The NHRA Pro Stock drivers will resume the 2016 racing season this weekend at the Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals in Gainesville, Florida. Greg Anderson, driver of the Summit Racing Equipment Chevy Camaro, is a four-time Pro Stock world champion with his last championship coming in 2010. Anderson opened the season with a win in Pomona and was the No. 1 qualifier at the event. His teammate Jason Line won the event in Phoenix and their third team car driven by Bo Butner was the No. 1 qualifier in Phoenix. Last week, Anderson participated in a teleconference with the media…
Author: Mike Haag
Mike Haag
Mike Haag has covered motorsports in San Antonio and South Texas for more than 39 years. In addition to covering motorsports for the San Antonio Express-News for nearly 28 years, Mike also has co-hosted TrackSmack with Dawn Murphy for 19 race seasons. In addition to being a writer, Mike taught high school English and Journalism for 30 years before retiring in May, 2020.
The NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle class will make their season debut this weekend at the Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals in Gainesville, Florida. Andrew Hines, rider of the Screamin’ Eagle Vance & Hines Harley Davidson, will be in pursuit of his sixth world championship and third consecutive championship in the two-wheeled category. He has 42 career wins and 26 runner-up finishes. In 2015 he had four wins and one runner-up finish and had a 42-10 win loss record during the year. He is currently second on the all-time win list for the Pro Stock Motorcycle category behind Dave Schultz with…
Courtesy of the NHRA GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Jack Beckman has not yet won during the 2016 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season, though there’s hardly reason for concern through only two events, and has yet to record a victory at Gainesville Raceway in his standout Funny Car career. With that in mind, the record-setting Beckman hopes to record a pair of firsts March 17-20 during the AMALIE Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals. Beckman won a class-best seven events a year ago and he couldn’t think of a better time to pick up his next victory than at the circuit’s traditional…
Special to RacedaySA.com A.J. Allmendinger – “We started off fighting what we fought all weekend just tight. Some of that was a little bit expected. Knowing what this place does, we tightened the car up a lot and tried to do a couple of things to help it turn, but we had tightened up overall. We started really tight like usual Randall (Burnett, crew chief) and the guys they kept making the right adjustments. We actually had one run I thought we were really good. We tried to go the same direction on that change and I think we got…
By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service AVONDALE, Ariz. – In recent years, Kevin Harvick has exercised his dominance at Phoenix International Raceway by crushing the competition. In Sunday’s Good Sam 500 at the one-mile track in the Sonoran Desert, he maintained his mastery by a matter of inches, banging fenders with Carl Edwards in a side-by side overtime battle on the way to the finish line. After the drivers traded shots on the way to the stripe, Harvick pulled ahead to win the fourth NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race of the season by .010 seconds (roughly four inches), the identical…
Photos from Sunday’s Good Sam NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Phoenix International Raceway. All photos courtesy of NASCAR and Getty Images.
Courtesy of the Verizon IndyCar Series Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Race Day Quotes JUAN PABLO MONTOYA (No. 2 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet): “It was good. The Chevy was good all day. It was exciting to have a new paint scheme (on his car) and come out and win with it. It’s just awesome. We started the year last year like this. I felt this morning we had a really good car and it paid off.” HELIO CASTRONEVES (No. 3 Hitachi Team Penske Chevrolet): “It was a great day for Team Penske. With three laps to go it was…
Courtesy of the Verizon IndyCar Series ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The 50th anniversary celebration season for Team Penske is off to a rousing start. Verizon Team Penske driver Juan Pablo Montoya controlled the closing laps of the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg to win the Verizon IndyCar Series season opener for the second straight year. Driving the No. 2 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet, Montoya led teammate Simon Pagenaud across the finish line by 2.3306 seconds, with Andretti Autosport’s Ryan Hunter-Reay placing third and Team Penske’s Helio Castroneves fourth on the 1.8-mile temporary street course. Montoya’s 15th career Indy car…
Courtesy of the Verizon IndyCar Series ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – As the 2016 Verizon IndyCar Series season gets underway in his adopted hometown, news comes of a new book paying tribute to two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon. Written and produced by Andy Hallbery and Jeff Olson, “Lionheart – Remembering Dan Wheldon” is a high-quality 216-page book chronicling Wheldon’s life, as told by the people who knew him best: his family, friends, teammates, crew members and fellow competitors. “The response has been truly incredible,” said Susie Wheldon, Dan’s widow. “It shows just how many people’s lives Dan touched and is…
Courtesy of Penske Racing PETERSBURG, Fla. (March 13, 2016) – As Will Power continues to feel the effects of nausea on Sunday, Team Penske has made the decision to start Oriol Servia in the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Dallara/Chevrolet in Sunday’s Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. Power fought through three rounds of qualifying and won his sixth career pole position at St. Pete on Saturday to lead a Team Penske 1-2-3-4 qualifying result. He has continued to battle an illness and will not compete in Sunday’s 110-lap race. Servia, the 41-year-old veteran of 197 IndyCar races, drove the…