Canadian star on return to DXDT Racing Corvette in home race DXDT Racing driver and Canadian ace Robert Wickens met with members of the media via Zoom on Monday afternoon to discuss this weekend’s Chevrolet Grand Prix at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. This will be Wickens’ second start in the No. 36 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R this year after a transporter fire forced the team to miss the Laguna Seca round. Wickens raced last year at CTMP for the first time in a Corvette and was the GTD pole-winner earlier this year at Long Beach.

ROBERT WICKENS, NO. 36 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.RThe team rebounded at Watkins Glen after the unfortunate incident heading to WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. As we head to CTMP and a home race for you, how are you feeling about things?“We’re feeling good. It’s been a lot of work from the team to get ready. They ran the six-hour at The Glen with a new car, a different transporter, different pit equipment and everything else that goes into making this circus work. For me, having not driven since Long Beach, I’m itching to get back at it for my home race. Canadian Tire Motorsport Park is always a special one, and especially when the title sponsor is Chevrolet and we’re driving a Corvette, it’s extra special. I think this track was my youth and my childhood. I grew up on the kart track, would ride my bike over to watch the American Le Mans Series and watch Ron Fellows and the yellow Corvette do its thing over the years. So I think hopefully we can put on a good show for the fans and finally give DXDT their first (IMSA) podium, which is well deserved especially after all the setbacks that we’ve had.” Can last year’s race with the Corvette at CTMP help with setup for this year?“Last year was DXDT’s first year in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. So at all these tracks – although we have engineering support from GM and Pratt Miller – we were learning everything new for ourselves. You always want to learn yourself instead of learning from others. So already I feel like this year, the team’s been much stronger every race we’ve come back to. And I think Canadian Tire Motorsport Park is going to be no different. For me as a driver, I was learning each track with my Bosch electronic braking system in the Corvette. And so now with a year of experience at all these tracks, my first practice feels like a continuation from how I finished the race the year before, instead of kind of learning everything all through the first two practice sessions. So I’m looking forward to it. I think definitely we have more momentum now than we did last year. And like you said, it was our best finish of the year finishing fourth, but we were in podium contention the entire time. So the goal is to try and finally get that first podium for the team.”

Back in May, there was a lot of uncertainty with the situation related to having everything ready for this race. Can you tell me about your process in this?“I think the uncertainty when we spoke in May was, frankly, if we had enough time to do it all. We were all confident that DXDT could prepare another Corvette Z06 GT3.R and have it on track for Watkins Glen. But from my perspective, we also lost my entire braking system. All of my hand controls that were in the car were unusable. All the spares that were on the truck were also now deemed unusable. We weren’t sure at the time how much stuff would get manufactured. And obviously for the sake of reliability, that was always the most important thing given that it is a braking system, after all. So Bosch, Pratt Miller, DXDT Racing and Corvette Racing… everyone working together to manufacture all the bits and all the spares that we need to race at a high level. It wasn’t easy by any stretch of the imagination but we were able to get everything into the car and installed for a shakedown last week. So yeah, we’re ready to go.” How anxious was this process for you? I know you mentioned to me that you had to do like a new seat fit and all these other different things.“I feel like the driver probably has it the easiest. It’s down to the mechanics, engineers and the team managers dealing with insurances… we’re still learning about things that were compromised in the fire. I had to overnight a new HANS device and new shoes because we didn’t realize it but my shoes had some fire damage. And it’s just little stuff like that kind of keeps popping up. From the driver’s side, yeah I lost all my driver equipment. The car is a much bigger thing, much more important thing. We can all buy generic suits and blank helmets and still drive the race cars. There was definitely a lot of communication between Laguna Seca and now, but we’re everyone’s just excited to kind of get back at it.” The magnitude of that and the emotions having all those pieces come back together for your home race?“Honestly, it’s gratitude. There was a brief period of time where I wondered if one, that was the end of my season. Then second, were we going to make it for my next race at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. Until we knew for sure, I had made plans to try to do my fan experience again, like I did last year, and have a kind of viewing area. But we decided to postpone that for a year because once we kind of got the green light for everything, it was kind of too late to plan it all properly. I think everyone has worked so hard to get to where we are now and I think the work doesn’t stop. We want to win in this series. We want to prove that we’re strong enough to fight for podiums and wins every weekend. So that’s going to be the goal here, and it’s going to be even sweeter if it happens.”

CORVETTE RACING AT CTMP: Robert Wickens Q&ACanadian star on return to DXDT Racing Corvette in home race DXDT Racing driver and Canadian ace Robert Wickens met with members of the media via Zoom on Monday afternoon to discuss this weekend’s Chevrolet Grand Prix at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. This will be Wickens’ second start in the No. 36 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R this year after a transporter fire forced the team to miss the Laguna Seca round. Wickens raced last year at CTMP for the first time in a Corvette and was the GTD pole-winner earlier this year at Long Beach.

ROBERT WICKENS, NO. 36 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.RThe team rebounded at Watkins Glen after the unfortunate incident heading to WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. As we head to CTMP and a home race for you, how are you feeling about things?“We’re feeling good. It’s been a lot of work from the team to get ready. They ran the six-hour at The Glen with a new car, a different transporter, different pit equipment and everything else that goes into making this circus work. For me, having not driven since Long Beach, I’m itching to get back at it for my home race. Canadian Tire Motorsport Park is always a special one, and especially when the title sponsor is Chevrolet and we’re driving a Corvette, it’s extra special. I think this track was my youth and my childhood. I grew up on the kart track, would ride my bike over to watch the American Le Mans Series and watch Ron Fellows and the yellow Corvette do its thing over the years. So I think hopefully we can put on a good show for the fans and finally give DXDT their first (IMSA) podium, which is well deserved especially after all the setbacks that we’ve had.” Can last year’s race with the Corvette at CTMP help with setup for this year?“Last year was DXDT’s first year in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. So at all these tracks – although we have engineering support from GM and Pratt Miller – we were learning everything new for ourselves. You always want to learn yourself instead of learning from others. So already I feel like this year, the team’s been much stronger every race we’ve come back to. And I think Canadian Tire Motorsport Park is going to be no different. For me as a driver, I was learning each track with my Bosch electronic braking system in the Corvette. And so now with a year of experience at all these tracks, my first practice feels like a continuation from how I finished the race the year before, instead of kind of learning everything all through the first two practice sessions. So I’m looking forward to it. I think definitely we have more momentum now than we did last year. And like you said, it was our best finish of the year finishing fourth, but we were in podium contention the entire time. So the goal is to try and finally get that first podium for the team.”

Back in May, there was a lot of uncertainty with the situation related to having everything ready for this race. Can you tell me about your process in this?“I think the uncertainty when we spoke in May was, frankly, if we had enough time to do it all. We were all confident that DXDT could prepare another Corvette Z06 GT3.R and have it on track for Watkins Glen. But from my perspective, we also lost my entire braking system. All of my hand controls that were in the car were unusable. All the spares that were on the truck were also now deemed unusable. We weren’t sure at the time how much stuff would get manufactured. And obviously for the sake of reliability, that was always the most important thing given that it is a braking system, after all. So Bosch, Pratt Miller, DXDT Racing and Corvette Racing… everyone working together to manufacture all the bits and all the spares that we need to race at a high level. It wasn’t easy by any stretch of the imagination but we were able to get everything into the car and installed for a shakedown last week. So yeah, we’re ready to go.” How anxious was this process for you? I know you mentioned to me that you had to do like a new seat fit and all these other different things.“I feel like the driver probably has it the easiest. It’s down to the mechanics, engineers and the team managers dealing with insurances… we’re still learning about things that were compromised in the fire. I had to overnight a new HANS device and new shoes because we didn’t realize it but my shoes had some fire damage. And it’s just little stuff like that kind of keeps popping up. From the driver’s side, yeah I lost all my driver equipment. The car is a much bigger thing, much more important thing. We can all buy generic suits and blank helmets and still drive the race cars. There was definitely a lot of communication between Laguna Seca and now, but we’re everyone’s just excited to kind of get back at it.” The magnitude of that and the emotions having all those pieces come back together for your home race?“Honestly, it’s gratitude. There was a brief period of time where I wondered if one, that was the end of my season. Then second, were we going to make it for my next race at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. Until we knew for sure, I had made plans to try to do my fan experience again, like I did last year, and have a kind of viewing area. But we decided to postpone that for a year because once we kind of got the green light for everything, it was kind of too late to plan it all properly. I think everyone has worked so hard to get to where we are now and I think the work doesn’t stop. We want to win in this series. We want to prove that we’re strong enough to fight for podiums and wins every weekend. So that’s going to be the goal here, and it’s going to be even sweeter if it happens.”

The track is a thrill to drive and the fans love it. They are camped on every hillside. But are there areas where you think safety could be improved at this track?“With the evolution of safety, you know, I think you can never sit still. And I think the track has done a phenomenal job with that. You know, obviously motorsport is dangerous; Tom (Dillman, LMP2 driver) showed us that last year. What they’ve done with the runoffs in Turn One and Turn Two and Turn Eight has really helped not only from a driver willing to push the limits, but also I think the team side and just creating more paved runoff for us. It has been a benefit. Extending barriers here and there and moving walls around, it’s no easy task. The track is the track and you can only deal with the real estate you have. With the forest kind of all around, at the end of the day you still want it to be Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. I think us drivers love it because of its raw form in terms of what it is. And I think that’s just the beauty of the track.” Can you talk a bit about how DXDT works within the Chevy environment, especially given that there are more customer teams this year in GTD?“I think from a DXDT standpoint, we actually repurposed the chassis that they were using in SRO in previous years. So putting it into the IMSA homologation with torque sensors and scrutineering boxes, etc., that kind of goes along with that. I’m not going to pretend to know what every little detail of that is but from the adaptation standpoint, from quality checking components and everything, Pratt Miller plays a big part with their customers on race weekends. There’s a data share across Pratt Miller and their customers, which is super beneficial for us drivers, for sure. The pro drivers are there for a reason. You want to learn from them as much as possible every step of the way. And we have that ability within the Corvette family. It’s been really a very supported program from Corvette Racing. And I think there’s no surprise that they’re gaining customers year on year because I think the support they give is pretty phenomenal.” Can you speak to just what this race means to the Canadian fans. We know Canadians have a really big motorsports passion and culture. But just what does this race weekend mean for the Canadian fan base?“I think every driver loves a home race. My career went to Europe at a young age, and I spent the better part of 12 years without having a home race. There was always a team home race, maybe, and you kind of treated that like your own home race. But to truly be with your people, with your fans, with your loved ones, friends and families that come out and camp… the motorsport community is small, but it’s very loyal and quite strong. I love being at the track and seeing former competitors that I grew up karting with, their parents, and everyone just loves motorsports so much. There is always that level of nostalgia, right? As I said before, I was that kid that in between practice sessions on the kart track, I’d be riding my bike over to the big track and then trying to sneak into the paddock and trying to get drivers’ autographs and doing all that stuff. So when I see little kids doing the same thing, it’s just cool. I love to see it. I think the Canadian fans are very passionate. You kind of see it at every Canadian venue whether it’s IMSA, IndyCar or Formula One. Maybe motorsports isn’t our top sport, but the people that love it are very passionate about it.”

CONCORD, NC (July 6, 2026) – Following two busy weeks in the upper Midwest, the World of Outlaws Late Model Series presented by DIRTVision is heading back toward the east coast.

Three race nights are on this week’s agenda, starting with a return to Stateline Speedway after three years away. The Rick Briggs Memorial powered by Dave Warren Powersports brings the Series to Busti, NY on Wednesday, July 8, for a 40-lap, $15,000-to-win, main event.

Teams will have Thursday off before the annual midsummer visit to Sharon Speedway for the Battle at the Border on Friday and Saturday, July 10-11. Drivers will race 40 laps for $12,000 in Friday’s lid lifter before Saturday’s finale, which pays $20,000 to the winner after 60 laps.

Joining the World of Outlaws on the card will be the DIRTcar UMP Modifieds and Pro Stocks at Stateline and UMP Modifieds at Sharon.

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Here are this week’s top storylines:

CHASING HISTORY: Bobby Pierce will have the opportunity at Stateline to do something no one has ever done in 25 seasons of World of Outlaws racing.

A victory on Wednesday would be his seventh in a row, breaking the record for the longest win streak in Series history. The mark to beat stands at six, a number first achieved by Darrell Lanigan in 2012, then by Pierce in 2024 before he did it again this season with six-straight wins in the upper Midwest.

Pierce’s remarkable run dating back to his first Dirt Late Model Dream triumph a month ago has his margin atop the World of Outlaws standings up to 76 points, leaving him in prime position in the chase for a third Series championship. The upcoming schedule features plenty of chances for Pierce to further expand his advantage by the end of summer. He finished third in his only prior start at Stateline, but the four events after that – the Battle at the Border, Prairie Dirt Classic, USA Nationals and the Hawkeye 100 – are all races Pierce has won in the past two years.

BACK WHERE IT BEGAN: Last time the World of Outlaws were at Stateline, first-year World of Outlaws driver Nick Hoffman rolled into Victory Lane for the first time on the national Late Model stage.

Since then, the Modified legend and his Tye Twarog Racing operation have become a top-five team in the country, one that can contend for wins everywhere they go and kept pace with Pierce in the points through the first half of the season. The only thing Hoffman hasn’t done in the past few weeks is win, and that will need to change soon if he wants to get back in the thick of championship contention.

In six races up north, Hoffman finished second four times and never ran worse than fourth. Those numbers will win you a championship in many cases, but not when you’re chasing Pierce when he’s at the top of his game.

Hoffman is obviously fond of Stateline, but Sharon will be the place where he’ll need to make improvements to avoid losing more ground in the standings. He’s finished fifth there three times in seven starts, but his other four starts have all ended outside the top five, including a 12th in 2024 and an 18th in 2025.

WELCOME HOME: Stateline isn’t exactly right down the street from Tim McCreadie’s hometown of Watertown, NY, but Wednesday will be the closest thing to a home game he’ll get all season.

McCreadie’s history at Stateline isn’t the best though, with results of 19th, 12th and 21st in three World of Outlaws appearances, although the most recent one came back in 2013. Aside from its location in McCreadie’s home state, Stateline will be a big night all around for Briggs Transport Racing. The race honors the late Rick Briggs, father of team owner Boom Briggs, and the team’s primary sponsor, Dave Warren Powersports, has played a key role in getting Stateline back on the World of Outlaws schedule.

Over at Sharon, he has a win to his credit from 2005 and more recently finished sixth and seventh in two starts last year.

SETTLING IN: The northern swing brought Trey Mills one of his best stretches yet as a national Late Model racer.

The 18-year-old’s 2026 campaign has featured several spectacular moments, like starting on the pole at the Dream and racing for the win at Golden Isles Speedway until he tumbled out of the ballpark, but he’s also been through his share of rough nights in between.

In his trip north, Mills strung together six-straight runs in the top 11. It wasn’t flashy or attention-grabbing, but that kind of quiet consistency is exactly what Mills has been looking for at this stage of his career to gain experience and respect from the World of Outlaws frontrunners. It also paid dividends in the points hunt, as Mills is up to eighth in the standings, 51 markers shy of Daulton Wilson in the MD3 Rookie of the Year battle.

Both World of Outlaws freshmen will be flying blind this week, as neither Mills nor Wilson have ever been to Stateline or Sharon.

TURNING HEADS: Logan Zarin may be too far back to catch the two rookies in front of him, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t capable of finishing his first season at the national level off strong.

The Hookstown, PA driver has taken plenty of lumps on the road in 2026, but the team has remained positive and logged notes as they look toward the future. But last weekend, the No. 1Z team finally got to enjoy some fruits of their labor. The NAPA Auto Parts Gopher 50 cancelation opened the door for Zarin to spend Independence Day at Muskingum County Speedway for the Freedom 50, and he was rewarded with a sixth-place finish, the best of his career in a full-field, national-touring event.

Luckily for Zarin, the schedule gives him an ideal chance to potentially improve on that run this week. After months of going to tracks for the first time, the World of Outlaws is going to two tracks Zarin knows well. He’s made two starts at Stateline in a Crate Late Model with the RUSH Series along with a Last Chance Showdown exit with the World of Outlaws in 2023. Sharon is where Zarin has made six World of Outlaws starts in nine attempts, with a best Feature finish of 14th from 2021.

WHEN AND WHERE:
Wednesday, July 8, at Stateline Speedway in Busti, NY
Friday-Saturday, July 10-11, at Sharon Speedway in Hartford, OH

CURRENT POINT STANDINGS:
1. Bobby Pierce (5074 points)
2. Nick Hoffman (-76)
3. Tyler Erb (-297)
4. Tim McCreadie (-375)
5. Ryan Gustin (-455)
6. Ethan Dotson (-509)
7. Daulton Wilson (-593)
8. Trey Mills (-644)
9. Dennis Erb Jr. (-656)
10. Dustin Sorensen (-747)

FEATURE WINNERS (11):
Bobby Pierce – 16
Nick Hoffman – 6
Tyler Erb – 2
Tim McCreadie – 2
Brandon Sheppard – 2
Hudson O’Neal – 2
Ryan Gustin – 1
Chris Madden – 1
Ricky Thornton Jr. – 1
Mason Zeigler – 1
Mike Marlar – 1

FEATURE TOP FIVES (25):
Nick Hoffman – 29
Bobby Pierce – 27
Tyler Erb – 18
Tim McCreadie – 13
Ryan Gustin – 11
Drake Troutman – 10
Brandon Sheppard – 8
Ethan Dotson – 8
Hudson O’Neal – 7
Daulton Wilson – 7
Chris Madden – 5
Ricky Thornton Jr. – 5
Dennis Erb Jr. – 5
Jonathan Davenport – 5
Mason Zeigler – 2
Dustin Sorensen – 2
Dale McDowell – 2
Brandon Overton – 2
Trey Mills – 2
Ashton Winger – 2
Mike Marlar – 1
Max Blair – 1
Brent Larson – 1
Josh Rice – 1
Garrett Alberson – 1

FEATURE LAPS LED (22):
Bobby Pierce – 476
Nick Hoffman – 202
Tyler Erb – 99
Drake Troutman – 99
Brandon Sheppard – 81
Ryan Gustin – 73
Chris Madden – 73
Hudson O’Neal – 68
Daulton Wilson – 66
Jonathan Davenport – 57
Tim McCreadie – 46
Garrett Alberson – 46
Ricky Thornton Jr. – 41
Mike Marlar – 39
Mason Zeigler – 24
Ethan Dotson – 22
Ashton Winger – 22
Brandon Overton – 12
Michael Leach – 10
Sam Seawright – 5
Dale McDowell – 4
Dallon Murty – 3

BILSTEIN POLE AWARDS (21):
Nick Hoffman – 7
Ricky Thornton Jr. – 3
Drake Troutman – 3
Bobby Pierce – 2
Chris Madden – 2
Ethan Dotson – 2
Tyler Erb – 1
Tim McCreadie – 1
Brandon Sheppard – 1
Hudson O’Neal – 1
Ryan Gustin – 1
Jonathan Davenport – 1
Dustin Sorensen – 1
Brandon Overton – 1
Ashton Winger – 1
Garrett Alberson – 1
Tristan Chamberlain – 1
Sam Seawright – 1
Michael Leach – 1
Dallon Murty – 1

SIMPSON QUICK TIME AWARDS (16):
Nick Hoffman – 8
Chris Madden – 5
Bobby Pierce – 3
Tim McCreadie – 3
Tyler Erb – 2
Brandon Sheppard – 2
Hudson O’Neal – 2
Michael Leach – 2
Jonathan Davenport – 2
Drake Troutman – 1
Ethan Dotson – 1
Brandon Overton – 1
Brent Larson – 1
Cody Overton – 1
Ross Robinson – 1
Sam Seawright – 1

HEAT RACE WINS (39):
Nick Hoffman – 20
Bobby Pierce – 18
Tyler Erb – 11
Ryan Gustin – 7
Chris Madden – 7
Drake Troutman – 7
Brandon Sheppard – 6
Hudson O’Neal – 6
Tim McCreadie – 5
Ricky Thornton Jr. – 5
Daulton Wilson – 5
Jonathan Davenport – 4
Brandon Overton – 4
Mason Zeigler – 3
Ethan Dotson – 3
Dustin Sorensen – 3
Tristan Chamberlain – 3
Dennis Erb Jr. – 2
Trey Mills – 2
Michael Leach – 2
Dallon Murty – 2
Jared Miley – 2
Mike Marlar – 1
Dale McDowell – 1
Ashton Winger – 1
Brent Larson – 1
Josh Rice – 1
Garrett Alberson – 1
Donald McIntosh – 1
Blair Nothdurft – 1
Logan Zarin – 1
Cody Overton – 1
Dan Ebert – 1
Austin Smith – 1
Sam Seawright – 1
Devin Moran – 1
Sam Mars – 1
Dylan Thornton – 1
Lane Snook – 1

LAST CHANCE SHOWDOWN WINS (36):
Ethan Dotson – 4
Dennis Erb Jr. – 4
Dallon Murty – 4
Ryan Gustin – 3
Daulton Wilson – 3
Josh Rice – 3
Logan Zarin – 3
Bobby Pierce – 2
Drake Troutman – 2
Dustin Sorensen – 2
Trey Mills – 2
Tristan Chamberlain – 2
Carson Ferguson – 2
Tim McCreadie – 1
Ricky Thornton Jr. – 1
Brent Larson – 1
Cory Hedgecock – 1
Jake Timm – 1
Cody Overton – 1
Dan Ebert – 1
Michael Leach – 1
Luke Morey – 1
Chris Ferguson – 1
Dalton Cook – 1
Shane Clanton – 1
Michael Page – 1
Jason Feger – 1
Brian Shirley – 1
Derrick Stewart – 1
Chad Simpson – 1
Chris Simpson – 1
Dylan Thornton – 1
Gordy Gundaker – 1
Nick Davis – 1
Dylan Yoder – 1
Lincoln Smith – 1

2026 WORLD OF OUTLAWS LATE MODEL SERIES PRESENTED BY DIRTVISION SCHEDULE
Wednesday, Jan. 21 / Volusia Speedway Park / Barberville, FL (Practice)
Thursday, Jan. 22 / Volusia Speedway Park / Barberville, FL / Chris Madden (1)
Friday, Jan. 23 / Volusia Speedway Park / Barberville, FL / Hudson O’Neal (1)
Saturday, Jan. 24 / Volusia Speedway Park / Barberville, FL / Tim McCreadie (1)
Thursday, Feb. 12 / Volusia Speedway Park / Barberville, FL / Nick Hoffman (1)
Friday, Feb. 13 / Volusia Speedway Park / Barberville, FL / Nick Hoffman (2)
Saturday, Feb. 14 / Volusia Speedway Park / Barberville, FL / Brandon Sheppard (1)
Thursday, Feb. 19 / Hendry County Motorsports Park / Clewiston, FL (Practice)
Friday, Feb. 20 / Hendry County Motorsports Park / Clewiston, FL / Bobby Pierce (1)
Saturday, Feb. 21 / Hendry County Motorsports Park / Clewiston, FL / Nick Hoffman (3)
Friday, March 13 / Volunteer Speedway / Bulls Gap, TN / Mike Marlar (1)
Saturday, March 14 / Smoky Mountain Speedway / Maryville, TN / Bobby Pierce (2)
Thursday, March 19 / Magnolia Motor Speedway / Columbus, MS (Practice)
Friday, March 20 / Magnolia Motor Speedway / Columbus, MS / Bobby Pierce (3)
Saturday, March 21 / Magnolia Motor Speedway / Columbus, MS / Hudson O’Neal (2)
Friday, March 27 / East Alabama Motor Speedway / Phenix City, AL / Nick Hoffman (4)
Saturday, March 28 / Senoia Raceway / Senoia, GA / Bobby Pierce (4)
Thursday, April 9 / Farmer City Raceway / Farmer City, IL (Practice)
Friday, April 10 / Farmer City Raceway / Farmer City, IL / Brandon Sheppard (2)
Saturday, April 11 / Farmer City Raceway / Farmer City, IL / Bobby Pierce (5)
Tuesday, April 28 / Independence Motor Speedway / Independence, IA / Bobby Pierce (6)
Thursday, April 30 / Mississippi Thunder Speedway / Fountain City, WI / Bobby Pierce (7)
Friday, May 1 / Mississippi Thunder Speedway / Fountain City, WI / Nick Hoffman (5)
Saturday, May 2 / Mississippi Thunder Speedway / Fountain City, WI / Ryan Gustin (1)
Wednesday, May 13 / Georgetown Speedway / Georgetown, DE / Bobby Pierce (8)
Thursday, May 14 / Selinsgrove Speedway / Selinsgrove, PA / Tim McCreadie (2)
Sunday, May 17 / Bedford Speedway / Bedford, PA / Mason Zeigler (1)
Wednesday, May 27 / Marion Center Raceway / Marion Center, PA / Bobby Pierce (9)
Thursday, May 28 / Wayne County Speedway / Orrville, OH / Ricky Thornton Jr. (1)
Friday, May 29 / Mansfield Speedway / Mansfield, OH / Tyler Erb (1)
Saturday, May 30 / Mansfield Speedway / Mansfield, OH / Nick Hoffman (6)
Friday, June 12 / West Virginia Motor Speedway / Mineral Wells, WV / Bobby Pierce (10)
Saturday, June 13 / West Virginia Motor Speedway / Mineral Wells, WV / Tyler Erb (2)
Saturday, June 20 / 141 Speedway / Maribel, WI / Bobby Pierce (11)
Monday, June 22 / Ogilvie Raceway / Ogilvie, MN / Bobby Pierce (12)
Wednesday, June 24 / I-94 emr Speedway / Fergus Falls, MN / Bobby Pierce (13)
Friday, June 26 / River Cities Speedway / Grand Forks, ND / Bobby Pierce (14)
Sunday, June 28 / Nodak Speedway / Minot, ND / Bobby Pierce (15)
Tuesday, June 30 / Norman County Raceway / Ada, MN / Bobby Pierce (16)
Wednesday, July 8 / Stateline Speedway / Busti, NY
Friday, July 10 / Sharon Speedway / Hartford, OH
Saturday, July 11 / Sharon Speedway / Hartford, OH
Friday, July 24 / Fairbury Speedway / Fairbury, IL
Saturday, July 25 / Fairbury Speedway / Fairbury, IL
Thursday, July 30 / Cedar Lake Speedway / New Richmond, WI
Friday, July 31 / Cedar Lake Speedway / New Richmond, WI
Saturday, Aug. 1 / Cedar Lake Speedway / New Richmond, WI
Thursday, Aug. 20 / Maquoketa Speedway / Maquoketa, IA (Practice)
Friday, Aug. 21 / Maquoketa Speedway / Maquoketa, IA
Saturday, Aug. 22 / Maquoketa Speedway / Maquoketa, IA
Wednesday, Aug. 26 / Southern Iowa Speedway / Oskaloosa, IA
Friday, Aug, 28 / Adams County Speedway / Corning, IA
Saturday, Aug. 29 / Shelby County Speedway / Harlan, IA
Friday, Sept. 25 / I-55 Federated Auto Parts Raceway Park / Pevely, MO
Saturday, Sept. 26 / I-55 Federated Auto Parts Raceway Park / Pevely, MO
Friday, Oct. 2 / Boothill Speedway / Greenwood, LA
Saturday, Oct. 3 / Boothill Speedway / Greenwood, LA
Friday, Oct. 23 / Modoc Speedway / Modoc, SC
Saturday, Oct. 24 / Modoc Speedway / Modoc, SC
Wednesday, Nov. 4 / The Dirt Track at Charlotte / Concord, NC
Thursday, Nov. 5 / The Dirt Track at Charlotte / Concord, NC
Friday, Nov. 6 / The Dirt Track at Charlotte / Concord, NC
Saturday, Nov. 7 / The Dirt Track at Charlotte / Concord, NC

TOP FIVE STORYLINES: Northeast Trip Features Midweek Stateline Return, Sharon Doubleheader

CONCORD, NC (July 6, 2026) – Following two busy weeks in the upper Midwest, the World of Outlaws Late Model Series presented by DIRTVision is heading back toward the east coast.

