Author: Mike Haag

Track: Streets of Toronto’s Exhibition Place, an 11-turn, 1.755-mile temporary street course Race distance: 85 laps / 149.175 miles Entry List: Honda Indy Toronto (PDF) Push-to-pass parameters: 10 activations for 20 seconds each Firestone tire allotment: Four sets primary, three sets alternate Twitter: @HondaIndy, @IndyCar, #IndyTO, #IndyCar Event website: www.HondaIndyToronto.com  INDYCAR website: www.IndyCar.com 2015 race winner: Josef Newgarden (No. 67 Hartman Oil CFH Racing Chevrolet) 2015 Verizon P1 Award winner: Will Power (No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet), 59.4280 seconds, 106.314 mph Qualifying record: Gil de Ferran, 57.143 seconds, 110.565 mph, July 17, 1999 NBCSN television broadcasts: Qualifying, 1:30 p.m.…

FORT WORTH – High school students from across the gathered at Texas Motor Speedway in preparation for the start of the 2016 Solar Car Challenge. Twenty-two high schools represent this year’s field of competitors that will venture cross-country beginning Sunday, July 17.  The Solar Car Challenge will depart from the Northwest ISD Administration building, just west of Texas Motor Speedway, and the trip concludes on Saturday, July 23 in Mendota Heights, Minn., outside Minneapolis. Event Recap High school solar car teams took the first steps in preparing for their 785-mile cross-country venture. Students began preparing their vehicles for the scrutineering portion of the…

NEWTON, Iowa  – Josef Newgarden put on one of the most dominant clinics in Indy car history, leading a record 282 laps today to win the Iowa Corn 300 at Iowa Speedway. The victory was the third of Newgarden’s six-year Verizon IndyCar Series career and first on an oval track. It also vaulted the Ed Carpenter Racing driver three spots into second place in the point standings after 10 of 16 completed races. CLICK HERE: Iowa Corn 300 box score Starting the 300-lap race second in the No. 21 Fuzzy’s Ultra Premium Vodka/ECR Chevrolet, Newgarden bolted past pole sitter Simon…

JOLIET, Ill. – Antron Brown raced to his third Top Fuel victory of the season Sunday at the K&N Filters Route 66 NHRA Nationals and moved into the series points lead over rival Doug Kalitta. Jack Beckman (Funny Car), Greg Anderson (Pro Stock) and Andrew Hines (Pro Stock Motorcycle) also were winners in their respective categories at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series event at Route 66 Raceway near Chicago. Brown claimed his third Chicago win and 57th career victory with a final round performance of 3.777 seconds at 321.19 mph in his Matco Tools dragster to hold off…

NEWTON, Iowa  – Simon Pagenaud has been setting the standard in the Verizon IndyCar Series this season and he helped take Team Penske to another level today. Pagenaud, a three-time winner in 2016 and the championship leader after nine of 16 completed races, won the Verizon P1 Award for the Iowa Corn 300, earning the 500th pole position in all racing disciplines in the illustrious history of Team Penske in the process. The driver of the No. 22 Menards Team Penske Chevrolet circled the 0.894-mile Iowa Speedway oval twice at 185.855 mph (34.6334 seconds) to capture his fifth pole position…

JOLIET, Ill. – Matt Hagan thundered to the No. 1 qualifying position with a track record performance to lead the quickest Funny Car field in history Saturday at the K&N Filters Route 66 NHRA Nationals. It was the second top qualifying effort of the season for Hagan, who navigated the Route 66 Raceway dragstrip under the lights in a track record time of 3.882 seconds at 331.12 mph in his Mopar Express Lane Dodge Charger R/T. Brittany Force (Top Fuel), Shane Gray (Pro Stock) and Matt Smith (Pro Stock Motorcycle) also will lead their respective classes into Sunday’s 11 a.m.…

By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service SPARTA, Ky. – Brad Keselowski had his mojo working in Saturday night’s Quaker State 400 at Kentucky Speedway. Saving just enough fuel to get to the finish line, Keselowski eked out a heart-thumping victory over Carl Edwards to win his second consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race and his third at Kentucky Speedway. But this was not the same bumpy, abrasive Kentucky Speedway where Keselowski went to Victory Lane in 2012 and 2014. This was a repaved, reconfigured 1.5-mile intermediate track fraught with treachery, especially when combined with the lower-downforce aerodynamic package in use…

By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service SPARTA, Ky. – It was a race Kyle Busch won with a dramatic run around the outside lane at Kentucky Speedway. It was a race Erik Jones lost when he hit the wrong switch on his dashboard, killed the engine and slowed under caution late in the race. But, interestingly, it was a race where Jones showed Busch, the pole winner, the key to victory, demonstrating to his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate that the outside line was viable when racing side-by-side with an opponent. Clearing Austin Dillon off Turn 4 in the first lap…

JOLIET, Ill. – Brittany Force led a parade of track record performances Friday at the K&N Filters Route 66 NHRA Nationals by powering to the qualifying lead in Top Fuel. Ron Capps (Funny Car), Shane Gray (Pro Stock) and Matt Smith (Pro Stock Motorcycle) also were qualifying leaders in their classes at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series event at Route 66 Raceway near Chicago. Force, a two-time winner this season, celebrated her 30th birthday by posting the fourth quickest Top Fuel elapsed time in history, a track record of 3.692 seconds at 325.69 mph in her Monster Energy…

By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service SPARTA, KY. – William Byron didn’t have the fastest truck at the end of Thursday night’s Buckle Up In Your Truck 225 at Kentucky Speedway. But Byron had the most important ingredient in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at the newly repaved and reconfigured 1.5-mile track. Byron held the top spot for all 42 laps after the final restart of the event on lap 108 of 150. It was no cakewalk. Byron had to stave off assaults from both runner-up John Hunter Nemechek and third-place finisher Daniel Hemric, who dogged the race…