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National, international racing schedule (July 30-Aug. 1)

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All times Central (U.S.)

NASCAR Sprint Cup
Pennsylvania 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 (8:30 a.m. and 10:20 a.m., Speed); Sunday, race (noon, ESPN)
Race distance: 500 miles/200 laps
2009 winner: Denny Hamlin
Fast facts: Last Sunday, Jamie McMurray won at Indianapolis Motor Speedway to join Jimmie Johnson (2006) and Dale Jarrett (1996) as the only drivers to win the Daytona 500 and Brickyard 400 in the same year. Kevin Harvick was second. ... Denny Hamlin also won the June 6 race at Pocono, his fourth victory in nine starts at the track. ... Harvick leads the season standings with 2,920 points with six races left before the 10-race Chase. Jeff Gordon is second with 2,736, followed by Hamlin (2,660) and four-time defending series champion Jimmie Johnson (2,649). Hamlin and Johnson lead the series with five victories, with each victory worth 10 bonus points when the points are reset for the 12-driver Chase. Harvick has two victories.
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NASCAR Nationwide
U.S. Cellular 250
Site: Newton, Iowa, Iowa Speedway (oval, 0.875 miles)
TV schedule: Saturday, race (6 p.m., ESPN2)
Race distance: 218.75 miles/250 laps
2009 winner: Brad Keselowski
Fast facts: Last week, Kyle Busch raced to his fifth victory in his last six Nationwide starts and eighth of the year, holding off Carl Edwards at O’Reilly Raceway Park in Clermont, Ind. ... Busch has 38 Nationwide victories, second behind Mark Martin (48) on the career list. Busch isn’t running for the championship after taking the season title last year. ... Brad Keselowski has a 205-point lead over second-place Edwards. ... Michael Annett, driving the No. 15 Toyota for Germain Racing, is from Des Moines.
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NASCAR Camping World Trucks
Pocono Mountains 125
Site: Long Pond, Pa., Pocono Raceway (triangle, 2.5 miles)
TV schedule: Friday, practice (4:30 p.m., Speed); Saturday, qualifying (9 a.m., Speed), race (11:30 a.m., Speed)
Race distance: 125 miles/50 laps
2009 winner: Inaugural race.
Fast facts: Last week, Ron Hornaday Jr. raced to his first victory of the year and series-record 46th, leading 129 of 200 laps at O’Reilly Raceway Park. The four-time series champion snapped a 22-race winless streak with his fourth victory at the track. ... Sprint Cup drivers Denny Hamlin, Kasey Kahne and Elliott Sadler are in Saturday’s field. Hamlin, driving the No. 15 Toyota for Billy Ballew Motorsports, has four Sprint Cup victories at the track. ... Todd Bodine leads the season standings, 177 points ahead of Aric Almirola. ... Multi-truck qualifying will be used for the first time to determine the starting lineup. The trucks will be released in approximately 25-second increments for their two-lap runs. The qualifying order will be set by inverting the drivers’ positions in the final practice.
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Formula One
Hungarian Grand Prix
Site: Budapest, Hungary, Hungaroring (road course, 2.72 miles)
TV schedule: Friday, practice (7 a.m., Speed), Saturday, qualifying (7 a.m., Speed); Sunday, race (6:30 a.m., Speed)
Race distance: 190.53 miles/70 laps
2009 winner: Lewis Hamilton
Fast facts: Last Sunday, Fernando Alonso won the German Grand Prix after Ferrari ordered Felipe Massa to give his teammate the lead. Ferrari was fined $100,000. ... Lewis Hamilton, the winner in Turkey and Canada, leads the season standings with 157. McLaren teammate Jenson Button (143) is second, followed by Red Bull’s Mark Webber (136) and Sebastian Vettel (136) and Alonso (123).
