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INDYCAR announced today that TAG Heuer, the world-leading luxury Swiss watch brand recognized for its prestigious sports watches and chronographs, has been named the official watch of the Verizon IndyCar Series and Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The partnership includes entitlement sponsorship of the TAG Heuer Pit Stop Challenge, held annually on Carb Day before the Indianapolis 500.

After an off weekend to celebrate Canada’s Civic holiday the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series teams are back in action this weekend at one of the most popular events on the tour, the Grand Prix de Trois Rivieres.

It is with great pleasure today that we announce Dupli-Color as a new partner with 22 Racing and Scott Steckly for 2014. They will provide paint products to Restore & Restyle all of the team race cars and vehicles.

5-time ARCA winner Brennan Poole will sub for his Venturini Motorsports (VMS) teammate, John Wes Townley, in Saturday’s ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards race at Berlin (Mich.) Raceway. Poole, who claimed a fourth-place finish in the ARCA event at Pocono (Pa.) Raceway last week, will pilot the No. 15 Zaxby’s Toyota Camry.

Taylor Ferns has only raced with the Ohio Valley Sprint Car Association (OVSCA) a handful of times this season, but she has been a contender each and every time she has hit the track with the group. She was victorious at Southern Ohio Speedway on May 6 and nearly returned to the winner's circle at I-77 Raceway Park on July 11, finishing second. In four OVSCA starts, the 18-year-old has an average finish of fourth.

Our team headed to Peterborough Speedway on August 2nd for the 8th round of the OSCAAR Modified tour series. This was our 4th race event in 8 nights and would be another good one for us in this 13 race schedule.

Six-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson canvassed the metro Atlanta area Wednesday to promote Atlanta Motor Speedway’s Oral-B USA 500 NASCAR night race weekend to the Atlanta business community and race fans.

“We are thrilled about the opening of the Talladega Grille at the newly renovated wing of the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth Airport,” said Grant Lynch, Chairman of Talladega Superspeedway. “Many of our race fans fly into Birmingham before they make the short trip to NASCAR’s Most Competitive Track, and we are excited about having our brand greet them upon their arrival.

"It's definitely a big weekend for our team. Obviously it's not been the season that we had hoped it would be, and definitely not sitting where we'd like to be in points. But we felt like Watkins Glen would be a good place for us to kind of put in a little bit of extra effort.

Bandit Industries has signed a two-race deal to sponsor Jeffrey Earnhardt and JD Motorsports in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. Bandit will race with Earnhardt as the primary sponsor at Mid-Ohio for the Nationwide Children's Hospital 200 Aug. 16. Bandit will return with Earnhardt as a co-primary sponsor for the VisitMyrtleBeach.com 300 at Kentucky Speedway Sept. 20.