing at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

If that trend holds, Greg Biffle, who won here in September, won't be in Victory Lane today.

Nor will Kurt Busch, Clint Bowyer, Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch, Ryan Newman or Tony Stewart.

That impressive group of drivers includes the last eight Cup winners on the 1.058-mile New Hampshire oval.

No repeats.

The trend is even more extensive in the Nationwide Series, which had 22 different winners in 22 races heading into Saturday's Camping World 200.

"Certainly, this racetrack is one of the harder flat tracks that we go to," Biffle said. "It's really, really flat, and I think that it changes a lot, and the guy that hits it just right that weekend is why you see different winners all the time with no repeat winners.

"Hopefully, we'll break that trend this weekend. We'll just have to wait and see."

Stewart started the Cup string when he won the summer race in July 2005. Jeff Gordon, Jeff Burton, Jimmie Johnson and Busch all won multiple races here before that, including season sweeps by Johnson in 2003 and Busch in 2004.

Since then, though, no repeaters.

Busch said at least part of the explanation is the Car of Tomorrow, which began competing on NASCAR's shorter tracks in 2007. NASCAR NATIONWIDE: Kyle Busch figured out a way to win again in NASCAR's Nationwide Series, at Loudon, N.H.

After two straight frustrating runner-up finishes in the second tier series, Busch passed Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Joey Logano near the end of the Camping World 200 and held off the precocious 19-year-old.

NASCAR CAMPING WORLD: Ron Hornaday dominated his second consecutive race and won the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at the Memphis Motorsports Park.

Hornaday, the series points leader, won last week at Milwaukee in the same truck by leading 180 of 200 laps. He had a similar performance in the MemphisTravel.com 200 on Saturday night.

INDYCAR MAY ADD BRAZIL RACE: The IndyCar Series is very close to broadening its reach in a big way by adding a race in Brazil, the South American homeland of five of its regular drivers.

"I'm 90 percent there," Terry Angstadt, president of the Indy Racing League's commercial division, said Saturday. "It's that close, but we don't confirm them until they're signed.

"They have a sanctioning agreement in their hands, so they've got the documents."

"They" are the Brazilian authorities who would host the race, and Angstadt said he met with the president of APEX-Brazil, an Ethanol company that provides the fuel for IndyCars, on Friday in New York and was assured the company and Brazilian government are excited.

"Everybody wants it to happen, that's why I feel pretty good that it will," he said.