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National/international race schedule (July 23-25)

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NASCAR Sprint Cup
Brickyard 400
Site: Indianapolis Motor Speedway (oval, 2.5 miles)
TV schedule: Friday, practice (1 p.m., ESPN2; 2:30 p.m., Speed); Saturday, qualifying (9 a.m., ESPN2), practice (2:30 p.m., ESPN2); Sunday, race (noon, ESPN)
Race distance: 400 miles/160 laps
2009 winner: Jimmie Johnson
Fast facts: David Reutimann raced to his second career Sprint Cup victory, winning at Chicagoland Speedway on July 10. Carl Edwards was second. ... Kevin Harvick leads the season standings with 2,745 points, followed by Jeff Gordon (2,642) and four-time defending series champion Jimmie Johnson (2,557). Johnson and fourth-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 has two victories. ... Tony Stewart, from Indiana, won the 2005 and 2007 races at Indy. ... Gordon has a series-high four victories at the track. ... Montoya (2000) and Sam Hornish (2006) are Indy 500 winners. ... Kyle Busch also is racing in the Nationwide and Trucks races at O’Reilly Raceway Park.
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NASCAR Nationwide
Kroger 200
Site: Clermont, Ind., O’Reilly Raceway Park (oval, 0.686 miles)
TV schedule: Saturday, practice (11:30 a.m., ESPN2), qualifying (4 p.m., ESPN2), race (6:30 p.m., ESPN)
Race distance: 137.2 miles/200 laps
2009 winner: Carl Edwards
Fast facts: Last week, Carl Edwards won for the third time at Gateway International Raceway, wrecking Brad Keselowski for the victory after Keselowski bumped Edwards earlier on the final lap. Edwards has two victories this year. ... Keselowski has a 168-point lead over Edwards in the season standings. ... Kyle Busch, the 2004 and 2008 winner at O’Reilly Raceway Park, has seven victories this year and 37 overall, second behind Mark Martin (48) for the Nationwide lead. Busch took last week off to visit the Bahamas with fiance Sam Sarcinella.
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NASCAR Camping World Trucks
AAA Insurance 200
Site: Clermont, Ind., O’Reilly Raceway Park (oval, 0.686 miles)
TV schedule: Friday, qualifying (4 p.m., Speed), race (6:30 p.m., Speed)
Race distance: 137.2 miles/200 laps
2009 winner: Ron Hornaday Jr.
Fast facts: Last week, Sprint Cup star Kevin Harvick raced to his third Trucks victory of the year, leading 143 of 160 laps in the rain-delayed race at Gateway International. ... Todd Bodine, the 2006 series champion, has a 145-point lead over Aric Almirola in the season standings. Four-time champion Ron Hornaday Jr. is sixth, 305 points behind Bodine. Hornaday is winless in 11 races this year and 22 overall.
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IndyCar
Honda Indy Edmonton
Site: Edmonton, Alberta, Edmonton City Centre Airport (temporary road course, 1.96 miles)
TV schedule: Saturday, qualifying (5 p.m., Versus); Sunday, race (4 p.m., Versus)
Race distance: 186.2 miles/95 laps
2009 winner: Will Power
Fast facts: Will Power won the Honda Indy Toronto last weekend for his second straight victory and fourth of the season, passing Justin Wilson off a restart with 14 laps left and holding off Indianapolis 500 champion Dario Franchitti. ... All four of Power’s victories have come on street or road courses. The series leader — he’s 42 points ahead of Franchitti — won at Watkins Glen three weeks ago and swept the season-opening road races in Sao Paulo and St. Petersburg. ... Danica Patrick is coming off a sixth-place finish in Toronto, her best result in the first six street and road events of the year.
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Formula One
German Grand Prix
Site: Hockenheim, Germany, Hockenheimring (road course, 2.84 miles)
TV schedule: Friday, practice (7 a.m., Speed); Saturday, qualifying (7 a.m., Speed); Sunday, race (11 a.m., taped, Fox)
Race distance: 190.42 miles/67 laps
2009 winner: Mark Webber
Fast facts: Mark Webber won the British Grand Prix on July 11 for his third victory of the season, overtaking Sebastian Vettel on the first lap. McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton was second. ... Hamilton, the winner in Turkey and Montreal, leads the season standings with 145 points — 12 more than teammate Jenson Button. Webber is third with 128, followed by Vettel with 121. ... Seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher is driving for Mercedes GP after a three-year retirement. There German star is ninth in the standings with 36 points.
