Author: Mike Haag

AUSTIN  – Austin Wayne Self turned in a career best 13th place finish in his highly anticipated home track debut in Friday’s  NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) Rattlesnake 400 at Texas Motor Speedway. “What a thrill! This was a big night for me and our team,” said Self, who delivered a solid performance in front of his home state fans.  “I’ve been coming here since I was a kid and have watched hundreds of laps.  I think tonight might have been bigger than starting at Daytona at the beginning of the year.” “After struggling the last few races our AM…

FORT WORTH – Photographer JM Hallas provides a photographic look of the Verizon IndyCar Series Firestone 600 racing action on Friday at Texas Motor Speedway.  Click on the slideshow below to view his collection of photos.

FORT WORTH – Photographer JM Hallas provides a photographic look of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series action on Friday at Texas Motor Speedway.  Click on the slideshow below to view his collection of photos.

FORT WORTH – The Firestone 600 will have to wait another day for its completion. Another two months, in fact. The scheduled 248-lap event at Texas Motor Speedway – the ninth race of the 2016 Verizon IndyCar Series season – was stopped after 71 laps today by heavy rain. INDYCAR and track officials announced that the race was suspended and will be completed Aug. 27 as a night race. “We certainly want to come back and have a full race for the fans here in Texas,” said Jay Frye, INDYCAR president of competition and operations. “The people at TMS do…

ENGLISHTOWN, N.J. – Angelle Sampey raced to her first Pro Stock Motorcycle victory since 2007 on Sunday at the NHRA Summernationals at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park. Steve Torrence (Top Fuel), Ron Capps (Funny Car) and Greg Anderson (Pro Stock) also were winners of the 10th NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series event of the season. Sampey powered her Star Racing Buell to a 6.876-second pass at 194.41 mph to defeat Jerry Savoie’s 6.928 at 177.21 on his Savoie’s Alligator Farm Suzuki. The win was her first since 2007 in Houston and 42nd of her career. She became the fifth…

By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service BROOKLYN, Mich. – In the second race that featured NASCAR’s new lower-downforce package, Joey Logano lowered the boom—again.  There was one major difference between Joey Logano’s victory in Sunday’s FireKeepers 400 at Michigan International Speedway and his win May 21 in the Sprint All-Star Race at Charlotte. This one counted in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series standings and punched Logano’s ticket into the Chase. But it remained abundantly clear that Team Penske already has a handle on the aerodynamic configuration the sanctioning body is considering for 2017. Logano led 139 of 200 laps at…

FORT WORTH – The Firestone 600 may have been postponed due to lingering wet track conditions at Texas Motor Speedway, but Verizon IndyCar Series drivers still made the night memorable for many of the patient fans at the track. Daylong rain saturated the 1.455-mile oval Saturday, and INDYCAR and track workers were unable to get the track suitably dry before announcing the postponement at 11:30 p.m. ET. The 248-lap race, the ninth of 16 on the 2016 schedule, is set to take the green flag at 2:15 p.m. ET Sunday and will be telecast live beginning at 2 p.m. on…

ENGLISHTOWN, N.J. – Steve Torrence claimed his fifth No. 1 qualifier of the season in Top Fuel on Saturday at the NHRA Summernationals at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park. Ron Capps (Funny Car), Jason Line (Pro Stock), and Eddie Krawiec (Pro Stock Motorcycle) will also lead their respective categories into eliminations at the 10th race of the 2016 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season. Torrence, who won the season opener in Pomona, Calif., piloted his Capco Contractors/ Torrence Racing dragster to a 3.735-second pass at 325.06 mph on Friday to propel him into eliminations as the top qualifier. Torrence,…

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service BROOKLYN, Mich. – Daniel Suarez was speechless—and justifiably so. The Mexican driver had just passed Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch for the lead on the next-to-last lap and held on to win Saturday’s Menards 250 presented by Valvoline NASCAR XFINITY Series race at Michigan International Speedway by .280 seconds over the man who sets the standard in the series. The first Mexican-born driver to win a NASCAR national series race, Suarez overcame a pit road speeding penalty assessed on Lap 29 of 125 under the first of three cautions. He restarted eighth after…

FORT WORTH – Teenager William Byron overhauled Matt Crafton with five laps remaining and drove to victory in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Rattlesnake 400 Friday night at Texas Motor Speedway. Byron, of Kyle Busch Motorsports, posted his second NCWTS victory at the expense of Crafton, who dominated the 167-lapper after brushing the Turn 3 wall 11 laps into the night. Byron earned his breakthrough series victory earlier this season at Kansas Speedway, a 1.5-mile quadoval similar to TMS. Byron, 18, is the youngest truck series winner at TMS and the second-youngest overall, a record held by Chase Elliott…