Author: Mike Haag

By Mike Haag, Raceday San Antonio FORT WORTH, Texas – The 25th anniversary racing season at Texas Motor Speedway kicks off this weekend with the NTT INDYCAR Series returning to the 1.5-mile oval for the Genesys 300 on Saturday and the XPEL 375 on Sunday. The event will be the first doubleheader held at Texas since 2011 and the 33rd and 34th races overall since Arie Luyendyk won the inaugural event in 1997. The action begins Saturday at 3 p.m. with qualifying for the NTT P1 Award (Single car, two laps (Lap 1/Genesys 300; Lap 2/XPEL 375). The Genesys 300…

Nitro Funny Car driver Alexis DeJoria of Austin, Texas will be heading to The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway weekend when the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) returns to action for the DENSO Spark Plugs NHRA Four-Wide Nationals. DeJoria, who drives the ROKiT Bandero Premium Tequila Toyota Camry on the NHRA Funny Car circuit, is hoping to capitalize on past success at Las Vegas in hopes of scoring her first career four-wide national event win. DeJoria recorded victories at Las Vegas in 2014 against Robert Hight and in 2016 against Del Worsham before the track underwent a major reconstruction…

FORT WORTH, Texas – Some 17 NTT IndyCar Series drivers are participating this week in test sessions at Texas Motor Speedway in preparation for the upcoming racing season. They include: Andretti Autosport – Colton Herta, James Hinchcliffe, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Alexander Rossi ARROW McLaren SP – Pato O’Ward, Felix Rosenqvist Ed Carpenter Racing – Conor Daly, Rinus VeeKay AJ Foyt Racing – Dalton Kellett, Sebastien Bourdais Meyer-Shank Racing – Jack Harvey Team Penske – Scott McLaughlin, Josef Newgarden, Simon Pagenaud, Will Power Rahal Letterman Lanigan – Graham Rahal, Takuma Sato Texas Motor Speedway will open the 2021 major event season May 1-2 with an NTT INDYCAR SERIES…

FORT WORTH, Texas – This past Thursday Denton County’s 100,000th COVID-19 vaccine was administered at Texas Motor Speedway. Since early February Texas Motor Speedway has been a major Denton County Public Health vaccine site, featuring a 16 lanes of traffic which has allowed DCPH officials to administer up to 1,000 doses per hour. Despite only operating just two or three days per week due to vaccine availability and having to miss about a week due to the winter storm, it took officials very little time to reach the 100,000 mark. Ruth Owens from Little Elm, Texas received the 100,00oth dose…

Courtesy of DIS Communications DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Daytona International Speedway has announced that Kevin James, the star and executive producer of the sitcom “The Crew” for Netflix, now streaming on NETFLIX, will serve as the Grand Marshal for this Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race on the DAYTONA Road Course (FOX, MRN Radio and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). In addition, CeCe Winans, the best-selling and most-awarded female gospel artist of all-time, will perform the pre-race National Anthem. The event, set for a 3:00 p.m. ET start, will mark the second time that that the NASCAR Cup Series has competed on the storied…

When it comes to motorsports in South Texas there is no one that had a greater impact on the sport of stock car racing than Neil Upchurch. Upchurch, who served as one of the founders, president and administrative director for the former Texas International Driver’s Association Late Model and Pro Sedan Series, passed away on December 22, 2020. He was 89. He is survived by Theresa, his wife of 66 years. He also leaves behind several family members, including nieces, nephews, friends and his beloved dog Trooper. In the 33 years that I have been covering motorsports, I reported on,…

Click below to listen to the interviews with the NBC Sports Broadcast Team at Thursday’s NASCAR Championship 4 Media Day event. Hear what Rick Allen, Steve Letarte, Jeff Burton and Dale Earnhardt Jr. had to say going into this weekend’s race at Phoenix. All audio provided courtesy of NASCAR. Photo courtesy of NBC Sports.

Click below to listen to the interviews from Thursday’s NASCAR Cup Series Championship 4 Media Day. Hear what Chase Elliott, Denny Hamlin, Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano had to say going into this weekend’s race at Phoenix. All audio provided courtesy of NASCAR.

Click below to listen to the interviews from Wednesday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship 4 Media Day. Hear what Justin Allgaier, Chase Briscoe, Austin Cindric and Justin Haley had to say going into this weekend’s race at Phoenix. All audio provided courtesy of NASCAR.

Listen to the interviews from Wednesday’s NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series Championship 4 Media Day event. Hear what Sheldon Creed, Grant Enfinger, Brett Moffitt and Zane Smith had to say going into this weekend’s race at Phoenix. All audio provided courtesy of NASCAR.