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NHRA
Mopar Mile-High NHRA Nationals
Site: Morrison, Colo., Bandimere Speedway
TV schedule: Saturday, qualifying (5:30 p.m., taped, ESPN2); Sunday, final eliminations (6 p.m., taped, ESPN2)
2009 winners: Ron Capps (Funny Car), Antron Brown (Top Fuel), Allen Johnson (Pro Stock) and Eddie Krawiec (Pro Stock Motorcycles)
Fast facts: Last week, Ron Capps ended a one-year Funny Car winless streak, winning at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif. Larry Dixon (Top Fuel), Jeg Coughlin (Pro Stock) and Michael Phillips (Pro Stock Motorcycle) also won. ... John Force, a record 14-time season champion, has four Funny Car victories this season and a record 130 overall. The 61-year-old Force has a 43-point lead over teammate Robert Hight in the season standings. ... In Top Fuel, Larry Dixon has a 211-point advantage over Tony Schumacher. Dixon has eight victories this year.
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American Le Mans Series
Northeast Grand Prix
Site: Lakeville, Conn., Lime Rock Park (road course, 1.51 miles)
TV schedule: Saturday, race (1 p.m., Speed)
Race duration: 2 hours, 45 minutes
2009 winners: Gil de Ferran, Simon Pagenaud (overall, P1); Marino Franchitti, Butch Leitzinger (P2); Patrick Long, Jorg Bergmeister (GT2)
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National, international racing schedule (July 9-11)

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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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National, international racing schedule (June 11-13)

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NASCAR Sprint Cup
Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips 400
Site: Brooklyn, Mich., Michigan International Speedway (oval, 2 miles)
TV schedule: Friday, practice (10:30 a.m., Speed), qualifying (2:30 p.m., Speed); Saturday, practice (11:30 a.m., Speed); Sunday, race (noon, TNT)
Race distance: 400 miles/200 laps
2009 winner: Mark Martin
Fast facts: Last week, Denny Hamlin raced to his fourth Pocono victory and series-leading fourth win of the year. Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch was second. ... Dale Earnhardt Jr. is winless in 71 races since the June 2008 race at Michigan, his only victory in 86 starts for Hendrick Motorsports. He has 18 career Sprint Cup wins. ... Kevin Harvick leads the season standings with 2,063 points. Kyle Busch is second with 2,044, followed by Hamlin (1,927), Matt Kenseth (1,893), Kurt Busch (1,881) and four-time defending champion Jimmie Johnson (1,849). ... Brian Vickers, sidelined by blood clots in his lungs and left leg, won the August race at the track.
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NASCAR Nationwide
Meijer 300
Site: Sparta, Ky., Kentucky Speedway (oval, 1.5 miles)
TV schedule: Friday, practice, (5:45 p.m., ESPN2); Saturday, qualifying (3 p.m., ESPN), race (7 p.m., ESPN)
Race distance: 300 miles/200 laps
2009 winner: Joey Logano
Fast facts: Brad Keselowski raced to his third Nationwide victory of the year last Saturday and ninth overall, easily holding off rival Carl Edwards at Nashville Superspeedway. Keselowski led 97 of 225 laps in his Penske Dodge. ... Keselowski leads the standings with 2,141 points. Kyle Busch is second with 1,945, but isn’t running for the championship after winning last year. Edwards is third with 1,864. ... Brad Coleman is taking Busch’s spot in the No. 18 Toyota, and Mike Bliss is driving Kevin Harvick’s No. 33 Chevrolet. ... Edwards won the 2005 race.
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NASCAR Camping World Trucks
VFW 200
Site: Brooklyn, Mich., Michigan International Speedway (oval, 2 miles)
TV schedule: Saturday, race (1 p.m., Speed)
Race distance: 200 miles/100 laps
2009 winner: Colin Braun
Fast facts: Todd Bodine raced to his record sixth Texas Motor Speedway victory in the Trucks Series last Friday, holding off Johnny Sauter. Bodine has 18 career series wins. ... Bodine leads the standings with 1,263 points, followed by Aric Almirola (1,198), Timothy Peters (1,128) and four-time series champion Ron Hornaday Jr. (1,108). ... Kyle Busch won at Charlotte on May 21 in his last series start.
