Andretti Autosport driver Zach Veach heads to Iowa Speedway this week to once again test his skills on an oval in the Star Mazda Championship series. At Lucas Oil Raceway in Indianapolis, the first oval of Veach’s career in the Star Mazda series, he was successful at placing his No. 77 K12 Mazda on the podium in the third position.
Dynamic Bud Light country music entertainers LoCash Cowboys will amp up Kentucky Speedway’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NCSCS) “Quaker State 400” race day energy when they storm the Budweiser Stage for a free concert on the concourse at 3 p.m., Saturday, June 30.
“I think we’ve learned a lot from the past few races. I never approach a race weekend feeling like it’s going to be easy, but I do feel very encouraged. We might be able to apply some things we learned at Milwaukee to Iowa, and unload a bit quicker with a setup that’s in our window
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INDYCAR will limit the amount of downforce on the cars by approximately nine percent for the Iowa Corn Indy 250 which Will Phillips, INDYCAR’s VP of Technology, said should “make sure the challenge is in the drivers’ hands.”
When Tristan Vautier pulled into The Milwaukee Mile’s victory lane last Friday night after winning the Firestone Indy Lights race, it was the 50th time that a Sam Schmidt Motorsports (SSM) car had been driven into victory lane after an Indy Lights race.
This weekend’s race at the state-of-the-art 7/8-mile tri-oval at Iowa Speedway will be the fourth oval of the season for IZOD IndyCar Series rookie Katherine Legge. While similar in length to Milwaukee, its high banks yield racing similar to Indianapolis and Texas.
Annett has two career starts in the Nationwide Series at Road America; Annett enters this weekend’s event in seventh-place in the Nationwide point standings; Annett’s best finish (seventh) at the Wisconsin road course came in last year’s event
Kyle Larson, driver of the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet, met with the media in a panel with fellow Chase contenders, Chase Briscoe and Ryan Blaney, in advance of the NASCAR Cup Series practice qualifying session at Talladega Superspeedway.
Chase Elliott, driver of the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet, met with the media in advance of the NASCAR Cup Series qualifying session at Talladega Superspeedway.
Carson Hocevar, driver of the No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet, met with the media in advance of the NASCAR Cup Series qualifying session at Talladega Superspeedway.
Ryan Blaney, driver of the No. 12 Advance Auto Parts Ford Mustang Dark Horse, comes into this weekend trailing leader Kyle Larson by 40 points for the NASCAR Cup Series championship.
The reigning O'Reilly Auto Parts Series champion from Menlo Park, California, notched his third O'Reilly pole of the 2026 season, his fifth at Talladega and ninth on a superspeedway venue with a pole-winning lap at 182.626 mph in 52.435 seconds.