Three race nights are on this week’s agenda, starting with a return to Stateline Speedway after three years away. The Rick Briggs Memorial powered by Dave Warren Powersports brings the Series to Busti, NY on Wednesday, July 8, for a 40-lap, $15,000-to-win, main event.

Teams will have Thursday off before the annual midsummer visit to Sharon Speedway for the Battle at the Border on Friday and Saturday, July 10-11. Drivers will race 40 laps for $12,000 in Friday’s lid lifter before Saturday’s finale, which pays $20,000 to the winner after 60 laps.

Joining the World of Outlaws on the card will be the DIRTcar UMP Modifieds and Pro Stocks at Stateline and UMP Modifieds at Sharon.

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Here are this week’s top storylines:

CHASING HISTORY: Bobby Pierce will have the opportunity at Stateline to do something no one has ever done in 25 seasons of World of Outlaws racing.

A victory on Wednesday would be his seventh in a row, breaking the record for the longest win streak in Series history. The mark to beat stands at six, a number first achieved by Darrell Lanigan in 2012, then by Pierce in 2024 before he did it again this season with six-straight wins in the upper Midwest.

Pierce’s remarkable run dating back to his first Dirt Late Model Dream triumph a month ago has his margin atop the World of Outlaws standings up to 76 points, leaving him in prime position in the chase for a third Series championship. The upcoming schedule features plenty of chances for Pierce to further expand his advantage by the end of summer. He finished third in his only prior start at Stateline, but the four events after that – the Battle at the Border, Prairie Dirt Classic, USA Nationals and the Hawkeye 100 – are all races Pierce has won in the past two years.

BACK WHERE IT BEGAN: Last time the World of Outlaws were at Stateline, first-year World of Outlaws driver Nick Hoffman rolled into Victory Lane for the first time on the national Late Model stage.

Since then, the Modified legend and his Tye Twarog Racing operation have become a top-five team in the country, one that can contend for wins everywhere they go and kept pace with Pierce in the points through the first half of the season. The only thing Hoffman hasn’t done in the past few weeks is win, and that will need to change soon if he wants to get back in the thick of championship contention.

In six races up north, Hoffman finished second four times and never ran worse than fourth. Those numbers will win you a championship in many cases, but not when you’re chasing Pierce when he’s at the top of his game.

Hoffman is obviously fond of Stateline, but Sharon will be the place where he’ll need to make improvements to avoid losing more ground in the standings. He’s finished fifth there three times in seven starts, but his other four starts have all ended outside the top five, including a 12th in 2024 and an 18th in 2025.

WELCOME HOME: Stateline isn’t exactly right down the street from Tim McCreadie’s hometown of Watertown, NY, but Wednesday will be the closest thing to a home game he’ll get all season.

McCreadie’s history at Stateline isn’t the best though, with results of 19th, 12th and 21st in three World of Outlaws appearances, although the most recent one came back in 2013. Aside from its location in McCreadie’s home state, Stateline will be a big night all around for Briggs Transport Racing. The race honors the late Rick Briggs, father of team owner Boom Briggs, and the team’s primary sponsor, Dave Warren Powersports, has played a key role in getting Stateline back on the World of Outlaws schedule.

Over at Sharon, he has a win to his credit from 2005 and more recently finished sixth and seventh in two starts last year.

SETTLING IN: The northern swing brought Trey Mills one of his best stretches yet as a national Late Model racer.

The 18-year-old’s 2026 campaign has featured several spectacular moments, like starting on the pole at the Dream and racing for the win at Golden Isles Speedway until he tumbled out of the ballpark, but he’s also been through his share of rough nights in between.

In his trip north, Mills strung together six-straight runs in the top 11. It wasn’t flashy or attention-grabbing, but that kind of quiet consistency is exactly what Mills has been looking for at this stage of his career to gain experience and respect from the World of Outlaws frontrunners. It also paid dividends in the points hunt, as Mills is up to eighth in the standings, 51 markers shy of Daulton Wilson in the MD3 Rookie of the Year battle.

Both World of Outlaws freshmen will be flying blind this week, as neither Mills nor Wilson have ever been to Stateline or Sharon.

TURNING HEADS: Logan Zarin may be too far back to catch the two rookies in front of him, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t capable of finishing his first season at the national level off strong.

The Hookstown, PA driver has taken plenty of lumps on the road in 2026, but the team has remained positive and logged notes as they look toward the future. But last weekend, the No. 1Z team finally got to enjoy some fruits of their labor. The NAPA Auto Parts Gopher 50 cancelation opened the door for Zarin to spend Independence Day at Muskingum County Speedway for the Freedom 50, and he was rewarded with a sixth-place finish, the best of his career in a full-field, national-touring event.

Luckily for Zarin, the schedule gives him an ideal chance to potentially improve on that run this week. After months of going to tracks for the first time, the World of Outlaws is going to two tracks Zarin knows well. He’s made two starts at Stateline in a Crate Late Model with the RUSH Series along with a Last Chance Showdown exit with the World of Outlaws in 2023. Sharon is where Zarin has made six World of Outlaws starts in nine attempts, with a best Feature finish of 14th from 2021.

WHEN AND WHERE:
Wednesday, July 8, at Stateline Speedway in Busti, NY
Friday-Saturday, July 10-11, at Sharon Speedway in Hartford, OH

CURRENT POINT STANDINGS:
1. Bobby Pierce (5074 points)
2. Nick Hoffman (-76)
3. Tyler Erb (-297)
4. Tim McCreadie (-375)
5. Ryan Gustin (-455)
6. Ethan Dotson (-509)
7. Daulton Wilson (-593)
8. Trey Mills (-644)
9. Dennis Erb Jr. (-656)
10. Dustin Sorensen (-747)

FEATURE WINNERS (11):
Bobby Pierce – 16
Nick Hoffman – 6
Tyler Erb – 2
Tim McCreadie – 2
Brandon Sheppard – 2
Hudson O’Neal – 2
Ryan Gustin – 1
Chris Madden – 1
Ricky Thornton Jr. – 1
Mason Zeigler – 1
Mike Marlar – 1

FEATURE TOP FIVES (25):
Nick Hoffman – 29
Bobby Pierce – 27
Tyler Erb – 18
Tim McCreadie – 13
Ryan Gustin – 11
Drake Troutman – 10
Brandon Sheppard – 8
Ethan Dotson – 8
Hudson O’Neal – 7
Daulton Wilson – 7
Chris Madden – 5
Ricky Thornton Jr. – 5
Dennis Erb Jr. – 5
Jonathan Davenport – 5
Mason Zeigler – 2
Dustin Sorensen – 2
Dale McDowell – 2
Brandon Overton – 2
Trey Mills – 2
Ashton Winger – 2
Mike Marlar – 1
Max Blair – 1
Brent Larson – 1
Josh Rice – 1
Garrett Alberson – 1

FEATURE LAPS LED (22):
Bobby Pierce – 476
Nick Hoffman – 202
Tyler Erb – 99
Drake Troutman – 99
Brandon Sheppard – 81
Ryan Gustin – 73
Chris Madden – 73
Hudson O’Neal – 68
Daulton Wilson – 66
Jonathan Davenport – 57
Tim McCreadie – 46
Garrett Alberson – 46
Ricky Thornton Jr. – 41
Mike Marlar – 39
Mason Zeigler – 24
Ethan Dotson – 22
Ashton Winger – 22
Brandon Overton – 12
Michael Leach – 10
Sam Seawright – 5
Dale McDowell – 4
Dallon Murty – 3

BILSTEIN POLE AWARDS (21):
Nick Hoffman – 7
Ricky Thornton Jr. – 3
Drake Troutman – 3
Bobby Pierce – 2
Chris Madden – 2
Ethan Dotson – 2
Tyler Erb – 1
Tim McCreadie – 1
Brandon Sheppard – 1
Hudson O’Neal – 1
Ryan Gustin – 1
Jonathan Davenport – 1
Dustin Sorensen – 1
Brandon Overton – 1
Ashton Winger – 1
Garrett Alberson – 1
Tristan Chamberlain – 1
Sam Seawright – 1
Michael Leach – 1
Dallon Murty – 1

SIMPSON QUICK TIME AWARDS (16):
Nick Hoffman – 8
Chris Madden – 5
Bobby Pierce – 3
Tim McCreadie – 3
Tyler Erb – 2
Brandon Sheppard – 2
Hudson O’Neal – 2
Michael Leach – 2
Jonathan Davenport – 2
Drake Troutman – 1
Ethan Dotson – 1
Brandon Overton – 1
Brent Larson – 1
Cody Overton – 1
Ross Robinson – 1
Sam Seawright – 1

HEAT RACE WINS (39):
Nick Hoffman – 20
Bobby Pierce – 18
Tyler Erb – 11
Ryan Gustin – 7
Chris Madden – 7
Drake Troutman – 7
Brandon Sheppard – 6
Hudson O’Neal – 6
Tim McCreadie – 5
Ricky Thornton Jr. – 5
Daulton Wilson – 5
Jonathan Davenport – 4
Brandon Overton – 4
Mason Zeigler – 3
Ethan Dotson – 3
Dustin Sorensen – 3
Tristan Chamberlain – 3
Dennis Erb Jr. – 2
Trey Mills – 2
Michael Leach – 2
Dallon Murty – 2
Jared Miley – 2
Mike Marlar – 1
Dale McDowell – 1
Ashton Winger – 1
Brent Larson – 1
Josh Rice – 1
Garrett Alberson – 1
Donald McIntosh – 1
Blair Nothdurft – 1
Logan Zarin – 1
Cody Overton – 1
Dan Ebert – 1
Austin Smith – 1
Sam Seawright – 1
Devin Moran – 1
Sam Mars – 1
Dylan Thornton – 1
Lane Snook – 1

LAST CHANCE SHOWDOWN WINS (36):
Ethan Dotson – 4
Dennis Erb Jr. – 4
Dallon Murty – 4
Ryan Gustin – 3
Daulton Wilson – 3
Josh Rice – 3
Logan Zarin – 3
Bobby Pierce – 2
Drake Troutman – 2
Dustin Sorensen – 2
Trey Mills – 2
Tristan Chamberlain – 2
Carson Ferguson – 2
Tim McCreadie – 1
Ricky Thornton Jr. – 1
Brent Larson – 1
Cory Hedgecock – 1
Jake Timm – 1
Cody Overton – 1
Dan Ebert – 1
Michael Leach – 1
Luke Morey – 1
Chris Ferguson – 1
Dalton Cook – 1
Shane Clanton – 1
Michael Page – 1
Jason Feger – 1
Brian Shirley – 1
Derrick Stewart – 1
Chad Simpson – 1
Chris Simpson – 1
Dylan Thornton – 1
Gordy Gundaker – 1
Nick Davis – 1
Dylan Yoder – 1
Lincoln Smith – 1

2026 WORLD OF OUTLAWS LATE MODEL SERIES PRESENTED BY DIRTVISION SCHEDULE
Wednesday, Jan. 21 / Volusia Speedway Park / Barberville, FL (Practice)
Thursday, Jan. 22 / Volusia Speedway Park / Barberville, FL / Chris Madden (1)
Friday, Jan. 23 / Volusia Speedway Park / Barberville, FL / Hudson O’Neal (1)
Saturday, Jan. 24 / Volusia Speedway Park / Barberville, FL / Tim McCreadie (1)
Thursday, Feb. 12 / Volusia Speedway Park / Barberville, FL / Nick Hoffman (1)
Friday, Feb. 13 / Volusia Speedway Park / Barberville, FL / Nick Hoffman (2)
Saturday, Feb. 14 / Volusia Speedway Park / Barberville, FL / Brandon Sheppard (1)
Thursday, Feb. 19 / Hendry County Motorsports Park / Clewiston, FL (Practice)
Friday, Feb. 20 / Hendry County Motorsports Park / Clewiston, FL / Bobby Pierce (1)
Saturday, Feb. 21 / Hendry County Motorsports Park / Clewiston, FL / Nick Hoffman (3)
Friday, March 13 / Volunteer Speedway / Bulls Gap, TN / Mike Marlar (1)
Saturday, March 14 / Smoky Mountain Speedway / Maryville, TN / Bobby Pierce (2)
Thursday, March 19 / Magnolia Motor Speedway / Columbus, MS (Practice)
Friday, March 20 / Magnolia Motor Speedway / Columbus, MS / Bobby Pierce (3)
Saturday, March 21 / Magnolia Motor Speedway / Columbus, MS / Hudson O’Neal (2)
Friday, March 27 / East Alabama Motor Speedway / Phenix City, AL / Nick Hoffman (4)
Saturday, March 28 / Senoia Raceway / Senoia, GA / Bobby Pierce (4)
Thursday, April 9 / Farmer City Raceway / Farmer City, IL (Practice)
Friday, April 10 / Farmer City Raceway / Farmer City, IL / Brandon Sheppard (2)
Saturday, April 11 / Farmer City Raceway / Farmer City, IL / Bobby Pierce (5)
Tuesday, April 28 / Independence Motor Speedway / Independence, IA / Bobby Pierce (6)
Thursday, April 30 / Mississippi Thunder Speedway / Fountain City, WI / Bobby Pierce (7)
Friday, May 1 / Mississippi Thunder Speedway / Fountain City, WI / Nick Hoffman (5)
Saturday, May 2 / Mississippi Thunder Speedway / Fountain City, WI / Ryan Gustin (1)
Wednesday, May 13 / Georgetown Speedway / Georgetown, DE / Bobby Pierce (8)
Thursday, May 14 / Selinsgrove Speedway / Selinsgrove, PA / Tim McCreadie (2)
Sunday, May 17 / Bedford Speedway / Bedford, PA / Mason Zeigler (1)
Wednesday, May 27 / Marion Center Raceway / Marion Center, PA / Bobby Pierce (9)
Thursday, May 28 / Wayne County Speedway / Orrville, OH / Ricky Thornton Jr. (1)
Friday, May 29 / Mansfield Speedway / Mansfield, OH / Tyler Erb (1)
Saturday, May 30 / Mansfield Speedway / Mansfield, OH / Nick Hoffman (6)
Friday, June 12 / West Virginia Motor Speedway / Mineral Wells, WV / Bobby Pierce (10)
Saturday, June 13 / West Virginia Motor Speedway / Mineral Wells, WV / Tyler Erb (2)
Saturday, June 20 / 141 Speedway / Maribel, WI / Bobby Pierce (11)
Monday, June 22 / Ogilvie Raceway / Ogilvie, MN / Bobby Pierce (12)
Wednesday, June 24 / I-94 emr Speedway / Fergus Falls, MN / Bobby Pierce (13)
Friday, June 26 / River Cities Speedway / Grand Forks, ND / Bobby Pierce (14)
Sunday, June 28 / Nodak Speedway / Minot, ND / Bobby Pierce (15)
Tuesday, June 30 / Norman County Raceway / Ada, MN / Bobby Pierce (16)
Wednesday, July 8 / Stateline Speedway / Busti, NY
Friday, July 10 / Sharon Speedway / Hartford, OH
Saturday, July 11 / Sharon Speedway / Hartford, OH
Friday, July 24 / Fairbury Speedway / Fairbury, IL
Saturday, July 25 / Fairbury Speedway / Fairbury, IL
Thursday, July 30 / Cedar Lake Speedway / New Richmond, WI
Friday, July 31 / Cedar Lake Speedway / New Richmond, WI
Saturday, Aug. 1 / Cedar Lake Speedway / New Richmond, WI
Thursday, Aug. 20 / Maquoketa Speedway / Maquoketa, IA (Practice)
Friday, Aug. 21 / Maquoketa Speedway / Maquoketa, IA
Saturday, Aug. 22 / Maquoketa Speedway / Maquoketa, IA
Wednesday, Aug. 26 / Southern Iowa Speedway / Oskaloosa, IA
Friday, Aug, 28 / Adams County Speedway / Corning, IA
Saturday, Aug. 29 / Shelby County Speedway / Harlan, IA
Friday, Sept. 25 / I-55 Federated Auto Parts Raceway Park / Pevely, MO
Saturday, Sept. 26 / I-55 Federated Auto Parts Raceway Park / Pevely, MO
Friday, Oct. 2 / Boothill Speedway / Greenwood, LA
Saturday, Oct. 3 / Boothill Speedway / Greenwood, LA
Friday, Oct. 23 / Modoc Speedway / Modoc, SC
Saturday, Oct. 24 / Modoc Speedway / Modoc, SC
Wednesday, Nov. 4 / The Dirt Track at Charlotte / Concord, NC
Thursday, Nov. 5 / The Dirt Track at Charlotte / Concord, NC
Friday, Nov. 6 / The Dirt Track at Charlotte / Concord, NC
Saturday, Nov. 7 / The Dirt Track at Charlotte / Concord, NC

ARTICLE: https://worldofoutlaws.com/latemodels/top-five-storylines-northeast-trip-features-midweek-stateline-return-sharon-doubleheader/

TF Sport, Corvette aiming to take back-to-back WEC wins after Le Mans victory DETROIT (July 6, 2026) – TF Sport and its Corvette Z06 GT3.Rs are back on the racetrack this weekend, less than a month after capturing a hard-fought class victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. So now the question is: What to do for an encore? Another LMGT3 win in the FIA World Endurance Championship would be just fine, and the chance comes in the third visit for the team and the Corvette GT3 to Sāo Paulo, Brazil and the 2.677-mile, 15-turn Interlagos circuit for the Six Hours of Sāo Paulo. The Le Mans victory for the No. 33 Corvette of Nicky Catsburg, Jonny Edgar and Ben Keating put TF Sport ahead in the LMGT3 Teams Championship due to 24 Hours being a double-points race. Catsburg and Edgar lead the Drivers Championship after an elbow injury kept Keating out for the first two races of the season. For Brazil, Nico Varrone will drive in place of Catsburg due to his commitments in IMSA at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. It’s a reunion of sorts between Varrone and Keating as the pair teamed with Catsburg for the 2023 WEC GTE Am title for Corvette Racing. Varrone will make his first start for TF Sport and in a WEC Corvette GT3 with the goal of helping the No. 33 Corvette score points in its fourth straight race. On the other side of the garage, the Racing Team Turkey by TF trio of Charlie Eastwood, Salih Yoluc and Peter Dempsey will look to improve on their sixth-place finish at Le Mans after coming from the rear of the field at the start. The result was the best of the season so far for the No. 34 Corvette, and Eastwood was part of a runner-up finish in a TF Sport Corvette a year ago at Sāo Paulo. Eastwood and TF Sport also are coming off an LMGT3 victory at Imola in the European Le Mans Series on Sunday. It was the first of the season for the trio of Eastwood, Alec Udell and Blake McDonald, who claimed pole position; the No. 33 Corvette and its drivers now lead the class Teams and Drivers championships. The Six Hours of Sāo Paulo is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Brasilia Time / 10:30 a.m. ET on Sunday, July 12. Live streaming coverage of the race, qualifying and Hyperpole, plus timing and scoring is available through a subscription on FIA WEC Plus with additional live streaming on the HBO Max app in the U.S. Radio Le Mans also will provide live streaming audio coverage of all sessions as well.

CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R PRE-EVENT DRIVER QUOTES

NICO VARRONE, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “I’m really excited to be back in the Corvette and with TF Sport in the Sāo Paulo WEC round. It’s also exciting to be back with Ben after our World Endurance Championship title in 2023 and also winning Le Mans that year. Now joining TF Sport after their Le Mans win is a big deal and a real pleasure. It’s a great opportunity for me. Now with my F2 season, I really miss endurance racing and driving GTs. It’s something I love. Sāo Paulo also is a race that is close to where I was born so I can’t wait to be there and help TF Sport on their title run. They’re a great team and I’m looking forward to meeting all of them and working with them in Sāo Paulo. I can’t thank them enough plus Ben Keating and Corvette Racing for having me for this race.”

JONNY EDGAR, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “I don’t think it will be an easy weekend for us with the success ballast that we’ll have. Any points will be good, and the goal to the end of the season is to pick up points where we can. We’re obviously in a good position with Le Mans being double-points so it’s a great spot for the championship. I’m looking forward to driving with Nico. I’ve met him before and I’m looking forward to getting to know him better. Hopefully we should have a good weekend. Nico will be very fast as he always is, and he has a good relationship with Ben. This track does suit the car quite well so hopefully we can have as good of a weekend as possible.”

BEN KEATING, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “What I am looking forward to most about Brazil is not having to drive five stints in a row! I don’t anticipate much pain in my elbow, but there will be some pain carrying our success ballast in this race for leading the championship and winning Le Mans. That’s a price we are glad to pay, though. I expect that we will need some luck to be in the points but I have every confidence in TF Sport to get us there. I’m also really excited to share a car with Nico again. It has been almost three years since we shared a Corvette in WEC and I couldn’t ask for a better Super Sub for Nicky than Nico!”

CHARLIE EASTWOOD, NO. 34 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “We had a good race at Brazil last year. It also was on the hard tire, which helped a few other cars. So going back to the medium is only a benefit for us. It’s a good track… an awesome track, actually. It’s definitely better now that it’s had a partial repave; it was a bit tricky in the first year with crazy-high deg, which we’re always happy with. Salih and Peter have never been, so that’s not straight-forward. So we need to get them up to speed as quickly as possible. But the car is good there and we should have a good one, I think. Hopefully it’s nice and hot, which also will play into our favor. So really looking forward to it.”

2026 FIA World Endurance Championship PointsLMGT3 Drivers Standings1. Jonny Edgar/Nicky Catsburg – 722. Ben Keating – 503. Alessio Rovera/Francois Heriau/Simon Mann – 404. Hadrien David/Tom Van Rompuy – 375. Jack Hawksworth – 3617. Charlie Eastwood/Peter Dempsey/Salih Yoluc – 18 LMGT3 Teams Standings1. No. 33 TF Sport – 722. No. 21 Vista AF Corse – 403. No. 78 Akkodis ASP Team – 374. No. 10 Garage 59 – 345. No. 92 The Bend Manthey – 3413. No. 34 Racing Team Turkey by TF – 18 Corvette Racing at Sāo Paulo2024 – No. 81 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Charlie Eastwood/Rui Andrade/Tom Van Rompuy – 8th in LMGT3No. 82 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Daniel Juncadella/Sebastien Baud/Hiroshi Koizumi – 17th in LMGT3 (DNF) 2025 – No. 33 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Daniel Juncadella/Jonny Edgar/Ben Keating – 7th in LMGT3No. 81 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Charlie Eastwood/Rui Andrade/Tom Van Rompuy – 2nd in LMGT3

CORVETTE RACING AT SĀO PAULO: A Le Mans Encore?TF Sport, Corvette aiming to take back-to-back WEC wins after Le Mans victory DETROIT (July 6, 2026) – TF Sport and its Corvette Z06 GT3.Rs are back on the racetrack this weekend, less than a month after capturing a hard-fought class victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. So now the question is: What to do for an encore? Another LMGT3 win in the FIA World Endurance Championship would be just fine, and the chance comes in the third visit for the team and the Corvette GT3 to Sāo Paulo, Brazil and the 2.677-mile, 15-turn Interlagos circuit for the Six Hours of Sāo Paulo. The Le Mans victory for the No. 33 Corvette of Nicky Catsburg, Jonny Edgar and Ben Keating put TF Sport ahead in the LMGT3 Teams Championship due to 24 Hours being a double-points race. Catsburg and Edgar lead the Drivers Championship after an elbow injury kept Keating out for the first two races of the season. For Brazil, Nico Varrone will drive in place of Catsburg due to his commitments in IMSA at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. It’s a reunion of sorts between Varrone and Keating as the pair teamed with Catsburg for the 2023 WEC GTE Am title for Corvette Racing. Varrone will make his first start for TF Sport and in a WEC Corvette GT3 with the goal of helping the No. 33 Corvette score points in its fourth straight race. On the other side of the garage, the Racing Team Turkey by TF trio of Charlie Eastwood, Salih Yoluc and Peter Dempsey will look to improve on their sixth-place finish at Le Mans after coming from the rear of the field at the start. The result was the best of the season so far for the No. 34 Corvette, and Eastwood was part of a runner-up finish in a TF Sport Corvette a year ago at Sāo Paulo. Eastwood and TF Sport also are coming off an LMGT3 victory at Imola in the European Le Mans Series on Sunday. It was the first of the season for the trio of Eastwood, Alec Udell and Blake McDonald, who claimed pole position; the No. 33 Corvette and its drivers now lead the class Teams and Drivers championships. The Six Hours of Sāo Paulo is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Brasilia Time / 10:30 a.m. ET on Sunday, July 12. Live streaming coverage of the race, qualifying and Hyperpole, plus timing and scoring is available through a subscription on FIA WEC Plus with additional live streaming on the HBO Max app in the U.S. Radio Le Mans also will provide live streaming audio coverage of all sessions as well.

CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R PRE-EVENT DRIVER QUOTES

NICO VARRONE, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “I’m really excited to be back in the Corvette and with TF Sport in the Sāo Paulo WEC round. It’s also exciting to be back with Ben after our World Endurance Championship title in 2023 and also winning Le Mans that year. Now joining TF Sport after their Le Mans win is a big deal and a real pleasure. It’s a great opportunity for me. Now with my F2 season, I really miss endurance racing and driving GTs. It’s something I love. Sāo Paulo also is a race that is close to where I was born so I can’t wait to be there and help TF Sport on their title run. They’re a great team and I’m looking forward to meeting all of them and working with them in Sāo Paulo. I can’t thank them enough plus Ben Keating and Corvette Racing for having me for this race.”

JONNY EDGAR, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “I don’t think it will be an easy weekend for us with the success ballast that we’ll have. Any points will be good, and the goal to the end of the season is to pick up points where we can. We’re obviously in a good position with Le Mans being double-points so it’s a great spot for the championship. I’m looking forward to driving with Nico. I’ve met him before and I’m looking forward to getting to know him better. Hopefully we should have a good weekend. Nico will be very fast as he always is, and he has a good relationship with Ben. This track does suit the car quite well so hopefully we can have as good of a weekend as possible.”

BEN KEATING, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “What I am looking forward to most about Brazil is not having to drive five stints in a row! I don’t anticipate much pain in my elbow, but there will be some pain carrying our success ballast in this race for leading the championship and winning Le Mans. That’s a price we are glad to pay, though. I expect that we will need some luck to be in the points but I have every confidence in TF Sport to get us there. I’m also really excited to share a car with Nico again. It has been almost three years since we shared a Corvette in WEC and I couldn’t ask for a better Super Sub for Nicky than Nico!”

CHARLIE EASTWOOD, NO. 34 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “We had a good race at Brazil last year. It also was on the hard tire, which helped a few other cars. So going back to the medium is only a benefit for us. It’s a good track… an awesome track, actually. It’s definitely better now that it’s had a partial repave; it was a bit tricky in the first year with crazy-high deg, which we’re always happy with. Salih and Peter have never been, so that’s not straight-forward. So we need to get them up to speed as quickly as possible. But the car is good there and we should have a good one, I think. Hopefully it’s nice and hot, which also will play into our favor. So really looking forward to it.”

