Author: Mike Haag

By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service LONG POND, Pa. — Dogged by Kevin Harvick for the final eight laps of Sunday’s Axalta presents the Pocono 400, Ryan Blaney held off the 2014 series champion in a breathtaking battle to claim the first Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series victory of his career. After a restart on Lap 148 of 160, Blaney grabbed the lead from polesitter Kyle Busch on Lap 151, with Busch on older tires, doing everything he could to block Blaney’s No. 21 Wood Brothers Racing Ford. Racing side by side with Busch’s No. 18 Toyota down the Long…

Courtesy of the NHRA ENGLISHTOWN, N.J. — Steve Torrence powered his Top Fuel dragster to victory Sunday at the 48th annual NHRA Summernationals at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park. Jack Beckman (Funny Car), Greg Anderson (Pro Stock) and Jerry Savoie (Pro Stock Motorcycle) were also winners in their respective categories at the tenth of 24 events on the 2017 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series schedule. Torrence secured his third victory of the season with a 3.857-second pass at 320.28 mph in his Capco Contractors dragster to defeat Antron Brown who ran a 3.932 at 306.74 in his Matco Tools…

FORT WORTH, Texas – A photographic look at the Verizon IndyCar Series Rainguard Water Sealers 600 race on Saturday night at Texas Motor Speedway. All photos provided courtesy of photographer Michael C. Johnson. ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]

Courtesy of the Verizon IndyCar Series FORT WORTH, Texas – Will Power survived a Wild West night of racing at Texas Motor Speedway to win the Rainguard Water Sealers 600 and join a pair of greats on the all-time Indy car victory list. The Team Penske driver won the incident-filled race on the 1.5-mile oval, taking the checkered flag in the No. 12 Verizon Chevrolet under caution ahead of second-place Tony Kanaan in the No. 10 NTT Data Honda from Chip Ganassi Racing. RAINGUARD WATER SEALERS 600: Box score The victory is the 31st in Indy cars for the 36-year-old…

Courtesy of the Verizon IndyCar Series SIMON PAGENAUD (No. 1 DXC Technology Team Penske Chevrolet, 2016 Verizon IndyCar Series champion): “It was very much pack racing, so we were trying to get away from the pack, which we did for quite a while. It was a way also to save some fuel and stay behind (Will Power). I was trying to protect him so that we could just go as fast as we could, and it worked out really well. At the end there, I was hoping we were going to go a little longer because I had a really…

Courtesy of NASCAR Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Next Race: AXALTA presents the Pocono 400 The Place: Pocono Raceway The Date: Sunday, June 11 The Time: 3 p.m. ET TV: FS1, 1:30 p.m. ET Radio: MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Distance: 400 miles (160 laps); Stage 1 (Ends on lap 50), Stage 2 (Ends on lap 100), Final Stage (Ends on lap 160) Johnson Continues To Etch Name In History Jimmie Johnson notched his 83rd career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series win Sunday at Dover International Speedway, tying him with NASCAR Hall of Famer Cale Yarborough for sixth on the all-time…

Courtesy of Texas Motor Speedway Media Relations FORT WORTH, Texas – As Texas Motor Speedway looks to cap off one exciting race weekend in tonight’s Rainguard Water Sealers 600, it looks toward another with individual tickets going on sale Monday for November’s AAA Texas 500 NASCAR tripleheader weekend. Individual tickets for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series AAA Texas 500 (Sunday, Nov. 5), XFINITY Series O’Reilly Auto Parts 300 (Saturday, Nov. 4) and Camping World Truck Series Longhorn 350 (Friday, Nov. 3) go on sale to the public beginning at 9 a.m. CT Monday. Tickets for the AAA Texas 500…

Courtesy of the NHRA ENLGISHTOWN, N.J. — Courtney Force powered her Funny Car to her fifth No. 1 qualifier of the season Saturday at the 48th annual NHRA Summernationals at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park. Antron Brown (Top Fuel), Bo Butner (Pro Stock) and LE Tonglet (Pro Stock Motorcycle) are also No. 1 qualifiers in their respective categories at the tenth of 24 events on the 2017 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series schedule. Force secured the top spot with an elapsed time track record run of 3.862-second pass at 331.12 mph in her Advance Autoparts Chevy Camaro Funny Car…

By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service LONG POND, Pa. — With a dramatic last-lap pass — the first of the season in the NASCAR XFINITY Series — Brad Keselowski won Saturday’s Pocono Green 250 at Pocono Raceway, ending a 46-race drought for the No. 22 Team Penske Ford. Keselowski swept the stages in the 100-lap event but couldn’t get past leader Kyle Larson until he reached the Long Pond straightaway on the final circuit. Keselowski powered off the first turn, down-shifted and blew past Larson before the cars reached the Tunnel Turn. Justin Allgaier followed Keselowski past Larson and finished…

FORT WORTH, Texas – Photographer Michael C. Johnson captured NASCAR Camping World Series driver Timothy Peters’ horrific crash at the end of Friday’s Winstaronlinegaming.com 400 at Texas Motor Speedway. On Lap 166 (white flag lap) Austin Wayne Self’s No. 22 Don’t Mess With Texas Toyota spun and made contact with Peters as they exited the dogleg and headed down the track’s frontstretch. Peters’ No. 99 Metabo Chevrolet Silverado spun and caught the infield grass, sending it airborne and his truck ended up on its roof. Before Peters could be extricated from the wreckage his truck had to be turned over by…