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By Adam Tate, Associate Editor You just can’t hold Simon Pagenaud back in 2016. Despite a rough Indy 500, despite a disappointing result in yesterday’s Round 1 of the Verizon IndyCar Series’ Dual in Detroit, he just keeps bouncing back. This time by once again nabbing pole position, in a damp and chaotic qualifying session on the tight confines of Belle Isle Raceway. He did so by setting the fast time* in a modified group format for qualifying, that saw the field split into two groups running an accelerated set ofRead More

By Frank Santoroski, Staff Writer The Chevrolet Dual in Detroit for the Verizon IndyCar Series is halfway down with KVSH Racing and Sebastien Bourdais taking a big win in Race One. Let’s take a look at some of the talking points coming out of Saturday. 1 ) Is Detroit really the place to be after Indianapolis?   The Verizon IndyCar Series is coming off of the biggest Indianapolis 500 in the League’s history and heads straight to Detroit, a city that has been suffering from population loss, urban decay, highRead More

By Adam Tate, Associate Editor Now that we are now one week removed from racing’s biggest weekend of the year, I’d like to take a look back to just how historical, significant and amazing the trio of the Monaco Grand Prix, Indianapolis 500 and Coca Cola 600 were this year by looking at some of the incredible facts and statistics of the day. The Monaco Grand Prix had never before started under the safety car, until this year when rain caused the field to take the first 10 laps behind BerndRead More

By Joey Barnes, Editor-in-Chief Verizon IndyCar Series rookie Alexander Rossi earned a hard-fought 10th in the opening race of the Chevrolet Dual in Detroit. Rossi, fresh off his career-defining win in the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 presented by PennGrade Motor Oil, started the afternoon in 17th, but a wealth of strategies amongst the grid helped progress the California native up the scoreboard. The 24-year-old began the day behind Andretti Autosport teammate Marco Andretti, with the two exchanging passes on several occasions, but as the race wore on RossiRead More

By Josh Farmer, IndyCar Reporter Sebastien Bourdais and KVSH Racing had the perfect mix of good strategy and defensive driving which propelled them to their second straight win at the Raceway at Belle Isle Park. Bourdais’ race to the win started on lap three when he pitted along with many other drivers to switch over to the harder compound black tires while the Team Penske brigade of Simon Pagenaud, Helio Castroneves and Juan Pablo Montoya led the field out front. Pagenaud elected to stay out and keep track position andRead More

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service LONG POND, Pa. – The maiden voyage of the NASCAR XFINITY Series at Pocono Raceway was shorter than planned, but race winner Kyle Larson wasn’t complaining. NASCAR awarded the checkered flag in the Pocono Green 250 to Larson when the race was red-flagged after 53 of 100 scheduled laps and then called because of persistent rain. The victory was Larson’s first of the season and fourth in the series, but it was a source of frustration to runner-up Erik Jones, who arguably had theRead More

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service Before last week’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Martin Truex Jr.’s 2016 season could have been summed up with a lyric from the blues standard “Born Under a Bad Sign.” “If it wasn’t for bad luck, I wouldn’t have no luck at all,” could well have been Truex’s theme for the current campaign. He lost the Daytona 500 to Denny Hamlin by six inches. He led 141 laps at Texas and finished sixth. He won the pole and led 172 of 267 lapsRead More

By Josh Farmer, IndyCar Reporter Simon Pagenaud led a Team Penske sweep of the top three spots at Belle Isle to take his fifth career pole and third of the 2016 Verizon IndyCar Series Season. The Frenchman pulled off a flying lap of 1:14.9166s on the primary black tires as opposed to his rivals who chose to make their qualifying runs on the option red tires. Pagenaud’s lap was just a tick quicker than Team Penske teammate Helio Castroneves’ lap of 1:14.9285, who was on the option red tires. “TheRead More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer For this week’s edition of Climbing the Ladder, Seth Eggert sat down with Brad Keselowski Racing driver Daniel Hemric. Hemric drives the No. 19 California Clean Power, Cequent Performance, DrawTite, Oakmont Management Group Ford F-150. Hemric is campaigning for the 2016 Camping World Truck Series Championship. Seth Eggert: How did you become interested in motorsports? Daniel Hemric: It started back with the fact that a lot of my family were fans of the sport in general. It could be anything, whether it was dirt bikes,Read More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer  This week marks the first time that the NASCAR Xfinity Series will make a trip to Pocono Raceway. However, just over half of those attempting the race have some sort of experience at the track known as ‘The Tricky Triangle.’ Some have competed in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at the track, Alex Bowman, Kyle Busch, and Justin Allgaier. Others have competed in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series at the track, like Darrell Wallace Jr., Ross Chastain, and Ty Dillon. A few drivers onlyRead More