2026 FIA World Endurance Championship PointsLMGT3 Drivers Standings1. Jonny Edgar/Nicky Catsburg – 722. Ben Keating – 503. Alessio Rovera/Francois Heriau/Simon Mann – 404. Hadrien David/Tom Van Rompuy – 375. Jack Hawksworth – 3617. Charlie Eastwood/Peter Dempsey/Salih Yoluc – 18 LMGT3 Teams Standings1. No. 33 TF Sport – 722. No. 21 Vista AF Corse – 403. No. 78 Akkodis ASP Team – 374. No. 10 Garage 59 – 345. No. 92 The Bend Manthey – 3413. No. 34 Racing Team Turkey by TF – 18 Corvette Racing at Sāo Paulo2024 – No. 81 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Charlie Eastwood/Rui Andrade/Tom Van Rompuy – 8th in LMGT3No. 82 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Daniel Juncadella/Sebastien Baud/Hiroshi Koizumi – 17th in LMGT3 (DNF) 2025 – No. 33 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Daniel Juncadella/Jonny Edgar/Ben Keating – 7th in LMGT3No. 81 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Charlie Eastwood/Rui Andrade/Tom Van Rompuy – 2nd in LMGT3

MACON, IL (July 5, 2026) — One year after coming up short in the quest for his second career Herald & Review 100 victory, Brandon Sheppard returned to Macon Speedway Sunday night and avenged his past defeat.

Sheppard, the 2012 DIRTcar Summer Nationals champion from New Berlin, IL, finished runner-up in the 2025 edition of the historic event after a flat tire ruined his advantage out front and forced him to charge from the tail. This time around, all four tires stayed up through the distance as he dominated the 46th running of the Hell Tour’s crown jewel, becoming the third driver in race history to lead all 100 laps around the 1/5-mile bullring.

“It’s hard to forget the ones that you come so close at, and unfortunately, there are a lot more of those than there are wins in anybody’s career,” Sheppard said. “I think there’s a lot of them that could have been. Our car has just been phenomenal all year, night-in and night-out. Whether it’s in the Rocket 1 or the B5, we were on kill, that’s for sure.

“And then I lost power steering and I am pretty much dead right now; my arms are done. It was all I could do to hang onto it.”

Despite the mechanical malfunction in the home stretch of the race, Sheppard showed the field no mercy from the drop of the green. Starting on the outside pole, he went straight to the cushion around Turns 1 and 2 on the opening lap and drove by Mike Spatola to secure the top spot.

Lap traffic quickly became a factor as Sheppard encountered the tail of the field only nine laps in and began working his way through the slower cars.

The first caution flag waved on Lap 23 for debris, erasing Sheppard’s lead and bringing him back in sight of Spatola and Summer Nationals points leader Tanner English, who were both locked in an intense battle for the runner-up spot.

The ensuing restart marked the beginning of a long green flag run that saw Sheppard extend his lead to over seven seconds at its largest and lap the field up to sixth place.

Even when Sheppard’s power steering system went kaput with under 20 laps remaining, the top five were unable to deplete the B5’s gap. His advantage held until a caution flag on Lap 99 for a slowing Ryan Miller in Turn 3 erased it one final time and put Luke Morey and English on his tail for the restart.

But again, Sheppard was unfazed, driving away under the green, the white, and the checkered flag to collect the $7,500 check and career win No. 29 with the Hell Tour — tying him with the late Scott Bloomquist for seventh on the all-time wins list.

“We come support these races because we love these tracks and our local dirt tracks,” Sheppard said. “These places are close to my heart; I grew up racing here [Macon]. I can remember sitting in the stands and watching the scoreboard during the day because I wasn’t old enough to go into the pits. I’d watch all the winners, and I’d see my uncle Ed come across there.”

Luke Morey crossed in second, English in third, Kyle Hardy in fourth, and Mitch McGrath rounding out the top five.

UP NEXT

The DIRTcar Summer Nationals begins the final week of competition for the 2026 campaign Monday, July 6 at Kankakee County Speedway in Kankakee, IL. Tickets for the event will be sold at the track on race day.

If you can’t be at the track, how can you watch the DIRTcar Summer Nationals? Every race is broadcasted live on DIRTVision.

Herald & Review 100 pres. by Pepsi (100 Laps): 1. B5-Brandon Sheppard[2]; 2. 49-Luke Morey[6]; 3. 96-Tanner English[3]; 4. 99-Kyle Hardy[5]; 5. 74-Mitch McGrath[9]; 6. 89-Mike Spatola[1]; 7. 31M-Tyler Millwood[10]; 8. 42W-Mckay Wenger[13]; 9. 15-Clay Stuckey[19]; 10. 25-Jason Feger[7]; 11. 91-Rusty Schlenk[20]; 12. 16-Rusty Griffaw[14]; 13. 17SR-Brody Smith[11]; 14. 30-Mark Voigt[22]; 15. 11M-Ryan Miller[16]; 16. 16S-Sam Seawright[8]; 17. ZT1-Zach Taylor[18]; 18. 17SS-Brenden Smith[4]; 19. 38J-Jake Little[21]; 20. 51B-Brandon Carpenter[17]; 21. 12-Jack Franklin[12]; 22. (DQ) 45-Kyle Hammer[15]

Michael Ledford Passes Trevor Neville Late for Macon Win

Trevor Neville was a 1/5-mile away from a second DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals triumph of the season Sunday night at Macon Speedway. And then, one bobble, hop, and a push later, and Michael Ledford was standing in Victory Lane.

Ledford, of Pontiac, IL, stole the win in dramatic fashion as leader Neville stumbled on the cushion in Turn 4 coming to the white flag, opening the door for Ledford’s No. 09 to race on by for the lead and his fifth career Summit Modified Feature win.

“I was pretty committed to running the bottom, it’s where I felt the most comfortable with my car,” Ledford said. “I got fortunate with [Neville] messing up over in turn four, it just worked out.

“This place is really cool, and I really enjoy coming here. Track was great, you could run almost anywhere you wanted to.”

The opening lap was led by polesitter Mike Harrison with Ledford and Neville in tow behind him. On Lap 3, Neville began to make his bid for the lead on Harrison before a caution halted his progress. The restart saw things get exciting as the lead trio went three wide off the exit of Turn 4 after Harrison stumbled on the cushion.

Neville saw the door open and ran through it, coming out on top of the three-car battle as they raced back into Turn 1 on Lap 5. Harrison battled back on the cushion before Neville pulled a slide job to block the charge.

Harrison crossed back under and the two went side-by-side entering Turn 1, making contact and allowing Ledford to reel them back in. Harrison was able to clear Neville again as they went down the backstretch, leading Lap 8.

Right as Neville retook the lead on Lap 9, a caution flag flew, halting the incredible battle for the lead. On the restart, Neville pulled away and looked well on his way to victory before coming to the white flag.

Neville hopped and stumbled on the top side of Turn 3, causing him to wash high in Turn 4 as the white flag waved. Ledford was waiting for any mistake from the leader and got it, sneaking by for the lead on the bottom as he drove across the start/finish line. Neville got his car pointed straight again and charged down the backstretch with speed in an attempt to get the top spot back, but it was too late as Ledford crossed under the checkers.

Neville finished second, Zeke McKenzie finished third, Beau DeYoung was fourth, and Ray Bollinger rounded out the top five.

UP NEXT

The DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals head to Kankakee County Speedway in Kankakee, IL on Monday, July 6.

How can you watch the Summit Modifieds? Every race is live on DIRTVision.

Feature (25 Laps): 1. 09-Michael Ledford[3]; 2. 777-Trevor Neville[2]; 3. 24-Zeke McKenzie[5]; 4. 27D-Beau DeYoung[6]; 5. 77-Ray Bollinger[9]; 6. 72A-Austin Lynn[4]; 7. 27E-Dalton Ewing[10]; 8. 27B-Kyle Barker[12]; 9. 0-Damian Kiefer[11]; 10. T23-John Toppozini[14]; 11. 81C-Christopher Cole[16]; 12. 11D-Brian Diveley[7]; 13. 14S-Carter Standerfer[17]; 14. 78-Maxx Emerson[20]; 15. 71-Jeff Graham[13]; 16. 24H-Mike Harrison[1]; 17. 14-Dalton Lane[15]; 18. 21-Lyndon Whitfill[8]; 19. 01-Jeremy Nichols[19]; 20. 24M-Matt Milner[18]; 21. (DNS) 10-Todd O’Neill; 22. (DNS) X75-Dylan Turpin

Brandon Sheppard Dominates Macon to Win Second Herald & Review 100

MACON, IL (July 5, 2026) — One year after coming up short in the quest for his second career Herald & Review 100 victory, Brandon Sheppard returned to Macon Speedway Sunday night and avenged his past defeat.

Sheppard, the 2012 DIRTcar Summer Nationals champion from New Berlin, IL, finished runner-up in the 2025 edition of the historic event after a flat tire ruined his advantage out front and forced him to charge from the tail. This time around, all four tires stayed up through the distance as he dominated the 46th running of the Hell Tour’s crown jewel, becoming the third driver in race history to lead all 100 laps around the 1/5-mile bullring.

“It’s hard to forget the ones that you come so close at, and unfortunately, there are a lot more of those than there are wins in anybody’s career,” Sheppard said. “I think there’s a lot of them that could have been. Our car has just been phenomenal all year, night-in and night-out. Whether it’s in the Rocket 1 or the B5, we were on kill, that’s for sure.

“And then I lost power steering and I am pretty much dead right now; my arms are done. It was all I could do to hang onto it.”

Despite the mechanical malfunction in the home stretch of the race, Sheppard showed the field no mercy from the drop of the green. Starting on the outside pole, he went straight to the cushion around Turns 1 and 2 on the opening lap and drove by Mike Spatola to secure the top spot.

Lap traffic quickly became a factor as Sheppard encountered the tail of the field only nine laps in and began working his way through the slower cars.

The first caution flag waved on Lap 23 for debris, erasing Sheppard’s lead and bringing him back in sight of Spatola and Summer Nationals points leader Tanner English, who were both locked in an intense battle for the runner-up spot.

The ensuing restart marked the beginning of a long green flag run that saw Sheppard extend his lead to over seven seconds at its largest and lap the field up to sixth place.

Even when Sheppard’s power steering system went kaput with under 20 laps remaining, the top five were unable to deplete the B5’s gap. His advantage held until a caution flag on Lap 99 for a slowing Ryan Miller in Turn 3 erased it one final time and put Luke Morey and English on his tail for the restart.

But again, Sheppard was unfazed, driving away under the green, the white, and the checkered flag to collect the $7,500 check and career win No. 29 with the Hell Tour — tying him with the late Scott Bloomquist for seventh on the all-time wins list.

“We come support these races because we love these tracks and our local dirt tracks,” Sheppard said. “These places are close to my heart; I grew up racing here [Macon]. I can remember sitting in the stands and watching the scoreboard during the day because I wasn’t old enough to go into the pits. I’d watch all the winners, and I’d see my uncle Ed come across there.”

Luke Morey crossed in second, English in third, Kyle Hardy in fourth, and Mitch McGrath rounding out the top five.

UP NEXT

The DIRTcar Summer Nationals begins the final week of competition for the 2026 campaign Monday, July 6 at Kankakee County Speedway in Kankakee, IL. Tickets for the event will be sold at the track on race day.

If you can’t be at the track, how can you watch the DIRTcar Summer Nationals? Every race is broadcasted live on DIRTVision.

Herald & Review 100 pres. by Pepsi (100 Laps): 1. B5-Brandon Sheppard[2]; 2. 49-Luke Morey[6]; 3. 96-Tanner English[3]; 4. 99-Kyle Hardy[5]; 5. 74-Mitch McGrath[9]; 6. 89-Mike Spatola[1]; 7. 31M-Tyler Millwood[10]; 8. 42W-Mckay Wenger[13]; 9. 15-Clay Stuckey[19]; 10. 25-Jason Feger[7]; 11. 91-Rusty Schlenk[20]; 12. 16-Rusty Griffaw[14]; 13. 17SR-Brody Smith[11]; 14. 30-Mark Voigt[22]; 15. 11M-Ryan Miller[16]; 16. 16S-Sam Seawright[8]; 17. ZT1-Zach Taylor[18]; 18. 17SS-Brenden Smith[4]; 19. 38J-Jake Little[21]; 20. 51B-Brandon Carpenter[17]; 21. 12-Jack Franklin[12]; 22. (DQ) 45-Kyle Hammer[15]

Michael Ledford Passes Trevor Neville Late for Macon Win

Trevor Neville was a 1/5-mile away from a second DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals triumph of the season Sunday night at Macon Speedway. And then, one bobble, hop, and a push later, and Michael Ledford was standing in Victory Lane.

Ledford, of Pontiac, IL, stole the win in dramatic fashion as leader Neville stumbled on the cushion in Turn 4 coming to the white flag, opening the door for Ledford’s No. 09 to race on by for the lead and his fifth career Summit Modified Feature win.

“I was pretty committed to running the bottom, it’s where I felt the most comfortable with my car,” Ledford said. “I got fortunate with [Neville] messing up over in turn four, it just worked out.

“This place is really cool, and I really enjoy coming here. Track was great, you could run almost anywhere you wanted to.”

The opening lap was led by polesitter Mike Harrison with Ledford and Neville in tow behind him. On Lap 3, Neville began to make his bid for the lead on Harrison before a caution halted his progress. The restart saw things get exciting as the lead trio went three wide off the exit of Turn 4 after Harrison stumbled on the cushion.

Neville saw the door open and ran through it, coming out on top of the three-car battle as they raced back into Turn 1 on Lap 5. Harrison battled back on the cushion before Neville pulled a slide job to block the charge.

Harrison crossed back under and the two went side-by-side entering Turn 1, making contact and allowing Ledford to reel them back in. Harrison was able to clear Neville again as they went down the backstretch, leading Lap 8.

Right as Neville retook the lead on Lap 9, a caution flag flew, halting the incredible battle for the lead. On the restart, Neville pulled away and looked well on his way to victory before coming to the white flag.

Neville hopped and stumbled on the top side of Turn 3, causing him to wash high in Turn 4 as the white flag waved. Ledford was waiting for any mistake from the leader and got it, sneaking by for the lead on the bottom as he drove across the start/finish line. Neville got his car pointed straight again and charged down the backstretch with speed in an attempt to get the top spot back, but it was too late as Ledford crossed under the checkers.

Neville finished second, Zeke McKenzie finished third, Beau DeYoung was fourth, and Ray Bollinger rounded out the top five.

UP NEXT

The DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals head to Kankakee County Speedway in Kankakee, IL on Monday, July 6.

How can you watch the Summit Modifieds? Every race is live on DIRTVision.

Feature (25 Laps): 1. 09-Michael Ledford[3]; 2. 777-Trevor Neville[2]; 3. 24-Zeke McKenzie[5]; 4. 27D-Beau DeYoung[6]; 5. 77-Ray Bollinger[9]; 6. 72A-Austin Lynn[4]; 7. 27E-Dalton Ewing[10]; 8. 27B-Kyle Barker[12]; 9. 0-Damian Kiefer[11]; 10. T23-John Toppozini[14]; 11. 81C-Christopher Cole[16]; 12. 11D-Brian Diveley[7]; 13. 14S-Carter Standerfer[17]; 14. 78-Maxx Emerson[20]; 15. 71-Jeff Graham[13]; 16. 24H-Mike Harrison[1]; 17. 14-Dalton Lane[15]; 18. 21-Lyndon Whitfill[8]; 19. 01-Jeremy Nichols[19]; 20. 24M-Matt Milner[18]; 21. (DNS) 10-Todd O’Neill; 22. (DNS) X75-Dylan Turpin

ARTICLE: https://dirtcarsummernationals.com/recaps/brandon-sheppard-dominates-macon-to-win-second-herald-review-100/, https://dirtcarsummernationals.com/recaps/michael-ledford-passes-trevor-neville-late-for-macon-win/

Event: eero 400 Location: Chicagoland Speedway, Joliet, IllinoisDate: Sunday, July 5, 2026Start: 34thFinish: 33rdA sellout crowd welcomed the NASCAR Cup Series back to Chicagoland Speedway for the first time since 2019 for the eero 400, where Josh Berry and the No. 21 Wood Brothers Racing team showed solid pace early in Sunday’s eero 400 before late-race front-end damage relegated the eero Ford Mustang Dark Horse to a 33rd-place finish.After starting 34th, Berry wasted little time working his way through the field, climbing into the top 20 during the opening stage and continuing to run competitively through the first half of the race. During a cycle of green-flag pit stops in Stage 2, an untimely caution left the No. 21 a lap down, but the team recovered by taking the wave-around under a later caution to return Berry to the lead lap.The race for Berry took its biggest turn in the final stage when the No. 21 sustained damage to the nose of the car, significantly affecting its handling performance. Despite remaining on the lead lap following the earlier recovery, the loss of speed from the damage proved too much to overcome, and Berry eventually finished 33rd in eero Ford Mustang. The Wood Brothers Racing team now shifts its focus to EchoPark Speedway for next Sunday’s Quaker State 400.

NASCAR Cup Series Chicagoland Speedway eero 400 Team Chevy Post-Race Report July 5, 2026

In the NASCAR Cup Series long-awaited return to Chicagoland Speedway, William Byron and the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet team brought home a fourth-place finish to lead Chevrolet to the checkered flag of the eero 400. The result, his fourth top-five finish of the season, was accompanied by a sweep of the stage wins and a season-high 94 laps led. Rounding out the Team Chevy top-five, Alex Bowman put together yet another strong Chicagoland campaign – driving his No. 48 Chevrolet to a top-five finish and a spot into the third round of the In-Season Challenge.  RACE RECAP:  Stage One: With the first caution of the day falling on the opening lap, a second attempt at taking the green flag saw front-row starter, Kyle Larson, drive his Chevrolet to the command position. The reigning champion was able to hold onto the lead for the first 18 laps of the opening stage, ultimately losing the position to a hard-charging Denny Hamlin. Settled into the position until the second caution fell near the halfway point of the stage, Larson’s first report from behind the wheel indicated that he was fighting a tight-handling car in Turns Three and Four. With a call for four tires, fuel and a minor adjustment by crew chief Cliff Daniels, the No. 5 pit crew kept their driver in the second position to take the green flag for the restart. A side-by-side battle with Hamlin saw Larson be able to muscle his Chevrolet past the pole-sitter to retain the lead on the exit of Turn Four. With an assist from a three-position gain in the race off pit road under the caution, it was his Hendrick Motorsports teammate, William Byron, that was able to capitalize on the track position during the restart to reach second just before the third caution of the day. A trio of early-race cautions saw the start of varying strategies along pit road. Returning to the track as the first cars on a four-tire strategy, Larson and Byron netted out in the 11th and 12th positions, respectively, to take the green flag with 27 laps to go in the stage. The advantage of fresh Goodyear rubber came to display early in the run as the teammates made their way back into the top-five in just five laps around the 1.5-mile oval. As the opening stage wound down, the speed of the No. 24 Chevrolet came to light as the driver climbed back up into the second position and quickly went to work on then race leader, Austin Cindric, in the closing laps – ultimately making the pass on Lap 69 to lead his first laps of evening. Keeping his teammate in his rearview mirror, Byron went on to cash in on the first green-white checkered flag with Larson in tow to give Chevrolet an one-two finish in Stage One.  Stage Two: Under the stage break, crew chief Rudy Fugle made the call for four tires and fuel, and with a masterful stop by the No. 24 pit crew, Byron was able to maintain the top position for the start of Stage Two. Byron was able to lead the opening lap of Stage Two, but the stint was short-lived as Bubba Wallace traded positions just a few laps later. The green conditions turned yellow shortly thereafter when the third-place runner, Larson, spun off Turn Four. Lined up on the outside lane of the front-row for the restart, Byron was able to remain on the door of Wallace through the backstretch before settling back into the second position. As the race finally settled into a long run to set-up for a green flag pit cycle, Byron reported that the previous adjustment made an improvement to the handling of his Chevrolet, but he was still experiencing overall tight conditions throughout the track. Making the call to hit pit road just past the halfway mark of Stage Two, Byron made his way back up into the eighth position just as the fifth caution of the day flew amidst the tail-end of the cycle. With the remaining cars completing their stops under the caution, Byron found his way back to a position on the front-row to lead the field to the restart. This time, it was Byron that was able to power off a strong restart to take over the lead once again with 20 laps to go in the stage. Reaching up to just over an one-second lead over Briscoe, Byron started to build two-numbers tighter late in the long run but managed to hold him off to drive to a stage win sweep. Final Stage: With the No. 24 pit crew keeping their driver up front once again, Byron found his way back to the front-row to lead the field to the green flag for the final stage of the race. Electing the inside lane for the restart, it was no competition for the top position as Byron cleared Briscoe in Turns One and Two for the start of the run. With a two-stop strategy for the final run, Byron set the pace for the first-half of the stage as the field approached the final green flag pit cycle of the race. But with Briscoe making his stop just one lap before Byron, the No. 24 Chevrolet fell to the second position as the cycle was deemed complete. Going green to the end, the Charlotte, North Carolina, native went on to take the checkered flag with fourth-place finish.

Team Chevy Unofficial Top-10 ResultsPos.     Driver 4th – William Byron5th – Alex BowmanChevrolet’s season statistics with 19 NASCAR Cup Series races complete: Wins: 6Poles: 4Top-Fives: 36Top 10s: 68Stage Wins: 15

The 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season continues at EchoPark Speedway with the Quaker State 400 Available at Walmart on Sunday, July 12, at 7 p.m. ET. Live coverage can be found on TNT Sports, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90.

NASCAR Cup SeriesChicagoland Speedwayeero 400Team Chevy Post-Race ReportJuly 5, 2026

Byron, Bowman Lead Chevrolet with Top-Five Finishes in the NASCAR Cup Series Return to Chicagoland Speedway

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In the NASCAR Cup Series long-awaited return to Chicagoland Speedway, William Byron and the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet team brought home a fourth-place finish to lead Chevrolet to the checkered flag of the eero 400. The result, his fourth top-five finish of the season, was accompanied by a sweep of the stage wins and a season-high 94 laps led. Rounding out the Team Chevy top-five, Alex Bowman put together yet another strong Chicagoland campaign – driving his No. 48 Chevrolet to a top-five finish and a spot into the third round of the In-Season Challenge.  RACE RECAP:  Stage One: With the first caution of the day falling on the opening lap, a second attempt at taking the green flag saw front-row starter, Kyle Larson, drive his Chevrolet to the command position. The reigning champion was able to hold onto the lead for the first 18 laps of the opening stage, ultimately losing the position to a hard-charging Denny Hamlin. Settled into the position until the second caution fell near the halfway point of the stage, Larson’s first report from behind the wheel indicated that he was fighting a tight-handling car in Turns Three and Four. With a call for four tires, fuel and a minor adjustment by crew chief Cliff Daniels, the No. 5 pit crew kept their driver in the second position to take the green flag for the restart. A side-by-side battle with Hamlin saw Larson be able to muscle his Chevrolet past the pole-sitter to retain the lead on the exit of Turn Four. With an assist from a three-position gain in the race off pit road under the caution, it was his Hendrick Motorsports teammate, William Byron, that was able to capitalize on the track position during the restart to reach second just before the third caution of the day. A trio of early-race cautions saw the start of varying strategies along pit road. Returning to the track as the first cars on a four-tire strategy, Larson and Byron netted out in the 11th and 12th positions, respectively, to take the green flag with 27 laps to go in the stage. The advantage of fresh Goodyear rubber came to display early in the run as the teammates made their way back into the top-five in just five laps around the 1.5-mile oval. As the opening stage wound down, the speed of the No. 24 Chevrolet came to light as the driver climbed back up into the second position and quickly went to work on then race leader, Austin Cindric, in the closing laps – ultimately making the pass on Lap 69 to lead his first laps of evening. Keeping his teammate in his rearview mirror, Byron went on to cash in on the first green-white checkered flag with Larson in tow to give Chevrolet an one-two finish in Stage One.  Stage Two: Under the stage break, crew chief Rudy Fugle made the call for four tires and fuel, and with a masterful stop by the No. 24 pit crew, Byron was able to maintain the top position for the start of Stage Two. Byron was able to lead the opening lap of Stage Two, but the stint was short-lived as Bubba Wallace traded positions just a few laps later. The green conditions turned yellow shortly thereafter when the third-place runner, Larson, spun off Turn Four. Lined up on the outside lane of the front-row for the restart, Byron was able to remain on the door of Wallace through the backstretch before settling back into the second position. As the race finally settled into a long run to set-up for a green flag pit cycle, Byron reported that the previous adjustment made an improvement to the handling of his Chevrolet, but he was still experiencing overall tight conditions throughout the track. Making the call to hit pit road just past the halfway mark of Stage Two, Byron made his way back up into the eighth position just as the fifth caution of the day flew amidst the tail-end of the cycle. With the remaining cars completing their stops under the caution, Byron found his way back to a position on the front-row to lead the field to the restart. This time, it was Byron that was able to power off a strong restart to take over the lead once again with 20 laps to go in the stage. Reaching up to just over an one-second lead over Briscoe, Byron started to build two-numbers tighter late in the long run but managed to hold him off to drive to a stage win sweep. Final Stage: With the No. 24 pit crew keeping their driver up front once again, Byron found his way back to the front-row to lead the field to the green flag for the final stage of the race. Electing the inside lane for the restart, it was no competition for the top position as Byron cleared Briscoe in Turns One and Two for the start of the run. With a two-stop strategy for the final run, Byron set the pace for the first-half of the stage as the field approached the final green flag pit cycle of the race. But with Briscoe making his stop just one lap before Byron, the No. 24 Chevrolet fell to the second position as the cycle was deemed complete. Going green to the end, the Charlotte, North Carolina, native went on to take the checkered flag with fourth-place finish.

Team Chevy Unofficial Top-10 ResultsPos.     Driver 4th – William Byron5th – Alex BowmanChevrolet’s season statistics with 19 NASCAR Cup Series races complete: Wins: 6Poles: 4Top-Fives: 36Top 10s: 68Stage Wins: 15

The 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season continues at EchoPark Speedway with the Quaker State 400 Available at Walmart on Sunday, July 12, at 7 p.m. ET. Live coverage can be found on TNT Sports, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90.

Post-Race Driver Quotes: Austin Dillon, No. 3 Richard Childress Racing ChevroletFinished: 24th“We were going in the right direction with the No. 3 Dow Salutes Veterans Aptiv Chevrolet here today at Chicagoland Speedway, but as the race progressed, especially in stage 3, I was battling wear on the right rear. It was a frustrating day, but everyone across RCR and ECR gave it their all. We’ll take what we learned and reset as we turn our attention back to speedway racing next weekend in Atlanta.”   William Byron, No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet Anduril Finished: 4th You wanted a big points day, so you can check that box. Do you walk away happy with this finish?“We definitely reached that objective. I’m happy with the finish because we maximized what we could do. A win would have been awesome. We’ve been craving that for a long time and working really hard to get there. We could kind of taste it there with a couple runs to go. We got jumped by the No. 19 (Chase Briscoe, race winner) there on that last green flag pit cycle, but I just didn’t quite have the pace that last run to keep up with him, and then those other guys had fresher tires at the end.  Just thank you to Anduril, Chevrolet and everyone at Hendrick Motorsports for working super-hard. We’ve been grinding a lot. For us on the No. 24 team, that last two ovals we’ve been to, we’ve had a shot to compete and win, so we just have to keep that going.”   Austin Hill, No. 33 Richard Childress Racing ChevroletSidelined by damage sustained in an accident in Stage One. Finished: 37th“Not the day we should have had in the zone x 7-Eleven Chevrolet. Hate it for everyone who works at RCR, ECR, and CT Spring because they built a good car. We were making gains with the balance. Fired off a little tight but the adjustments on the first stop helped. A few laps after that stop, right past halfway of Stage 1, we got hit from behind under green which ended our day early. We will turn our attention to next week but proud to be a part of this team.”   Alex Bowman, No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports ChevroletFinished: 5th “It definitely feels nice to have a good, normal, solid day for this No. 48 Ally Chevrolet team. We didn’t start the day how we wanted to. We were super-tight taking off on those first couple of restarts. But at the end of Stage Two until the end of the race, I felt pretty good about the Ally Chevrolet. Hats off to the entire No. 48 team. We just needed a good, normal day. It feels like a win with how the season has gone, but we just have to keep digging every week.”