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Formula One
Canadian Grand Prix
Site: Montreal, Circuit Gilles Villeneuve (road course, 2.71 miles)
TV schedule: Friday, practice (1 p.m., Speed); Saturday, practice, qualifying (3:30 p.m., Speed) Sunday, race (11 a.m., Fox)
Race distance: 189.7 miles/70 laps
2009 winner: No race
Fast facts: Lewis Hamilton led McLaren to a 1-2 finish on May 30 in the Turkish Grand Prix after a costly run-in between Red Bull teammates Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel. Webber and Vettel touched as Vettel looked to pass for the lead, sending Vettel spinning out of the race. Webber recovered to finish third behind Jenson Button. ... The Canadian Grand Prix, a fixture at the track since 1978, was dropped from the 2009 calendar after negotiations with race organizers failed. ... In 2008, Robert Kubica raced to his first Formula One victory, teaming with Nick Heidfeld to give BMW Sauber a 1-2 finish. ... Webber, the winner last month in Spain and Monaco in consecutive weekends, leads the season standings with 93 points. Button, also a two-time winner in the first seven races, is second — five points back. Hamilton is third, nine points behind Webber. ... Seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher, driving for Ross Brawn-led Mercedes GP after a three-year retirement, is ninth with 34 points. He has a record 91 victories, winning at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in 1994, ’97, ’98, 2000, ’02, ’03 and ’04.
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NHRA
NHRA Supernationals
Site: Englishtown, N.J., Old Bridge Township Raceway Park
TV schedule: Saturday, qualifying (10 p.m., taped, ESPN2); Sunday, final eliminations (3 p.m., taped, ESPN2)
2009 winners: Tony Pedregon (Funny Car), Larry Dixon (Top Fuel), Jeg Coughlin (Pro Stock) and Craig Treble (Pro Stock Motorcycle)
Fast facts: Last week, Larry Dixon won the Top Fuel division for the fifth time this season, beating champion Tony Schumacher in the Route 66 NHRA Nationals in Joliet, Ill. Matt Hagan (Funny Car), Mike Edwards (Pro Stock) and LE Tonglet (Pro Stock Motorcycle) also won. ... In 2008 at the track, Scott Kalitta was killed after his Funny Car burst into flames and crashed at the end of the track during qualifying. As a safety measure following Kalitta’s death, the NHRA cut the length of Top Fuel and Funny Car races from a quarter-mile to 1,000 feet — a reduction of 320 feet. ... John Force has three Funny Car victories this year. The 61-year-old star, trying to add to his record 14 season championships, is second in the standings — a point behind Robert Hight. ... In Top Fuel, Dixon has a 135-point advantage over Schumacher.
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Automobile Club De L’ouest
24 Hours of Le Mans
Site: Circuit de la Sarthe, Le Mans, France
TV schedule: Saturday-Sunday (7:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Saturday, Speed; 5 p.m. Saturday-8:30 a.m. Sunday, Speed)
2009 winners: David Brabham, Mark Gene, Alex Wurz 
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National, international racing schedule (March 27-31)

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IndyCar
Indianapolis 500
Site: Indianapolis Motor Speedway (oval, 2.5 miles)
TV schedule: Friday, Carb Day, including Firestone Freedom 100 Indy Lights race (10 a.m., Versus); Sunday, race (noon, ABC)
Race distance: 500 miles/200 laps
2009 winner: Helio Castroneves
Fast facts: Scott Dixon won for the second straight year at Kansas Speedway, leading the final 150 laps in the May 1 race. Dario Franchitti was second. ... Helio Castroneves won his fourth Indy pole Saturday, averaging 227.970 mph in his four-lap run. The Brazilian star will be joined on the front row by Penske teammate Will Power and Target Chip Ganassi’s Franchitti. Patrick will start 23rd, her worst career position at Indy. ... The drivers will be allowed to use the push-to-pass button 15 times. The extra horsepower boosts will last 18 seconds and take 10 seconds to reset. The button, introduced in August at Mid-Ohio, is being used for the first time at Indianapolis. ... Franchitti, the 2007 race winner, won the season title last year. ... Dixon won the 2008 race. ... Ray Harroun won the inaugural event in 1911.
