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National racing schedule (Aug. 6-8)

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NASCAR Sprint Cup
Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at the Glen
Site: Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International (road course, 2.45 miles)
TV schedule: Friday, practice (11 a.m., Speed; 3 p.m., ESPN2); Saturday, qualifying (10 a.m., ESPN); Sunday, race (noon, ESPN)
Race distance: 220.5 miles/90 laps
2009 winner: Tony Stewart
Fast facts: Last Sunday, Greg Biffle gave owner Jack Roush, injured July 27 in a plane crash, his first victory of the season, winning at Pocono. Biffle snapped a 64-race winless streak. Tony Stewart was second.... Kevin Harvick leads the season standings with 3,080 points with five races left before the 10-race Chase. Jeff Gordon is second with 2,891, followed by Denny Hamlin (2,820) and four-time defending series champion Jimmie Johnson (2,803). 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. ... In June at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif., Johnson won for the first time on a road course, taking advantage of Marcos Ambrose’s late gaffe. Ambrose lost the lead when he stalled his engine trying to conserve gas under caution with six laps left. He restarted seventh and finished sixth.
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NASCAR Nationwide
Zippo 200 at the Glen
Site: Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International (road course, 2.45 miles)
TV schedule: Friday, practice (1 p.m., ESPN2); Saturday, qualifying (8 a.m., ESPN2), race, (12:30 p.m., ESPN)
Race distance: 200.9 miles/82 laps
2009 winner: Marcos Ambrose
Fast facts: Last Saturday, Kyle Busch raced to his sixth victory in his last seven Nationwide starts and ninth in 17 events this season, leading 209 of 250 laps at Iowa Speedway. ... Busch is a victory away from the series season record of 10 he shares with Sam Ard. Busch, a 10-time winner in 2008, is second in series history with 39 victories — nine behind Mark Martin. Busch isn’t running for the championship after taking the season title last year. ... Brad Keselowski has a 231-point lead over second-place Carl Edwards. ... Canadian Ron Fellows, a three-time Nationwide winner at Watkins Glen, is driving the No. 88 Chevrolet for Dale Earnhardt Jr. ... Former F1 champion Jacques Villeneuve will pilot the No. 32 Toyota for Braun Racing.
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NASCAR Camping World Trucks
Nashville 200
Site: Gladeville, Tenn., Nashville Superspeedway (oval, 1.33 miles)
TV schedule: Saturday, race (7:30 p.m., Speed)
Race distance: 150 miles/100 laps
2009 winner: Ron Hornaday Jr.
Fast facts: Last week, Sprint Cup driver Elliott Sadler won a NASCAR race for the first time in six years, pulling away from Kasey Kahne on the final lap at Pocono. Sadler drove the No. 2 Chevrolet for Kevin Harvick Inc. ... Brian Ickler is driving the No. 18 Toyota for Kyle Busch. On April 2 at the track, Busch raced to his first NASCAR victory as a team owner. ... Todd Bodine leads the season standings, 149 points ahead of Aric Almirola.
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IndyCar
Honda Indy 200
Site: Lexington, Ohio, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course (road course, 2.258 miles)
TV schedule: Saturday, qualifying (5 p.m., Versus); Sunday, race (1:30 p.m., Versus)
Race distance: 191.25 miles/85 laps
2009 winner: Scott Dixon
Fast facts: Scott Dixon won in Edmonton on July 25 after Helio Castroneves crossed the finish line first, then was penalized for blocking Penske teammate Will Power. Castroneves, dropped to 10th and fined $60,000, yelled at officials at the flag stand, then grabbed the IndyCar security chief by the collar and shook him. ...Power leads the series with four victories — all on street and road courses — and tops the standings with 420 points. He swept the season-opening road races in Sao Paulo and St. Petersburg and also won consecutive events at Watkins Glen and Toronto. ... Indianapolis 500 winner Dario Franchitti is second with 370 points, followed by Dixon (349) and Briscoe (324).
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Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series
Crown Royal 200 at The Glen
Site: Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International (road course, 2.45 miles)
TV schedule: Saturday, race (5 p.m., Speed)
Race duration: 2 hours
2009 winners: Nic Jonsson, Ricardo Zonta (overall, DP); Emil Assentato, Jeff Segal (GT)
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American Le Mans Series
Mid-Ohio Sportscar Challenge
Site: Lexington, Ohio, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course (road course, 2.258 miles)
TV schedule: Saturday, race (11:30 a.m. Aug. 15, taped, CBS)
Race duration: 2 hours, 45 minutes
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 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 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.
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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 racing schedule (July 1-4)

