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CUP: Tuesday NASCAR Notebook

700 FOR GORDON – Two decades. Seven hundred starts.It's been a long NASCAR road for Jeff Gordon. In Saturday night's Bojangles' Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway, he'll mark his 700th Sprint Cup start – all consecutive."I've been fortunate to race this long and have the type of career I've had," Gordon said. "It's really cool to see that this will be my 700th start, but it's not something I really paid attention to. It's hard to believe I've run that many, especially consecutively."Thirty-two of Gordon's starts have come at Darlington, where he leads active drivers in wins (7), top fives (18) and laps led (1,720).MICHIGAN TESTS SCHEDULED – Kurt Busch and Trevor Bayne are scheduled to run tests May 14-15 at Michigan International Speedway, where the new Gen-6 car could produce some rocket-like speeds.Last year, Marcos Ambrose set a MIS qualifying record with a speed of 203.241 miles per hour for the Quicken Loans 400. That speed was the 11th-fastest pole-winning speed in NASCAR Sprint ...

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