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NASCAR Sprint Cup
Coca-Cola 600
Site: Concord, N.C., Charlotte Motor Speedway (oval, 1.5 miles)
TV schedule: Today, practice (2:30 p.m., Speed), qualifying (6 p.m., Speed); Saturday, practice (10:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., Speed); Sunday, race (4:45 p.m., Fox)
Race distance: 600 miles/400 laps
2009 winner: David Reutimann
Fast facts: Kurt Busch won the All-Star race Saturday at Charlotte for Penske Racing, sailing past feuding Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch to take the $1 million prize. Hamlin and Kyle Busch were racing for the lead in the final segment when Hamlin tried to block Kyle Busch’s pass, sending him into the wall. ... Kevin Harvick leads the series standings with 1,768 points, followed by Kyle Busch (1,699), Matt Kenseth (1,642), four-time defending series champion Jimmie Johnson (1,637) and Hamlin (1,618). ... Johnson, the Charlotte winner in October, won five times in a six-race stretch at the track — taking the 2003 Coca-Cola 600 and sweeping the spring and fall races in 2004 and 2005. He has three victories — worth 30 bonus points when the Chase begins — to share the series lead with Hamlin ... Dale Earnhardt Jr. is winless in 69 races and has only one victory in 84 starts for Hendrick Motorsports. He has 18 career Sprint Cup wins. ... Kyle Busch won the Trucks race last week at the track for his 70th victory in NASCAR’s top three divisions. ... Jeff Gordon won the 1994 race for the first of his 80 Cup victories. He also won in 1997 and 1998, and has two Charlotte fall victories. ... Darrell Waltrip won the race a record five times.
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NASCAR Nationwide
Tech-Net Auto Service 300
Site: Concord, N.C., Charlotte Motor Speedway (oval, 1.5 miles)
TV schedule: Today, practice (1 p.m. and 4 p.m., Speed); Saturday, qualifying (8:30 a.m. Speed) and race (1 p.m., ABC)
Race distance: 300 miles/200 laps
2009 winner: Mike Bliss
Fast facts: Kyle Busch raced to his fourth Nationwide victory of the year, leading 191 of 205 laps May 15 at Dover. He won the Sprint Cup race the following day. ... Busch won the October race at Charlotte en route to the season title and took the Trucks race last week for his 70th victory in NASCAR’s top three divisions. He has 34 Nationwide victories and has won 18 times in both Sprint Cup and Trucks competition. Not planning to run the full Nationwide schedule, Busch is second in the standings — 11 points behind fellow Sprint Cup driver Brad Keselowski. ... The race is the series’ first afternoon start at the track since 2004.
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Formula One
Turkish Grand Prix
Site: Istanbul Speed Park (road course, 3.32 miles)
TV schedule: Friday, practice (6 a.m., Speed); Saturday, practice, qualifying (6 a.m., Speed); Sunday, race (6:30 a.m., Speed)
Race distance: 192.25 miles/58 laps
2009 winner: Jenson Button
Fast facts: Mark Webber won the Monaco Grand Prix on May 16 for his second straight victory. Red Bull teammate Sebastian Vettel was second. ... Webber and Vettel each have a series-high 78 points after six races. Webber leads the standings based on his two victories. ... Jenson Button, now racing for McLaren, also has two victories this year and is third in the standings with 70 points. ... F1 will return to the United States in 2012 in Austin, Texas, on a track built specifically for the event. F1, Austin and Texas state officials announced the deal Tuesday, saying Austin would host the U.S. Grand Prix until 2021. The race was dropped after an eight-year run in Indianapolis from 2000-07.
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Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series
Memorial Day Classic
Site: Lime Rock Park, Lakeville, Conn. (road course, 1.53 miles)
TV schedule: Race, Monday (1 p.m., Speed)
Race duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes
2009 winners: Event not held
Fast facts: The Daytona Prototypes will make their debut at The Memorial Day Classic this year. The event was a GT-only race in 2008. ... The visit to Lime Rock Park will be a one-day event. Practice and qualifying are scheduled for Monday morning with the race set to begin around 1 p.m. (Central). ... The series heads to Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International for the Six Hours at The Glen on June 5.
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National, international racing schedule (May 14-16)

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NASCAR Sprint Cup
Autism Speaks 400
Site: Dover (Del.) International Speedway (oval, mile)
TV schedule: Friday, practice (10:30 a.m., Speed), qualifying (2 p.m., Speed); Saturday, practice (11:30 a.m., Speed); Sunday, race (11 a.m., Fox)
Race distance: 400 miles/400 laps
2009 winner: Jimmie Johnson
Fast facts: Denny Hamlin became the first driver in 17 years to sweep the Nationwide and Sprint Cup races at Darlington Raceway last weekend. The Joe Gibbs Racing star has three victories — two since knee surgery — in the last six races. ... Talladega winner Kevin Harvick tops the standings with 1,622 points, 110 more than Jimmie Johnson. ... Johnson, 38th at Darlington after a hard wreck, leads active drivers with five Dover victories. He’s tied with Hamlin for the series victory lead with three. ... Dale Earnhardt Jr. is winless in 68 races and has only one victory in 83 starts for Hendrick Motorsports. He has 18 career Sprint Cup wins.