July 5, 2026 — MANSFIELD, OH

• Kyle Kirkwood retakes second place in the championship with third-place result from P10 start at Mid-Ohio
• Championship leader Alex Palou fifth at the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio presented by the 2027 CR-V Hybrid
• Honda maintains narrow advantage in the manufacturers’ championship fight

Kyle Kirkwood continues his streak of strong finishes in the 2026 NTT INDYCAR SERIES, coming home third in the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio presented by the 2027 CR-V Hybrid.

The podium finish moves the Andretti Global driver back into second place in the championship, 56 points behind Alex Palou. Kirkwood has scored 10 top-10 finishes in 11 races run this year, including a win at the inaugural Java House Grand Prix of Arlington.

Championship leader Alex Palou finished fifth for the second-consecutive race. The Spaniard has four wins this year as he goes for his fifth NTT INDYCAR SERIES championship.

Kirkwood’s Andretti Global teammate, Will Power, finished sixth on the day while local Ohio boy Graham Rahal came home 12th.

2026 Indianapolis 500 winner Felix Rosenqvist finished 13th, just ahead of his Meyer Shank Racing teammate, Marcus Armstrong, in his Acura-sponsored Indy car.

Armstrong’s Acura Honda is the third appearance of Acura branding this season—as the automaker looks to take advantage of a new, and growing, audience in IndyCar. IndyCar viewership is up 14% on 2025. Armstrong advanced 10 positions on the day, starting 24th and finishing 14th.

Today’s Honda Indy 200 ran without a caution period, and without a single competitor dropping out, over the entire 90 laps on the two-year anniversary on the introduction of the IndyCar Hybrid System.

Honda maintains a narrow advantage in the manufacturers’ championship fight, 892-868.

Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio presented by the 2027 CR-V Hybrid Honda Race Results

3rd Kyle Kirkwood	Andretti Global Honda
5th Alex Palou	Chip Ganassi Racing Honda
6th Will Power	Andretti Global Honda
12th Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Honda
13th Felix Rosenqvist	Meyer Shank Racing Honda
14th Marcus Armstrong	Meyer Shank Racing Honda
15th Kyffin Simpson	Chip Ganassi Racing Honda
17th Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing Honda
18th Louis Foster	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Honda
21st Marcus Ericsson	Andretti Global Honda
23rd Romain Grosjean	Dale Coyne Racing Honda
24th Mick Schumacher-R	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Honda
25th Dennis Hauger-R	Dale Coyne Racing Honda

R – Rookie

Quotes

Kyle Kirkwood (#27 Andretti Global Honda) finished third: “I think that was the most physical race I’ve ever driven, especially with the track being faster than in the previous couple of years. Running under green for the entire race gave us no breathers at all. It was hard to even take a drink of water with it being so busy around here. But nonetheless, I’m happy to have driven this Sam’s Club Honda from 10th to 3rd. That’s a good podium finish. Big hats off to Honda and the Honda plants out here in Ohio because they gave us the power and fuel economy to do what we needed to make our strategy work. Super thrilled with my day. Big thanks to Andretti Global and the crew—they got us that podium on that last pit stop sequence. The car was phenomenal all weekend.”

Alex Palou (#10 Chip Ganassi Racing Honda) finished fifth: “Tough day for us. We just didn’t really have the pace to battle up front. But I’m still happy because our strategy was good and everything else went great with our Honda. We were able to move up from P8 to P5. It’s just difficult when you don’t have enough speed to fight for the lead. It felt more like we were surviving out there, so we were just focused on trying to gain as many positions as we could.”

Kyle Kirkwood finishes third in the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio

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July 5, 2026 — MANSFIELD, OH

• Kyle Kirkwood retakes second place in the championship with third-place result from P10 start at Mid-Ohio
• Championship leader Alex Palou fifth at the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio presented by the 2027 CR-V Hybrid
• Honda maintains narrow advantage in the manufacturers’ championship fight

Kyle Kirkwood continues his streak of strong finishes in the 2026 NTT INDYCAR SERIES, coming home third in the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio presented by the 2027 CR-V Hybrid.

The podium finish moves the Andretti Global driver back into second place in the championship, 56 points behind Alex Palou. Kirkwood has scored 10 top-10 finishes in 11 races run this year, including a win at the inaugural Java House Grand Prix of Arlington.

Championship leader Alex Palou finished fifth for the second-consecutive race. The Spaniard has four wins this year as he goes for his fifth NTT INDYCAR SERIES championship.

Kirkwood’s Andretti Global teammate, Will Power, finished sixth on the day while local Ohio boy Graham Rahal came home 12th.

2026 Indianapolis 500 winner Felix Rosenqvist finished 13th, just ahead of his Meyer Shank Racing teammate, Marcus Armstrong, in his Acura-sponsored Indy car.

Armstrong’s Acura Honda is the third appearance of Acura branding this season—as the automaker looks to take advantage of a new, and growing, audience in IndyCar. IndyCar viewership is up 14% on 2025. Armstrong advanced 10 positions on the day, starting 24th and finishing 14th.

Today’s Honda Indy 200 ran without a caution period, and without a single competitor dropping out, over the entire 90 laps on the two-year anniversary on the introduction of the IndyCar Hybrid System.

Honda maintains a narrow advantage in the manufacturers’ championship fight, 892-868.

Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio presented by the 2027 CR-V Hybrid Honda Race Results

3rd Kyle Kirkwood	Andretti Global Honda
5th Alex Palou	Chip Ganassi Racing Honda
6th Will Power	Andretti Global Honda
12th Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Honda
13th Felix Rosenqvist	Meyer Shank Racing Honda
14th Marcus Armstrong	Meyer Shank Racing Honda
15th Kyffin Simpson	Chip Ganassi Racing Honda
17th Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing Honda
18th Louis Foster	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Honda
21st Marcus Ericsson	Andretti Global Honda
23rd Romain Grosjean	Dale Coyne Racing Honda
24th Mick Schumacher-R	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Honda
25th Dennis Hauger-R	Dale Coyne Racing Honda

R – Rookie

Quotes

Kyle Kirkwood (#27 Andretti Global Honda) finished third: “I think that was the most physical race I’ve ever driven, especially with the track being faster than in the previous couple of years. Running under green for the entire race gave us no breathers at all. It was hard to even take a drink of water with it being so busy around here. But nonetheless, I’m happy to have driven this Sam’s Club Honda from 10th to 3rd. That’s a good podium finish. Big hats off to Honda and the Honda plants out here in Ohio because they gave us the power and fuel economy to do what we needed to make our strategy work. Super thrilled with my day. Big thanks to Andretti Global and the crew—they got us that podium on that last pit stop sequence. The car was phenomenal all weekend.”

Alex Palou (#10 Chip Ganassi Racing Honda) finished fifth: “Tough day for us. We just didn’t really have the pace to battle up front. But I’m still happy because our strategy was good and everything else went great with our Honda. We were able to move up from P8 to P5. It’s just difficult when you don’t have enough speed to fight for the lead. It felt more like we were surviving out there, so we were just focused on trying to gain as many positions as we could.”

David Salters (President, HRC US): “Congratulations to Kyle Kirkwood, Andretti Global, and everyone at HRC US for a hard-fought and well-earned podium finish in the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio. It’s always great to achieve a strong result at a venue which holds a lot of importance for us, with the facility being so close to the Honda Marysville and East Liberty Auto Plants as well as Honda Research & Development. It was wonderful to be able to welcome over ten thousand hard working Ohio-based Honda employees to the track this weekend, and even better to have been able to deliver a podium result to top it off. We have some work to do to get back on the top step but, racing mirrors life, always work to do and areas that can be improved.”

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CHEVROLET IN THE NTT INDYCAR SERIESHonda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio2.258-Mile, 13-Turn Mid-Ohio road courseLexington, OhioSunday Race ReportJuly 5, 2026 LEXINGTON, Ohio (July 5, 2026) –  Team Chevy celebrated July 4th and America’s 250th Birthday with a third straight NTT INDYCAR SERIES victory, when Pato O’Ward in the No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet crossed under the checkered flags just ahead of his teammate Christian Lundgaard in the No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet.  Rinus VeeKay in the No. 76 Juncos Hollinger Racing Chevrolet missed out on a podium by a half-second, his best road and street course finish of the season. Also collecting his best road and street course finish of the season was Christian Rasmussen, who brought the No. 21 Splenda Chevrolet home in 6th. David Malukas (No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet) in 8th, Josef Newgarden (No. 2 PPG Team Penske Chevrolet) in 9th and Nolan Siegel (No. 6 NTT DATA Arrow McLaren Chevrolet) gave Team Chevy seven of the top ten in the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio. Pole-winner Lundgaard led the first 41 laps on the 2.258-Mile, 13-Turn Mid-Ohio road course, as the field approached the halfway point of the race and the second of three rounds of pit stops.  O’Ward made his move on the 42nd lap, getting a better run off The Keyhole (Turn 2), getting beside his teammate who chose to defend the inside of Turn 4, forcing the No. 5 to hang it around the outside of the right hander. Lundgaard gave his teammate room as they remained side-by-side into Turn 5. O’Ward had the preferred inside line, delivering him to Turn 6 in the lead. The No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet was the third best on pit road on this day, and they executed flawlessly over the last two stops, allowing him to lead 45 laps, four more than his teammate. The pair of Arrow McLaren drivers led 86 of the 90 laps, and Chevrolet-powered drivers led 88 of 90 laps.  Chevrolet notable numbers — O’Ward’s win is the 242nd all-time win for a Chevrolet-powered driver and the 132nd since the introduction of the 2.2L Twin-Turbo V6 in 2012.— O’Ward’s win is the 13th for a Chevrolet-powered driver at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course and the 7th since the introduction of the 2.2L Twin-Turbo V6 in 2012. — O’Ward’s win is his 10th all-time, moving him into a tie for 43rd all-time and 10th with Team Chevy, tying him for 7th on the all-time Chevrolet-powered win list with Danny Sullivan. — O’Ward’s win is Arrow McLaren’s 30th all-time and their 12th win with Chevrolet power.— O’Ward and Lundgaard’s podiums are the 691st and 692nd all-time for Chevrolet-powered drivers and the 376th and 377th since the introduction of the 2.2L Twin-Turbo V6 in 2012.— O’Ward and Lundgaard’s podiums are the 49th and 50th for Arrow McLaren since joining Team Chevy in 2020. — O’Ward and Lundgaard’s podiums are the 35th an 36th at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course for Team Chevy— O’Ward’s podium is his 33rd with Chevrolet, tying for 5th with Helio Castroneves on the Team Chevy all-time podium list. — The dozen Chevrolet-powered drivers completed 1080 of a possible 1080 laps, with O’Ward and Lundgaard keeping their streak of completing every lap this season alive.  Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio – Race Results:

What they’re saying – Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio race:  Pato O’Ward, No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet won:“It’s been such a strong weekend for all of us at the team, Team Chevy, everybody at Arrow McLaren, These cars really have been a joy to drive. I think I can speak on behalf of Christian as well. They gave us everything we needed to, to fight for the win today. And we’ve been so close in pace, right? I mean, you start qualifying .02 or something separating us. So, I knew the race was going be tight as well. But I was banking on a mistake just being there that was going to give me the opportunity. I saw and I took advantage of it, and we controlled it from there. Back-to-back wins for the team. Now, all three cars in the top 10 in this race as well.  For us at the No. 5 side, it’s been a consistently top five year, but it hasn’t been a consistently good year on the podium. This is our first one, so glad it’s a win, and we’re going to try and go get it in Nashville. I think we’ve got some unfinished business there from last year.” Christian Lundgaard, No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet finished 2nd:“I’m just trying to catch my breath, honestly. That was very long, very tough race. We were very loose. In these conditions when you’re loose, it makes the car a lot heavier to drive. I wasn’t really happy with the rear of the car all race. Congrats to the team for a one-two. He was much stronger in Turn 2 than we were, which is really the passing opportunity. I had nothing in Turn 1. I wasn’t really fast, where I needed to be fast.” Rinus VeeKay, No. 76 Juncos Hollinger Chevrolet finished 4th:“That was a good race. We race like we belonged up front. First of all, we had a great test a week ago. We showed pace, but then to really finish it off on a weekend like this. We were fighting for a podium there, unfortunately, got beaten by the No. 27 (Kirkwood) on pitlane. On the final stop, we were right there. Good strategy by the No. 76 crew, and, of course, incredible car, really good pit stops all year round by my guys, so I’m really happy. The JHR boys are incredible. They were incredible this weekend, so it’s a team effort.” Christian Rasmussen, No. 21 Splenda Chevrolet finished 7th:“Today was definitely up there as one of the hardest, most physical NTT INDYCAR SERIES races that I’ve done. It was really tough out there, but man, I just drove my heart out at the end. I had no push-to-pass against (David) Malukas, who I think had 60 seconds or something like that. I just knew I couldn’t make any mistakes and had to maximize every single lap, and I did, so I’m very happy with this result. We really turned our weekend around. We struggled in practice, but by qualifying we got our first Fast 6 appearance and executed well in the race.” David Malukas, No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet finished 8th:“Overall, a really good weekend. We flipped this car three or four times. Back and forth, back and forth to get into a window and the car was there every single time. That race was unfortunate for us. We made some mistakes here and there. This track is all about getting as much time as you can and you slowly go backwards a little bit. Overall, with those mistakes. From the mistakes I made, to the guys, that was probably our worst. To say P8 is our worst, is really awesome. These guys are so bad-ass, and there is so much more to come from this team. We’ll learn these mistakes and go get them at the next one. Thank you to Verizon and thank you to Chevy. Incredible engine this week. Congrats to Pato, for getting Chevy up top.” Josef Newgarden, No. 2 PPG Team Penske Chevrolet finished 9th:“Great job by my PPG team. The car was great, Team Chevy continues to step it up on the natural terrain circuits. Looking forward to racing at my home track at Nashville Superspeedway.” Nolan Siegel, No. 6 NTT DATA Arrow McLaren Chevrolet finished 10th:“It was a good day today. We moved forward and made the most of it given where we started. Congrats to the team on the 1-2 for the 5 and the 7, the team’s first 1-2. I’m overall satisfied with our day, and am looking forward to some oval racing next.” Caio Collet, No. 4 Combitrans Amazonia Chevrolet finished 11th:“It was a good day overall. The team executed. really good race strategy wise, pitstops I think we did everything well today. Unfortunately, we had an incident with another car that was running a different strategy he was probably a lap behind, and we went off track which probably cost us a top-10 there. But nevertheless, fighting for the top-10 is where you want to be. We did everything right today. Big thanks to Combitrans and Chevrolet for all of their effort this weekend and hopefully we can keep on doing races like that.” Santino Ferrucci, No. 14 Homes For Our Troops Chevrolet finished 19th:“Not our day obviously. I think we did a really good job with the race car. It felt relatively competitive. We tried to get off strategy early in hopes for a caution that never came and that ended up being our race. Just unfortunate.” Alexander Rossi, No. 20 ECR Java House Chevrolet finished 20th:“Where do I begin? Really, a tough weekend overall. There were some glimmers of goodness, but ultimately, we really didn’t have the pace, and there were no strategy plays we could make to try to move forward in an all-green race. Frustrating day. There’s lots to look over and learn from. Good job to the 21 car, and I look forward to getting back out there in Nashville.” Sting Ray Robb, No. 77 Juncos Hollinger – Goodheart Chevrolet finished 22nd:“Frustrating day. I don’t really know what to say, one to forget I guess. Not really anything bad or mistake wise, just lack of execution and p22 is as good as we did. Disappointing weekend after what could have been a Fast 6 qualifying. Had a really good car under us yesterday and I don’t know what happened today, so we’ll look at it and go to Nashville. A track that I like, an oval that I like, hopefully we’ll be towards the front.”

NTT INDYCAR SERIES News ConferenceSunday, July 5, 2026Pato O’WardTony KanaanPress Conference THE MODERATOR: Wrapping up today’s the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio, Pato O’Ward joins us, the champion this year, who led a race-high 45 laps in the No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet, second win here at Mid-Ohio, first win of the season, 10th of his career, jumps up to fifth now in the 2026 NTT INDYCAR Series championship, and by the way, there’s a big Mexico match later tonight, so this could be a really big day for you. PATO O’WARD: Yeah, man. Hopefully we can bring out the broom, Mexico sweep. Q. Getting that first win here this year, how big was this? PATO O’WARD: It’s great. It’s great that the first podium of the year for me is a win. We’ve had performances, and I think today was a textbook showing of execution. I want to give it to my guys in the pits; they were phenomenal. I know they’ve been working so hard because this year that has been a bit of a challenge, and I know they’re working so hard to give me the pit stops that they gave me today. I know they’ve been working hard for that. I really want to recognize that because they make or break my race. They truly allowed me to fight my way and keep my position today as we were fighting on track. Obviously the cars have been strong all weekend. It’s been a very strong weekend for all three cars. It was a matter of being perfect. Q. You want to talk about the pass for the lead there? PATO O’WARD: Yeah, like I said, the pace has been so close between Christian and I. We’ve basically matched each other every single session. It’s been the weekend that obviously the team wants to have every single weekend. We want to be fighting exactly where we were today every single time. I was positioning myself to bounce on an opportunity whenever he would make a mistake, so I was banking on that he was going to make one, and he did. That’s what ultimately gave me the opportunity, and I took full advantage of it. It’s always more fun to do it on track over a pit stop sequence or something. Q. When you’re racing like that with a teammate, is that a thing where you can trust your teammate a little bit better than if it had been somebody from another team? PATO O’WARD: I think it depends who you’re racing. You can really tell who you can race side-by-side with or who’s going to tell you, no thanks. Obviously Christian is one of the best in the series. Like obviously Palou is not an Arrow McLaren driver, but I think if I was in that situation with him, he would also respect me like that, and I think you can say that about a lot of other guys, like Malukas and that stuff. I don’t think it really makes a difference. But obviously as for the team’s instance, we obviously don’t want to take both cars out. We knew that we were going to race hard, and it was either his or mine. I ran a cleaner race. Q. I hate using cliches, so I won’t, but how important was it for you to get that “he hasn’t won a race this year or finished on the podium” out of the way? PATO O’WARD: Honestly, I wasn’t really worried. I’ve been in this business for a long time. I know there’s plenty of other guys that have had many more years than I have, but I’ve got plenty under my belt to understand how things flow. The bad luck doesn’t last forever, but the good luck also doesn’t. Today was a simple showing of execution, and even coming off of Road America, I had so much pace. I’ve had so much pace in the last two road courses. Sadly, Road America we weren’t even able to fight because we got hosed by that yellow. But this weekend it was an all-green race. Physical, oh, my God, really physical. Really hot in there. But that’s why we train so hard in the off-season. That’s what’s most important. Yeah, honestly, that’s it for me. I knew my win was coming. Whether it was going to be in the last couple races or in the middle, I don’t know. But obviously I made it happen today. It’s just nice to kind of put ourselves in a position to keep on climbing, keep on building on this great momentum that we’ve had because I do feel like some good results have ran away from us just from little details. But today I really want to thank my guys for giving me an amazing race car and in the pits. Like I said, that is so important. THE MODERATOR: All-green race, to your point. Somehow there were still 24 cars that finished on the lead lap, so crazy race. Tony Kanaan joins us, who is the team principal at Arrow McLaren, as they celebrate their 30th all-time win, first ever one-two finish in INDYCAR history for the team, so congratulations. I saw you were a little emotional on the pit stand there. TONY KANAAN: I’m finding now that I forget that I’m on TV sometimes, and when my oldest son texts me and says, hey, you’re embarrassing me on TV, I think I should stay in the truck. I was a nerve wreck. I was excited, obviously. We were having such a good weekend with the two cars and Nolan being in the top 10, it’s just something that I’m not handling the team principal role on the other side well, but I was excited. I think it’s been a great day for the team. I’ve learned over the years that you’ve got to celebrate each one of them because you never know. Q. Pato, all year it feels like it’s been one thing or another for you, whether it’s luck with yellows, pit stops, feel in the car. How rewarding is it to finally have everything go right today; Christian makes a mistake and you capitalize? PATO O’WARD: Well, it’s been great. Obviously this is why I’m here, and the reality is I’ve really strived for perfection from my side every single race weekend. I don’t want to make mistakes. I want to be clean. I want to be smart. I want to put the car and pick my battles, and I really feel like I’m driving better than ever. I don’t think the results this year have really shown how I feel inside of the race car because, like you said, about one thing or another, but the most important thing in this business is you need to be comfortable and confident of what you can do and about what you can control. Sometimes you can’t control everything. Sometimes you will do everything perfectly, and things won’t work out. But I don’t think it’s a reason to lose motivation, lose hunger. I know it was just a matter of time for things to kind of click, or at least not go against us. Obviously it’s sometimes on the extremes. You might have horrible luck or you might have insane luck. We haven’t had that insane luck yet, so maybe we do, and it would be nice to keep racking up some more. But yeah, it’s just great to get this first win of the season for me. Nashville I truly believe is a place that obviously I’ve always enjoyed, the team enjoys, and we’ve got some unfinished business from last year just with that unlucky, whatever that was. I’m excited to go back there, and we’re going to try and repeat but actually finish the race where we were. Q. TK, it appears that Christian or Nolan could be out the door here. You made your expectations clear with Nolan, but as it pertains to Christian, what has he maybe not shown you to verify that you want to bring him back? TONY KANAAN: I think first, there’s a lot of talk about what we’re doing in the team and a lot of speculation. I think we haven’t reached an agreement yet. I think you guys will see in the near future what the team is doing. We haven’t been able to agree on a couple things. But I think as a team principal, I’m responsible for running this team as best as I can, and I think Christian has shown his potential, but also, there are other options out there, and I’ve got to consider all of them. The decision hasn’t been made yet. Although people keep putting people in my cars, it’s not done until it’s done. He’s still very much in play, and he’s an extremely capable race car driver. We’ll see what’s going to happen. Q. Pato, you’ve indicated you didn’t have a lot angst about when the win was going to come, but I think the perception is that you’re the leader of this team, the veteran of this team, and there are decisions made on this team to help you. I’m curious, is any of that in your head when trying to perform or win or add pressure to you? PATO O’WARD: I mean, I think the team gives us all the tools the best they can. I wouldn’t put myself as I get the best of everything. I truly feel like we’re all very equal, and we all have as good of a shot as anybody else. I think it’s up to us, being the quarterback of my little 5 car team, to try and lead and to try and really maximize what our potential can be. You know, I feel like — I don’t really get rattled. I know a lot of people — and there’s been so much noise, people writing me off already, but the people that actually watch and they actually know what they’re watching, they truly know what’s going on, and they really do see that a lot of the times it can be something that’s out of your control. Honestly, this year there’s been quite a bit of that. That’s the nature of this sport. It’s not going to be the last time, and it’s not going to be the first time. I’ve had plenty of years here where — they’ve been up and down, up and down, but the most important part was everybody was writing me off, oh, what a horrible year. I’m still fifth in the championship, and this is my first podium. Rack up two or three more, and I’m fighting for the championship. I still am. People need to chill. It’s just, the championship is long. There’s plenty of racing to go. I sure as hell am not getting worse. I keep working hard. I obviously enjoy my life outside of racing, as well, which is very important, and along with that, you’ve got to enjoy it with your guys. You have to. You never know when it’s your last time, your last win together. You never know. It’s so important to do that because that’s truly why we do this. We do this to win and to compete, but we also do this — what makes it so much sweeter is actually the people that we get to share it with after making these strong relationships within the team. For me, obviously papaya is a second family, and they will remain to be. I always try and give the best I’ve got. There’s not once where Tony has come to me and he’s like, I need you to try harder because I know he knows ex act ly how much I expect from myself and how perfect I want to be, and that’s how I do everything, jobs, investments. It doesn’t matter what I’m doing. That is what you want to do. Q. You’re 94 points behind Alex with seven races to go, so that’s doable? PATO O’WARD: Yeah, obviously it’s doable. I think at this point last year I was somewhere there, as well, and if it’s not first in the championship, a repeat of a second would be great. It’s not the end of the world. We’re obviously still working hard. We’re still getting better. Like Tony said, we’re all trying to put these pieces together to make this team stronger as a whole. It’s not about me. It’s not about Christian. It’s not about Nolan. It’s not about Tony. It’s not about Zak. It’s about making everything as strong as possible. When you see the two biggest goals that any race team in INDYCAR has, it’s winning the Indy 500 and winning the INDYCAR championship, which we’ve been very close on both. We’re going to keep working hard. Q. You mentioned you’re excited for Nashville. You think you’ve got unfinished business there. Looking at the other six races outside of Nashville and kind of the stretch run of the season, is it realistic that you can be competitive enough to make up that points differential and be a factor in the championship? PATO O’WARD: I mean, if we keep having weekends like today, certainly so. That would be fantastic. Obviously Nashville has been a great place for me and the team. Portland we’ve been very strong, as well. Markham, we’ve had the best street course results that we’ve had in quite some time this year. I’m excited for Markham. I’m excited for Washington. That one is going to be crazy. Milwaukee, we’ve won there before. There’s plenty of opportunities left. Like I said, I’m not changing my approach. It’s going to be the same as it’s been all year. I didn’t really change it this weekend, either. Q. Tony, a lot of noise surrounding the team this weekend — TONY KANAAN: Really? I haven’t heard anything. Q. To be able to deliver a one-two amidst all of this noise, talk about that from your perspective as a team principal. TONY KANAAN: Hey, they make noise, we’ll make a bigger noise. That’s how we work. I think this is a statement of what it is. There is a lot of things going on, a lot of distraction, and we’re able to keep this team on track with what we came here to do. We came here to win the race. We came here to finish one-two-three, and we finished one-two. We’re trying to win this championship. I kept the team tight. I kept the team at truth. They’re going to hear from me whatever the decision is. If they haven’t heard from me, that means there is no decision made yet. But rest assured that the decision is going to come with a lot of certainty and not taking for granted that 130 people are putting their life and their faith towards me, towards this guy that has a lot of responsibility, and I feel responsible for all of them. If I have to take a gamble, take a gamble, and if I need to take a hit, I’ll take a hit. I’m here to win races. That’s what Zak put me here for. That’s why I wake up every morning, and I’m working on that team for 13, 14 hours a day since I retired. For me, nothing is changing. Bring it on. Bring the distractions. Will we’ll keep changing that a little bit. Today we’re going to talk about one-two. Q. A lot of teams and drivers can get complacent in the summer, middle part of the season. Everybody seems locked in from all three aspects, from Christian to Nolan to Pato. Talk about how good that is to have all three aspects locked in going into this latter half of the season. TONY KANAAN: It says a lot about how much work we’ve been doing. Look at this team three years ago and look at this team now. It’s not the same team. We’ve been changing. We’ve been adding personnel. We’ve been adding a lot of the culture that we’ve been trying to achieve. We’ve been adding the Hunter-Reays and the Kyle Moyers and also working with the drivers with what we need and what they need to be able to perform. There is no excuses when you have a name like McLaren and a boss like Zak. I just said, this was our first one-two, and my text to him says, and it won’t be the last, and that’s Zak. Proud of them, proud of the drivers with the distraction and everything that has been going on. I’m trying to be as mindful and as fair as possible using my own experiences. I’ve been through some ups and downs in my career, if I can help them out. But the focus is we always leave is all at the racetrack because at the end of the day the results will speak for themselves. As much as you win and you put yourself in a position to do so, I think your life will become easier one way or the other. Proud of them. Proud of Pato. There is a lot of talk, and I’m not going to debate on it, and I think he has me handling that quite well. So is Christian, and then Nolan with his best last four races, he’s stepped it up pretty much every race. Q. You mentioned about the 130 people that work for you back in Indy. Can you talk a little bit about the investment that McLaren have put into the team? You’ve got the new race shop. How proud are you of the work that the team has done? TONY KANAAN: I mean, if you look at our last, what, I would say 16 months, we got the shop up last July, I think. We had six months to turn it around. We spent two months with the cars are parked and the entire team was building chairs, desks, making — patching walls and stuff in the team to make it our home. I remember when Zak presented this challenge, I would say, to me, I asked him where he wants to be. I knew the answer, right? To set a standard like that, we need a facility that we’re able to compete with Penske and Ganassi and to provide the opportunity of just anything, manufacturer things that we couldn’t do in the old shop because it was too small but also the work environment, the culture. You guys know me well enough from my previous career I love to have fun and I think we can still win and have fun. I don’t want to run like other teams. I want to be different. I want to be the guy that you walk into my office and I have to remind you, maybe I’m busy, but if you are comfortable to just walk in. Proud of the team. Our home is awesome. I love it. I spend more time there than at my house. If I ask my wife that, since we build that, it’s an excuse for me to be there all the time. If you look at the past 20 years, only two teams have won the championship. When we got — I got the responsibility and everyone else put McLaren with those guys, we have to step it up, and we did, and we are. We’re getting there with the shop and everything else. I can’t really run a team and be compared to legends, which is Chip and Roger, that have had so much success for the last 30 years. I can’t go to a fight without the proper guns, the same guns that they have. Obviously made a huge difference. We’re proud of it, and hopefully we’ll get there. Q. Pato, Christian was here and said earlier that the track conditions from the warmup today morning to the race were totally different. What is your opinion about that? Do you feel also that the track conditions were different? PATO O’WARD: I thought it was a little bit warmer for sure, but I think it was the same change that we usually get on the other road courses, as well, when all this rubber starts getting laid down. The cars do seem to change a little bit. But I wouldn’t say that it completely transformed what we’ve had. I think in terms of pace, we were right where we have been compared to the rest of the weekend, right? Obviously the track will fluctuate and things need to change, but we’ve got things inside of the car that we can mess around with to put it in a bit more of a happy place. Q. Pato, I don’t know if you’ve been keeping track, but that was 14 races without a podium. How much of a relief is it to finally get that off your back? That’s actually the most races that you’ve gone in your INDYCAR career without a podium. Will how much of a relief is it, and how much of a difference do you think it makes going forward through the rest of the year? PATO O’WARD: Yeah, it’s obviously nice that the first one has been a win because, yeah, a win does hit different than just a second or a third. I think this is — I had a bit of a sniff of it in Road America. I really did. I was positioning myself there to take the win, and we had so much pace. Coming into here, I knew that we were going to be able to do something similar to that, and we went out there and executed. That was the most important part. Yeah, it’s been nice, but honestly, I don’t really look at all of that. I just go every single weekend with the open mind that we always want to do better than the previous year. We always want to do better than the previous weekend. That’s what we did. Q. TK, this is the first weekend this year that all three McLaren drivers have been in the top 10. I know you feel like you’ve made a statement to the public, but how does this affect morale within the team, given that this has been such a big weekend? TONY KANAAN: I mean, we get to celebrate tonight. Tomorrow, everybody is going to report to the shop at 7:00 a.m. because we’ve got to go to Milwaukee. It’s going to be a short celebration, but look, I think this is a little bit of — this is a part of the result. Today we get to enjoy it for a couple hours. But we’ve been winning at the shop every day with what we’re building, how we are communicating, how we are going through the good days and the bad days, how we sit down and have very, very uncomfortable meetings talking about putting ourselves in a position to be accountable for what we need to do better. Today was just an execution of the work we’ve been doing at the shop. The wins are made back home. Today was just the result of it. Proud of them, and we’ll get a couple hours to celebrate, and we’re going to have a team meeting at 7:00 a.m. tomorrow and everybody is going to be working again. Pato does talk a lot in the team meeting, if you guys think I talk a lot. Christian will do it, as well. So does Nolan. It’s a big family.

