Author: Mike Haag

FORT WORTH – It was no-holds-barred racing at the season-opening doubleheader of TORC: The Off-Road Championship presented by AMSOIL. In the second night of championship racing at Texas Motor Speedway, Chad Hord earned his first win in PRO 4WD, while Keegan Kincaid and Kyle Hart both fought for back-to-back wins in PRO 2WD and Atturo Tire PRO Light. PRO 4WD Chad Hord won his first-ever PRO 4WD race on Saturday, taking the lead on a last-lap pass. After earning second place in the 2014 PRO 2WD championship and finding his way through a developmental 2015 season in PRO 4WD,…

By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service CONCORD, N.C. – In an event that bore notable similarities to the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race a week earlier, Denny Hamlin won Saturday’s Hisense 300 NASCAR XFINITY Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway with a pass on the final lap. Hamlin’s fresh rubber trumped the old tires of Kyle Larson and Joey Logano, who restarted ahead of Hamlin in overtime at the 1.5-mile track. In fact, Hamlin restarted sixth on Lap 205 after coming to pit road for four new tires under the eighth and final caution of the race, brought out when polesitter…

INDIANAPOLIS – He may be starting 18th in Sunday’s 100th Running of the Indianapolis 500 presented by PennGrade Motor Oil, but Tony Kanaan believes he has a car that can win the historic race. Kanaan, who will start on the outside of Row 6 in the No. 10 NTT Data Chevrolet for Chip Ganassi Racing, was fastest in today’s Miller Lite Carb Day practice with a best lap of 226.280 mph on the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval. Carlos Munoz was second at 224.772 mph in the No. 26 United Fiber & Data Honda, just ahead of Kanaan’s teammate,…

BUDDY LAZIER (No. 4 Lazier/Burns Racing Chevrolet): “We’re glad that this was Carb Day, because we certainly wouldn’t want this to have happened on race day. After rebuilding the car, running here today we had a front wing issue. An adjuster on the front wings failed. Whatever angle was set in the pits, out on the racetrack the wing wouldn’t hold. So, we have zero data from this run. It’s frustrating, but I have a lot of faith in my guys, and we’ll have this problem solved by race day. We’re going to race them hard on Sunday, and I’m…

FORT WORTH, Texas (May 27, 2016) – The 2016 season opener of TORC: The Off-Road Championship presented by AMSOIL treated fans to high-flying competition Friday on the first night of this weekend’s doubleheader at the Dirt Track at Texas Motor Speedway. Four-time defending champion Johnny Greaves manhandled his Monster Energy Toyota to an early win in PRO 4WD, Keegan Kincaid finessed his way to the top PRO 2WD podium spot, and Kyle Hart ran a perfect race in Atturo Tire PRO Light. PRO 4WD Four-time PRO 4WD champion Johnny Greaves pulled off a confident win on Friday, grinding his…

FORT WORTH – Verizon IndyCar Series driver Graham Rahal and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series rookie Christopher Bell are still pursuing a series crown in their respective series, but the duo had an opportunity to take part in a raucous championship celebration Tuesday at Texas Motor Speedway. Rahal and Bell served as special guests for Texas Motor Speedway’s Speeding To Read Championship Assembly held in the frontstretch grandstands that was the culmination of the year-long reading competition among nearly 6,500 students from 11 Dallas/Fort Worth-area elementary schools. Rahal and Bell took part in crowning all the champions, including Denton ISD’s…

With a record 100 cameras in use, ABC will televise the historic 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, May 29 at 11 a.m. ET. Annually one of ESPN’s largest and most complex television productions, the Indianapolis 500 telecast is even larger this year with the milestone of the 100thrunning of the Greatest Spectacle in Racing. Airing on ABC for the 52nd consecutive year, and streaming live on WatchESPN for the first time, the telecast begins with a pre-race show at 11 a.m. and then polesitter James Hinchcliffe will lead the field of 33 to the green flag at…

FORT WORTH, Texas (May 18, 2016) – The co-stars of the popular American motoring television series Top Gear – Rutledge Wood, Tanner Foust and Adam Ferrara – will be visiting Texas Motor Speedway on Tuesday, June 14, for a live airing of their show’s latest episode on the world’s largest TV known as “Big Hoss” to benefit Speedway Children’s Charities-Texas Chapter. The “Speedy, Beardy & The Mole Present A Night At The Drive-In” charity event presented by Odyssey Battery will center around that evening’s episode ofTop Gear on the History Channel beginning at 8 p.m. CT, but fans also will…

FORT WORTH – The high-flying action of short-course off road truck racing brings the best drivers on dirt to The Dirt Track at Texas Motor Speedway May 27 and 28 for the season opening doubleheader of TORC: The Off-Road Championship presented by AMSOIL. “We’re thrilled to return to the Dirt Track at Texas Motor Speedway for our season opening races,” said TORC Series director Ben Nelson. “We can’t wait to bring our fender-to-fender, no-holds barred action back to the amazing fans in the Lone Star State.” This weekend’s action takes place on a purpose built track at the Dirt Track at Texas Motor Speedway, which is…

INDIANAPOLIS (May 23, 2016) – The drivers qualified for this year’s 100th Running of the Indianapolis 500 presented by PennGrade Motor Oil got a taste for the upcoming race in practice today at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. All 33 entries turned laps in the 3.5-hour session scheduled for the same time of day as the historic race on Sunday. Josef Newgarden, who will start the Indy 500 from the middle of Row 1 in the No. 21 Preferred Freezer Chevrolet, clocked the fastest lap today, 227.414 mph, as teams spent the bulk of the session running in packs to gain a…