Sean Cronan wouldn't have the night that he would've hoped for following his success at Sunset Speedway last June as he would experience mechanical problems during the feature.
Gary McLean (No.8 McLean Industrial Design) never relinquished the lead after starting on the pole for the OSCAAR Modified tour 30-lap A-Main at Sunset Speedway on Sunday night. The win at Sunset was McLean´s second this season, and his second victory on the tour in 2013.
Scott Steckly returned to a familiar place on Saturday night, Victory Lane at Autodrome St. Eustache after winning the National 250 presented by Public Mobile.
The Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio will be the 29th Indy car race at Mid-hio Sports Car Course and the sixth IZOD IndyCar Series event. Scott Dixon is the defending race winner. Will Power won the pole in 2012.
Racing in two USAC national events at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis on Saturday, July 27, provided Taylor Ferns a couple of benefits. First, it gave her double the amount of laps throughout the day and night at the 0.686-mile paved oval. And second, and more importantly, racing twice meant two opportunities to record solid finishes, which she did, coming home seventh with the Honda USAC National Midget Series and 10th with the Traxxas USAC Silver Crown Series.
While he hasn’t raced at the Belleville High Banks in Kansas, in five years, Tracy Hines has turned plenty of laps at the famed half-mile in his career. All of those laps though have come in a midget. He’ll look to use that experience this week as he not only competes in the historic Belleville Midget Nationals for the Honda USAC National Midget Series, but also in the inaugural Traxxas USAC Silver Crown Series event at the legendary high-banked, half-mile.
In 2003, a 22-year-old Scott Dixon won three races and, despite five DNFs, earned his first IZOD IndyCar Series championship with Target Chip Ganassi Racing. Wiser and more experienced in 2008, Dixon again claimed the series title punctuated by his first Indianapolis 500 victory.
Frank Kimmel has top-five finishes in nearly half of his 41 career ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards starts at Pocono Raceway, but that's not the only thing that has the nine-time series champion enthused.
Taylor Ferns has only raced three times at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis during her young career, but she knows the track like the back of her hand. She has turned countless laps in testing at the 0.686-mile paved oval over the last few years in three different types of race cars, including a Silver Crown car and a Midget.
Caracas, Venezuelan native Nelson Canache will make his triumphant return to the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards in the Barbera's Autoland 150 presented by Driven Racing Oil this weekend at New Jersey Motorsports Park behind the wheel of his familiar Venezuelan Tourism Toyota with Venturini Motorsports.
Much like in Race 2 a few hours earlier, Pato O'Ward benefitted from another driver's misfortune on the final restart to sweep the day at the Milwaukee Mile. Also Alex Palou won his fifth title.
Turner made the first statement of the weekend by pacing each Qualifying session. Her time of 2:18.740 placed her well ahead of Cannon’s 2:21.082, with the title combatants separated by 2.3 seconds.
Don’t tell the principal, but Max Garcia may have earned the right to skip school Monday after his stirring first career INDY NXT by Firestone victory Sunday at the Milwaukee Mile.