NTT INDYCAR SERIES News ConferenceSunday, July 5, 2026Christian LundgaardPress Conference THE MODERATOR: Wrapping up today’s the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio presented by the 2027 CR-V hybrid, Christian Lundgaard is here. After leading 41 laps this afternoon in the No. 7 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet, best finish here at Mid-Ohio, second runner-up finish of the season, fifth podium of 2026, 14th career podium, as well. Just your thoughts on an all-green day. Pretty grueling inside the car for sure but second place finish for you today. CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Yeah, very long day, very tough day. Obviously very tough physically out there with the heat, but also just an all-green race. It didn’t really help that we were quite loose. We kind of went into the race knowing that — or thinking the balance was going to go towards understeer, and I don’t think that was the case as much. I think we kind of overreacted and made the car a lot harder to drive. Very, very difficult, but at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter how difficult the car is to drive. I still think we sort of maximized today, which is always nice. Q. Talk about trying to hold off Pato. CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Yeah, at the end of the day it was a mistake of my own. I was struggling so much on entries with the rear. It happened three times before that lap. Then obviously I wanted to be the good sport. I could just easily have run him off the track in 4 if I wanted to. Didn’t. We fought. We touched. I think that’s always good racing. Q. Christian, I’d like to go back to the pass. You mentioned you made a couple of mistakes. Was that because of traffic ahead of you or was that just what the car was giving you? CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: No, I struggled all day. Even on the first stint, wasn’t particularly happy with the rear. I was nowhere in Turn 1 all day. All high speeds, just no rear, stability. It made sense with what we did overnight and even after warmups. It’s pretty clear in my head what really happened. Obviously we were fine-tuning the car as the race went on and the last stint was better but still struggled a lot. Q. To struggle that much and come away with a second place, how does that happen? CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Maximizing a weekend. Q. Christian, with this weekend over for you, what are the next steps for you as far as figuring out your situation for next year? CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: I’m going to go take a shower, I’m going to sleep and then see what comes. Q. Are you going to sleep well? CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Me? I sleep great. I’m a big sleeper. Q. Is there any part of you that is anticipating being proactive in this and figuring it out, or are you just waiting for people to call you maybe? CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: I guess both. I mean, it isn’t really where my head’s at now. There’s, what, nine races to go, eight races to go? Eight. Plenty of races to win. Seven, whatever. Seven races. Plenty of races to be competitive at. Q. Christian, you said earlier you struggled with the rear. Did you have already this problem today in the morning in the warmup, or it just came up during the race? CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: No, we were struggling with it in warmup. But again, I feel like the track condition was so different. I don’t know what specifically the track temp was different in the race. Obviously it was rising quite high throughout the race. It’s a very different track than it was this morning. But I think it was highlighted even more in the race.

Up next After trips to two straight iconic natural terrain road courses, the series returns to left turns only with a trip to an oval in Lebanon, Tennessee, on July 19, 2026. The 1.33-mile Nashville Superspeedway tri-oval will play host to the 400-mile Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix at 5:30 pm (ET), immediately following the World Cup Final match on FOX.

Christian Lundgaard (No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet) celebrates his 2026 pole at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course

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CHEVROLET IN THE NTT INDYCAR SERIESHonda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio2.258-Mile, 13-Turn Mid-Ohio road courseLexington, OhioSunday Race ReportJuly 5, 2026 LEXINGTON, Ohio (July 5, 2026) –  Team Chevy celebrated July 4th and America’s 250th Birthday with a third straight NTT INDYCAR SERIES victory, when Pato O’Ward in the No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet crossed under the checkered flags just ahead of his teammate Christian Lundgaard in the No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet.  Rinus VeeKay in the No. 76 Juncos Hollinger Racing Chevrolet missed out on a podium by a half-second, his best road and street course finish of the season. Also collecting his best road and street course finish of the season was Christian Rasmussen, who brought the No. 21 Splenda Chevrolet home in 6th. David Malukas (No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet) in 8th, Josef Newgarden (No. 2 PPG Team Penske Chevrolet) in 9th and Nolan Siegel (No. 6 NTT DATA Arrow McLaren Chevrolet) gave Team Chevy seven of the top ten in the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio. Pole-winner Lundgaard led the first 41 laps on the 2.258-Mile, 13-Turn Mid-Ohio road course, as the field approached the halfway point of the race and the second of three rounds of pit stops.  O’Ward made his move on the 42nd lap, getting a better run off The Keyhole (Turn 2), getting beside his teammate who chose to defend the inside of Turn 4, forcing the No. 5 to hang it around the outside of the right hander. Lundgaard gave his teammate room as they remained side-by-side into Turn 5. O’Ward had the preferred inside line, delivering him to Turn 6 in the lead. The No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet was the third best on pit road on this day, and they executed flawlessly over the last two stops, allowing him to lead 45 laps, four more than his teammate. The pair of Arrow McLaren drivers led 86 of the 90 laps, and Chevrolet-powered drivers led 88 of 90 laps.  Chevrolet notable numbers — O’Ward’s win is the 242nd all-time win for a Chevrolet-powered driver and the 132nd since the introduction of the 2.2L Twin-Turbo V6 in 2012.— O’Ward’s win is the 13th for a Chevrolet-powered driver at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course and the 7th since the introduction of the 2.2L Twin-Turbo V6 in 2012. — O’Ward’s win is his 10th all-time, moving him into a tie for 43rd all-time and 10th with Team Chevy, tying him for 7th on the all-time Chevrolet-powered win list with Danny Sullivan. — O’Ward’s win is Arrow McLaren’s 30th all-time and their 12th win with Chevrolet power.— O’Ward and Lundgaard’s podiums are the 691st and 692nd all-time for Chevrolet-powered drivers and the 376th and 377th since the introduction of the 2.2L Twin-Turbo V6 in 2012.— O’Ward and Lundgaard’s podiums are the 49th and 50th for Arrow McLaren since joining Team Chevy in 2020. — O’Ward and Lundgaard’s podiums are the 35th an 36th at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course for Team Chevy— O’Ward’s podium is his 33rd with Chevrolet, tying for 5th with Helio Castroneves on the Team Chevy all-time podium list. — The dozen Chevrolet-powered drivers completed 1080 of a possible 1080 laps, with O’Ward and Lundgaard keeping their streak of completing every lap this season alive.  Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio – Race Results:

What they’re saying – Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio race:  Pato O’Ward, No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet won:“It’s been such a strong weekend for all of us at the team, Team Chevy, everybody at Arrow McLaren, These cars really have been a joy to drive. I think I can speak on behalf of Christian as well. They gave us everything we needed to, to fight for the win today. And we’ve been so close in pace, right? I mean, you start qualifying .02 or something separating us. So, I knew the race was going be tight as well. But I was banking on a mistake just being there that was going to give me the opportunity. I saw and I took advantage of it, and we controlled it from there. Back-to-back wins for the team. Now, all three cars in the top 10 in this race as well.  For us at the No. 5 side, it’s been a consistently top five year, but it hasn’t been a consistently good year on the podium. This is our first one, so glad it’s a win, and we’re going to try and go get it in Nashville. I think we’ve got some unfinished business there from last year.” Christian Lundgaard, No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet finished 2nd:“I’m just trying to catch my breath, honestly. That was very long, very tough race. We were very loose. In these conditions when you’re loose, it makes the car a lot heavier to drive. I wasn’t really happy with the rear of the car all race. Congrats to the team for a one-two. He was much stronger in Turn 2 than we were, which is really the passing opportunity. I had nothing in Turn 1. I wasn’t really fast, where I needed to be fast.” Rinus VeeKay, No. 76 Juncos Hollinger Chevrolet finished 4th:“That was a good race. We race like we belonged up front. First of all, we had a great test a week ago. We showed pace, but then to really finish it off on a weekend like this. We were fighting for a podium there, unfortunately, got beaten by the No. 27 (Kirkwood) on pitlane. On the final stop, we were right there. Good strategy by the No. 76 crew, and, of course, incredible car, really good pit stops all year round by my guys, so I’m really happy. The JHR boys are incredible. They were incredible this weekend, so it’s a team effort.” Christian Rasmussen, No. 21 Splenda Chevrolet finished 7th:“Today was definitely up there as one of the hardest, most physical NTT INDYCAR SERIES races that I’ve done. It was really tough out there, but man, I just drove my heart out at the end. I had no push-to-pass against (David) Malukas, who I think had 60 seconds or something like that. I just knew I couldn’t make any mistakes and had to maximize every single lap, and I did, so I’m very happy with this result. We really turned our weekend around. We struggled in practice, but by qualifying we got our first Fast 6 appearance and executed well in the race.” David Malukas, No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet finished 8th:“Overall, a really good weekend. We flipped this car three or four times. Back and forth, back and forth to get into a window and the car was there every single time. That race was unfortunate for us. We made some mistakes here and there. This track is all about getting as much time as you can and you slowly go backwards a little bit. Overall, with those mistakes. From the mistakes I made, to the guys, that was probably our worst. To say P8 is our worst, is really awesome. These guys are so bad-ass, and there is so much more to come from this team. We’ll learn these mistakes and go get them at the next one. Thank you to Verizon and thank you to Chevy. Incredible engine this week. Congrats to Pato, for getting Chevy up top.” Josef Newgarden, No. 2 PPG Team Penske Chevrolet finished 9th:“Great job by my PPG team. The car was great, Team Chevy continues to step it up on the natural terrain circuits. Looking forward to racing at my home track at Nashville Superspeedway.” Nolan Siegel, No. 6 NTT DATA Arrow McLaren Chevrolet finished 10th:“It was a good day today. We moved forward and made the most of it given where we started. Congrats to the team on the 1-2 for the 5 and the 7, the team’s first 1-2. I’m overall satisfied with our day, and am looking forward to some oval racing next.” Caio Collet, No. 4 Combitrans Amazonia Chevrolet finished 11th:“It was a good day overall. The team executed. really good race strategy wise, pitstops I think we did everything well today. Unfortunately, we had an incident with another car that was running a different strategy he was probably a lap behind, and we went off track which probably cost us a top-10 there. But nevertheless, fighting for the top-10 is where you want to be. We did everything right today. Big thanks to Combitrans and Chevrolet for all of their effort this weekend and hopefully we can keep on doing races like that.” Santino Ferrucci, No. 14 Homes For Our Troops Chevrolet finished 19th:“Not our day obviously. I think we did a really good job with the race car. It felt relatively competitive. We tried to get off strategy early in hopes for a caution that never came and that ended up being our race. Just unfortunate.” Alexander Rossi, No. 20 ECR Java House Chevrolet finished 20th:“Where do I begin? Really, a tough weekend overall. There were some glimmers of goodness, but ultimately, we really didn’t have the pace, and there were no strategy plays we could make to try to move forward in an all-green race. Frustrating day. There’s lots to look over and learn from. Good job to the 21 car, and I look forward to getting back out there in Nashville.” Sting Ray Robb, No. 77 Juncos Hollinger – Goodheart Chevrolet finished 22nd:“Frustrating day. I don’t really know what to say, one to forget I guess. Not really anything bad or mistake wise, just lack of execution and p22 is as good as we did. Disappointing weekend after what could have been a Fast 6 qualifying. Had a really good car under us yesterday and I don’t know what happened today, so we’ll look at it and go to Nashville. A track that I like, an oval that I like, hopefully we’ll be towards the front.”

NTT INDYCAR SERIES News ConferenceSunday, July 5, 2026Pato O’WardTony KanaanPress Conference THE MODERATOR: Wrapping up today’s the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio, Pato O’Ward joins us, the champion this year, who led a race-high 45 laps in the No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet, second win here at Mid-Ohio, first win of the season, 10th of his career, jumps up to fifth now in the 2026 NTT INDYCAR Series championship, and by the way, there’s a big Mexico match later tonight, so this could be a really big day for you. PATO O’WARD: Yeah, man. Hopefully we can bring out the broom, Mexico sweep. Q. Getting that first win here this year, how big was this? PATO O’WARD: It’s great. It’s great that the first podium of the year for me is a win. We’ve had performances, and I think today was a textbook showing of execution. I want to give it to my guys in the pits; they were phenomenal. I know they’ve been working so hard because this year that has been a bit of a challenge, and I know they’re working so hard to give me the pit stops that they gave me today. I know they’ve been working hard for that. I really want to recognize that because they make or break my race. They truly allowed me to fight my way and keep my position today as we were fighting on track. Obviously the cars have been strong all weekend. It’s been a very strong weekend for all three cars. It was a matter of being perfect. Q. You want to talk about the pass for the lead there? PATO O’WARD: Yeah, like I said, the pace has been so close between Christian and I. We’ve basically matched each other every single session. It’s been the weekend that obviously the team wants to have every single weekend. We want to be fighting exactly where we were today every single time. I was positioning myself to bounce on an opportunity whenever he would make a mistake, so I was banking on that he was going to make one, and he did. That’s what ultimately gave me the opportunity, and I took full advantage of it. It’s always more fun to do it on track over a pit stop sequence or something. Q. When you’re racing like that with a teammate, is that a thing where you can trust your teammate a little bit better than if it had been somebody from another team? PATO O’WARD: I think it depends who you’re racing. You can really tell who you can race side-by-side with or who’s going to tell you, no thanks. Obviously Christian is one of the best in the series. Like obviously Palou is not an Arrow McLaren driver, but I think if I was in that situation with him, he would also respect me like that, and I think you can say that about a lot of other guys, like Malukas and that stuff. I don’t think it really makes a difference. But obviously as for the team’s instance, we obviously don’t want to take both cars out. We knew that we were going to race hard, and it was either his or mine. I ran a cleaner race. Q. I hate using cliches, so I won’t, but how important was it for you to get that “he hasn’t won a race this year or finished on the podium” out of the way? PATO O’WARD: Honestly, I wasn’t really worried. I’ve been in this business for a long time. I know there’s plenty of other guys that have had many more years than I have, but I’ve got plenty under my belt to understand how things flow. The bad luck doesn’t last forever, but the good luck also doesn’t. Today was a simple showing of execution, and even coming off of Road America, I had so much pace. I’ve had so much pace in the last two road courses. Sadly, Road America we weren’t even able to fight because we got hosed by that yellow. But this weekend it was an all-green race. Physical, oh, my God, really physical. Really hot in there. But that’s why we train so hard in the off-season. That’s what’s most important. Yeah, honestly, that’s it for me. I knew my win was coming. Whether it was going to be in the last couple races or in the middle, I don’t know. But obviously I made it happen today. It’s just nice to kind of put ourselves in a position to keep on climbing, keep on building on this great momentum that we’ve had because I do feel like some good results have ran away from us just from little details. But today I really want to thank my guys for giving me an amazing race car and in the pits. Like I said, that is so important. THE MODERATOR: All-green race, to your point. Somehow there were still 24 cars that finished on the lead lap, so crazy race. Tony Kanaan joins us, who is the team principal at Arrow McLaren, as they celebrate their 30th all-time win, first ever one-two finish in INDYCAR history for the team, so congratulations. I saw you were a little emotional on the pit stand there. TONY KANAAN: I’m finding now that I forget that I’m on TV sometimes, and when my oldest son texts me and says, hey, you’re embarrassing me on TV, I think I should stay in the truck. I was a nerve wreck. I was excited, obviously. We were having such a good weekend with the two cars and Nolan being in the top 10, it’s just something that I’m not handling the team principal role on the other side well, but I was excited. I think it’s been a great day for the team. I’ve learned over the years that you’ve got to celebrate each one of them because you never know. Q. Pato, all year it feels like it’s been one thing or another for you, whether it’s luck with yellows, pit stops, feel in the car. How rewarding is it to finally have everything go right today; Christian makes a mistake and you capitalize? PATO O’WARD: Well, it’s been great. Obviously this is why I’m here, and the reality is I’ve really strived for perfection from my side every single race weekend. I don’t want to make mistakes. I want to be clean. I want to be smart. I want to put the car and pick my battles, and I really feel like I’m driving better than ever. I don’t think the results this year have really shown how I feel inside of the race car because, like you said, about one thing or another, but the most important thing in this business is you need to be comfortable and confident of what you can do and about what you can control. Sometimes you can’t control everything. Sometimes you will do everything perfectly, and things won’t work out. But I don’t think it’s a reason to lose motivation, lose hunger. I know it was just a matter of time for things to kind of click, or at least not go against us. Obviously it’s sometimes on the extremes. You might have horrible luck or you might have insane luck. We haven’t had that insane luck yet, so maybe we do, and it would be nice to keep racking up some more. But yeah, it’s just great to get this first win of the season for me. Nashville I truly believe is a place that obviously I’ve always enjoyed, the team enjoys, and we’ve got some unfinished business from last year just with that unlucky, whatever that was. I’m excited to go back there, and we’re going to try and repeat but actually finish the race where we were. Q. TK, it appears that Christian or Nolan could be out the door here. You made your expectations clear with Nolan, but as it pertains to Christian, what has he maybe not shown you to verify that you want to bring him back? TONY KANAAN: I think first, there’s a lot of talk about what we’re doing in the team and a lot of speculation. I think we haven’t reached an agreement yet. I think you guys will see in the near future what the team is doing. We haven’t been able to agree on a couple things. But I think as a team principal, I’m responsible for running this team as best as I can, and I think Christian has shown his potential, but also, there are other options out there, and I’ve got to consider all of them. The decision hasn’t been made yet. Although people keep putting people in my cars, it’s not done until it’s done. He’s still very much in play, and he’s an extremely capable race car driver. We’ll see what’s going to happen. Q. Pato, you’ve indicated you didn’t have a lot angst about when the win was going to come, but I think the perception is that you’re the leader of this team, the veteran of this team, and there are decisions made on this team to help you. I’m curious, is any of that in your head when trying to perform or win or add pressure to you? PATO O’WARD: I mean, I think the team gives us all the tools the best they can. I wouldn’t put myself as I get the best of everything. I truly feel like we’re all very equal, and we all have as good of a shot as anybody else. I think it’s up to us, being the quarterback of my little 5 car team, to try and lead and to try and really maximize what our potential can be. You know, I feel like — I don’t really get rattled. I know a lot of people — and there’s been so much noise, people writing me off already, but the people that actually watch and they actually know what they’re watching, they truly know what’s going on, and they really do see that a lot of the times it can be something that’s out of your control. Honestly, this year there’s been quite a bit of that. That’s the nature of this sport. It’s not going to be the last time, and it’s not going to be the first time. I’ve had plenty of years here where — they’ve been up and down, up and down, but the most important part was everybody was writing me off, oh, what a horrible year. I’m still fifth in the championship, and this is my first podium. Rack up two or three more, and I’m fighting for the championship. I still am. People need to chill. It’s just, the championship is long. There’s plenty of racing to go. I sure as hell am not getting worse. I keep working hard. I obviously enjoy my life outside of racing, as well, which is very important, and along with that, you’ve got to enjoy it with your guys. You have to. You never know when it’s your last time, your last win together. You never know. It’s so important to do that because that’s truly why we do this. We do this to win and to compete, but we also do this — what makes it so much sweeter is actually the people that we get to share it with after making these strong relationships within the team. For me, obviously papaya is a second family, and they will remain to be. I always try and give the best I’ve got. There’s not once where Tony has come to me and he’s like, I need you to try harder because I know he knows ex act ly how much I expect from myself and how perfect I want to be, and that’s how I do everything, jobs, investments. It doesn’t matter what I’m doing. That is what you want to do. Q. You’re 94 points behind Alex with seven races to go, so that’s doable? PATO O’WARD: Yeah, obviously it’s doable. I think at this point last year I was somewhere there, as well, and if it’s not first in the championship, a repeat of a second would be great. It’s not the end of the world. We’re obviously still working hard. We’re still getting better. Like Tony said, we’re all trying to put these pieces together to make this team stronger as a whole. It’s not about me. It’s not about Christian. It’s not about Nolan. It’s not about Tony. It’s not about Zak. It’s about making everything as strong as possible. When you see the two biggest goals that any race team in INDYCAR has, it’s winning the Indy 500 and winning the INDYCAR championship, which we’ve been very close on both. We’re going to keep working hard. Q. You mentioned you’re excited for Nashville. You think you’ve got unfinished business there. Looking at the other six races outside of Nashville and kind of the stretch run of the season, is it realistic that you can be competitive enough to make up that points differential and be a factor in the championship? PATO O’WARD: I mean, if we keep having weekends like today, certainly so. That would be fantastic. Obviously Nashville has been a great place for me and the team. Portland we’ve been very strong, as well. Markham, we’ve had the best street course results that we’ve had in quite some time this year. I’m excited for Markham. I’m excited for Washington. That one is going to be crazy. Milwaukee, we’ve won there before. There’s plenty of opportunities left. Like I said, I’m not changing my approach. It’s going to be the same as it’s been all year. I didn’t really change it this weekend, either. Q. Tony, a lot of noise surrounding the team this weekend — TONY KANAAN: Really? I haven’t heard anything. Q. To be able to deliver a one-two amidst all of this noise, talk about that from your perspective as a team principal. TONY KANAAN: Hey, they make noise, we’ll make a bigger noise. That’s how we work. I think this is a statement of what it is. There is a lot of things going on, a lot of distraction, and we’re able to keep this team on track with what we came here to do. We came here to win the race. We came here to finish one-two-three, and we finished one-two. We’re trying to win this championship. I kept the team tight. I kept the team at truth. They’re going to hear from me whatever the decision is. If they haven’t heard from me, that means there is no decision made yet. But rest assured that the decision is going to come with a lot of certainty and not taking for granted that 130 people are putting their life and their faith towards me, towards this guy that has a lot of responsibility, and I feel responsible for all of them. If I have to take a gamble, take a gamble, and if I need to take a hit, I’ll take a hit. I’m here to win races. That’s what Zak put me here for. That’s why I wake up every morning, and I’m working on that team for 13, 14 hours a day since I retired. For me, nothing is changing. Bring it on. Bring the distractions. Will we’ll keep changing that a little bit. Today we’re going to talk about one-two. Q. A lot of teams and drivers can get complacent in the summer, middle part of the season. Everybody seems locked in from all three aspects, from Christian to Nolan to Pato. Talk about how good that is to have all three aspects locked in going into this latter half of the season. TONY KANAAN: It says a lot about how much work we’ve been doing. Look at this team three years ago and look at this team now. It’s not the same team. We’ve been changing. We’ve been adding personnel. We’ve been adding a lot of the culture that we’ve been trying to achieve. We’ve been adding the Hunter-Reays and the Kyle Moyers and also working with the drivers with what we need and what they need to be able to perform. There is no excuses when you have a name like McLaren and a boss like Zak. I just said, this was our first one-two, and my text to him says, and it won’t be the last, and that’s Zak. Proud of them, proud of the drivers with the distraction and everything that has been going on. I’m trying to be as mindful and as fair as possible using my own experiences. I’ve been through some ups and downs in my career, if I can help them out. But the focus is we always leave is all at the racetrack because at the end of the day the results will speak for themselves. As much as you win and you put yourself in a position to do so, I think your life will become easier one way or the other. Proud of them. Proud of Pato. There is a lot of talk, and I’m not going to debate on it, and I think he has me handling that quite well. So is Christian, and then Nolan with his best last four races, he’s stepped it up pretty much every race. Q. You mentioned about the 130 people that work for you back in Indy. Can you talk a little bit about the investment that McLaren have put into the team? You’ve got the new race shop. How proud are you of the work that the team has done? TONY KANAAN: I mean, if you look at our last, what, I would say 16 months, we got the shop up last July, I think. We had six months to turn it around. We spent two months with the cars are parked and the entire team was building chairs, desks, making — patching walls and stuff in the team to make it our home. I remember when Zak presented this challenge, I would say, to me, I asked him where he wants to be. I knew the answer, right? To set a standard like that, we need a facility that we’re able to compete with Penske and Ganassi and to provide the opportunity of just anything, manufacturer things that we couldn’t do in the old shop because it was too small but also the work environment, the culture. You guys know me well enough from my previous career I love to have fun and I think we can still win and have fun. I don’t want to run like other teams. I want to be different. I want to be the guy that you walk into my office and I have to remind you, maybe I’m busy, but if you are comfortable to just walk in. Proud of the team. Our home is awesome. I love it. I spend more time there than at my house. If I ask my wife that, since we build that, it’s an excuse for me to be there all the time. If you look at the past 20 years, only two teams have won the championship. When we got — I got the responsibility and everyone else put McLaren with those guys, we have to step it up, and we did, and we are. We’re getting there with the shop and everything else. I can’t really run a team and be compared to legends, which is Chip and Roger, that have had so much success for the last 30 years. I can’t go to a fight without the proper guns, the same guns that they have. Obviously made a huge difference. We’re proud of it, and hopefully we’ll get there. Q. Pato, Christian was here and said earlier that the track conditions from the warmup today morning to the race were totally different. What is your opinion about that? Do you feel also that the track conditions were different? PATO O’WARD: I thought it was a little bit warmer for sure, but I think it was the same change that we usually get on the other road courses, as well, when all this rubber starts getting laid down. The cars do seem to change a little bit. But I wouldn’t say that it completely transformed what we’ve had. I think in terms of pace, we were right where we have been compared to the rest of the weekend, right? Obviously the track will fluctuate and things need to change, but we’ve got things inside of the car that we can mess around with to put it in a bit more of a happy place. Q. Pato, I don’t know if you’ve been keeping track, but that was 14 races without a podium. How much of a relief is it to finally get that off your back? That’s actually the most races that you’ve gone in your INDYCAR career without a podium. Will how much of a relief is it, and how much of a difference do you think it makes going forward through the rest of the year? PATO O’WARD: Yeah, it’s obviously nice that the first one has been a win because, yeah, a win does hit different than just a second or a third. I think this is — I had a bit of a sniff of it in Road America. I really did. I was positioning myself there to take the win, and we had so much pace. Coming into here, I knew that we were going to be able to do something similar to that, and we went out there and executed. That was the most important part. Yeah, it’s been nice, but honestly, I don’t really look at all of that. I just go every single weekend with the open mind that we always want to do better than the previous year. We always want to do better than the previous weekend. That’s what we did. Q. TK, this is the first weekend this year that all three McLaren drivers have been in the top 10. I know you feel like you’ve made a statement to the public, but how does this affect morale within the team, given that this has been such a big weekend? TONY KANAAN: I mean, we get to celebrate tonight. Tomorrow, everybody is going to report to the shop at 7:00 a.m. because we’ve got to go to Milwaukee. It’s going to be a short celebration, but look, I think this is a little bit of — this is a part of the result. Today we get to enjoy it for a couple hours. But we’ve been winning at the shop every day with what we’re building, how we are communicating, how we are going through the good days and the bad days, how we sit down and have very, very uncomfortable meetings talking about putting ourselves in a position to be accountable for what we need to do better. Today was just an execution of the work we’ve been doing at the shop. The wins are made back home. Today was just the result of it. Proud of them, and we’ll get a couple hours to celebrate, and we’re going to have a team meeting at 7:00 a.m. tomorrow and everybody is going to be working again. Pato does talk a lot in the team meeting, if you guys think I talk a lot. Christian will do it, as well. So does Nolan. It’s a big family.

