Author: Mike Haag

Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach Fast Facts Race weekend: Friday, April 7 – Sunday, April 9 Track: 1.968-mile, 11-turn temporary street course (clockwise) in Long Beach, California Race distance: 85 laps / 167.28 miles Entry List: Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach (PDF) Push-to-pass parameters: 200 seconds of total time with a maximum time of 20 seconds per activation. Firestone tire allotment: Six sets primary, four sets alternate Twitter: @ToyotaGPLB @IndyCar, #TGPLB, #IndyCar Event website: www.gplb.com INDYCAR website: www.IndyCar.com 2016 race winner: Simon Pagenaud (No. 22 PPG Automotive Refinish Team Penske Chevrolet) 2016 Verizon P1 Award winner: Helio…

FORT WORTH, Texas – A Hall of Fame induction traditionally symbolizes the pinnacle of a career in sports and that day has come for three-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Tony Stewart and milestone-setting female driver Danica Patrick of Stewart-Haas Racing. Stewart and Patrick will be inducted together this week into the Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum in Milwaukee, Wisc., and stand alongside the likes of baseball legends Babe Ruth and Willie Mays, among others. The hall and museum contains the world’s largest collection of bobbleheads that numbers in excess of 5,000 and was unveiled as an art display in…

LAS VEGAS – Antron Brown piloted his Matco Tools dragster to the Top Fuel victory Sunday at the 18th annual DENSO Spark Plugs NHRA Nationals at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Tommy Johnson Jr. (Funny Car) and Tanner Gray (Pro Stock) were also winners at the fourth event of 24 on the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series schedule. Brown, who won the event in 2016, raced to a 3.747-second pass at 321.04 mph to defeat Don Schumacher Racing teammate Tony Schumacher who ran a 3.809 at 325.14 in his U.S. Army dragster. This is Brown’s 46th career Top Fuel victory…

By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service MARTINSVILLE, Va. – In Sunday’s STP 500 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Martinsville Speedway, everything worked – but nothing more than Brad Keselowski’s race-winning No. 2 Ford. Yes, that’s right, a Ford. The car maker found Victory Lane at the .526-mile short track for the first time since Oct. 20, 2002, when Kurt Busch won at NASCAR’s oldest and smallest premier series track in a Roush Fenway Racing Ford. Keselowski and runner-up Kyle Busch swapped the lead during the final 64-lap green-flag run, with Busch taking the point on Lap 444 of…

Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Next Race: STP 500 The Place: Martinsville Speedway The Date: Sunday, April 2 The Time: 2 p.m. ET TV: FS1, 12:30 p.m. ET Radio: MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Distance: 263 miles (500 laps); Stage 1 (Ends on lap 130), Stage 2 (Ends on lap 260), Final Stage (Ends on lap 500) California Winning: Larson Notches First Win Of Season At Auto Club Kyle Larson snapped a streak of three consecutive runner-ups, leading 110 laps and winning Stage 1 on his way to Victory Lane in last Sunday’s Auto Club 400 at Auto Club Speedway in…

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Polesitter Chase Elliott held off defending NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion Johnny Sauter after a restart with 12 laps left and pulled away to win Saturday’s Alpha Energy Solutions 250 at Martinsville Speedway by 1.865 seconds. Elliott grabbed the lead from third-place finisher Christopher Bell on Lap 234, when Bell’s Toyota tangled with Austin Cindric’s Ford through Turns 1 and 2. Bell lost the top spot, and Sauter charged past into the second position before NASCAR threw the 10th and final caution of the race. The decisive move, however, came after…

LAS VEGAS – Greg Anderson raced to victory in the K&N Horsepower Challenge defeating Shane Gray in the final round on Saturday at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Anderson powered his Pro Stock Summit Racing Equipment Chevy Camaro to a 6.684-second pass at 205.47 mph to better Gray’s 6.699 at 206.26 to claim the $50,000 prize and the opportunity to walk away from the weekend with more than $100,000. With a victory at tomorrow’s DENSO Spark Plugs NHRA Nationals, Anderson could earn an additional $50,000 including a $25,000 sweep bonus. “It’s been a great start to the season,…

FORT WORTH, Texas – JR Motorsports and rookie driver William Byron returns to Texas Motor Speedway for the My Bariatric Solutions 300 on Saturday, April 8, as driver of the No. 9 Axalta/Liberty University Chevrolet SS and the 20-year old driver has one thing on his mind. He wants to win again at Texas Motor Speedway. Byron, who notched seven NASCAR Camping World Truck Series wins while racing a Toyota Tundra for Kyle Busch Motorsports last year, hopes to use his win at the Rattlesnake 400 last year to help parlay it into his first XFINITY Series victory. Byron and…

FORT WORTH, Texas – Once again Texas Motor Speedway and Levy Restaurants have put on their thinking caps to amaze their fans with another creation for them to enjoy at the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 weekend. Fans can cure their need for a bacon-infused treat this April by enjoying the newest member of the best concession items in motorsports – the Hawg Heaven Burro Grande. The Hawg Heaven Burro Grande is the next generation of the successful, bacon-infused Hawg Heaven line that is anything but little. Levy Restaurants Executive Chef Lincoln Engstrom’s newest creation is sure to entice all race…

LAS VEGAS – Courtney Force powered her Advanced Auto Parts Chevy Camaro Funny Car to the qualifying lead Friday at the 18th annual DENSO Spark Plugs NHRA Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Steve Torrence (Top Fuel) and Jason Line (Pro Stock) were also provisional leaders in their respective categories at the fourth of 24 events on the 2017 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season schedule. Force set the track elapsed time record with her 3.867-second run at 327.66 mph during the first qualifying session. “We’re starting the weekend on the right note,” Force said. “Running…