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NASCAR
SPRINT CUP
AXALTA 400
Site: Long Pond, Pennsylvania.
Schedule: Friday, practice (Fox Sports 1, noon-1:30 p.m.), qualifying (Fox Sports 1, 4:30-6 p.m.); Saturday, practice (Fox Sports 1, 9-10 a.m., 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.); Sunday, race, 1 p.m. (Fox Sports 1, 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m.).
Track: Pocono Raceway (triangle, 2.5 miles).
Race distance: 400 miles, 160 laps.
Last year: Dale Earnhardt Jr. raced to the first of his two Pocono victories last season.
Last week: Jimmie Johnson won at Dover to become the fifth driver with 10 or more Sprint Cup victories at a single track. Kevin Harvick was second.
Fast facts: Johnson has a series-high four victories this season. Defending series champion Harvick has won twice. Harvick leads the standings, 44 points ahead of Martin Truex Jr. … Jeff Gordon has a record six Pocono victories. He’s retiring at the end of the season. … Denny Hamlin has won four times at the track.
Next race: Quicken Loans 400, June 14, Michigan International Speedway, Brooklyn, Michigan.
Online: http://www.nascar.com
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CAMPING WORLD TRUCK
WINSTAR WORLD CASINO 400
Site: Fort Worth, Texas.
Schedule: Thursday, practice; Friday, qualifying (Fox Sports 6-7:30 p.m.), race, 9 p.m. (Fox Sports 1, 8:30-11 p.m.).
Track: Texas Motor Speedway (oval, 1.5 miles).
Race distance: 250.5 miles, 167 laps.
Last year: Matt Crafton raced to his second of his two 2014 victories.
Last week: Tyler Reddick won at Dover for his second victory of the year.
Fast facts: Two-time defending series champion Crafton leads the season standings, nine points ahead of Reddick. Crafton has two victories in the first six races of the season, winning at Atlanta and Kansas. Reddick also won the opener at Daytona. … Erik Jones won the Xfinity Series race at the track in March.
Next race: American Ethanol 200, June 13, Gateway Motorsports Park, Madison, Illinois.
Online: http://www.nascar.com
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XFINITY
Next race: Great Clips 250, June 13, Michigan International Speedway, Brooklyn, Michigan.
Last week: Points leader Chris Buescher won at Dover for his second victory of the year.
Online: http://www.nascar.com
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VERIZON INDYCAR
FIRESTONE 600
Site: Fort Worth, Texas.
Schedule: Friday, practice, qualifying (NBC Sports Network, 6-7:30 p.m.); Saturday, race, 8:45 p.m. (NBC Sports Network, 8-11 p.m.).
Track: Texas Motor Speedway (oval, 1.5 miles).
Race distance: 372 miles, 248 laps.
Last year: Owner-driver Ed Carpenter held off Team Penske’s Will Power in a two-lap shootout.
Last week: Andretti Autosport’s Carlos Munoz won the rain-shortened doubleheader opener at Belle Isle in Detroit, and KVSH Racing’s Sebastien Bourdais took the second race.
Fast facts: Juan Pablo Montoya, the Indianapolis 500 winner, leads the season standings – 21 points ahead of teammate Power. Montoya also won the season-opening race in St. Petersburg, Florida. Power, the defending series champion, won the Grand Prix of Indianapolis road-course race. … Penske’s Helio Castroneves has a series-record four victories at the track.
Next race: Honda Indy Toronto, June 14, Street of Toronto, Toronto.
Online: http://www.indycar.com
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FORMULA ONE
CANADIAN GRAND PRIX
Site: Montreal.
Schedule: Friday, practice (NBC Sports Network, 2-3:30 p.m.; Saturday, practice, qualifying (NBC Sports Network, 1-2:30 p.m.); Sunday, race, 2 p.m. (NBC, 2-4:30 p.m.).
Track: Circuit Gilles Villeneuve (road course, 2.71 miles).
Race distance: 189.7 miles, 70 laps.
Last year: Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo raced to his first F1 victory.
Last race: Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg won the Monaco Grand Prix on May 24 for his second straight victory and third in a row in the event.
Fast facts: Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton has three victories in the first six races and leads the standings, 10 points ahead of Rosberg. Hamilton won in Australia, China and Bahrain. Rosberg also won in Spain, and Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel took the Malaysia race. … Hamilton won in Montreal for McLaren in 2007, 2010 and 2012. … The course sits on Ile Notre-Dame, a landfill island off the southern bank of the St. Lawrence River. The track was renamed Circuit Gilles Villeneuve after the Canadian was killed during qualifying for the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix. Villeneuve’s son, Jacques, won the 1997 F1 title.
Next race: Austrian Grand Prix, June 21, Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Austria.
Online: http://www.formula1.com
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NHRA MELLO YELLO DRAG RACING
NHRA SUMMERNATIONALS
Site: Englishtown, New Jersey.
Schedule: Friday, qualifying; Saturday, qualifying (ESPN2, 11 p.m.-1 a.m.); Sunday, final eliminations, (ESPN2, 9 p.m.-midnight).
Track: Old Bridge Township Raceway Park.
Last year: Australia’s Richie Crampton raced to his first Top Fuel victory. Cruz Pedregon won in Funny Car, Jeg Coughlin in Pro Stock, and Andrew Hines in Pro Stock Motorcycle.
Last event: Jack Beckman won the Kansas Nationals on May 24, beating 66-year-old John Force in the Funny Car final. Richie Crampton won in Top Fuel, and Erica Enders topped the Pro Stock field.
Fast facts: Ron Capps leads the Funny Car standings, five points ahead of Matt Hagan. They each have two victories this year. … Antron Brown has the Funny Car lead, and Enders tops the Pro Stock standings. Brown has won twice this year, and Ender has three victories in the first eight events.
Next event: NHRA New England Nationals, June 12-14, New England Dragway, Epping, New Hampshire.
Online: http://www.nhra.com
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OTHER RACES
ARCA RACING SERIES: Pocono ARCA 200, Saturday (Fox Sports 2, 1-3 p.m., Pocono Raceway, Long Pond, Pennsylvania. Online: http://www.arcaracing.com
WORLD OF OUTLAWS: Sprint Car: Friday, I-80 Speedway, Greenwood, Nebraska; Saturday, Lakeside Speedway, Kansas City, Kansas. Online: http://www.worldofoutlaws.com
U.S. AUTO RACING CLUB: Sprint Car: Thursday, New Egypt Speedway, New Egypt, New Jersey; Saturday, Port Royal Speedway, Port Royal, Pennsylvania; Sunday, Susquehanna Speedway Park, Newberrytown, Pennsylvania. Online: http://www.usacracing.com
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