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By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service HAMPTON, Ga. – It took Kyle Busch 13 years to get his first NASCAR XFINITY Series victory at Atlanta Motor Speedway. It took him one more year to get the second. The pole winner at Atlanta for the sixth time, Busch pulled away after a restart on Lap 148 of 163 and beat Brad Keselowski to the finish line by .605 seconds to score his second straight victory at the 1.54-mile track in Saturday’s Rinnai 250. “It took so long to get here toRead More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer After an early and disappointing end to his first NASCAR Xfinity Series race, Daniel Hemric was determined to bounce back with a good finish in the Rinnai 250 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. With two career NASCAR Camping World Truck Series starts at Atlanta, including a top five in 2016, Hemric’s experience was beneficial. In the first practice, Hemric and his No. 21 Blue Gate Bank Chevrolet Camaro team were 16th in practice. He then topped the charts in the second practice and was fifth fastestRead More

By Josh Farmer, IndyCar Reporter Age: 37 Years in IndyCar: 16 Wins: 39 Podiums: 89 Career Laps led: 4899 2016-17 Team: Chip Ganassi Racing While Scott Dixon finished sixth in the 2016 Verizon IndyCar Series championship, it could have been a lot more. He claimed a pair of dominating wins at Phoenix and Watkins Glen and led 268 laps overall – third of all drivers – but back luck hurt any chance of winning a fifth IndyCar title. A few chances for wins were taken from him due to circumstances beyond his control. He wasRead More

By Josh Farmer, IndyCar Reporter Age: 42 Years in IndyCar: 19 Wins: 17 Podiums: 76 Career Laps led: 3996 2016-17 Team: Chip Ganassi Racing Tony Kanaan is still going strong as he enters his 20th season in Indy car racing. The 2004 Verizon IndyCar Series champion went winless in 2016 and ended the year in seventh place, just one spot behind teammate Scott Dixon. He had a couple legitimate shots at winning at Road America and Texas. An extended yellow at Road America robbed his chance at overtaking Will Power for the win. He was inRead More

By David Morgan, NASCAR Contributor To say that Kurt Busch’s NASCAR career has been a rollercoaster of a ride would be an understatement. From the moment the Las Vegas native entered the sport, he has endured the highest of highs and the lowest of lows throughout his 18 year career, but after winning the Daytona 500 last Sunday, Busch is still riding the high of winning NASCAR’s biggest race. Following his win, Busch not only celebrated with his team into the wee hours of the morning, but also went onRead More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer The last time the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series visited Atlanta Motor Speedway, John Hunter Nemechek took home the victory by just 0.305 seconds over Cameron Hayley. Nemechek inherited the lead after William Byron’s engine failed and leaders Daniel Suarez, Matt Crafton, and Christopher Bell were swept up in various incidents. Kyle Busch, Crafton, and Nemechek are the only former winners in the Truck Series at Atlanta in the field this weekend. There are three Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series regulars entered in Saturday afternoon’sRead More

HOMESTEAD, Fla. – The Mazda Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires Spring Training Open Test concluded this afternoon at Homestead-Miami Speedway with 15 Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires drivers strutting their stuff in preparation for next week’s season-opening races some 200 miles or so to the northwest on the Streets of St. Petersburg, Fla. A total of 1271 laps were logged during the course of six and a half hours of testing. Rookie Colton Herta, the youngest driver in the field at just 16, emerged with early braggingRead More

By Josh Farmer, IndyCar Reporter Age: 25 Years in IndyCar: 3 Wins: 1 Podiums: 7 Poles: 1 Career Laps led: 87 2016 Team: Andretti Autosport 2017 Team: AJ Foyt Racing Carlos Munoz will be starting the next chapter of his Verizon IndyCar Series career as he moves on to AJ Foyt Racing for the 2017 season. He ended his tenure at Andretti Autosport on a passable note by finishing ahead of his teammates and 10th in the championship standings. The 25-year-old Columbian finished second at Indianapolis 500 for the second time, but in doing so suffered aRead More

By Adam Tate, Associate Editor Kimi Raikkonen topped today’s damp running from Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya for the fourth and final day of the first pre-season test. The Finn ran a 1:20.872 on a drying track to top his Red Bull nemesis Max Verstappen by nearly a second on the time sheets. Raikkonen also ran 93 laps on the day, behind only Grosjean who racked up 188 laps in the Haas powered Ferrari. Pirelli brought in trucks which dumped water on the circuit before the first session. Early on all the teamsRead More

By Christopher DeHarde, IndyCar & Road to Indy Writer Cape Motorsports will be running two Soul Red Mazda liveries in the 2017 Mazda Road to Indy presented by Cooper Tires as Anthony Martin and Oliver Askew have signed with the team to run the livery in their respective championships. For Martin, he’ll be racing the No.8 Burgess/BLA/Mazda entry in the Pro Mazda Championship presented by Cooper Tires while Askew will be piloting the No. 3 Mazda Racing entry in the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship powered by Mazda. Both drivers earned theRead More