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National/international race schedule (July 23-25)

Courtesy of The Associated Press
All times Central (U.S.)

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 racing schedule (July 16-18)

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IndyCar
Honda Indy Toronto
Site: Toronto, Streets of Toronto (street course, 1.755 miles)
TV schedule: Sunday, race (11:30 a.m., ABC)
Race distance: 149.175 miles/85 laps
2009 winner: Dario Franchitti
Fast facts: Will Power won at Watkins Glen on July 4, giving Team Penske its first IndyCar Series win at the New York road course. Power beat teammate Ryan Briscoe by 1.2 seconds for his third win of the season, all on road courses. ... Power leads the season standings with 327 points. Dario Franchitti, the Indianapolis 500 winner, is second with 295, followed by Scott Dixon with 287. ... Paul Tracy, from nearby Scarborough, is driving for KV Racing Technology. He won CART races in Toronto in 1993 and 2003. ... The NASCAR Canadian Tire Series is racing Saturday and the IndyLights event is Sunday morning.
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NASCAR Nationwide
Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers 250
Site: Madison, Ill., Gateway International Raceway (oval, 1.25 miles)
TV schedule: Saturday, qualifying (3:30 p.m., ESPN2), race (7 p.m., ESPN2)
Race distance: 250 miles/200 laps
2009 winner: Kyle Busch
Fast facts: Last week, Kyle Busch won at Chicagoland Speedway, beating Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Joey Logano. Busch has seven Nationwide victories this year and 37 overall, second behind Mark Martin (48) for the series lead. ... Busch is skipping Saturday’s race. He’s vacationing in the Bahamas with fiance Sam Sarcinella. ... Brad Keselowski has a 227-point lead over Sprint Cup rival Carl Edwards in the season standings. Edwards, from Columbia, Mo., won the 2006 and 2008 races at the St. Louis-area track. ... Sprint Cup points leader Kevin Harvick is racing in both the Nationwide and Trucks races at Gateway. A two-time Nationwide winner this year, Harvick won the 2000 and 2001 races at the track.
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NASCAR Camping World Trucks
CampingWorld.com 200
Site: Madison, Ill., Gateway International Raceway (oval, 1.25 miles)
TV schedule: Friday, qualifying (6 p.m., Speed), race (7:30 p.m., Speed)
Race distance: 200 miles/162 laps
2009 winner: Mike Skinner
Fast facts: Last week, rookie Austin Dillon raced to his first Trucks victory, edging Sauter in a green-white-checker finish at Iowa Speedway. The 20-year-old grandson of NASCAR owner Richard Childress drove a black No. 3 — the combination made famous by Dale Earnhardt when he drove for Childress. ... Todd Bodine, the 2006 series champion, has an 88-point lead over Aric Almirola in the season standings. Four-time champion Ron Hornaday Jr. is third, 191 points behind Bodine. Hornaday is winless in 10 races this year for Kevin Harvick Inc. after winning six times last year. ... Harvick is making his first Trucks start at the track since 1999. The Sprint Cup points leader has two Trucks victories this year.
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NHRA
Fram Autolite NHRA Nationals
Site: Sonoma, Calif., Infineon Raceway
TV schedule: Saturday, qualifying (10 p.m., taped, ESPN2); Sunday, final eliminations (5 p.m., taped, ESPN2)
2009 winners: Antron Brown (Top Fuel), Tim Wilkerson (Funny Car), Jason Line (Pro Stock) and Andrew Hines (Pro Stock Motorcycle)
Fast facts: Last week, Cory McClenathan (Top Fuel), Tim Wilkerson (Funny Car) and Greg Anderson (Pro Stock) won the Northwest Nationals in Kent, Wash. The event was marred by the death of Top Alcohol driver Mark Niver. He slammed into the protective netting at the end of the runway after his parachutes ripped away from the car. ... 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 41-point lead over teammate Robert Hight in the season standings. ... In Top Fuel, Larry Dixon has a 172-point advantage over McClenathan. Dixon has seven victories this year.
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Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series
NJMP 250
Site: Millville, N.J., New Jersey Motorsports Park (road course, 2.25 miles)
TV schedule: Sunday, race (noon, Speed)
Race duration: 2 hours, 45 minutes
2009 winners: Terry Borcheller, Joao Barbosa, Ryan Dalziel (overall, DP); David Haskell, Sylvain Tremblay, Nick Ham, Jonathan Bomarito (GT)
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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.
www.nhra.com

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 racing schedule (June 18-20)

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All times Central (U.S.)