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NASCAR Nationwide
Heluva Good! 200
Site: Dover (Del.) International Speedway (oval, mile)
TV schedule: Friday, practice (noon, ESPN2); Saturday, qualifying (9 a.m., ESPN2), race (1 p.m., ABC)
Race distance: 200 miles/200 laps
2009 winner: Brad Keselowski
Fast facts: Brad Keselowski leads the season standings, 55 points ahead of defending champion Kyle Busch. Keselowski won consecutive races last month at Talladega and Richmond. Busch has a series-high three victories. ... Jason Keller is attempting to qualify for his record 500th start. Driving for startup team Tri-Star Motorsports, the 10-time series winner has failed to qualify for three of the first 10 races this season. ... Clint Bowyer won the September race at the track.
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NASCAR Camping World Trucks
Dover 200
Site: Dover (Del.) International Speedway (oval, mile)
TV schedule: Friday, qualifying (9 a.m. Speed), race (7 p.m., tape-delay, Speed)
Race distance: 200 miles/200 laps
2009 winner: Brian Scott
Fast facts: Johnny Sauter won May 2 at Kansas Speedway, holding off Ron Hornaday Jr. after they made late contact and saved their trucks in tire-smoking slides. ... Timothy Peters, the winner of the season-opening race at Daytona, has a 22-point lead over Todd Bodine in the standings. ... The 51-year-old Hornaday is fourth, 97 points behind Peters. Hornaday won his series record fourth title last season, winning six races for Kevin Harvick Inc. ... Elliott Sadler is driving the No. 2 Chevrolet in place of Harvick, the winner at Atlanta and Martinsville.
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Formula One
Monaco Grand Prix
Site: Monte Carlo, Monaco, Circuit de Monaco (street course, 2.075 miles)
TV schedule: Thursday, practice (7 a.m., Speed); Saturday, qualifying (7 a.m., Speed); Sunday, race (6:30 a.m., Speed)
Race distance: 161.9 miles/78 laps
2009 winner: Jenson Button
Fast facts: Red Bull’s Mark Webber had a comfortable wire-to-wire victory in the Spanish Grand Prix last Sunday. Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso was second and Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel third after McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton crashed with a lap left. ... Jenson Button, the winner in Australia and China in his first season with McLaren, leads the standings with 70 points. Alonso, the Bahrain winner, is second with 67, followed by Malaysia winner Vettel (60) and Webber (53). ... Seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher, driving for Ross Brawn-led Mercedes GP after a three-year retirement, is ninth with 22 points. He has a record 91 victories, winning at Monaco in 1994, ’95, ’97, ’99 and 2001.
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NHRA
NHRA Southern Nationals
Site: Commerce, Ga., Atlanta Dragway
TV schedule: Saturday, qualifying (7 p.m., taped, ESPN2); Sunday, final eliminations (6 p.m., taped, ESPN2)
2009 winners: Morgan Lucas (Top Fuel), Jack Beckman (Funny Car), Mike Edwards (Pro Stock) and Eddie Krawiec (Pro Stock Motorcycle)
Fast facts: Tony Schumacher raced to his second Top Fuel victory of the season, beating Doug Kalitta in the Midwest Nationals on May 2 in Madison, Ill. Robert Hight (Funny Car), Warren Johnson (Pro Stock) and Michael Phillips (Pro Stock Motorcycle) also won. It was Johnson’s Pro Stock-record 151st victory and first since 2007. ... In 2008 at the Atlanta Dragway, Ashley Force Hood beat father John Force to become the first female driver to win a national Funny Car event. ... John Force has three 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 Funny Car standings — 151 points ahead Matt Hagan. ... In Top Fuel, Larry Dixon has a 41-point lead over Cory McClenathan. Dixon has three victories this year, one more than McClenathan. ... Edwards, a three-time winner this year, has a 286-point lead in Pro Stock.
