Last year when Scott Dixon headed into the Honda Indy Toronto, he was set at trying to get himself back into the championship picture. The New Zealand native did just that, as he was able to claim the victory in both races as part of the double header weekend.
He had won on a road course, however it was an oval victory that the Quebec native craved. Now, the wait is over as L.P. Dumoulin was able to score the victory on Wednesday night in the Velocity Prairie Thunder 250 at Auto Clearing Speedway.
After dominating last year's event at Auto Clearing Speedway, it doesn't look like Scott Steckly has slowed down at all as he would win the pole for the Velocity Prairie Thunder 250. Steckly posted a lap of 14.616 seconds (82.020 mph) to set a new track record on the 0.33-mile progressively banked oval. J.R. Fitzpatrick previously held the record with his lap of 14.665 in 2012.
Set to go for a late race restart, Michael Andretti made the decision to bring Ryan Hunter-Reay down pit road and put stickers tires on his No. 28 DHL Honda-powered Dallara. The results turned out to be successful as Ryan Hunter-Reay was able to slice and dice his way from 10th on the restart to the lead with two laps to go to pick up the victory at Iowa Speedway.
Every November Chicago sports fans become familiar with the term “Circus Trip” as the Chicago Bulls and Blackhawks vacate their shared United Center home venue hitting the road to make way for the annual two-week Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus stay. But in July the term “Circus Trip” is reserved to best describe the fanfare surrounding Venturini Motorsport’s (VMS) homecoming for the annual ARCA race at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Illinois.
Following the incident on Sunday involving Joey Logano and the slower car of Morgan Shepherd, discussion has picked up surrounding slow cars on the track and whether they truly belong out here. Four-time Sprint Cup Champion Jeff Gordon commented today that slow cars don't have any place on the track if they're going slow.
Honda Repsol rider Marc Marquez captured his ninth straight MotoGP victory at the Motorrad Grand Prix Deutschland on Sunday, bringing the 21-year-old’s perfect season to the doorstep of the all-time consecutive win record to open a season.
Surprising: Team Penske had an interesting day, with one driver taking the broom while the other driver went boom. Brad Keselowski, this week behind the wheel of the No. 2 Redd's Ford, took his broom to Victory Lane, sweeping both the Nationwide and Cup races and scoring his first lobster trophy at New Hampshire.
Brad Keselowski dominated at New Hampshire Speedway with a sweep of the weekend, leading 137 laps of the Camping World RV Sales 301 and tying Jimmie Johnson with three wins on the season. Keselowski became the 13th different driver to win at NHMS in 13 races and scored the first win for Ford since September of 2008. It was the Penske Racing No. 2's second win in three weeks.
Two winners were declared at the end of Saturdays race. One was the winner of the StaGreen200, the other won $100,000 dollars. Brad Keselowski, driver of the 22 Hertz Ford was able to pull away from Kyle Busch and win the race from the pole position. Regan Smith was able to stay ahead of the 16 of Ryan Reed and was able to win himself and JRMotorsports $100,000 dollars in the Dash-4-Cash.
Haiden Deegan came into St. Louis with a shot at securing a second straight Western Divisional 250SMX Class Championship and did so by dominating against a full field of the class’ top talent during the East/West Showdown.
The two-time ARCA Menards Series East champion from Eden Prairie, Minnesota, led 80 of 250 laps and became the 183rd competitor to win in the O'Reilly Auto Parts Series division by winning for the first time ever at The Rock.
