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IZOD IndyCar
Firestone 550k
Site: Fort Worth, Texas Motor Speedway (oval, 1.5 miles)
TV schedule: Friday, qualifying (4 p.m., Versus); Saturday, race (7 p.m., Versus)
Race distance: 342 miles/228 laps
2009 winner: Helio Castroneves
Fast facts: Dario Franchitti raced to his second Indianapolis 500 victory on Sunday, winning under caution after a spectacular, airborne crash with a lap left that sent Mike Conway high into the fence and to the hospital with a broken left leg and compression fracture in his back. The victory made Chip Ganassi the first owner to win Indy and NASCAR’s Daytona 500 in the same year. ... Will Power leads the season standings with 227 points, 11 more than Franchitti. Power swept the opening road races in Sao Paulo and St. Petersburg. ... Conway is expected to be sidelined at least three months. ... Motorcycle daredevil Robbie Knievel will attempt to jump more than 200 feet over police cars before the race.
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NASCAR Camping World Trucks
WinStar World Casino 400k
Site: Fort Worth, Texas Motor Speedway (oval, 1.5 miles)
TV schedule: Friday, race (7:30 p.m., Speed)
Race distance: 250.5 miles/167 laps
2009 winner: Todd Bodine
Fast facts: Kyle Busch raced to his 70th victory in NASCAR’s top three divisions, holding off Bodine on May 21 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. ... Bodine, winless in 24 races, has a two-point lead over Aric Almirola in the season standings. Timothy Peters is third, 86 points back. Four-time series champion Ron Hornaday is fourth, 103 behind Bodine. ... Ken Schrader is driving the No. 2 Chevrolet for Kevin Harvick, and Johnny Benson is taking Busch’s spot in the No. 18 Toyota. Harvick and Busch each have two Trucks victories this year.
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NASCAR Sprint Cup
Gillette Fusion ProGlide 500
Site: Long Pond, Pa., Pocono Raceway (triangle, 2.5 miles)
TV schedule: Friday, practice (11 a.m., Speed), qualifying (2:30 p.m., Speed).; Saturday, practice (9 a.m. and 10 a.m., Speed); Sunday, race (noon, TNT)
Race distance: 500 miles/200 laps
2009 winner: Tony Stewart
Fast facts: Kurt Busch held off Jamie McMurray to win the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Sunday. Busch also won the All-Star race the previous week at the track. ... Kevin Harvick leads the season standings with 1,898 points, followed by Kyle Busch (1,869), Matt Kenseth (1,781), Jeff Gordon (1,760), Denny Hamlin (1,732), Kurt Busch (1,726) and four-time defending champion Jimmie Johnson (1,694). ... Hamlin, tied with Kurt Busch and Johnson for the series victory lead with three, won the August 2009 race at the track. He also swept the 2006 Pocono races as a rookie. ... The series will return to Pocono on Aug. 1 for the Pennsylvania 500. ... Johnson will race Saturday in the Grand-Am series’ Watkins Glen event. He will team with Alex Gurney and Jon Fogarty in the Bob Stallings Racing entry.
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NASCAR Nationwide
Federated Auto Parts 300
Site: Gladeville, Tenn., Nashville Superspeedway (oval, 1.333 miles)
TV schedule: Friday, practice (6:30 p.m., ESPN2); Saturday, qualifying (4:30 p.m., ESPN2), race (6:30 p.m., ESPN2)
Race distance: 300 miles/225 laps
2009 winner: Kyle Busch
Fast facts: Kyle Busch won at Charlotte Motor Speedway last Saturday, beating Brad Keselowski for his second straight series victory and fifth of the season. ... Busch and Kevin Harvick, the April winner at the track, are skipping the race and dropping out of the title chase, leaving Keselowski, Carl Edwards and Paul Menard the only double-duty Sprint Cup drivers in the field. Keselowski leads the standings, a point ahead of Busch and 94 in front of third-place Harvick. Edwards is fourth, 257 points back. He won three straight races on the concrete track in 2006-07. ... Mike Bliss is driving Harvick’s No. 33 Toyota, and Brad Coleman is taking Busch’s spot in the No. 18 Toyota.
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NHRA
Route 66 NHRA Nationals
Site: Joliet, Ill., Route 66 Raceway
TV schedule: Saturday, qualifying (10 p.m., taped, ESPN2); Sunday, final eliminations (3 p.m., taped, ESPN2)
2009 winners: Spencer Massey (Top Fuel), Tony Pedregon (Funny Car), Jeg Coughlin (Pro Stock) and Matt Guidera (Pro Stock Motorcycle)
Fast facts: Tony Schumacher won the Top Fuel final in the Summer Nationals on May 23 in Topeka, Kan., beating Cory McClenathan. Fellow defending series champions Robert Hight (Funny Car) and Mike Edwards (Pro Stock) also won. ... John Force has three Funny Car victories this year to push his record total to 129. The 60-year-old star, trying to add to his record 14 season championships, leads the standings — 49 points ahead of Hight. ... In Top Fuel, Larry Dixon has a 97-point lead over McClenathan. Dixon has four victories this year.
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Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series
Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen
Site: Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International, (road course, 3.4 miles)
TV schedule: Saturday, race (1 p.m.-3 p.m., 5 p.m.-7:30 p.m., Speed)
Race durations: 6 hours
2009 winners: Scott Pruett, Memo Rojas (Overall, DP); Leh Keen, Dirk Werner (GT)
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