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National, international racing schedule (May 7-9)

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All times Central (U.S.)

NASCAR Sprint Cup
Southern 500
Site: Darlington (S.C.) Raceway (oval, 1.366 miles)
TV schedule: Friday, practice (10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., Speed), qualifying (4 p.m., Speed); Saturday, race (6:30 p.m., Fox)
Race distance: 501 miles/367 laps
2009 winner: Mark Martin
Fast facts: Kyle Busch snapped a 21-race losing streak, his longest since joining Joe Gibbs Racing in 2008, beating Jeff Gordon last Saturday at Richmond after a late restart. Gordon is winless in his last 38 races. ... Talladega winner Kevin Harvick tops the standings with 1,467 points, 10 more than four-time defending champion Jimmie Johnson, who has a series-leading three victories in the first 10 races. ... Gordon has seven Darlington wins, the last in 2007. He has finished second eight times since his victory at Texas last year, his lone win in his last 89 starts. ... Dale Earnhardt Jr. is winless in 67 races. Clint Bowyer (72), Greg Biffle (54), Jeff Burton (51), Carl Edwards (46) and Matt Kenseth (44) also have long droughts. Biffle won at Darlington in 2005 and 2006. ... Johnny Mantz won the inaugural race in 1950 at the historic track that had two races a year from 1960-2004. ... David Pearson holds the track record with 10 Cup wins, one more than Dale Earnhardt.
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NASCAR Nationwide
Royal Purple 200
Site: Darlington (S.C.) Raceway (oval, 1.366 miles)
TV schedule: Friday, qualifying (2 p.m., Speed), race (6 p.m., ESPN2)
Race distance: 200.8 miles/147 laps
2009 winner: Matt Kenseth
Fast facts: Brad Keselowski raced to his second straight Nationwide Series victory, dominating, then rallying from fourth in a green-white-checker finish at Richmond last week. ... Keselowski, penalized 50 points after his Talladega win because of an unapproved left-front spring and right-front shock, has a 59-point lead over Kevin Harvick in the season standings. Keselowski is in his first year in Roger Penske’s No. 22 Dodge. ... Defending series champion Kyle Busch is third, 84 points back. He has three victories this year. ... Harvick has two victories this season. ... Kenseth is driving the No. 16 Roush Fenway Ford in place of Colin Braun for the second straight week. Kenseth has 25 career Nationwide victories, three at Darlington.
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Formula One
Spanish Grand Prix
Site: Barcelona, Circuit de Catalunya (road course, 2.89 miles)
TV schedule: Friday, practice (7 a.m., Speed); Saturday, qualifying (7 a.m., Speed); Sunday, race (6:30 a.m., Speed)
Race distance: 190.8 miles/66 laps
2009 winner: Jenson Button
Fast facts: Jenson Button gambled on tire strategy to win the rainy Chinese Grand Prix on April 18, beating McLaren teammate Lewis Hamilton. Button made only two stops. ... Button, also the Australian Grand Prix winner in March, leads the season standings with 60 points. Nico Rosberg is second with 50, and Fernando Alonso has 49. ... Alonso is the lone Spanish champion in event history, winning in 2006. He opened this season with a victory in Bahrain. ... Seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher, driving for Ross Brawn-led Mercedes GP after a three-year retirement, is ninth in the standings with 10 points. He has a record 91 victories, six at Catalunya.
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National, international racing schedule (April 16-18)

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All times Central (U.S.)

NASCAR Sprint Cup
Samsung Mobile 500
Site: Fort Worth, Texas Motor Speedway (oval, 1.5 miles)
TV schedule: Friday, practice (noon, Speed), qualifying (3:30 p.m., Speed); Saturday, practice (11:30 a.m., Speed); Sunday, race (2 p.m., KDFW/Ch. 4)
Race distance: 501 miles/334 laps
2009 winner: Jeff Gordon
Fast facts: Ryan Newman won at Phoenix International Raceway last week to snap a 77-race victory drought. Newman won for the 14th time and first with Stewart-Haas Racing, taking the lead after a late caution and holding off Gordon in a two-lap shootout. ... Jimmie Johnson leads the series with three victories and 1,073 points in seven races. Matt Kenseth is second 36 points back. ... Carl Edwards has a series-high three victories at the track, winning in November 2005 and sweeping the 2008 races. ... Jeff Gordon is winless in 35 starts since his victory last year. ... Kurt Busch won the November race at the track.
