Recap: Alex Tagliani appeared to have put together the perfect race weekend in the Nationwide Children’s Hospital 200 at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on Saturday afternoon.
Roush Fenway Racing driver Ryan Reed and the No. 16 Lilly Diabetes American Diabetes Association team finished 22nd on Saturday after getting caught up in an incident while battling for the ninth position with 11 laps to go.
After experiencing pure frustration last weekend at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International, Regan Smith answered his second road course race of the season with a bump-and-run on leader Alex Tagliani in the second-to-last corner on the last lap to score his first NASCAR XFINITY Series win of the season in Saturday's Nationwide Children’s Hospital 200 at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.
Ty Dillon finished third and was the highest finishing Richard Childress Racing driver in the Nationwide Children's Hospital 200 at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Brian Scott finished seventh, Brendan Gaughan 13th and Brandon Jones 29th.
Roush Fenway Racing’s Bubba Wallace earned his eighth top-10 finish of the 2015 season on Saturday afternoon at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Wallace qualified 11th and overcame an early spin to finish eighth in the NASCAR XFINITY Series Nationwide Children’s Hospital 200.
By Reid Spencer
NASCAR Wire Service
BROOKLYN, Mich.—Not even a pit road speeding penalty could keep Kyle Busch from his appointed rounds on Saturday at Michigan...
For the second consecutive weekend, Roush Fenway Racing’s Chris Buescher earned a top-five finish at a road course. Buescher qualified his No. 60 Zest Mustang in second, and ran inside the top-five for most of Saturday afternoon’s 75-Lap NASCAR XFINITY Series race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, ultimately crossing the finish line in fourth.
It doesn’t matter quite as much if you get caught speeding in your truck if your truck is the fastest one in the race. That was the situation for Kyle Busch in the NASCAR Camping World Series Careers for Veterans 200 presented by The Cooper Standard Foundation and Brad Keselowski’s Checkered Flag Foundation at Michigan International Speedway.
Jett Lawrence, the reigning Pro Motocross and SMX World Champion who swept the 450SMX Class motos and has seemingly fast-tracked his comeback from a major offseason ankle injury.
Joe Gibbs Racing driver Denny Hamlin was made available to the media on Saturday after winning the pole for the NASCAR Cup Series race at Michigan International Speedway.
The three-time Daytona 500 champion from Chesterfield, Virginia, posted a pole-winning lap at 195.117 mph in 36.901 seconds to become the 10th competitor to reach 50 poles in NASCAR's premier series.