NTT INDYCAR SERIES News ConferenceSunday, July 5, 2026Christian LundgaardPress Conference THE MODERATOR: Wrapping up today’s the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio presented by the 2027 CR-V hybrid, Christian Lundgaard is here. After leading 41 laps this afternoon in the No. 7 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet, best finish here at Mid-Ohio, second runner-up finish of the season, fifth podium of 2026, 14th career podium, as well. Just your thoughts on an all-green day. Pretty grueling inside the car for sure but second place finish for you today. CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Yeah, very long day, very tough day. Obviously very tough physically out there with the heat, but also just an all-green race. It didn’t really help that we were quite loose. We kind of went into the race knowing that — or thinking the balance was going to go towards understeer, and I don’t think that was the case as much. I think we kind of overreacted and made the car a lot harder to drive. Very, very difficult, but at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter how difficult the car is to drive. I still think we sort of maximized today, which is always nice. Q. Talk about trying to hold off Pato. CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Yeah, at the end of the day it was a mistake of my own. I was struggling so much on entries with the rear. It happened three times before that lap. Then obviously I wanted to be the good sport. I could just easily have run him off the track in 4 if I wanted to. Didn’t. We fought. We touched. I think that’s always good racing. Q. Christian, I’d like to go back to the pass. You mentioned you made a couple of mistakes. Was that because of traffic ahead of you or was that just what the car was giving you? CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: No, I struggled all day. Even on the first stint, wasn’t particularly happy with the rear. I was nowhere in Turn 1 all day. All high speeds, just no rear, stability. It made sense with what we did overnight and even after warmups. It’s pretty clear in my head what really happened. Obviously we were fine-tuning the car as the race went on and the last stint was better but still struggled a lot. Q. To struggle that much and come away with a second place, how does that happen? CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Maximizing a weekend. Q. Christian, with this weekend over for you, what are the next steps for you as far as figuring out your situation for next year? CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: I’m going to go take a shower, I’m going to sleep and then see what comes. Q. Are you going to sleep well? CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Me? I sleep great. I’m a big sleeper. Q. Is there any part of you that is anticipating being proactive in this and figuring it out, or are you just waiting for people to call you maybe? CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: I guess both. I mean, it isn’t really where my head’s at now. There’s, what, nine races to go, eight races to go? Eight. Plenty of races to win. Seven, whatever. Seven races. Plenty of races to be competitive at. Q. Christian, you said earlier you struggled with the rear. Did you have already this problem today in the morning in the warmup, or it just came up during the race? CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: No, we were struggling with it in warmup. But again, I feel like the track condition was so different. I don’t know what specifically the track temp was different in the race. Obviously it was rising quite high throughout the race. It’s a very different track than it was this morning. But I think it was highlighted even more in the race.

Up next After trips to two straight iconic natural terrain road courses, the series returns to left turns only with a trip to an oval in Lebanon, Tennessee, on July 19, 2026. The 1.33-mile Nashville Superspeedway tri-oval will play host to the 400-mile Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix at 5:30 pm (ET), immediately following the World Cup Final match on FOX.

Christian Lundgaard (No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet) celebrates his 2026 pole at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course

Chevrolet at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car CourseChevrolet wins at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course: 132026 – Pato O’Ward – Arrow McLaren2024 – Pato O’Ward – Arrow McLaren2022 – Scott McLaughlin – Team Penske2021 – Josef Newgarden – Team Penske2020 Race #1 – Will Power – Team Penske2017 – Josef Newgarden – Team Penske2016 – Simon Pagenaud – Team Penske2014 – Scott Dixon – Chip Ganassi Racing1993 – Emerson Fittipaldi – Team Penske1992 – Emerson Fittipaldi – Team Penske1991 – Michael Andretti – Newman Haas Racing1990 – Michael Andretti – Newman Haas Racing 1988 – Emerson Fittipaldi – Patrick RacingChevrolet poles at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course: 142026 – Christian Lundgaard – Arrow McLaren2022 – Pato O’Ward – Arrow McLaren2021 – Josef Newgarden – Team Penske2020 Race #1 – Will Power – Team Penske2019 – Will Power – Team Penske2017 – Will Power – Team Penske2016 – Simon Pagenaud – Team Penske2015 – Scott Dixon – Chip Ganassi Racing2014 – Sebastien Bourdais – KV Racing Technology2013 – Ryan Hunter-Reay – Andretti Global2012 – Will Power – Team Penske1991 – Michael Andretti – Newman Haas Racing1990 – Michael Andretti – Newman Haas Racing 1988 – Danny Sullivan – Team Penske Chevrolet podiums at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course: 36Chevrolet podiums at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course by driver: Will Power (7), Emerson Fittipaldi (4), Michael Andretti (3), Josef Newgarden (3), Al Unser Jr. (3), Mario Andretti (2), Christian Lundgaard (2), Scott McLaughlin (2), Pato O’Ward (2), Simon Pagenaud (2), Sebastien Bourdais (1), Rick Mears (1), Bob Rahal (1), Danny Sullivan (1) and Paul Tracy (1).  Chevrolet podiums at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course by team: Team Penske (19), Newman Haas Racing (6), Galles Racing (4), Arrow McLaren (4), Chip Ganassi Racing (1), KV Racing Technology (1) and Patrick Racing (1) Chevrolet laps led at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course: 1122Chevrolet laps led at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course by driver: Will Power (178), Emerson Fittipaldi (168), Josef Newgarden (161), Michael Andretti (152), Pato O’Ward (97), Scott Dixon (67), , Scott McLaughlin (49), Mario Andretti (44), Christian Lundgaard (41), Sebastien Bourdais (38), Ryan Hunter-Reay (30), Juan Montoya (30), Simon Pagenaud (23), Paul Tracy (23), Al Unser Jr. (11), Helio Castroneves (6), James Hinchcliffe (2), and Danny Sullivan (2) Chevrolet laps led at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course by team: Team Penske (575), Newman Haas Racing (196), Arrow McLaren (138), Chip Ganassi Racing (67), Patrick Racing (63), KV Racing Technology (38), Andretti Global (32), Galles Racing (11), and ECR (2) Manufacturer History at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car CourseWins (with competition)13 – Chevrolet (2026, 2024, 2022, 2021, 2020 Race #1, 2017, 2016, 2014, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989)13 – Honda (2025, 2023, 2020 Race #2, 2019, 2018, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2001, 2000, 1999 1997, 1996)6 – Cosworth (1987, 1986, 1986, 1984, 1983, 1980)2 – Ford (2002, 1998)1 – Ilmor (1994)1 – Mercedes (1995)1 – Porsche (1989)Poles (with competition)14 – Chevrolet (2026, 2022, 2021, 2020 Race #1, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 1991, 1990, 1988)10 – Honda (2025, 2024, 2023, 2020 Race #2, 2018, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1996)6 – Cosworth (1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1980)5 – Ford (2002, 1997, 1995, 1993, 1992)1 – Ilmor (1994)1 – Porsche (1989)

HIGHLAND, IL (July 4, 2026) — After fighting race-after-race to break through to Victory Lane once in the first half of the summer, Tanner English only needed three days to do it again.

English, of Benton, KY, endured the first 11 rounds of the 2026 DIRTcar Summer Nationals with 10 top-five finishes and eight podiums, but no wins. He finally broke through Wednesday night in Missouri and did it again Saturday night at Highland Speedway to bank his eighth career Hell Tour victory.

“I made a couple moves there about halfway through the race that was probably the game changer,” English said. “I’ve been pretty conservative; I’m trying to wrap this points deal up. Trying not to make any stupid moves, so I could’ve ran harder but I didn’t have to.”

Early in the 40-lap Feature it was Sam Seawright and Jordan Bauer who battled for the lead. Bauer edged ahead as they entered Turn 3, but Seawright threw a slide job in Turn 4 that cleared Bauer’s No. 10J and gave him the lead on Lap 1 by a nose.

Bauer battled back to the inside of Seawright as they drove back into Turn 1, but the No. 16S maintained the top spot with a great run off Turn 2. For the next 30 laps, Seawright paced the field through lapped traffic until disaster struck for the Fort Payne, AL-driver on Lap 32 as he made contact with a slower car and spun to a stop in Turns 1 and 2, ending his hopes at a second Summer Nationals triumph.

Before the caution flag was thrown, English had worked his way past Bauer and into the runner-up spot and was beginning to trim Seawright’s gap of over four seconds at its largest. When Seawright retired to the pits after his incident, English inherited the lead with eight circuits remaining.

The green flag dropped and English pulled away from the field, leading the rest of the distance and driving off with a $10,000 check.

“I hate that for [Seawright], I have lost them like that before too. It sucks, but I am glad I was there to capitalize,” English said. “Sam had a four [NLMT tire], I think he was the only one so that might’ve sent him off; he really took off. When that four fired, he was going, so I guess I was the best car with a three on. I felt like at the beginning of the night, I made a few wrong moves on setup, it slicked off a lot better than I thought it would.”

Tyler Millwood was second, Rusty Schlenk was third, Daryn Klein was fourth, and Bauer finished fifth.

UP NEXT

The DIRTcar Summer Nationals wrap up Week 4 at Macon Speedway on Sunday, July 5 in the 46th annual Herald & Review 100.

How can you watch the DIRTcar Summer Nationals? Every race is live on DIRTVision.

Feature (40 Laps): 1. 96-Tanner English[4]; 2. 31M-Tyler Millwood[3]; 3. 91-Rusty Schlenk[8]; 4. 10-Daryn Klein[6]; 5. 10J-Jordan Bauer[2]; 6. 25-Jason Feger[16]; 7. 49-Luke Morey[12]; 8. 15-Clay Stuckey[11]; 9. 89-Mike Spatola[9]; 10. 74-Mitch McGrath[15]; 11. 26-Jordan Suhre[17]; 12. 30-Mark Voigt[19]; 13. (DNF) 52-Matt Bailey[7]; 14. (DNF) 51B-Brandon Carpenter[5]; 15. (DNF) 17SR-Brody Smith[14]; 16. (DNF) 16S-Sam Seawright[1]; 17. (DNF) T4-Adam Tischhauser[13]; 18. (DNF) LIL91-Carter Schlenk[18]; 19. (DNF) 99-Kyle Hardy[22]; 20. (DNF) 51-Dean Carpenter[10]; 21. (DNF) 35-Claude Walker[21]; 22. (DNF) 6K-Michael Kloos[20]

Mike Harrison Dominates Highland for Summit Modified Career Win No. 64

There are few things that are as automatic as Mike Harrison is at Highland Speedway.

Harrison, the six-time DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals champion from Highland, IL, led all 25 laps of Saturday’s main event to bank his ninth career Summit Modified triumph at Highland and his 64th career series victory.

“I’ve got more laps around this place than anybody in the Modifieds here,” Harrison said. “This is like home to me. I literally live right here in town, I made my first start here and I’ll probably make my last start here. It’s always fun coming back home and especially when you’re racing in front of a Summer Nationals crowd. It’s always fun winning in front of the hometown.”

Harrison shot to the lead at the drop of the green flag, turning away a challenge from Ray Bollinger to lead the opening lap. A multi-car stack-up in Turn 1 forced a restart on Lap 2, which Harrison swiftly handled as Zeke McKenzie took the runner-up spot from Bollinger behind him.

For the next 23 laps, Harrison put on a clinic, extending his gap on the field up to over three seconds at its largest before crossing under the checkered flag nearly two-and-a-half seconds over McKenzie in second, Bollinger in third, Jacob Steinkoenig in fourth, and Damian Kiefer, who rounded out the top five.

UP NEXT

The DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals returns to action Sunday, July 5 at Macon Speedway.

How can you watch the Summit Modifieds? Every race is live on DIRTVision.

Tanner English Wins Eighth Career Summer Nationals Feature at Highland 

HIGHLAND, IL (July 4, 2026) — After fighting race-after-race to break through to Victory Lane once in the first half of the summer, Tanner English only needed three days to do it again.

English, of Benton, KY, endured the first 11 rounds of the 2026 DIRTcar Summer Nationals with 10 top-five finishes and eight podiums, but no wins. He finally broke through Wednesday night in Missouri and did it again Saturday night at Highland Speedway to bank his eighth career Hell Tour victory.

“I made a couple moves there about halfway through the race that was probably the game changer,” English said. “I’ve been pretty conservative; I’m trying to wrap this points deal up. Trying not to make any stupid moves, so I could’ve ran harder but I didn’t have to.”

Early in the 40-lap Feature it was Sam Seawright and Jordan Bauer who battled for the lead. Bauer edged ahead as they entered Turn 3, but Seawright threw a slide job in Turn 4 that cleared Bauer’s No. 10J and gave him the lead on Lap 1 by a nose.

Bauer battled back to the inside of Seawright as they drove back into Turn 1, but the No. 16S maintained the top spot with a great run off Turn 2. For the next 30 laps, Seawright paced the field through lapped traffic until disaster struck for the Fort Payne, AL-driver on Lap 32 as he made contact with a slower car and spun to a stop in Turns 1 and 2, ending his hopes at a second Summer Nationals triumph.

Before the caution flag was thrown, English had worked his way past Bauer and into the runner-up spot and was beginning to trim Seawright’s gap of over four seconds at its largest. When Seawright retired to the pits after his incident, English inherited the lead with eight circuits remaining.

The green flag dropped and English pulled away from the field, leading the rest of the distance and driving off with a $10,000 check.

“I hate that for [Seawright], I have lost them like that before too. It sucks, but I am glad I was there to capitalize,” English said. “Sam had a four [NLMT tire], I think he was the only one so that might’ve sent him off; he really took off. When that four fired, he was going, so I guess I was the best car with a three on. I felt like at the beginning of the night, I made a few wrong moves on setup, it slicked off a lot better than I thought it would.”

Tyler Millwood was second, Rusty Schlenk was third, Daryn Klein was fourth, and Bauer finished fifth.

UP NEXT

The DIRTcar Summer Nationals wrap up Week 4 at Macon Speedway on Sunday, July 5 in the 46th annual Herald & Review 100.

How can you watch the DIRTcar Summer Nationals? Every race is live on DIRTVision.

Feature (40 Laps): 1. 96-Tanner English[4]; 2. 31M-Tyler Millwood[3]; 3. 91-Rusty Schlenk[8]; 4. 10-Daryn Klein[6]; 5. 10J-Jordan Bauer[2]; 6. 25-Jason Feger[16]; 7. 49-Luke Morey[12]; 8. 15-Clay Stuckey[11]; 9. 89-Mike Spatola[9]; 10. 74-Mitch McGrath[15]; 11. 26-Jordan Suhre[17]; 12. 30-Mark Voigt[19]; 13. (DNF) 52-Matt Bailey[7]; 14. (DNF) 51B-Brandon Carpenter[5]; 15. (DNF) 17SR-Brody Smith[14]; 16. (DNF) 16S-Sam Seawright[1]; 17. (DNF) T4-Adam Tischhauser[13]; 18. (DNF) LIL91-Carter Schlenk[18]; 19. (DNF) 99-Kyle Hardy[22]; 20. (DNF) 51-Dean Carpenter[10]; 21. (DNF) 35-Claude Walker[21]; 22. (DNF) 6K-Michael Kloos[20]

Mike Harrison Dominates Highland for Summit Modified Career Win No. 64

There are few things that are as automatic as Mike Harrison is at Highland Speedway.

Harrison, the six-time DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals champion from Highland, IL, led all 25 laps of Saturday’s main event to bank his ninth career Summit Modified triumph at Highland and his 64th career series victory.

“I’ve got more laps around this place than anybody in the Modifieds here,” Harrison said. “This is like home to me. I literally live right here in town, I made my first start here and I’ll probably make my last start here. It’s always fun coming back home and especially when you’re racing in front of a Summer Nationals crowd. It’s always fun winning in front of the hometown.”

Harrison shot to the lead at the drop of the green flag, turning away a challenge from Ray Bollinger to lead the opening lap. A multi-car stack-up in Turn 1 forced a restart on Lap 2, which Harrison swiftly handled as Zeke McKenzie took the runner-up spot from Bollinger behind him.

For the next 23 laps, Harrison put on a clinic, extending his gap on the field up to over three seconds at its largest before crossing under the checkered flag nearly two-and-a-half seconds over McKenzie in second, Bollinger in third, Jacob Steinkoenig in fourth, and Damian Kiefer, who rounded out the top five.

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Feature (25 Laps): 1. 24H-Mike Harrison[1]; 2. 24-Zeke McKenzie[3]; 3. 77-Ray Bollinger[2]; 4. 24S-Jacob Steinkoenig[6]; 5. 0-Damian Kiefer[5]; 6. 14C-Rick Conoyer[18]; 7. 5S-Owen Steinkoenig[8]; 8. 95S-Rick Salter[4]; 9. 87Z-Zeb Moake[7]; 10. 51-Timmy Hill[11]; 11. 94-Mark Clary[10]; 12. 787-Cody Zobrist[15]; 13. T23-John Toppozini[14]; 14. 21T-Talen Beard[16]; 15. 88L-Christian Lee[22]; 16. 19S-Nathan Schmitt[20]; 17. (DNF) 52-Billy Knebel[17]; 18. (DNF) 25X-Kyle Helmick[9]; 19. (DNF) 29-Chris Spalding[13]; 20. (DNF) E55-Chad Sellers[12]; 21. (DNF) 816-Travis Raterman[19]; 22. (DNF) 45S-Chandler Smith[21]

Blair Banks $25,000 Lucas Oil Victory at Muskingum County Speedway

ZANESVILLE, Ohio (July 4, 2026) – Max Blair of Centerville, Pennsylvania, charged from the 15th starting position to take the lead with three laps remaining and, despite two caution flags in the closing laps, held off Devin Moran and Hudson O’Neal to earn the biggest victory of his career. Blair collected $25,000 for winning the Freedom 50 on Saturday night at Muskingum County Speedway. It was Blair’s second career victory with the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series as the third-generation racer returned to the series full time in 2026. Moran slipped past O’Neal at the checkered flag to finish second, while O’Neal completed the Big River Steel Podium in third. Clay Harris, who led the opening lap and spent much of the race running second, finished fourth. Ricky Thornton Jr. rounded out the top five. Blair climbed to fourth with 14 laps remaining and then reeled in O’Neal, Harris, and Moran without the benefit of a caution. Asked in his post-race interview whether he believed he had a chance to win after starting 15th, Blair laughed. “Not a chance. That was a heck of a run. Going from 15th to fourth was pretty cool, and I was thinking maybe we’d get a yellow and have a shot at it. Then we went three laps, and I’m thinking, ‘Holy cow,’ even in lapped traffic I’m running them down. I can’t believe it. It’s awesome,” said the 36-year-old racer. “I have won another race that paid the same amount, but this is by far the biggest win of my career. I’m sure my wife and kids were screaming at the TV during those final laps, and then all of those cautions kept coming out. I’m out of breath and speechless.” “When I took the lead, I knew I was a little better than they were, and I didn’t want to catch those lapped cars because I felt like I didn’t need to. Then I saw Shirley break or have a flat, and I thought, ‘There’s no way this is happening.’ I’ve got to thank my dad. This is what we’ve been trying to do for 20 years, and we finally did it.” Moran, coming off his Firecracker 100 victory at Lernerville last weekend, continued his strong points surge by taking second from O’Neal at the finish. “I used to love coming here because it was my home track. Now I love coming here because it’s a badass racetrack. My dad and those guys do a great job, and we always have an amazing crowd here. I thought I had a chance. Congratulations to Max Blair. He’s been really close all year and has had a really good race car. He got the job done. I thought it was Clay underneath me because I had just gotten by him, but it was Max, and I knew there was no way I was beating him tonight.” O’Neal will head to 34 Raceway in Iowa on Thursday night with a 45-point lead over Brandon Sheppard, who finished seventh in the feature. O’Neal led 46 of the race’s 50 laps. “I was fading pretty hard at the end. I knew somebody had to be coming. There’s always one guy who comes on late, and I became a sitting duck. We went too soft on tires, and I didn’t have much left. We just weren’t balanced at the end, and that’s something we need to work on.” The winning Brad Spochaz/Centerline Motorsports Longhorn Chassis was powered by a Clements Racing Engine and sponsored by Riggs Fiber, Virgilie Iron and Steel, Creekside Auto Sales, Murphy’s Logging, C&J Dairy, Upstate Auto Group, Andy’s Towing, Tavern 618, Gable Inn, and Lakeside Auto Body. Completing the top 10 were Logan Zarin, Brandon Sheppard, Dillon McCowan, Garrett Alberson, and Brandon Overton. Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series Race Summary Freedom 50Saturday, July 4, 2026Muskingum County Speedway | Zanesville, OH Allstar Performance Time TrialsFast Time Group A: Hudson O’Neal | 15.688 seconds (Overall)Fast Time Group B: Ricky Thornton, Jr. | 15.828 seconds Penske Shocks Heat Race #1 Finish (8 Laps, Top 4 Transfer): 1. 71-Hudson O’Neal[1]; 2. 99-Devin Moran[2]; 3. 1Z-Logan Zarin[5]; 4. 22-Daniel Hilsabeck[3]; 5. 58-Garrett Alberson[4]; 6. 93L-Cory Lawler[6]; 7. 156-James Dennis[7] Summit Racing Products Heat Race #2 Finish (8 Laps, Top 4 Transfer): 1. 3S-Brian Shirley[1]; 2. 60-Dan Ebert[3]; 3. 93-Carson Ferguson[2]; 4. 111-Max Blair[4]; 5. 20-Todd Brennan[5]; 6. 0-Stephen Prince[6]; 7. (DNS) 59-Larry Bellman Cool-It Thermo-Tec Heat Race #3 Finish (8 Laps, Top 4 Transfer): 1. 6-Clay Harris[2]; 2. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[1]; 3. 40B-Kyle Bronson[4]; 4. 31-Lincoln Smith[5]; 5. 76-Brandon Overton[3]; 6. C4-Freddie Carpenter[6]; 7. 34-Aaron Scott[7]; 8. K11-George Klintworth[8] Simpson Race Products Heat Race #4 Finish (8 Laps, Top 4 Transfer): 1. 1-Brandon Sheppard[1]; 2. 8-Dillon McCowan[5]; 3. 11-Josh Rice[2]; 4. 93J-Donovan Jackson[6]; 5. 17SS-Brenden Smith[4]; 6. 57-Caiden Black[3]; 7. (DNS) S8-Chris Stotts Fast Shafts B-Main Race #1 Finish (10 Laps, Top 6 Transfer): 1. 58-Garrett Alberson[1]; 2. 76-Brandon Overton[2]; 3. 20-Todd Brennan[3]; 4. 17SS-Brenden Smith[4]; 5. 93L-Cory Lawler[5]; 6. 156-James Dennis[9]; 7. C4-Freddie Carpenter[6]; 8. 34-Aaron Scott[10]; 9. 0-Stephen Prince[7]; 10. 59-Larry Bellman[11]; 11. K11-George Klintworth[13]; 12. (DNS) 57-Caiden Black; 13. (DNS) S8-Chris Stotts Freedom 50 | Feature Finish (50 Laps):Pos – Start – Car # – Competitor – Hometown – Earnings1 – 15 – 111 – Max Blair – Centerville, PA – $25,8002 – 5 – 99 – Devin Moran – Dresden, OH – $11,2003 – 1 – 71 – Hudson O’Neal – Martinsville, IN – $7,3004 – 2 – 6 – Clay Harris – Jupiter, FL – $4,8005 – 6 – 20RT – Ricky Thornton Jr – Chandler, AZ – $4,7006 – 9 – 1Z – Logan Zarin – Hookstown, PA – $2,7007 – 4 – 1 – Brandon Sheppard – New Berlin, IL – $3,3008 – 8 – 8 – Dillon McCowan – Urbana, MO – $3,2009 – 17 – 58 – Garrett Alberson – Las Cruces, NM – $3,00010 – 18 – 76 – Brandon Overton – Evans, GA – $2,90011 – 7 – 60 – Dan Ebert – Lake Shore, MN – $2,80012 – 11 – 93 – Carson Ferguson – Lincolnton, NC – $2,70013 – 14 – 31 – Lincoln Smith – Belmont, OH – $1,80014 – 3 – 3S – Brian Shirley – Chatham, IL – $2,50015 – 12 – 11 – Josh Rice – Crittenden, KY – $2,40016 – 16 – 93J – Donovan Jackson – Hope Mills, NC – $1,50017 – 13 – 22 – Daniel Hilsabeck – Earlham, IA – $2,30018 – 25 – 57 – Caiden Black – New Concord, OH – $1,50019 – 23 – 0 – Stephen Prince – Newark, OH – $1,50020 – 19 – 20 – Todd Brennan – Zanesville, OH – $1,50021 – 10 – 40B – Kyle Bronson – Brandon, FL – $2,30022 – 21 – 93L – Cory Lawler – Hanover, PA – $1,50023 – 20 – 17SS – Brenden Smith – Dade City, FL – $1,50024 – 24 – 59 – Larry Bellman – Wooster, OH – $1,50025 – 22 – 156 – James Dennis – Lower Salem, OH – $1,500 Race Statistics  Entrants: 29Bilstein Shocks Pole Sitter: Hudson O’NealMD3 Lap Leaders: Clay Harris (Lap 1); Hudson O’Neal (Laps 2-47); Max Blair (Laps 48-50)Hellraizer Jacks Halfway Leader: Hudson O’NealWieland Feature Winner: Max BlairMargin of Victory: 1.113 secondsHellraizer Jacks Cautions: Brian Shirley (Lap 49); Brenden Smith, Josh Rice, Cory Lawler (Lap 49 restart)MyRacePass Series Provisional: n/aFast Time Provisional: Stephen Prince; Larry Bellman Jr.Emergency Provisionals: n/aTrack Provisional: Caiden BlackBig River Steel Podium Top 3: Max Blair, Devin Moran, Hudson O’NealPenske Shocks Top 5: Max Blair, Devin Moran, Hudson O’Neal, Clay Harris, Ricky Thornton, Jr.Behrent’s One-Lap-to-Go Top 3: Max Blair, Hudson O’Neal, Devin MoranPEM 4th Place Feature: Clay HarrisDiversified Machine 5th Place Feature: Ricky Thornton, Jr.Wilwood Brakes 7th Place Feature: Brandon SheppardWehrs Machine 11th Place Feature: Dan EbertVelocity Manufacturing 13th Place Feature: Lincoln SmithXS Power Batteries 15th Place Feature: Josh RiceHoker Trucking Hard Charger of the Race: Max Blair (Advanced 14 positions)MD3 Most Laps Led: Hudson O’Neal (46 Laps)Sunoco Race Fuels Race for Gas Highest Finisher: Hudson O’NealMidwest Sheet Metal Spoiler Challenge Point Leader: Hudson O’NealO’Reilly Auto Parts Rookie of the Race: Dillon McCowanPro Fabrication Headers Fastest Lap of the Race: Hudson O’Neal | Lap 5 | 16.796 secondsFK Rod Ends Hard Luck Award: Brian ShirleyVictory Fuel Power Move of the Race: Clay HarrisOuterwears Crew Chief of the Race: Rob BlairARP Engine Builder of the Race: Clements Race EnginesMiller Welders Chassis Builder of the Race: Longhorn ChassisDirt Draft Fastest in Hot Laps: Max Blair | 15.6405 secondsTime of Race: 24 minutes 21 seconds Big River Steel Championship Standings Presented by ARP:Pos – Car # – Competitor – Hometown – Points – Earnings1 – 71 – Hudson O’Neal – Martinsville, IN – 4370 – $191,0502 – 1 – Brandon Sheppard – New Berlin, IL – 4325 – $188,3003 – 99 – Devin Moran – Dresden, OH – 4220 – $249,3244 – 76 – Brandon Overton – Evans, GA – 3945 – $93,9005 – 111 – Max Blair – Centerville, PA – 3935 – $107,8756 – 20RT – Ricky Thornton Jr – Chandler, AZ – 3850 – $119,8257 – 58 – Garrett Alberson – Las Cruces, NM – 3695 – $79,3258 – 3s – Brian Shirley – Chatham, IL – 3590 – $66,0509 – 11 – Josh Rice – Crittenden, KY – 3585 – $72,17510 – 40B – Kyle Bronson – Brandon, FL – 3495 – $57,97511 – 6 – Clay Harris – Jupiter, FL – 3475 – $71,55012 – 93 – Carson Ferguson – Lincolnton, NC – 3440 – $59,30013 – 60 – Dan Ebert – Lake Shore, MN – 3320 – $58,15014 – 8 – Dillon McCowan – Urbana, MO – 3140 – $44,40015 – 22 – Daniel Hilsabeck – Earlham, IA – 2920 – $40,87516 – 17SS – Brenden Smith – Dade City, FL – 2785 – $33,92517 – 93L – Cory Lawler – Hanover, PA – 2605 – $23,175