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NASCAR Nationwide
O’Reilly Auto Parts 300
Site: Fort Worth, Texas Motor Speedway (oval, 1.5 miles)
Schedule: Friday, practice (10:30 a.m., ESPN2), qualifying (1:30 p.m., ESPN2); Saturday, race (2 p.m., ESPN2)
Race distance: 300 miles/200 laps
2009 winner: Kyle Busch
Fast facts: Kyle Busch recovered from a wild sequence — losing the lead on a disputed restart and falling 20 seconds back after a drive-through penalty — to win at Phoenix International Raceway last week. Busch has two victories this year and 32 overall. ... Busch is trying to become the third driver in series history to win five straight races at a track. Jack Ingram won five in a row at South Boston Speedway (1985-86) and Dale Earnhardt accomplished the feat at Daytona (1990-94). ... Brad Keselowski leads the season standings with 974 points, four more than Carl Edwards. Busch is third, 15 points back.
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IZOD IndyCar
Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach
Site: Streets of Long Beach, Calif. (street course, 1.97 miles)
TV schedule: Saturday, qualifying (5 p.m., Versus); Sunday, race (2:30 p.m., Versus)
Race distance: 167.2 miles/85 laps
2009 winner: Dario Franchitti
Fast facts: Helio Castroneves won the inaugural Grand Prix of Alabama last week to give Penske Racing its third victory in three races this season. Scott Dixon was second. ... Will Power swept the season-opening races in Brazil and St. Petersburg, Fla. The Penske driver leads the season standings with 136 points. Teammate Castroneves is second, 32 points behind. ... Danica Patrick is 15th in the standings. She was 15th in Brazil, seventh in St. Petersburg and 19th in Birmingham.
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Formula One
Chinese Grand Prix
Site: Shanghai International Circuit (road course, 3.39 miles)
TV schedule: Friday, practice (1 a.m., Speed); Saturday, qualifying (1 a.m., Speed); Sunday, race (1:30 a.m., Speed)
Race distance: 189.7 miles/56 laps
2009 winner: Sebastian Vettel
Fast facts: Sebastian Vettel won the Malaysian Grand Prix on April 4, leading from start to finish. Red Bull teammate Webber was second. ... Michael Schumacher, the seven-time world champion driving for Ross Brawn-led Mercedes GP following a three-year retirement, won the 2006 race for the last of his record 91 victories. The 41-year-old German star was sixth in the season-opening race in Bahrain, 10th in Australia and 21st in Malaysia. ... Ferrari’s Felipe Massa leads the season standings, two points ahead of teammate Fernando Alonso and Vettel. Alonso won in Bahrain.
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NHRA
SummitRacing.com NHRA Nationals
Site: Las Vegas, The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway
TV schedule: Saturday, qualifying (5 p.m., taped, ESPN2); Sunday, final eliminations (6 p.m., taped, ESPN2)
2009 winners: Tony Schumacher (Top Fuel), Ron Capps (Funny Car) and Jeg Coughlin (Pro Stock)
Fast facts: Larry Dixon won the NHRA Spring Nationals at Houston Raceway Park last week for his second Top Fuel victory of the year and 50th overall. Matt Hagan (Funny Car), Coughlin (Pro Stock) and Andrew Hines (Pro Stock Motorcycle) also won. ... John Force has two victories this year and leads the Funny Car standings. The 60-year-old Force has an NHRA-record 128 victories and 14 season titles. ... In the Top Fuel standings, Cory McClenathan has a 28-point lead over Dixon. ... The NHRA will return to the track in October for the Las Vegas Nationals.
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American Le Mans Series
Tequila Patron American Le Mans Series at Long Beach
Site: Streets of Long Beach, Calif. (street course, 1.97 miles)
TV schedule: Saturday, race (7 p.m., Speed)
Race duration: 100 minutes
2009 winners: Simon Pagenaud, Gil de Ferran (P1, overall); Luis Diaz, Adrian Fernandez (P2); Olivier Beretta, Oliver Gavin (GT1); Patrick Long, Jorg Bermeister (GT2)
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