Heading into Sunday's Quicken Loans 400, Bliss will be looking to make his 176th
career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) start. The Milwaukie, OR native will be making his ninth NSCS start at the fast 2.0 mile D-shaped oval in Brooklyn, MI. Bliss has nine starts in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, obtaining two top-ten finishes. The 2002 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) champion has three truck starts in Michigan with one top-five and two top-ten finishes. This weekend's battle in the Irish Hills will also mark Bliss's eighth start with Go Green Racing.
The Honda Indy Toronto will mark the 16th year of Indy car racing for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing (RLL) here and fourth since 2003. The team also competed in the Atlantic Series races here in 2003 and 2004. The team earned a total of four second place finishes (Rahal 1992, 1994, 1995; Michel Jourdain Jr. 2003) and best start was pole in 1992 by Bobby Rahal.
There have been seven different winners in nine Verizon IndyCar Series races in 2015: Juan Pablo Montoya (Streets of St. Petersburg and Indianapolis 500), James Hinchcliffe (NOLA Motorsports Park), Scott Dixon (Streets of Long Beach and Texas Motor Speedway), Josef Newgarden (Barber Motorsports Park), Will Power (Grand Prix of Indianapolis), Carlos Munoz (Raceway at Belle Isle-1) and Sebastien Bourdais (Raceway at Belle Isle-2).
The NASCAR Canadian Tire Series presented by Mobil 1 will make history with the drop of the green flag in Saturday’s Budweiser 300 at Autodrome Chaudiere, and defending race winner Jason Hathaway will share in the milestone event.
Jeff Gordon, driver of the No. 24 Panasonic Chevrolet SS, is scheduled to visit the Michigan International Speedway media center at 1:45 p.m. local time Friday.
Ragan’s late grandfather Hugh “Preacher Ragan” owned cars that raced on the beaches of Daytona in NASCAR’s infancy. David’s late Uncle Marvin owned and drove cars for 30 years in the sport often employing David’s father Ken who ran 50 Sprint Cup races. David’s mother Beverly visits the track to support her son when she isn’t watching her granddaughter Julia, born to David and wife Jacquelyn last year.
Fueled by winning Rookie of the Race honors just a few days ago at Pocono, David Levine is ready to kick it up a notch for Friday night’s Corrigan Oil 200 at Michigan International Speedway.
Stenhouse Jr. has four NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) starts at Michigan International Speedway with an average starting position of 19.2 and average finishing position of 19.2.
Wood Brothers Racing, in partnership with PPG, is excited to announce the return of the Kids Color PPG contest, a fan-favorite initiative designed to engage young racing enthusiasts through creativity and racing tradition.
NASCAR’s Cup and Truck Series, joined by the ARCA Menards Series, head to Michigan International Speedway for three days of high-speed racing, culminating with a 400-mile Cup Series race on Sunday.