Drivers from various racing backgrounds will come together on Oct. 26 to compete in The Dan Wheldon Memorial Pro-Am Karting Challenge at New Castle Motorsports Park. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Alzheimer's Association, a cause Wheldon fought to raise awareness for after his mother was diagnosed with the illness in 2008.
IZOD IndyCar Series championship contenders Helio Castroneves and Scott Dixon displayed their cars will be fast in the first practice session for the Shell and Pennzoil Grand Prix of Houston doubleheader, while Justin Wilson and Will Power significantly lowered lap times in the second 45-minute session.
Kevin Harvick ran the fastest lap of the field in his No. 29 Budweiser Chevrolet SS with a speed of 187.516 mph to capture the pole position for Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Kansas City Speedway. This marked Harvick’s sixth Sprint Cup career pole and first in 16 races at the 1.5-mile track. It also snapped a 254-race pole drought. His last number one starting spot came at New Hampshire in Sept. 2006, a race he also won.
HOW WAS THE QUALIFYING LAP?: “Everybody on our Budweiser team has done a good job. We made a couple really good runs in practice and a couple of a little sketchy runs in practice, but we knew the conditions would be cooler so we put the car back how we started practice and hoped that the race track came our way. Hopefully, that gets us a good starting spot and we can go from there.”
RICKY STENHOUSE JR., No. 17 Ford EcoBoost Fusion – “So far so good for our EcoBoost Fusion here. I knew if those guys going out early, if I could be somewhere around that group of guys that we would have a decent day for qualifying. Scott and the guys made great changes and it isn’t near as fast as when we qualified here earlier this year. It was definitely on edge and I had a lot of fun doing that. I am proud of the guys for the adjustments that they made. I am not sure it that will hold up or stack up but beating those guys that already went out feels pretty decent.”
MATT KENSETH, No. 20 Dollar General Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - Starting Position: 7th - Have you made progress from yesterday's practice session? "No. We haven't really made a lot of progress. That's not going to end up good at all. It might hopefully be in the top-20. Just been way off -- kind of running out of time to figure it out. Hopefully, we'll figure it out tomorrow."
DANICA PATRICK, NO. 10 GODADDY CHEVROLET SS met with media and discussed the new tire, her expectations for the end of the season, doing a music video with Colt Ford, and more.
Greg Biffle, driver of the No. 16 Sherwin Williams Ford Fusion, doesn’t want to hear that it is a three-man race for the Sprint Cup championship and he isn’t one of the three. Biffle, who brings two career wins and seven top-five finishes at Kansas with him into the weekend, would like nothing more than to shake things up Sunday afternoon. Biffle met with members of the media Friday to discuss the scenario.
JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 48 LOWE’S CHEVROLET SS met with media and discussed racing at Kansas, the new tire, engine wear, keeping an eye on the competition, and more.
Michael Waltrip Racing will hold an open house at its Cornelius, N.C. race shop on Wednesday 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Fans may tour the shop, get autographs from MWR drivers and Miss Sprint Cup, enjoy sponsor displays, music, free food and drinks.
The 2026 Coca-Cola 600 champion from Monterrey, Mexico, will continue to pilot the No. 7 Chevrolet entry as part of a contract extension with Spire Motorsports for the 2027 Cup Series season.
The NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) heads to Phoenix Raceway this weekend for the Freeway Insurance 500 on October 18 at 3 p.m. ET on USA, MRN, and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio (Channel 90).
The development of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES’ next-generation IR-28 car moved this week to the bumps and bruises of Sebring International Raceway from earlier testing on the silky-smooth surface of Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
