Author: Mike Haag

By Josh Farmer FORT WORTH, Texas – Former Texas Motor Speedway winners Scott Dixon and Helio Castroneves are truly the hunter and the hunted heading into tonight’s Rainguard Water Sealers 600. Dixon has recovered from his fair share of adversity this season. The 36-year-old New Zealander walked away from a devastating crash with Jay Howard on lap 53 of the 101st running of the Indianapolis 500 presented by PennGrade Motor Oil. He rebounded to finish second and sixth in last week’s doubleheader at Detroit, although he was challenging for the win in the second race until a fuel probe issue…

By John Sturbin FORT WORTH, Texas – Christopher Bell, a self-described “dirt track kid” from Oklahoma, edged Chase Briscoe after a dramatic side-by-side, closing-laps battle to win Friday night’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series winstaronlinegaming.com 400 at Texas Motor Speedway. Bell, who started 21st in the 28-truck field, won under caution after a violent white-flag wreck involving Timothy Peters, Austin Wayne Self and Johnny Sauter on TMS’ repaved and re-profiled 1.5-mile oval. A 22-year-old native of Norman, Okla., who calls TMS his home track, Bell earned his first at TMS, second of 2017 and fourth of his 37-race NCWTS career. “First…

Courtesy of Texas Motor Speedway Media Relations FORT WORTH, Texas – NASCAR Camping World Truck Series 18-year-old rookie Noah Gragson arrived at Texas Motor Speedway on Friday in search of his first career pole position and a high school graduation commencement ceremony. In a span of an hour, the Las Vegas native checked the box on both to the tune of “Pole and Circumstance.” Gragson, driving the No. 18 Switch Toyota for Kyle Busch Motorsports, got the celebration going by winning the pole for Friday night’s winstaronlinegaming.com 400 with a track-record lap of 185.134 miles per hour. He eclipsed the…

Courtesy of the NHRA ENGLISHTOWN, N.J. — Antron Brown powered his dragster to the Top Fuel qualifying lead Friday evening at the 48th annual NHRA Summernationals at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park. Courtney Force (Funny Car), Bo Butner (Pro Stock) and LE Tonglet (Pro Stock Motorcycle) are also provisional qualifying leaders at the tenth of 24 events on the 2017 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series schedule. Brown set the time-elapsed track record with a 3.713-second run at 329.42 mph in his Matco Tools dragster during the second qualifying session, narrowly missing the track speed record of 329.91. He has yet…

FORT WORTH – A photographic look at the first Verizon IndyCar Series practice session on Friday 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 – Charlie Kimball sped to the first pole position of his Verizon IndyCar Series career, claiming the Verizon P1 Award in record time for the Rainguard Water Sealers 600 at Texas Motor Speedway. Kimball, who will make his 109th start Saturday (8 p.m. ET, NBCSN and the Advance Auto Parts INDYCAR Radio Network), set one- and two-lap INDYCAR qualifying records on the 1.5-mile oval to earn the first starting position for the 248-lap race. RAINGUARD WATER SEALERS 600: Qualifying results Kimball averaged 222.556 mph over two laps in the No. 83…

FORT WORTH – Driver quotes and reaction to Friday’s Verizon IndyCar Series qualifying at Texas Motor Speedway. Quotes and photos are provided courtesy of the Verizon IndyCar Series. SIMON PAGENAUD (No. 1 DXC Technology Team Penske Chevrolet, 2016 Verizon IndyCar Series champion): “I was really hoping for more for our No. 1 DXC Technology Chevrolet. We ran about the same in practice as qualifying. It’s OK. We’re going to work on the car more before final practice and see what we can figure out and go from there. I do think we’ll have a good car for the race, though.”…

Courtesy of NASCAR FORT WORTH – News and notes for Friday’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Winstaronlinegaming.com 400. All photos provided courtesy of Texas Motor Speedway, NASCAR and Getty Images. NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Next Race: winstaronlinegaming.com 400 The Place: Texas Motor Speedway The Date: Friday, June 9 The Time: 8 p.m. ET TV: FS1, 7:30 p.m. ET Radio: MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Distance: 250.5 miles (167 laps); Stage 1 (End Texas Motor Speedway Quick Facts As the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series heads to Texas Motor Speedway for the first of two trips there this season, below are…

By Mike Haag FORT WORTH, Texas – Texas Motor Speedway President Eddie Gossage thinks this weekend’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and Verizon IndyCar Series races are going to exciting when the trucks and cars race on the newly paved and reconfigured 1.5-mile oval. “We are excited to welcome back the NASCAR Trucks and Verizon IndyCar Series to Texas this weekend,” Gossage said. “Morning, noon and night we are going to have all kinds of activities going on this weekend.” The weekend races features the NCWTS winstaronlinegaming.com 400 on Friday and the Verizon IndyCar Series Rainguard Water Sealers 600 on…

Rainguard Water Sealers 600 Fast Facts Race weekend: Friday, June 9 – Saturday June 10 Track: Texas Motor Speedway, a 1.5-mile oval Race distance: 248 laps / 357.12 miles Entry List: Rainguard Water Sealers 600 (PDF) Firestone tire allotment: Twelve sets for use through the weekend Twitter: @TXMotorSpeedway, @IndyCar, #Rainguard600, #IndyCar Event website: www.TexasMotorSpeedway.com INDYCAR website: www.IndyCar.com 2016 race winner: Graham Rahal (No. 15 Mi-Jack Honda) 2015 Verizon P1 Award winner: Carlos Munoz (No. 26 Andretti Autosport Honda), 48.2460 seconds, 217.137 mph (two laps) Qualifying record (two laps): Will Power, 47.7960 seconds, 219.182 mph, June 7, 2013 NBCSN…