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NASCAR Sprint Cup
LifeLock.com 400
Site: Joliet, Ill., Chicagoland Speedway (tri-oval, 1.5 miles)
TV schedule: Friday, practice (11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m., Speed), qualifying (5 p.m., Speed); Saturday, race (6:30 p.m., TNT)
Race distance: 400.5 miles/267 laps
2009 winner: Mark Martin
Fast facts: Last week, points leader Kevin Harvick won at Daytona International Speedway, beating Kasey Kahne in a green-white-checker finish. ... Harvick, also the Talladega winner in April, has a 210-point lead over Jeff Gordon with eight races left before the start of the Chase. Four-time defending series champion Jimmie Johnson is third, 225 points behind Harvick. Johnson and fifth-place Denny Hamlin lead the series with five victories, with each victory worth 10 bonus points when the points are reset for the 12-driver Chase. ... Harvick (2000-01) and Tony Stewart (2004 and 2007) are two-time winners at Chicagoland. Kyle Busch won in 2008 at the track. ... Gordon is making his 600th Cup start.
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NASCAR Nationwide
Dollar General 300
Site: Joliet, Ill., Chicagoland Speedway (tri-oval, 1.5 miles)
TV schedule: Friday, practice (10 a.m., Speed), qualifying (3 p.m., Speed), race (6:30 p.m., ESPN)
Race distance: 300 miles/200 laps
2009 winner: Joey Logano
Fast facts: Last Friday, Dale Earnhardt raced to his first Nationwide victory since 2006, winning at Daytona International Speedway in a No. 3 car honoring his late father. ... Brad Keselowski leads the season standings, 277 points ahead of Sprint Cup rival Carl Edwards. ... Kyle Busch has a series-high six victories. He isn’t running for the championship this year after winning the title last season. ... Danica Patrick, from Roscoe, Ill., is making the fifth of her scheduled 13 starts in Earnhardt’s No. 7 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet.
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NASCAR Camping World Trucks
Lucas Oil 200
Site: Newton, Iowa, Iowa Speedway (oval, 0.875 miles)
TV schedule: Sunday, race (12:30 p.m., Speed)
Race distance: 175 miles/200 laps
2009 winner: Mike Skinner
Fast facts: In the series’ last race, Aric Almirola raced to his second victory of the year, holding off Todd Bodine and Kyle Busch on June 12 at Michigan International Speedway. ... Bodine, the 2006 series champion, has a 55-point lead over Almirola in the season standings. Timothy Peters is third, 165 points back, and four-time champion Ron Hornaday Jr. is fourth, 170 points behind Bodine. Hornaday is winless in nine races this year after winning six times last year. ... Ken Schrader is driving Kevin Harvick Inc.’s No. 2 Chevrolet, and Brian Ickler will be in Busch’s No. 18 Toyota.
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NHRA
NHRA Northwest Nationals
Site: Kent, Wash., Pacific Raceways
TV schedule: Saturday, qualifying (9 p.m., taped, ESPN2); Sunday, final eliminations (10:30 p.m., taped, ESPN2)
2009 winners: Antron Brown (Top Fuel), Tim Wilkerson (Funny Car) and Mike Edwards (Pro Stock)
Fast facts: Greg Anderson raced to his first Pro Stock victory of the season June 27 in the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals. Anderson also won the K&N Horsepower Challenge all-star event. Larry Dixon (Top Fuel), Wilkerson (Funny Car) and Matt Smith (Pro Stock Motorcycle) won their divisions. ... John Force, a record 14-time season champion, has four victories this season and a record 130 overall. He has a 73-point lead over teammate Robert Hight in the Funny Car standings. ... In Top Fuel, Dixon has a 176-point advantage over Tony Schumacher. Dixon has seven victories this year.
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Formula One
British Grand Prix
Site: Silverstone, England, Silverstone circuit (road course, 3.667 miles)
TV schedule: Friday, practice (8 a.m., Speed); Saturday, practice, qualifying (7 a.m., Speed); Sunday, race (1 p.m., taped, KDFW/Ch. 4)
Race distance: 190.6 miles/52 laps
2009 winner: Sebastian Vettel
Fast facts: Sebastian Vettel won the European Grand Prix on June 27 in Valencia, Spain, for his second victory of the year, dominating from the pole in a race marked by Mark Webber’s spectacular crash. McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton was second. ... Hamilton, the winner of consecutive races in Turkey and Montreal, leads the season standings with 127 — six more than teammate Jenson Button. Vettel is third, 12 points behind Hamilton, and Webber is fourth, 24 points behind the leader. ... Seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher, driving for Mercedes GP after a three-year retirement, is ninth with 34 points.
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American Le Mans Series
Utah Grand Prix
Site: Tooele, Utah, Miller Motorsports Park (road course, 3.048 miles)
TV schedule: Sunday, race (3:30 p.m., Speed)
Race duration: 2 hours, 45 minutes
2009 winners: Gil de Ferran, Simon Pagenaud (overall, P1); Luis Diaz, Adrian Fernandez (P2); Jorg Bergmeister, Patrick Long (GT2);
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