By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service Photos courtesy of NASCAR AVONDALE, Ariz. – Kyle Busch calls it a “knack.” His rivals might refer to the continuing saga of Kyle Busch at Phoenix International Raceway as absolute dominance. But the record books will show Saturday’s result in the Axalta Faster. Tougher. Brighter. 200 as yet another NASCAR XFINITY Series victory for the Busch juggernaut. Leading 175 of 200 laps at the one-mile race track, Busch notched his ninth victory in 20 starts at PIR. That’s the highest total number of wins by a single driver at an active XFINITY Series venue.…
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.
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Courtesy of the Verizon IndyCar Series JUAN PABLO MONTOYA (No. 2 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet): “It was OK. We struggled. We were really good this morning. I was really happy. We only ran one set of new tires. On red tires we were not as good as we needed to be. I think the track went off a little bit. Didn’t adjust the Verizon car enough for qualifying, so we were a little bit behind. Overall it was good. Last year I won the race from there, so I don’t mind.” HELIO CASTRONEVES (No. 3 Hitachi Team Penske Chevrolet): “The…
Courtesy of the Verizon IndyCar Series Will Power breaks track record again in winning sixth St. Petersburg pole position ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (March 12, 2016) – Will Power’s qualifying dominance on the streets of St. Petersburg can’t be stopped even by illness. Battling a stomach virus, Power broke the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg track record in each of the first two segments of knockout qualifying and then turned the best lap in the Firestone Fast Six to collect the Verizon P1 Award. The sixth St. Pete pole position puts Power at the front of the pack for the 110-lap…
Can anyone stop NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Kevin Harvick from winning this weekend at Phoenix International Raceway? I don’t think so. When it comes to racing and winning at Phoenix, no driver is as dominate as Harvick on the Arizona oval. The driver of the No. 4 Chevrolet has won five of the last seven races, including four of the last five at the one-mile track. “It’s obviously been a great race track for me personally, but really for the last two years at Stewart-Haas Racing it’s been phenomenal,” said Harvick during a news conference on Friday at PIR. …
Courtesy of Chevrolet Racing KEVIN HARVICK, NO. 4 JIMMY JOHN’S CHEVROLET SS, met with members of the media at Phoenix International Raceway (PIR) and discussed his success at PIR, his plans to go home to Bakersfield, California next weekend, his plans for 2017 and many other topics. Full Transcript: WHAT MAKES YOU SO GOOD HERE AT PHOENIX? “It’s obviously been a great race track for me personally, but really for the last two years at Stewart-Haas Racing it’s been phenomenal. We have won three of the four races and got beat by the rain in the last one. All-in-all it’s…
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AVONDALE, Ariz. – Kyle Busch captured the pole for Sunday’s Good Sam 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Phoenix International Raceway. To read all about it, click here.
Courtesy of the Verizon IndyCar Series JUAN PABLO MONTOYA (No. 2 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet): “Overall it was a pretty good first day. I’m pretty happy that we were able to get in a lot of running with the Verizon Chevy and we worked on a lot of things. I had too much understeer in the car but we will work on that and make it better for qualifying tomorrow.” HELIO CASTRONEVES (No. 3 Hitachi Team Penske Chevrolet): “The No. 3 Hitachi Chevy ran strong this morning. We decided to go a different direction in the afternoon and we learned a lot…
Courtesy of the Verizon IndyCar Series PETERSBURG, Fla. – Will Power dug himself a hole by crashing in the first practice session for the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. The Team Penske driver redeemed himself by soaring to the top of the leaderboard in the second session. Power’s lap of 1 minute, 0.9431 of a second (106.329 mph) was best among the 22 Verizon IndyCar Series drivers competing in the 2016 season opener on the 1.8-mile, 14-turn temporary street circuit by Tampa Bay. The lap came within three-tenths of a second of the track record Power set last year…