NASCAR Sprint Cup
Toyota/Save Mart 350
Site: Sonoma, Calif., Infineon Raceway (road course, 1.99 miles)
TV schedule: Friday, practice (2 p.m., Speed), qualifying (5:30 p.m., Speed); Saturday, practice (11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., Speed); Sunday, race (2 p.m., TNT)
Race distance: 218.9 miles/110 laps
2009 winner: Kasey Kahne
Fast facts: Denny Hamlin raced to his series-leading fifth victory of the season last Sunday, easily pulling away from Kasey Kahne on a restart with 14 laps left at Michigan International Speedway. Hamlin led 123 laps. ... Jeff Gordon has a Cup-record nine road-course wins, five at Sonoma and four at Watkins Glen. ... Juan Pablo Montoya won the 2007 race for his lone Cup victory. Before joining NASCAR, the Colombian won seven Formula 1 races, the 1999 Champ Car title and 11 open-wheel races. ... Kevin Harvick has a 22-point lead over Kyle Busch in the series standings. Hamlin is third, 47 points back. Four-time defending series champion Jimmie Johnson is 170 points behind in sixth. ... Kyle Busch swept the 2008 road-course races at Infineon and Watkins Glen. ... Tony Stewart won last August at Watkins Glen. He has seven round-course wins, two at Infineon and five at Watkins Glen.
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NASCAR Nationwide
Bucyrus 200
Site: Elkhart Lake, Wis., Road America (road course, 4.048 miles)
TV schedule: Saturday, race (2 p.m., ESPN2)
Race distance: 202.4 miles/50 laps
2009 winner: Inaugural race.
Fast facts: Last Saturday, Joey Logano became the first Nationwide driver to win three consecutive races from the pole at the same track, holding off Carl Edwards at Kentucky Speedway. Logano led 106 of 200 laps. ... Road America replaced the Milwaukee Mile on the schedule. ... Brad Keselowski has a 272-point lead over Sprint Cup rival Edwards in the season standings. ... Canadian road racer Ron Fellows, a four-time Nationwide winner on road courses, is driving the Dale Earnhardt Jr.-owned No. 88 Chevrolet. Fellows has Trans-Am and American Le Mans wins at Road America. ... Jacques Villeneuve, the 1997 Formula 1 champion, will be in Braun Racing’s No. 32 Toyota. He won CART races at the track in 1994 and 1995. ... Keselowski, Edwards and Paul Menard are the only Cup drivers in the race, the last of three straight Nationwide standalone events. Menard, from Wisconsin, won a NASCAR Re/Max Challenge Series at the track in 2001.
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IndyCar
Iowa Corn Indy 250
Site: Newton, Iowa, Iowa Speedway (oval, 0.875 miles)
TV schedule: Saturday, qualifying (5 p.m., Versus); Sunday, race (12:30 p.m., Versus)
Race distance: 218.75 miles/250 laps
2009 winner: Dario Franchitti
Fast facts: Ryan Briscoe won June 5 at Texas Motor Speedway for owner Roger Penske, pulling away from second-place Danica Patrick in the closing laps. ... Dario Franchitti has a three-point lead over Will Power in the season standings. ... Dan Wheldon won the 2008 race for Ganassi, driving the final 90 laps without pitting. ... Former NASCAR star Rusty Wallace designed the track.
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NHRA
NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals
Site: Bristol (Tenn.) Dragway
TV schedule: Saturday, qualifying (6 p.m., taped, ESPN2); Sunday, final eliminations (3 p.m., taped, ESPN2)
2009 winners: Tony Schumacher (Top Fuel), Del Worsham (Funny Car) and Mike Edwards (Pro Stock)
Fast facts: Larry Dixon raced to his sixth Top Fuel victory of the year, beating Antron Brown on Monday in the rain-delayed NHRA SuperNationals in New Jersey. Bob Tasca (Funny Car), Edwards (Pro Stock) and Michael Phillips (Pro Stock Motorcycle) also won. The event was marred by Neal Parker’s death in Top Alcohol Funny Car qualifying. ... Dixon has a 199-point lead over Tony Schumacher in the Top Fuel standings. Robert Hight tops the Funny Car points, 25 ahead of John Force. ... Mike Edwards has won three straight events and seven of 11 this season.
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Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series
EMCO Gears Classic
Site: Lexington, Ohio, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course (road course, 2.258 miles)
TV schedule: Saturday, race (4 p.m., Speed)
Race duration: 2 hours, 45 minutes
2009 winners: Scott Pruett, Memo Rojas (DP, Overall); Leh Keen, Dirk Werner (GT)
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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.
www.nhra.com

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 racing schedule (June 4-6)

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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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National racing schedule

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All times Central (U.S.)