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NASCAR Sprint Cup
Coke Zero 400
Site: Daytona Beach, Fla., Daytona International Speedway (tri-oval, 2.5 miles)
TV schedule: Thursday, practice (3 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., Speed); Friday, qualifying (3 p.m., Speed); Saturday, race (6:30 p.m., TNT)
Race distance: 400 miles/160 laps
2009 winner: Tony Stewart
Fast facts: Last Sunday, Jimmie Johnson raced to his second straight victory and fifth of the season, bumping his way past Kurt Busch with two laps left at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Stewart was second, and Kurt Busch third. ... Kevin Harvick leads four-time defending series champion Johnson by 105 points. Harvick, the 2007 Daytona 500 winner, raced to his lone victory of the season in April at Talladega. He also won the preseason Budweiser Shootout in February at Daytona. ... Johnson and Denny Hamlin are tied for the series victory lead with five. Each victory is worth 10 bonus points in the Chase. ... Jamie McMurray won the season-opening Daytona 500. ... Dale Earnhardt Jr., winless in 74 races, is 13th in the standings — three points behind Carl Edwards in the race for the final Chase spot.
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NASCAR Nationwide
Subway Jalapeno 250
Site: Daytona Beach, Fla., Daytona International Speedway (tri-oval, 2.5 miles)
Schedule: Thursday, practice (4:30 p.m., ESPN2); Friday, qualifying (noon, ESPN2), race (6:30 p.m., ESPN)
Race distance: 250 miles/100 laps
2009 winner: Clint Bowyer
Fast facts: Last Saturday, Kyle Busch raced to his sixth Nationwide victory of the year and 36th overall, winning at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Busch also broke Mark Martin’s series record for career laps led with 8,118. ... The Daytona race is the first for the series’ new car model. The car also will be used at Michigan, Richmond and Charlotte before being fully integrated in 2011. Ford also is moving from Fusion to Mustang, and Dodge from Charger to Challenger. ... Dale Earnhardt Jr. is driving the No. 3 Wrangler Chevrolet in memory of his father. ... Brad Keselowski leads the season standings, 247 points ahead of Carl Edwards. ... Tony Stewart won the season-opening race at Daytona. ... Kenny Schrader is driving the No. 09 RAB Racing Ford.
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IndyCar
Camping World Grand Prix at The Glen
Site: Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International (road course, 3.4 miles).
TV schedule: Sunday, race (2:30 p.m., WFAA/Ch. 8)
Race distance: 204 miles/60 laps
2009 winner: Justin Wilson
Fast facts: Andretti Autosport’s Tony Kanaan won the Iowa 250 on June 20 for his first victory in nearly two years, passing Helio Castroneves with 10 laps left. ... Penske’s Will Power leads the season standings, 11 points ahead of Scott Dixon and 14 in front of Indianapolis 500 winner Dario Franchitti. Power won the season-opening road races in Sao Paulo and St. Petersburg. ... Castroneves (Alabama) and Ryan Hunter-Reay (Long Beach) also have road-course victories this season. ... Dixon swept the 2005-07 races at Watkins Glen. ... Danica Patrick was 30th last week in the NASCAR Nationwide Series race in New Hampshire.
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Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series
Brumos Porsche 250
Site: Daytona Beach Fla., Daytona International Speedway (speedway road course, 3.56 miles)
TV schedule: Saturday, race (noon, Speed)
Race duration: 2 hours, 45 minutes
2009 winners: Max Angelelli, Brian Frisselle (overall, DP); Leh Keen, Dirk Werner (GT)
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National racing schedule (June 18-20)

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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 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, international racing schedule (March 27-31)

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

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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