[media-credit name=”ARCA Racing Network” align=”alignright” width=”175″][/media-credit]After scoring six victories on the short tracks in the span of two years, Chris Buescher led the final 14 laps on his way to his first speedway victory in the RainEater Wiper Blades 200 at Michigan International Speedway.

Green flag as Joey Coulter and Brennan Poole run side-by-side down the backstretch. Poole pulls to the lead coming out of turn four.

Lap 2 Poole leads Coulter, Kevin Swindell, Alex Bowman, Ryan Reed, Justin Lofton and Kyle Larson.

Caution Lap 3 Nelson Canache spins and both Tom Hessert & Larry Barford Jr. hit him afterwards.

“It’s definitely unfortunate with us. looks like the 35 car just got into the corner on lap two and spun out. Definatley gives us a tough hit in the points. but it’s a long race so who knows whats going to happen. theres also a lot of races left this year.” Hessert

Lap 6 Chad Hackenbracht is slow on the apron – problem was with the fuel pump with it breaking.

Restart lap 11

Lap 12 Poole leads Coulter, Swindell, Bowman, Reed, Lofton, Larson, Chris Buescher, rank Kimmel and Blankenship.

Caution lap 12 as Jared Marks goes for a spin while running underneath Brandon Newberry.

Restart Lap 16 – Poole leads Swindell, Coulter, Bowman, Reed, Lofton, Larson, Buescher, Kimmel and Blakenship

Lap 17 Kimmel passes Buescher for eighth

Lap 18 Gallagher passes Blakenship while Buescher passes Kimmel for eighth

Lap 19 Kyle Larson has smoke coming off the right side of the car after getting into the outside wall.

Lap 20 Poole leads Swindell, Coulter, Bowman, Reed, Lofton, Buescher, Kimmel, Gallagher, Blankenship

Lap 22 Buescher, Lofton and Kimmell pass Reed for position

Lap 25 Competition caution. Field comes down pit road……Poole leads Buescher, Bowman and Coulter

Restart lap 35 and Poole leads

Lap 38 Poole leads Coulter, Swindell, Buescher, Lofton and Bowman

Caution Lap 40 Aleks Gregory gets into the wall; Buster Graham gets the lucky dog…..Some stay out, some head down pit road. Poole and Coulter both stayed out. Swindell the first to pit out of third.

Restart Lap 48

Lap 50 Poole leads Coulter, Lofton, Buescher and Reed.

Lap 51 Poole, Coulter, Lofton, Buescher, Reed, Davis, Swindell, Bowman, Kimmel and Gallagher

Lap 53 Lofton passes Coulter for second

Lap 55 Swindell and Bowman pass Davis

Lap 61 Poole and Coulter both pit for right sides, Lofton now to the lead

Lap 62 Reed pits for right sides

Lap 64 Poole pits once again, now for left side tires. Coulter also in for left side tires. Reed also pits for left side tires

Lap 65 Swindell pits for four tires

Lap 66 Lofton leads Buescher, Bowman, Davis, Kimmel, Gallgher, Newberry, Blankenship, Blum and Graham

Lap 71 Lofton leads Bowman, Buescher, Davis, Kimmel, Gallagher, Newberry, Blankenship, Pl um and Graham

Lap 73 Gallagher pits

Lap 75 Lofton leads Bowman, Buescher, Davis, Kimmel, Newberry, Blankenship, Pl um, Swindell and Graham; Lofton pits, handing the lead over to Bowman; Buescher pits

24 to go Davis pits

19 to go Poole pits

Caution 15 to go Swindell gets into the wall. Some pit, some stay out. Buescher gets the lead

Restart 9 to go

Buescher holds Bowman off at the line

[media-credit name=”IndyCar.com” align=”alignright” width=”333″][/media-credit]In his second ever oval track start, Tristan Vautier scored his first ever oval track pole. It marked the 51st pole for Sam Schdmit Motorsports (SSM). Vautier won the pole with a two-lap average speed of 146.884 mph.

Vautier started his first ever Indy Lights race from the pole at St. Petersburg earlier this year.

“It feels so good to be on pole for this track because it’s a tough track,” Vautier says. “Our car was awesome this morning. I felt a lot of pressure going into qualifying because I knew we could do it, and I just had to do the job. But there are 100 laps, pole is one point and the race is worth 50 points, so we have a lot of work ahead of us still.”

Currently, Vautier sits second in the series standings to teammate Esteban Guerrieri following five races.

If the 2011 Star Mazda Champion is able to drive his No. 77 Mazda Road to Indy/SSM with Curb Agajanian car to a win tonight, it’ll mark the 50th Indy Lights win for SSM.

Victor Carbone qualified second with a speed of 146.429 mph, followed by Sebastian Saavedra and Carlos Munoz.

There was a 30-minute practice immediately following qualifying, which saw Munoz post the top speed at 140.623 mph. Vautier was second, 0.1857 seconds behind.

The 100-lap race is scheduled for 6:45 p.m. (ET), with real-time Timing & Scoring and the IMS Radio Network broadcast on www.indycar.com.

[media-credit name=”Indycar.com” align=”alignright” width=”333″][/media-credit]In the initial practice for the IZOD IndyCar Series at the Milwaukee Mile, rookie Josef Newgarden topped the charts with a quick lap o 22.0232 seconds in his No. 67 Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing car.

“Milwaukee is a very difficult track physically because you’re constantly turning at a very short radius,” Newgarden said earlier in the week. “There’s a lot of load put on the driver because of how much downforce we run. There’s also no banking at Milwaukee so setting up the car will be difficult to master because it’s unlike any other oval we go to.”

Helio Castroneves was second at 22.1095 seconds while E.J. Viso was third at 22.2776 seconds. The top 21 cars were separated by less than a second.

In the second practice, last week’s race winner Justin Wilson was quickest with a lap of 22.1744 seconds. Newgarden was second at 22.2438 seconds while Castroneves was third. Rubens Barichello, who enters his rookie season in IndyCar after racing Formula 1, was sixth quickest.

Defending race winner Dario Franchitti was 11th in the morning session and 18th in the afternoon session. He won the race last year after starting on the pole.

“With all the problems, it looked like we weren’t going to be coming back to Milwaukee,” Franchitti says. “But we’re back here because of what the IndyCar Series and Michael Andretti and his team did to put this together. It’s great to be back at Milwaukee and this track is one we all love. There’s so much history.

“In order to get Indy car racing back to where it needs to be, we need to be at these places. There are so many things going on for the fans and I think Michael and his team have done a good job and it should be a good event.”

Points leaders Will Power and Scott Dixon both changed motors, therefore suffering a 10-grid starting spot penalty for Sunday’s race. Power was 19h and 13th in the two sessions while Dixon was 10th and ninth.