Author: Mike Haag

Track: Iowa Speedway, a 7/8-mile (0.894-mile) oval in Newton, Iowa Race distance: 300 laps / 268.2 miles Entry List: Iowa Corn 300 (pdf) Firestone tire allotment: Nine sets for use through the weekend Twitter: @iowaspeedway @IndyCar, #IowaCorn300, #IndyCar Event website: http://IowaSpeedway.com/ INDYCAR website: www.IndyCar.com 2015 race winner: Ryan Hunter-Reay 2015 Verizon P1 Award winner: Helio Castroneves, 35.0817 seconds, 183.480 mph (two laps) One-lap qualifying record: Helio Castroneves, 17.2283 seconds, 186.809 mph, July 11, 2014 Two-lap qualifying record: Scott Dixon, 34.5588 seconds, 186.256 mph, July 11, 2014 NBCSN television broadcasts: Qualifying, 3 p.m. ET Saturday, July 9 (live); Race, 5 p.m.…

By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Brad Keselowski had an excellent solution for the massive wrecks that scrambled the finishing order of Saturday night’s Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway. He stayed ahead of all of them. Leading 115 of 161 laps in the No. 2 Team Penske Ford, Keselowski sped away from his pursuers after a restart in overtime and posted his third victory of the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season in thoroughly convincing fashion. The victory was Keselowski’s first at Daytona and the 20th of his career, and it reinforced his mastery…

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – NASCAR and the NASCAR Hall of Fame today announced longtime High Point (N.C.) Enterprise reporter and sports editor Benny Phillips as the sixth recipient of the Squier-Hall Award for NASCAR Media Excellence. Phillips spent 48 years with the Enterprise, serving as its sports editor for 32 of them. He will be honored during NASCAR Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony festivities on Jan. 20, 2017 and featured in an exhibit in the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, North Carolina. In addition to his time at the Enterprise, Phillips wrote for Stock Car Racing magazine for 27…

JOLIET, Ill. – Born in Chicago, Terry McMillen’s first trip down the race track came in the Chicago area. It is also why the Route 66 NHRA Nationals at Route 66 Raceway, July 7-10, means so much for the Top Fuel standout. It’s a chance for McMillen to come home and he plans on delivering a big performance in his 10,000-horsepower AMALIE Motor Oil dragster XTERMIGATOR. McMillen went to his first career final round earlier this season in Gainesville, an event where Amalie is also the title sponsor, and he hopes to recreate that impressive showing at another race that…

JOLIET, Ill. – Tim Wilkerson has experienced the tremendous highs and also the lows the sport of drag racing has to offer, all in about a span of two months during the 2016 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season. From winning Funny Car races in Phoenix and Charlotte to a wild crash near the starting line in Topeka to leading the points race to another mishap in Bristol, the Funny Car veteran has been a part of a wide range of events recently in his 10,000-horsepower Levi, Ray & Shoup Ford Shelby Mustang. The engine explosion in Bristol left…

By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Aric Almirola won his second NASCAR XFINITY Series race by much less than a nose. But to the driver of the No. 98 Fred Biagi-owned Ford, that was a vast improvement over his first victory in the series—when he wasn’t even in the car when the race ended. In Friday night’s Subway Firecracker 400 at Daytona International Speedway, Almirola was inches ahead of Justin Allgaier off the final corner in overtime when NASCAR called the eighth caution of the race and froze the field because of a wild wreck on…

FORT WORTH – Texas Motor Speedway has formalized the schedule, ticket and credential guidelines, and a variety of unique benefits for the completion of the suspended Firestone 600 Verizon IndyCar Series race set for Saturday, Aug. 27, speedway president Eddie Gossage announced Thursday. The “Restart Your Engines” schedule for the completion of the Firestone 600, initially postponed June 11 and then suspended the following day due to inclement weather conditions after the completion of 71 of the 248 laps, will begin with gates opening to the public at 4 p.m. CT. Race activities will start with a Verizon IndyCar Series…

FORT WORTH – Texas Motor Speedway will ring in the Fourth of July weekend with fast cars and fireworks, all part of a patriotic theme for the second week of Friday Night Drags presented by Maaco. Texas Motor Speedway will celebrate Independence Day with a special fireworks show presented by Snap-On Tools on Friday, beginning at approximately 10 p.m. CT, as part of Military and First Responders Appreciation Night at Friday Night Drags presented by Maaco. Any military or first responders presenting a valid ID will receive free grandstand admission for the evening’s activities by entering the facility at Gate…

By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service SONOMA, Calif. – Is Tony Stewart having fun yet? In his last year of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series racing, Stewart came to Sonoma Racing asserting on Friday he wasn’t having much fun driving a Sprint Cup car. That all changed in Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350 at the 1.99-mile road course, where Stewart bulldozed Denny Hamlin into the outside wall in Turn 11, executing a dramatic last-lap pass for his first victory since June 2, 2013 at Dover. In the three years since that victory, a succession of injuries and a personal tragedy have limited…

ELKHART LAKE, Wis.  – Verizon IndyCar Series fans clamored for a return to Road America. Their wish was granted in spades today, with Will Power winning an intense and exciting KOHLER Grand Prix on the iconic permanent road course. Power led 46 of the 50 laps around the 4.014-mile circuit in the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet, but was hounded late by a charging Tony Kanaan in the No. 10 NTT Data Chevrolet for Chip Ganassi Racing Teams. Power held off Kanaan at the finish by 0.7429 of a second following a Lap 44 restart to win his second…