Edwards Eyes Three-Peat

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Carl Edwards shoots for his third straight Sprint Cup Series win in Sunday’s GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway.

However, if the Joe Gibbs Racing driver is to score the triple, he’ll have to succeed at a track that has not been kind to him over the years. He’s never won in 23 career starts at the 2.66-mile track and has an average finish of 20.8 heading into the weekend. Edwards’ best finish came in 2013, when he posted a third. “I have wrecked about every way you can here,” Edwards said. “This place is deceptively tough and deceptively dangerous because there’s so much room to race and you get so comfortable and you get lulled into this sense of security and then when something happens you realize, ‘wow, this is really hard to get stopped and control the people around you and avoid them.’ Just to be there at the end is the key.” Edwards gave his …

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