NASCAR Sprint Cup
NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race
Site: Concord, N.C., Charlotte Motor Speedway (oval, 1.5 miles)
TV schedule: Friday, practices (11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., Speed), qualifying (4 p.m., Speed); Saturday, Sprint Showdown (6 p.m., Speed), All-Star Race (8 p.m., Speed)
Race distances: Sprint Showdown, 60 miles/40 laps; All-Star Race, 150 miles/100 laps (in segments of 50, 20, 20 and 10, with only green-flag laps counting in the final segment)
2009 winner: Tony Stewart
Fast facts: Kyle Busch completed a Nationwide-Sprint Cup sweep last weekend at Dover International Speedway, taking advantage of a rare speeding penalty by Jimmie Johnson to pull away. Jeff Burton was second. ... The top two in the Sprint Showdown and a driver selected in fan voting will complete the 21-car All-Star field Saturday. ... There will be a mandatory green-flag stop on lap 25, with teams required to change four tires. Between the first two segments, there will be a yellow-flag period allowing for fuel, tire changes and normal chassis adjustments. Between the third and final segments, there will be a 10-minute pit stop. In a format change, once the field takes a lap behind the pace car before the start of the final segment, all cars must enter pit road for a four-tire stop. The order exiting pit road will determine how they line up for the final 10-lap shootout. ... Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt are the only three-time All-Star winners.
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NASCAR Camping World Trucks
North Carolina Education Lottery 200
Site: Concord, N.C., Charlotte Motor Speedway (oval, 1.5 miles)
TV schedule: Friday, practices (8 a.m. and 9:20 p.m., Speed), qualifying (2:30 p.m., Speed), race (6:30 p.m., Speed)
Race distance: 201 miles/134 laps
2009 winner: Ron Hornaday Jr.
Fast facts: Aric Almirola won for the first time in the Trucks Series last Friday, surviving a wild finish at Dover International Speedway. James Buescher was second. ... Almirola leads the series standings, 27 points ahead of Todd Bodine. ... Ron Hornaday, winless in six races this season for Kevin Harvick Inc., is fourth in the standings — 125 points behind Almirola. Hornaday also won the 2007 race at Charlotte. ... Brazil’s Nelson Piquet Jr. is driving the No. 15 Toyota for Billy Ballew Motorsports. Kyle Busch swept the 2005-06 races for Ballew. ... Elliott Sadler is driving the No. 2 Chevrolet for the second straight week in place of Harvick, the winner this year at Atlanta and Martinsville. ... Brad Keselowski will be in the No. 29 Dodge.
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IZOD IndyCar
Indianapolis pole qualifying
Site: Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis
Qualifying schedule: Saturday, qualifying for positions 1-24 (10 a.m., Versus); Sunday, qualifying for positions 25-33 (11 a.m., Versus)
2009 pole winner: Helio Castroneves
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NHRA
NHRA Summer Nationals
Site: Topeka, Kan., Heartland Park Topeka
TV schedule: Saturday, qualifying (7 p.m., taped, ESPN2); Sunday, final eliminations (6 p.m., taped, ESPN2)
2009 winners: Ron Capps (Funny Car), Larry Dixon (Top Fuel) and Allen Johnson (Pro Stock)
Fast facts: Larry Dixon raced to his 52nd career Top Fuel victory last Sunday, beating Brandon Bernstein in the Southern Nationals final at Atlanta Dragway. Robert Hight won his second straight Funny Car event, Jeg Coughlin raced to his 50th Pro Stock victory, and Andrew Hines topped the Pro Stock Motorcycle field. ... 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 season standings — 115 points ahead of daughter Ashley Force Hood. ... In Top Fuel, Dixon has a 112-point lead over Cory McClenathan. Dixon has four victories this year, two more than McClenathan.
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American Le Mans Series
American Le Mans Series Monterey
Site: Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Monterey, Calif.
TV schedule: Saturday, race (12:30 p.m. May 29, taped, KTVT/Ch. 11)
Race duration: 6 hours
2009 winners: Simon Pagenaud, Gil De Ferran (overall, P1); Luis Diaz, Adrian Fernandez (P2); Jorg Bergmeister, Patrick Long (GT2),
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National, international racing schedule (May 14-16)

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All times Central (U.S.)

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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