CHEVROLET IN THE NTT INDYCAR SERIESHonda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio2.258-Mile, 13-Turn Mid-Ohio road courseLexington, OhioSaturday Qualifying ReportJuly 4, 2026 LEXINGTON, Ohio (July 4, 2026) – For the third time in the last season and a half, the Arrow McLaren duo of Christian Lundgaard and Pato O’Ward locked out the front row of an NTT INDYCAR SERIES race. Today on the 2.258-Mile, 13-Turn Mid-Ohio road course, it was the No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet piloted by Lundgaard that was quickest of the drivers in papaya, besting the No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet of Pato O’Ward by three-hundredths of a second.  David Malukas in the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet, Christian Rasmussen in the No. 21 Splenda Chevrolet and Rinus VeeKay in the No. 76 Juncos Hollinger Racing Chevrolet made it five of six for the Bowtie brigade in the Firestone Fast Six.  After a weather hold of just over two hours and 33 minutes, the dozen drivers in the first group got qualifying underway on a dry, but cooling track. Four of the six cars transferring featured Bowties on the nose, with Christian Rasmussen in the No. 21 Splenda Chevrolet the quickest, and joined by Pato O’Ward in the No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet, David Malukas in the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet and Rinus VeeKay in the No. 76 Juncos Hollinger Racing Chevrolet.  Times began to fall in the second group, and when the clock reached zero, three of the six drivers advancing to the Fast 12 were Chevrolet-powered, led by Christian Lundgaard in the No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet. The quickest Chevrolet runner in practice was joined by Josef Newgarden in the No. 2 PPG Team Penske Chevrolet and Caio Collet in the No. 4 Combitrans Amazonia Chevrolet.  In the Fast 12, the sixth-quickest driver, VeeKay, was a slim tenth of a second ahead of Collet in 11th, with Newgarden only missing out by three hundredths of a second. Malukas topped the group with a time of 64.7099 seconds, the quickest lap of the day.  Chevrolet numbers: Lundgaard’s pole is the 248th all-time earned pole for a Chevrolet-powered driver and the 144th earned pole since the introduction of the 2.2L Twin-Turbo V6 in 2012.Lundgaard’s pole is the 14th earned pole for a Chevrolet-powered driver at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course and the 11th since the introduction of the 2.2L Twin-Turbo V6 in 2012Lundgaard’s pole is his 4th all-time and 2nd with Team ChevyLundgaard’s pole is Arrow McLaren’s 29th all-time and their 13th pole with Chevrolet power.  Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio – Qualifying Results:

What They’re Saying – Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio race David Malukas, No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet qualified 4th:“Overall, really good. When you look back from last year to today. This track was actually our worst. We did a lot of work in the off-season to get it turned around. These guys did a fantastic job. We were in the Firestone Fast Six, when last year we didn’t get to Q2. A big difference. Big kudos to these guys. In Practice 1, we weren’t anywhere near where we needed to be and they flipped this car and we are in the Fast Six. A really good day. A few mistakes from my side in that Q3 from my side to learn from. We’re still learning every single day and making ourselves a better team every single day. Looking really strong for tomorrow.” Christian Lundgaard, No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet qualified on pole:“I honestly didn’t get off to the best of starts in Turn 11 and Turn 1 was a little messy. Had a big overseer out of 12 and13 as well. We knew it was a one lap tire, when it was a one lap shootout, really, for all of us. So, I’m happy at this point. We’ve got to go finish it off tomorrow, but at least we’re in the hunt for three road courses in a row.” Pato O’Ward, No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet qualified 2nd:“I’ve got to thank the guys and gals at Arrow McLaren and Team Chevy. That’s a great Fast Six for them as well. Congrats to Christian on the pole. Good to be running out and on the front row heading into turn one. It’s a pretty good view. I’ve been happy with my car all weekend, and we’ve got a good one to make it happen tomorrow.” Christian Rasmussen, No. 21 Splenda Chevrolet qualified 5th:“That was pretty good! America’s birthday brought some good things for us here. Starting 5th at Mid-Ohio, my best start in the NTT INDYCAR SERIES to date and also my first Fast 6. I can’t believe it’s taken us this long but now that monkey is off our back! We’re going into tomorrow confident and we’ll see what we can do. We’re excited, the No. 21 Splenda Chevrolet is a good racecar.” Rinus VeeKay, No. 76 Juncos Hollinger Chevrolet qualified 6th:“Really good qualifying here at Mid-Ohio. That was Sting Ray’s best road course qualifying of the season so far and also ours. Really good job by the team. Testing here really helped. I think we found a good set-up for a place like this. We did the right thing from practice two. We got lost there, and we went back, and did the right things for qualifying. Really good job there by the Juncos Hollinger Racing team. Ready for tomorrow.”Josef Newgarden, No. 2 PPG Team Penske Chevrolet qualified 9th:“The car is on rails. I think David is showing it from the speed standpoint in the Firestone Fast Six. I think the car has just been lovely to drive right from the start. Having a great test here last week with Felipe (Nasr); he did a phenomenal job. We’ve learned a lot. Team Chevy has done tremendous for us leading into this. I feel really positive going into the race. We’d like to have a great result with this special PPG livery and have something to celebrate” Caio Collet, No. 4 Combitrans Amazonia Chevrolet qualified 11th:“From where we were this morning, a good improvement. Very, very close, just a tenth (of a second) away from the Firestone Fast Six. I think we could have done a little bit better there, with maybe executing a little bit better in the last run in the Fast 12. Overall, very happy with how we progressed from this morning, and I think we have very good pace for tomorrow.”Nolan Siegel, No. 6 NTT DATA Arrow McLaren Chevrolet qualified 15th, and will start 14th: “Disappointing day. I was focused on translating our potential into a deeper run into Qualifying, but it wasn’t in the cards. We’ll be ready to move forward tomorrow. Of course, congrats to the team, Team Chevy, Christian and Pato for going 1-2.” Scott McLaughlin, No. 3 Good Ranchers Team Penske Chevrolet qualified 17th, but will start 16th:“We were just too loose there which was really unfortunate for the Good Rancher Chevy It was just really hard to maximize the car when you sort of don’t really have the confidence on the (corner) entry with the rear of the car. We had a really good car in our first and second practices, so frustrated to miss out there, but that is what it is. We’ll just see what we got in morning warmup. We just got out there and have a play, and We definitely are better than we were here right now. Just a frustrating miss out there. So close in INDYCAR, you can’t miss it. So that’s what it is.”  Alexander Rossi, No. 20 ECR Java House Chevrolet qualified 18th, but will start 17th:“We made a lot of progress. We only ran one set of the alternates there because we use a set in practice two and that time that we was good enough to get through in round one. So, we were trying not to relegate ourselves to twelfth because we would have had to use another set for round two. It was an aggressive decision to sit on the time and hope it was good enough, and it was by six-hundreths. That’s the way it goes.  “It’s (the package) infinitely better than it has been through the sessions leading up to this, so we’ve made progress. Both cars have worked well together to evolve as the weekend goes on. I’m much more confident after that session, despite the result.” Sting Ray Robb, No. 77 Juncos Hollinger – Goodheart Chevrolet qualified 14th, and will start 21st after a penalty for an unapproved engine change:“I’m really proud of the team. This is the best car we’ve had rolling off the truck ever. Disappointed not being inside the Firestone Fast Six today. I think we had a car and the ability to do that. Congrats to Rinus ​for being in the Fast Six. The engine penalty doesn’t help us going into tomorrow. Props to the team. It’s really exciting to make big steps like this and it’s really fun to drive.” Santino Ferrucci, No. 14 Homes For Our Troops Chevrolet qualified 22nd:Santino: “Honestly, this weekend we have not been competitive at all. We’ve been working very diligently to close the gap and to be honest and we did kind of just that. We’ve just been struggling to find a change in the car that will give us some reaction. But what it came down to in qualifying is we were on the wrong side of one tenth of a second which is about the rate you blink your eyes. Honestly It’s just a bit of a bummer so because instead of starting in the fast 12, we start 22nd—that’s just how close it is. We’re gonna have to drive through the field tomorrow and see what we can do.”

Pato O’Ward during qualifying at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course

NTT INDYCAR SERIES News ConferenceSaturday, July 4, 2026Christian Lundgaard Pato O’WardPress Conference THE MODERATOR: Good afternoon. Wrapping up qualifying for tomorrow’s the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio presented by the 2027 CR-V Hybrid. Christian Lundgaard in the No. 7 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet, best start here at Mid-Ohio, second straight front-row start at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, first pole since Portland last year, fourth career NTT P1 award. Pato O’Ward will start second, third front-row start here at Mid-Ohio and third of the season. Congratulations, Christian. Your thoughts on pole position and having the best view of tomorrow’s race at the start? CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Yeah, we’ve been fast all weekend, so I feel like it was just the goal at the end of the day. Obviously we qualified second here last year, and to do it any better, it was one position. To have it as a team, too, at the end of the day, if it’s one way or the other, I don’t think it really matters. We’re leading the show tomorrow, and we can dictate the pace. So I think that will be at least our strongest benefit tomorrow. Q.  Pato, just your thoughts on a great day for the team?PATO O’WARD: Yeah, I think it’s a great result for the team. Like Christian said, I think we’ve got the best view going into Turn 1. I think it’s — well, Turn 4 because we’re starting on the backstretch. But yeah, it’s a good look to have an all-papaya front row and the cars have been strong all weekend and they have been in the past, obviously. It’s not a stranger for us to look forward to a Sunday here and feel like we can really have a very strong ending result. Q.  Christian, as a competitor, after what you’ve been through the last 24 hours, just how cool is this to be able to pull this off, just from a competitive aspect?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Well, at the end of the day for me it’s just noise. Once you’re in the car, I don’t really think anything matters. The talk is for next year, not this year.I still have a job to do and a job to finish. Q.  Pato, as his teammate, you’ve probably developed a pretty close relationship with him. How cool is this from your standpoint to see what he was able to do even though it kept you from winning the pole?PATO O’WARD: No, I think we’ve had a very strong pairing, to be honest, in the last two years. This is not the first time that we’re sharing a front row, and I think what we strive to do every single weekend is just this, right? Like this is what we want to be doing. This is where we want to be positioning our race team and our engine manufacturer, which it was good to see this qualifying session was quite strong for Team Chevy, so thanks to them for bringing a good package for us this weekend for all of us to try and get it done.Yeah, this is what you want when you have a teammate. You want to be able to push each other. You want to be able to keep striving for the ultimate ceiling, right, which a lot of the times you don’t know where it is. So far, I think we’ve done our jobs, and we’re trying to really maximize the package that we’ve got. Q.  Christian, you mentioned you’ve been fast in every session. Do you almost feel like going into tomorrow you might have more confidence than you’ve had at any of the other races so far this year?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: I mean, you know, I was very vocal in the beginning of the season that we just had to qualify better, right, and the results would be even better than they had been at the time. We proved it at Indy Road Course, qualifying further up. Road America is still sort of a mystery to me how we ended up where we did. Obviously the car was fast, but we needed some lucky yellows to just put us back in play. Here we can dictate the pace. We know the car is fast in race trim. I don’t necessarily think it gets me more confidence in that regard. We just have to focus on in warmup tomorrow to be able to produce the best race car, as well. Q.  A couple months ago Tony Kanaan was talking about your contract and said when he drove, he always told owners or whoever his boss was that he wanted them to let him know if he was being fired. Has he or Zak Brown or anybody extended that same grace and transparency to you in the past few weeks?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: I mean, there’s a lot of talks back and forth. At the end of the day, I still have a job to do now. What next year brings, at the end of the day, I still don’t know. My guess is as good as yours is from that regard. But as long as I keep doing the best that I can and keep winning races, I feel like those results speak for themselves. Q.  Pato, you talked a lot about trying to get your first podium of the year. If there comes a situation where maybe you risk — do you want your team to roll the dice if you have to to win versus maybe play it safe or a top 3?PATO O’WARD: I mean, I don’t think we’re in a position to be rolling the dice, to be honest. We have a good position. There’s a lot of things that can happen. I’ve started in the front row other times this year, and we’ve had some happy pedalers behind that pumped us or take us out. You cannot control that. I cannot control that. I also cannot control if we have a hiccup in the pits. I cannot control that. All I can do is maximize what I’ve got inside of the race car, and I truly believe that’s what I’ve been doing this year. I don’t think I’ve driven as well as I have this year. Sadly, the results I don’t think are well correlated with that, but I think there’s a lot of little things that have been costing us a lot of just much better results in certain areas.My hope for tomorrow is just to have a clean race. I don’t need the fastest pit stops. I don’t need the best strategy. I don’t need extremely lucky yellows. All I need is a nice smooth race, and I’m more than skilled enough to get the job done. Q.  For either of you, it seemed like yesterday it was so hot, you could really get a good gauge on the softs. Did you get a good gauge today, and did they react the way you expected them to?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Well, I think considering all qualifying laps was done on lap 2, I feel like that is a pretty good indication. Q.  Christian, starting on pole, how much does that mean to you to get that spot, especially with all the noise?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Yeah, I mean, it doesn’t really make a difference, right? For me, I’m going to continue to do the best that I can. It’s not like I’ve had more motivation this weekend than I’ve had any other weekends. I continue to show up and do the best that I can. Some weekends are better than others, and that’s life. That’s racing. Obviously to get a pole is great. It shows that we figured something out from our qualifying package, which we’re going to try to bring on to the rest of the season. Q.  To continue your run of dominance on road courses, I feel like Alex Palou has been able to circumvent that into many championships here in INDYCAR and you’re pretty good on the street courses, as well. How does it feel to prove that, as well, or continue to prove that?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: You know, right now I’m taking it a day at a time. Of course I’m focused on the race tomorrow. I feel like there’s races coming up as a team where we’ll be strong, and that’s really where we have to maximize on the 10. We have a better chance of winning tomorrow than obviously he does, and I feel like I can speak for Pato, as well. We’re fourth and fifth in the championship; this is a good opportunity for us to score more points and catch up. But again, we can’t really keep thinking that way. We need to be doing the best that we can and win races, and then the rest will take care of itself. Q.  How much does it mean to you guys as a team to get one up on Alex Palou this weekend?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: I mean, I don’t really know. This is what we’re here to do. It hurts losing, and at the end of the day, he’s done a tremendous job for such a long time. Still is. Just wasn’t his day, I guess. PATO O’WARD: He’s still leading the championship. Today means nothing. I’m not focused on Alex. I’m trying to maximize my weekends. I think when you do that, that’s what’s going to take you to have a chance to win the championship, whether it’s going to be against Palou, whether it’s going to be against Newgarden, whether it’s going to be against Malukas. You don’t know. But I think it’s important to really focus on what your packages are because a lot of the times you might get pretty close in points. No one has in the last few years. But you can be pretty close in points at the end of the year. The good races for each of you can look very different. I think it’s just all about knowing what’s under you. Q.  Christian, with the delay and the rain, did you feel any difference grip-wise on the track? And earlier today your driving colleagues from INDY NXT said it’s very difficult to overtake in a traffic situation. What’s your opinion about that?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: I mean, on the rain delay, I love driving in the rain, so even if it was going to be wet, I wouldn’t really have cared too much. I feel like all of us would have enjoyed it. I wouldn’t really say there was a big difference, in all honesty. I feel like the lap times were relatively similar. I think we’re all expecting a bigger speed gap compared to P2, but again, the temperature is warmer, so that slows us down. Going into tomorrow, we have strategy as well. It’s between a three- and a two-stop, so there’s plenty of opportunity I feel like. Yeah, it’s going to be difficult to overtake if everybody is doing the same thing, but I feel like we’ll find our way. Q.  Pato, you mentioned at the end of Detroit that you felt like the Chevy was a little bit behind the Honda and you mentioned a couple of minutes ago that you feel like that gap is kind of closed. Obviously five of the Fast Six were Chevrolet powered. Where has that gap been made up between the two engines for you?PATO O’WARD: Everybody at Chevrolet and GM have really put on a board really what we needed, right. They’re very aware of where we’ve been lacking or where we’ve had to improve. I mean, every single — after every single weekend they’re always trying to give us more tools, more of everything just to be able to get us to that position, whether it’s a feeling, whether it’s all around just better drivability. They’re hitting every single angle, and I feel like they’ve really tried to cater, not just to all of us in the Chevy camp, but also to what the teams are specifically asking for. It’s not always what we ask for is what Penske is asking for and stuff. I think they’ve been great to work with all this time, and obviously we put all this time and effort telling them what we need from them. They’re doing as they should and like we are. We’re pushing each other, and we’re telling each other what we need to just have better chances at the end of the year because it’s definitely been a tough one. Q.  Christian, you mentioned on Friday that it’s just been business as usual for you in the cockpit. But you’ve had so much success this year, particularly on the road courses. Was there a change in the off-season? Did you do anything differently to prepare? Is there any kind of a mindset change, or is it just, as you said on Friday, business as usual?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: I kept playing golf. (Laughter). No, in all honesty, I feel like we were gaining so much momentum throughout last year. At the end of the day, we had two great races in Portland and Laguna last year, two road courses, and again, they’re still yet to come. What can we do there at the end of this year. But I feel like our road course package has been really good on Sunday, and we’ve definitely struggled in qualifying. I don’t think that’s a secret. I think that’s why today feels better as a team to be one-two because I feel like we definitely have struggled in qualifying.

Tune-In Guide Sunday, July 5 NTT INDYCAR SERIES Warm Up – 9am (ET)/8am (CT)/7am (MT)/6am (PT) – FS1/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio (90 laps)– 12:30pm (ET)/11:30:am (CT)/10:30am (MT)/9:30am (PT) – FOX/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218

Scott McLaughlin (Team Penske) is interviewed after winning the 2022 race at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course

Chevrolet at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car CourseChevrolet wins at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course: 122024 – Pato O’Ward – Arrow McLaren2022 – Scott McLaughlin – Team Penske2021 – Josef Newgarden – Team Penske2020 Race #1 – Will Power – Team Penske2017 – Josef Newgarden – Team Penske2016 – Simon Pagenaud – Team Penske2014 – Scott Dixon – Chip Ganassi Racing1993 – Emerson Fittipaldi – Team Penske1992 – Emerson Fittipaldi – Team Penske1991 – Michael Andretti – Newman Haas Racing1990 – Michael Andretti – Newman Haas Racing 1988 – Emerson Fittipaldi – Patrick RacingChevrolet poles at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course: 132022 – Pato O’Ward – Arrow McLaren2021 – Josef Newgarden – Team Penske2020 Race #1 – Will Power – Team Penske2019 – Will Power – Team Penske2017 – Will Power – Team Penske2016 – Simon Pagenaud – Team Penske2015 – Scott Dixon – Chip Ganassi Racing2014 – Sebastien Bourdais – KV Racing Technology2013 – Ryan Hunter-Reay – Andretti Global2012 – Will Power – Team Penske1991 – Michael Andretti – Newman Haas Racing1990 – Michael Andretti – Newman Haas Racing 1988 – Danny Sullivan – Team Penske Chevrolet podiums at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course: 34Chevrolet podiums at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course by driver: Will Power (7), Emerson Fittipaldi (4), Michael Andretti (3), Josef Newgarden (3), Al Unser Jr. (3), Mario Andretti (2), Scott McLaughlin (2), Simon Pagenaud (2), Sebastien Bourdais (1), Christian Lundgaard (1), Rick Mears (1), Pato O’Ward (1), Bob Rahal (1), Danny Sullivan (1) and Paul Tracy (1).  Chevrolet podiums at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course by team: Team Penske (19), Newman Haas Racing (6), Galles Racing (4), Arrow McLaren (2), Chip Ganassi Racing (1), KV Racing Technology (1) and Patrick Racing (1) Chevrolet laps led at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course: 1034Chevrolet laps led at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course by driver: Will Power (178), Emerson Fittipaldi (168), Michael Andretti (152), Scott Dixon (67), Pato O’Ward (52), Scott McLaughlin (49), Mario Andretti (44), Sebastien Bourdais (38), Ryan Hunter-Reay (30), Juan Montoya (30), Simon Pagenaud (23), Paul Tracy (23), Al Unser Jr. (11), Helio Castroneves (6), James Hinchcliffe (2), and Danny Sullivan (2) Chevrolet laps led at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course by team: Team Penske (573), Newman Haas Racing (196), Chip Ganassi Racing (67), Patrick Racing (63), Arrow McLaren (52), KV Racing Technology (38), Andretti Global (32), Galles Racing (11), and ECR (2) Manufacturer History at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car CourseWins (with competition)13 – Honda (2025, 2023, 2020 Race #2, 2019, 2018, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2001, 2000, 1999 1997, 1996)12 – Chevrolet (2024, 2022, 2021, 2020 Race #1, 2017, 2016, 2014, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989)6 – Cosworth (1987, 1986, 1986, 1984, 1983, 1980)2 – Ford (2002, 1998)1 – Ilmor (1994)1 – Mercedes (1995)1 – Porsche (1989)Poles (with competition)13 – Chevrolet (2022, 2021, 2020 Race #1, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 1991, 1990, 1988)10 – Honda (2025, 2024, 2023, 2020 Race #2, 2018, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1996)6 – Cosworth (1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1980)5 – Ford (2002, 1997, 1995, 1993, 1992)1 – Ilmor (1994)1 – Porsche (1989)

Christian Lundgaard grabbed his second pole with Chevrolet power, leading an all Arrow McLaren front row, including Pato O’Ward

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CHEVROLET IN THE NTT INDYCAR SERIESHonda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio2.258-Mile, 13-Turn Mid-Ohio road courseLexington, OhioSaturday Qualifying ReportJuly 4, 2026 LEXINGTON, Ohio (July 4, 2026) – For the third time in the last season and a half, the Arrow McLaren duo of Christian Lundgaard and Pato O’Ward locked out the front row of an NTT INDYCAR SERIES race. Today on the 2.258-Mile, 13-Turn Mid-Ohio road course, it was the No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet piloted by Lundgaard that was quickest of the drivers in papaya, besting the No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet of Pato O’Ward by three-hundredths of a second.  David Malukas in the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet, Christian Rasmussen in the No. 21 Splenda Chevrolet and Rinus VeeKay in the No. 76 Juncos Hollinger Racing Chevrolet made it five of six for the Bowtie brigade in the Firestone Fast Six.  After a weather hold of just over two hours and 33 minutes, the dozen drivers in the first group got qualifying underway on a dry, but cooling track. Four of the six cars transferring featured Bowties on the nose, with Christian Rasmussen in the No. 21 Splenda Chevrolet the quickest, and joined by Pato O’Ward in the No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet, David Malukas in the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet and Rinus VeeKay in the No. 76 Juncos Hollinger Racing Chevrolet.  Times began to fall in the second group, and when the clock reached zero, three of the six drivers advancing to the Fast 12 were Chevrolet-powered, led by Christian Lundgaard in the No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet. The quickest Chevrolet runner in practice was joined by Josef Newgarden in the No. 2 PPG Team Penske Chevrolet and Caio Collet in the No. 4 Combitrans Amazonia Chevrolet.  In the Fast 12, the sixth-quickest driver, VeeKay, was a slim tenth of a second ahead of Collet in 11th, with Newgarden only missing out by three hundredths of a second. Malukas topped the group with a time of 64.7099 seconds, the quickest lap of the day.  Chevrolet numbers: Lundgaard’s pole is the 248th all-time earned pole for a Chevrolet-powered driver and the 144th earned pole since the introduction of the 2.2L Twin-Turbo V6 in 2012.Lundgaard’s pole is the 14th earned pole for a Chevrolet-powered driver at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course and the 11th since the introduction of the 2.2L Twin-Turbo V6 in 2012Lundgaard’s pole is his 4th all-time and 2nd with Team ChevyLundgaard’s pole is Arrow McLaren’s 29th all-time and their 13th pole with Chevrolet power.  Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio – Qualifying Results:

What They’re Saying – Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio race David Malukas, No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet qualified 4th:“Overall, really good. When you look back from last year to today. This track was actually our worst. We did a lot of work in the off-season to get it turned around. These guys did a fantastic job. We were in the Firestone Fast Six, when last year we didn’t get to Q2. A big difference. Big kudos to these guys. In Practice 1, we weren’t anywhere near where we needed to be and they flipped this car and we are in the Fast Six. A really good day. A few mistakes from my side in that Q3 from my side to learn from. We’re still learning every single day and making ourselves a better team every single day. Looking really strong for tomorrow.” Christian Lundgaard, No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet qualified on pole:“I honestly didn’t get off to the best of starts in Turn 11 and Turn 1 was a little messy. Had a big overseer out of 12 and13 as well. We knew it was a one lap tire, when it was a one lap shootout, really, for all of us. So, I’m happy at this point. We’ve got to go finish it off tomorrow, but at least we’re in the hunt for three road courses in a row.” Pato O’Ward, No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet qualified 2nd:“I’ve got to thank the guys and gals at Arrow McLaren and Team Chevy. That’s a great Fast Six for them as well. Congrats to Christian on the pole. Good to be running out and on the front row heading into turn one. It’s a pretty good view. I’ve been happy with my car all weekend, and we’ve got a good one to make it happen tomorrow.” Christian Rasmussen, No. 21 Splenda Chevrolet qualified 5th:“That was pretty good! America’s birthday brought some good things for us here. Starting 5th at Mid-Ohio, my best start in the NTT INDYCAR SERIES to date and also my first Fast 6. I can’t believe it’s taken us this long but now that monkey is off our back! We’re going into tomorrow confident and we’ll see what we can do. We’re excited, the No. 21 Splenda Chevrolet is a good racecar.” Rinus VeeKay, No. 76 Juncos Hollinger Chevrolet qualified 6th:“Really good qualifying here at Mid-Ohio. That was Sting Ray’s best road course qualifying of the season so far and also ours. Really good job by the team. Testing here really helped. I think we found a good set-up for a place like this. We did the right thing from practice two. We got lost there, and we went back, and did the right things for qualifying. Really good job there by the Juncos Hollinger Racing team. Ready for tomorrow.”Josef Newgarden, No. 2 PPG Team Penske Chevrolet qualified 9th:“The car is on rails. I think David is showing it from the speed standpoint in the Firestone Fast Six. I think the car has just been lovely to drive right from the start. Having a great test here last week with Felipe (Nasr); he did a phenomenal job. We’ve learned a lot. Team Chevy has done tremendous for us leading into this. I feel really positive going into the race. We’d like to have a great result with this special PPG livery and have something to celebrate” Caio Collet, No. 4 Combitrans Amazonia Chevrolet qualified 11th:“From where we were this morning, a good improvement. Very, very close, just a tenth (of a second) away from the Firestone Fast Six. I think we could have done a little bit better there, with maybe executing a little bit better in the last run in the Fast 12. Overall, very happy with how we progressed from this morning, and I think we have very good pace for tomorrow.”Nolan Siegel, No. 6 NTT DATA Arrow McLaren Chevrolet qualified 15th, and will start 14th: “Disappointing day. I was focused on translating our potential into a deeper run into Qualifying, but it wasn’t in the cards. We’ll be ready to move forward tomorrow. Of course, congrats to the team, Team Chevy, Christian and Pato for going 1-2.” Scott McLaughlin, No. 3 Good Ranchers Team Penske Chevrolet qualified 17th, but will start 16th:“We were just too loose there which was really unfortunate for the Good Rancher Chevy It was just really hard to maximize the car when you sort of don’t really have the confidence on the (corner) entry with the rear of the car. We had a really good car in our first and second practices, so frustrated to miss out there, but that is what it is. We’ll just see what we got in morning warmup. We just got out there and have a play, and We definitely are better than we were here right now. Just a frustrating miss out there. So close in INDYCAR, you can’t miss it. So that’s what it is.”  Alexander Rossi, No. 20 ECR Java House Chevrolet qualified 18th, but will start 17th:“We made a lot of progress. We only ran one set of the alternates there because we use a set in practice two and that time that we was good enough to get through in round one. So, we were trying not to relegate ourselves to twelfth because we would have had to use another set for round two. It was an aggressive decision to sit on the time and hope it was good enough, and it was by six-hundreths. That’s the way it goes.  “It’s (the package) infinitely better than it has been through the sessions leading up to this, so we’ve made progress. Both cars have worked well together to evolve as the weekend goes on. I’m much more confident after that session, despite the result.” Sting Ray Robb, No. 77 Juncos Hollinger – Goodheart Chevrolet qualified 14th, and will start 21st after a penalty for an unapproved engine change:“I’m really proud of the team. This is the best car we’ve had rolling off the truck ever. Disappointed not being inside the Firestone Fast Six today. I think we had a car and the ability to do that. Congrats to Rinus ​for being in the Fast Six. The engine penalty doesn’t help us going into tomorrow. Props to the team. It’s really exciting to make big steps like this and it’s really fun to drive.” Santino Ferrucci, No. 14 Homes For Our Troops Chevrolet qualified 22nd:Santino: “Honestly, this weekend we have not been competitive at all. We’ve been working very diligently to close the gap and to be honest and we did kind of just that. We’ve just been struggling to find a change in the car that will give us some reaction. But what it came down to in qualifying is we were on the wrong side of one tenth of a second which is about the rate you blink your eyes. Honestly It’s just a bit of a bummer so because instead of starting in the fast 12, we start 22nd—that’s just how close it is. We’re gonna have to drive through the field tomorrow and see what we can do.”

Pato O’Ward during qualifying at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course

NTT INDYCAR SERIES News ConferenceSaturday, July 4, 2026Christian Lundgaard Pato O’WardPress Conference THE MODERATOR: Good afternoon. Wrapping up qualifying for tomorrow’s the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio presented by the 2027 CR-V Hybrid. Christian Lundgaard in the No. 7 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet, best start here at Mid-Ohio, second straight front-row start at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, first pole since Portland last year, fourth career NTT P1 award. Pato O’Ward will start second, third front-row start here at Mid-Ohio and third of the season. Congratulations, Christian. Your thoughts on pole position and having the best view of tomorrow’s race at the start? CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Yeah, we’ve been fast all weekend, so I feel like it was just the goal at the end of the day. Obviously we qualified second here last year, and to do it any better, it was one position. To have it as a team, too, at the end of the day, if it’s one way or the other, I don’t think it really matters. We’re leading the show tomorrow, and we can dictate the pace. So I think that will be at least our strongest benefit tomorrow. Q.  Pato, just your thoughts on a great day for the team?PATO O’WARD: Yeah, I think it’s a great result for the team. Like Christian said, I think we’ve got the best view going into Turn 1. I think it’s — well, Turn 4 because we’re starting on the backstretch. But yeah, it’s a good look to have an all-papaya front row and the cars have been strong all weekend and they have been in the past, obviously. It’s not a stranger for us to look forward to a Sunday here and feel like we can really have a very strong ending result. Q.  Christian, as a competitor, after what you’ve been through the last 24 hours, just how cool is this to be able to pull this off, just from a competitive aspect?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Well, at the end of the day for me it’s just noise. Once you’re in the car, I don’t really think anything matters. The talk is for next year, not this year.I still have a job to do and a job to finish. Q.  Pato, as his teammate, you’ve probably developed a pretty close relationship with him. How cool is this from your standpoint to see what he was able to do even though it kept you from winning the pole?PATO O’WARD: No, I think we’ve had a very strong pairing, to be honest, in the last two years. This is not the first time that we’re sharing a front row, and I think what we strive to do every single weekend is just this, right? Like this is what we want to be doing. This is where we want to be positioning our race team and our engine manufacturer, which it was good to see this qualifying session was quite strong for Team Chevy, so thanks to them for bringing a good package for us this weekend for all of us to try and get it done.Yeah, this is what you want when you have a teammate. You want to be able to push each other. You want to be able to keep striving for the ultimate ceiling, right, which a lot of the times you don’t know where it is. So far, I think we’ve done our jobs, and we’re trying to really maximize the package that we’ve got. Q.  Christian, you mentioned you’ve been fast in every session. Do you almost feel like going into tomorrow you might have more confidence than you’ve had at any of the other races so far this year?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: I mean, you know, I was very vocal in the beginning of the season that we just had to qualify better, right, and the results would be even better than they had been at the time. We proved it at Indy Road Course, qualifying further up. Road America is still sort of a mystery to me how we ended up where we did. Obviously the car was fast, but we needed some lucky yellows to just put us back in play. Here we can dictate the pace. We know the car is fast in race trim. I don’t necessarily think it gets me more confidence in that regard. We just have to focus on in warmup tomorrow to be able to produce the best race car, as well. Q.  A couple months ago Tony Kanaan was talking about your contract and said when he drove, he always told owners or whoever his boss was that he wanted them to let him know if he was being fired. Has he or Zak Brown or anybody extended that same grace and transparency to you in the past few weeks?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: I mean, there’s a lot of talks back and forth. At the end of the day, I still have a job to do now. What next year brings, at the end of the day, I still don’t know. My guess is as good as yours is from that regard. But as long as I keep doing the best that I can and keep winning races, I feel like those results speak for themselves. Q.  Pato, you talked a lot about trying to get your first podium of the year. If there comes a situation where maybe you risk — do you want your team to roll the dice if you have to to win versus maybe play it safe or a top 3?PATO O’WARD: I mean, I don’t think we’re in a position to be rolling the dice, to be honest. We have a good position. There’s a lot of things that can happen. I’ve started in the front row other times this year, and we’ve had some happy pedalers behind that pumped us or take us out. You cannot control that. I cannot control that. I also cannot control if we have a hiccup in the pits. I cannot control that. All I can do is maximize what I’ve got inside of the race car, and I truly believe that’s what I’ve been doing this year. I don’t think I’ve driven as well as I have this year. Sadly, the results I don’t think are well correlated with that, but I think there’s a lot of little things that have been costing us a lot of just much better results in certain areas.My hope for tomorrow is just to have a clean race. I don’t need the fastest pit stops. I don’t need the best strategy. I don’t need extremely lucky yellows. All I need is a nice smooth race, and I’m more than skilled enough to get the job done. Q.  For either of you, it seemed like yesterday it was so hot, you could really get a good gauge on the softs. Did you get a good gauge today, and did they react the way you expected them to?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Well, I think considering all qualifying laps was done on lap 2, I feel like that is a pretty good indication. Q.  Christian, starting on pole, how much does that mean to you to get that spot, especially with all the noise?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Yeah, I mean, it doesn’t really make a difference, right? For me, I’m going to continue to do the best that I can. It’s not like I’ve had more motivation this weekend than I’ve had any other weekends. I continue to show up and do the best that I can. Some weekends are better than others, and that’s life. That’s racing. Obviously to get a pole is great. It shows that we figured something out from our qualifying package, which we’re going to try to bring on to the rest of the season. Q.  To continue your run of dominance on road courses, I feel like Alex Palou has been able to circumvent that into many championships here in INDYCAR and you’re pretty good on the street courses, as well. How does it feel to prove that, as well, or continue to prove that?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: You know, right now I’m taking it a day at a time. Of course I’m focused on the race tomorrow. I feel like there’s races coming up as a team where we’ll be strong, and that’s really where we have to maximize on the 10. We have a better chance of winning tomorrow than obviously he does, and I feel like I can speak for Pato, as well. We’re fourth and fifth in the championship; this is a good opportunity for us to score more points and catch up. But again, we can’t really keep thinking that way. We need to be doing the best that we can and win races, and then the rest will take care of itself. Q.  How much does it mean to you guys as a team to get one up on Alex Palou this weekend?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: I mean, I don’t really know. This is what we’re here to do. It hurts losing, and at the end of the day, he’s done a tremendous job for such a long time. Still is. Just wasn’t his day, I guess. PATO O’WARD: He’s still leading the championship. Today means nothing. I’m not focused on Alex. I’m trying to maximize my weekends. I think when you do that, that’s what’s going to take you to have a chance to win the championship, whether it’s going to be against Palou, whether it’s going to be against Newgarden, whether it’s going to be against Malukas. You don’t know. But I think it’s important to really focus on what your packages are because a lot of the times you might get pretty close in points. No one has in the last few years. But you can be pretty close in points at the end of the year. The good races for each of you can look very different. I think it’s just all about knowing what’s under you. Q.  Christian, with the delay and the rain, did you feel any difference grip-wise on the track? And earlier today your driving colleagues from INDY NXT said it’s very difficult to overtake in a traffic situation. What’s your opinion about that?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: I mean, on the rain delay, I love driving in the rain, so even if it was going to be wet, I wouldn’t really have cared too much. I feel like all of us would have enjoyed it. I wouldn’t really say there was a big difference, in all honesty. I feel like the lap times were relatively similar. I think we’re all expecting a bigger speed gap compared to P2, but again, the temperature is warmer, so that slows us down. Going into tomorrow, we have strategy as well. It’s between a three- and a two-stop, so there’s plenty of opportunity I feel like. Yeah, it’s going to be difficult to overtake if everybody is doing the same thing, but I feel like we’ll find our way. Q.  Pato, you mentioned at the end of Detroit that you felt like the Chevy was a little bit behind the Honda and you mentioned a couple of minutes ago that you feel like that gap is kind of closed. Obviously five of the Fast Six were Chevrolet powered. Where has that gap been made up between the two engines for you?PATO O’WARD: Everybody at Chevrolet and GM have really put on a board really what we needed, right. They’re very aware of where we’ve been lacking or where we’ve had to improve. I mean, every single — after every single weekend they’re always trying to give us more tools, more of everything just to be able to get us to that position, whether it’s a feeling, whether it’s all around just better drivability. They’re hitting every single angle, and I feel like they’ve really tried to cater, not just to all of us in the Chevy camp, but also to what the teams are specifically asking for. It’s not always what we ask for is what Penske is asking for and stuff. I think they’ve been great to work with all this time, and obviously we put all this time and effort telling them what we need from them. They’re doing as they should and like we are. We’re pushing each other, and we’re telling each other what we need to just have better chances at the end of the year because it’s definitely been a tough one. Q.  Christian, you mentioned on Friday that it’s just been business as usual for you in the cockpit. But you’ve had so much success this year, particularly on the road courses. Was there a change in the off-season? Did you do anything differently to prepare? Is there any kind of a mindset change, or is it just, as you said on Friday, business as usual?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: I kept playing golf. (Laughter). No, in all honesty, I feel like we were gaining so much momentum throughout last year. At the end of the day, we had two great races in Portland and Laguna last year, two road courses, and again, they’re still yet to come. What can we do there at the end of this year. But I feel like our road course package has been really good on Sunday, and we’ve definitely struggled in qualifying. I don’t think that’s a secret. I think that’s why today feels better as a team to be one-two because I feel like we definitely have struggled in qualifying.

Tune-In Guide Sunday, July 5 NTT INDYCAR SERIES Warm Up – 9am (ET)/8am (CT)/7am (MT)/6am (PT) – FS1/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio (90 laps)– 12:30pm (ET)/11:30:am (CT)/10:30am (MT)/9:30am (PT) – FOX/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218

Scott McLaughlin (Team Penske) is interviewed after winning the 2022 race at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course

Chevrolet at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car CourseChevrolet wins at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course: 122024 – Pato O’Ward – Arrow McLaren2022 – Scott McLaughlin – Team Penske2021 – Josef Newgarden – Team Penske2020 Race #1 – Will Power – Team Penske2017 – Josef Newgarden – Team Penske2016 – Simon Pagenaud – Team Penske2014 – Scott Dixon – Chip Ganassi Racing1993 – Emerson Fittipaldi – Team Penske1992 – Emerson Fittipaldi – Team Penske1991 – Michael Andretti – Newman Haas Racing1990 – Michael Andretti – Newman Haas Racing 1988 – Emerson Fittipaldi – Patrick RacingChevrolet poles at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course: 132022 – Pato O’Ward – Arrow McLaren2021 – Josef Newgarden – Team Penske2020 Race #1 – Will Power – Team Penske2019 – Will Power – Team Penske2017 – Will Power – Team Penske2016 – Simon Pagenaud – Team Penske2015 – Scott Dixon – Chip Ganassi Racing2014 – Sebastien Bourdais – KV Racing Technology2013 – Ryan Hunter-Reay – Andretti Global2012 – Will Power – Team Penske1991 – Michael Andretti – Newman Haas Racing1990 – Michael Andretti – Newman Haas Racing 1988 – Danny Sullivan – Team Penske Chevrolet podiums at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course: 34Chevrolet podiums at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course by driver: Will Power (7), Emerson Fittipaldi (4), Michael Andretti (3), Josef Newgarden (3), Al Unser Jr. (3), Mario Andretti (2), Scott McLaughlin (2), Simon Pagenaud (2), Sebastien Bourdais (1), Christian Lundgaard (1), Rick Mears (1), Pato O’Ward (1), Bob Rahal (1), Danny Sullivan (1) and Paul Tracy (1).  Chevrolet podiums at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course by team: Team Penske (19), Newman Haas Racing (6), Galles Racing (4), Arrow McLaren (2), Chip Ganassi Racing (1), KV Racing Technology (1) and Patrick Racing (1) Chevrolet laps led at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course: 1034Chevrolet laps led at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course by driver: Will Power (178), Emerson Fittipaldi (168), Michael Andretti (152), Scott Dixon (67), Pato O’Ward (52), Scott McLaughlin (49), Mario Andretti (44), Sebastien Bourdais (38), Ryan Hunter-Reay (30), Juan Montoya (30), Simon Pagenaud (23), Paul Tracy (23), Al Unser Jr. (11), Helio Castroneves (6), James Hinchcliffe (2), and Danny Sullivan (2) Chevrolet laps led at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course by team: Team Penske (573), Newman Haas Racing (196), Chip Ganassi Racing (67), Patrick Racing (63), Arrow McLaren (52), KV Racing Technology (38), Andretti Global (32), Galles Racing (11), and ECR (2) Manufacturer History at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car CourseWins (with competition)13 – Honda (2025, 2023, 2020 Race #2, 2019, 2018, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2001, 2000, 1999 1997, 1996)12 – Chevrolet (2024, 2022, 2021, 2020 Race #1, 2017, 2016, 2014, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989)6 – Cosworth (1987, 1986, 1986, 1984, 1983, 1980)2 – Ford (2002, 1998)1 – Ilmor (1994)1 – Mercedes (1995)1 – Porsche (1989)Poles (with competition)13 – Chevrolet (2022, 2021, 2020 Race #1, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 1991, 1990, 1988)10 – Honda (2025, 2024, 2023, 2020 Race #2, 2018, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1996)6 – Cosworth (1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1980)5 – Ford (2002, 1997, 1995, 1993, 1992)1 – Ilmor (1994)1 – Porsche (1989)

July 4, 2026 — MANSFIELD, OH

• Will Power leads Honda drivers with P3 start in the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio
• Andretti Global qualifies all three drivers in the top-10
• Alex Palou eighth, snapping streak of five-consecutive pole positions

Will Power led Honda-powered NTT INDYCAR SERIES drivers, qualifying his #26 Andretti Global Machine third for the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio presented by the 2027 CR-V Hybrid.

This is Power’s second-best starting position since moving to the Andretti Global team for the 2026 season, following his front row start at the Detroit Grand Prix last month.

Power’s Andretti Global teammates of Marcus Ericsson and Kyle Kirkwood also qualified in the top 10, lining up seventh and tenth respectively in an incredibly tight qualifying session. Fourth through 10th in the Top-12 round of qualifying were separated by less than one tenth of a second.

Championship leader Alex Palou’s streak of consecutive pole positions came to an end today, he will start eighth after claiming pole position at the previous five races.

Ohio-born Graham Rahal also made it through to the Top-12 round of qualifying, the 2015 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course winner will roll off P12.

Marcus Armstrong qualified 24th in his Acura-branded Honda Indy car with Meyer Shank Racing. Armstrong’s Acura Honda is the third appearance of Acura branding this season—following strong runs for Felix Rosenqvist at the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, where he started from pole and finished second, and Armstrong himself at the Indy 500 where he finished fifth after leading at the white flag. Acura has activated around the IndyCar series in 2026 to celebrate 40 years of the Acura brand and help introduce the automaker to a new, and growing, audience in IndyCar.

Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio presented by the 2027 CR-V Hybrid Honda Qualifying Results

• 3rd Will Power
• 7th Marcus Ericsson
• 8th Alex Palou
• 10th Kyle Kirkwood
• 12th Graham Rahal
• 13th Felix Rosenqvist
• 16th Mick Schumacher– R
• 19th Louis Foster
• 20th Kyffin Simpson
• 21st Scott Dixon  
• 23rd Romain Grosjean
• 24th Marcus Armstrong
• 25th Dennis Hauger– R

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Power qualifies third in the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio

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July 4, 2026 — MANSFIELD, OH

• Will Power leads Honda drivers with P3 start in the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio
• Andretti Global qualifies all three drivers in the top-10
• Alex Palou eighth, snapping streak of five-consecutive pole positions

Will Power led Honda-powered NTT INDYCAR SERIES drivers, qualifying his #26 Andretti Global Machine third for the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio presented by the 2027 CR-V Hybrid.

This is Power’s second-best starting position since moving to the Andretti Global team for the 2026 season, following his front row start at the Detroit Grand Prix last month.

Power’s Andretti Global teammates of Marcus Ericsson and Kyle Kirkwood also qualified in the top 10, lining up seventh and tenth respectively in an incredibly tight qualifying session. Fourth through 10th in the Top-12 round of qualifying were separated by less than one tenth of a second.

Championship leader Alex Palou’s streak of consecutive pole positions came to an end today, he will start eighth after claiming pole position at the previous five races.

Ohio-born Graham Rahal also made it through to the Top-12 round of qualifying, the 2015 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course winner will roll off P12.

Marcus Armstrong qualified 24th in his Acura-branded Honda Indy car with Meyer Shank Racing. Armstrong’s Acura Honda is the third appearance of Acura branding this season—following strong runs for Felix Rosenqvist at the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, where he started from pole and finished second, and Armstrong himself at the Indy 500 where he finished fifth after leading at the white flag. Acura has activated around the IndyCar series in 2026 to celebrate 40 years of the Acura brand and help introduce the automaker to a new, and growing, audience in IndyCar.

Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio presented by the 2027 CR-V Hybrid Honda Qualifying Results

• 3rd Will Power
• 7th Marcus Ericsson
• 8th Alex Palou
• 10th Kyle Kirkwood
• 12th Graham Rahal
• 13th Felix Rosenqvist
• 16th Mick Schumacher– R
• 19th Louis Foster
• 20th Kyffin Simpson
• 21st Scott Dixon  
• 23rd Romain Grosjean
• 24th Marcus Armstrong
• 25th Dennis Hauger– R

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Chip Ganassi Racing Honda
Andretti Global Honda
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Honda
Meyer Shank Racing Honda
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Dale Coyne Racing Honda
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Will Power (#26 Andretti Global Honda) qualified third: “That was really good for us. I’m glad we got qualifying completed in the dry because I felt like we had a good car and we were in a position where we could capitalize in those conditions. We left nothing on the table there. I think it was just so, so close in the Fast Six. It could’ve gone any way, there was just a little bit of everything in those final runs. I’m really happy with our Honda, we’ve been having really good races with it lately. I’m looking forward to tomorrow.”

NASCAR CUP SERIES CHICAGOLAND SPEEDWAY TEAM CHEVY DRIVER QUOTES JULY 4, 2026

Austin Dillon, driver of the No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet, met with the media in advance of the NASCAR Cup Series qualifying session at Chicagoland Speedway.

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NASCAR CUP SERIESCHICAGOLAND SPEEDWAYTEAM CHEVY DRIVER QUOTESJULY 4, 2026

Austin Dillon, driver of the No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet, met with the media in advance of the NASCAR Cup Series qualifying session at Chicagoland Speedway.

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Media Availability Quotes:  The other day, you had the chance to travel to Washington D.C. You went to the Great American State Fair, and you got to sit with Richard Childress and Steve O’Donnell. Can you talk to us a little bit about that?“Yeah, it was a special backdrop for sure, being in front of the Capitol and hanging out with Jim Campbell, Steve O’Donnell, our Secretary of Labor and Secretary of Agriculture, just talking about the impact that NASCAR has had over 250 years; the impact that cars, the automobile industry and motorsports continues to have; and the employees that we were able to create with the innovation of our sport. It was very special and it was an awesome experience.”    How did it feel showing former NFL players that you’re kind of ready for a combine with that bench press performance?“When I showed up in there — Paul Swan is always full of juice and him and Taylor (Lewan) were wrestling around in there and I was like, gosh, man, I do not want him to hit me like that or break me in half. They finally calmed down and Taylor was like, hey, before we go on the bus, the tradition is everybody throws up 145 for a couple… are you in? And I’m like, oh, it was probably a year after COVID the last time I benched (laughs). I was trying to make excuses and they were like, look, Noah (Gragson) kind of started it and he did four. And I’m like, shoot, if I can’t do four, I just need to go home. And they were like, William (Byron) didn’t do it. Jesse (Love) did like two. And I’m like, dude, I can do this. Paul’s like, hey, you got 15, no problem. So I went one more than what Paul said and I was pretty proud of that. My lower back started to lock up at 15, so I called it quits after that.”    Practice yesterday, with the different patches, the seams, just everything kind of going on with this aged surface; do you have a good idea of what lane will be best when you’re heading out there for qualifying or kind of have to just go all out?“Yeah, I think it seemed like in turns one and two, a lane or two up was the fastest way through there. It was cool to see the rubber start to lay down and the track gradually move up. I think we’ll be out by the fence pretty fast in the race tomorrow in turn one and two. Turn three and four, it seems like it takes a little bit longer for that to come in or the speed to just slow down. I do think that’s where the race will be. We’ll be up by the fence by the end of it. The bumps are definitely two of the biggest factors that you’re trying to build your car around; the entry to one and then dead center of three and four. I thought we did a decent job making our car better there. But overall, we just need raw speed from our camp. Hopefully as the track rubbers up, we can see some fall-off. That’s good for us.”   Should we come back to Chicagoland or just abandon this place and move on?“I hate to abandon any racetrack. Every one of them has character and this one definitely has a lot of character. I would say from a character standpoint, this is the closest thing we have to Homestead or maybe Darlington. But mile-and-a-half wise, this thing has a lot of character, so I love it and I think it’s going to put on a great show for TV. I think the only other factor is showing up. You know, we’ve got to make sure that everybody shows up and enjoys it. But if we put on a good show, I think ticket sales will always go up, and I hope to see that come Sunday.”   Obviously, you had a pretty special experience in Washington D.C. earlier this week. What’s probably your favorite July 4th memory? What was Independence Day like in the Dillon household growing up?“It usually revolved around Daytona, fireworks and good eats. Just tuning into Daytona, usually, on July 4th. That’s what I remember it as growing up.”    Where have you seen Austin Hill make the biggest growth since he got into the sport, especially now since he’s kind of expanding his repertoire with Cup racing?“I think he has won at every level when it comes to the Truck and O’Reilly series. He’s been able to take bad days and turn them into good days. I’ve liked watching him in the O’Reilly Series over the last couple of years of where he consistently just puts himself in position to have a shot. He’s consistent. I think that ability to take one step at a time makes him a consistent factor.  While we were first meeting about Austin, it was like, you know, you’re always going to have a shot at road courses and speedways with him in the car. That’s a big percentage of our races. I feel like he’s a high-percentage road racer and speedway racer. And then, there are certain mile-and-a-halves and short tracks that he’s just going to get better. That’s going to take the time from the Next Gen side, just understanding the differences between an O’Reilly’s car and a Cup car when you get to these ovals. That learning curve takes a minute. But I think on speedways and road racing, he’s going to be competitive each and every time.”   I talked to your brother, Ty (Dillon), yesterday, and he said somewhere down the road, he sees the two of you running the company. He said you guys are kind of yin to the other’s yang. Talk about the balance between the two of you and what makes you guys work so well together.“Yeah, for sure. I think we’ve always had different personalities, but probably one is my mom and one is my dad. I don’t know. Each one of them would claim different parts of us, I feel like.  I’m so proud of what Ty’s been able to do, taking a different path and learning a lot, so I think his angle and view of things is different than mine. Hopefully that meshes well together when the opportunity comes to take RCR to the next level and into the future.”   We’re here the first week of July, the new Chevy body — Can you just kind of assess where you’re at from RCR’s standpoint? Just how has that gone for you and what areas are you working on as you continue to develop this racecar?“Yeah, I think we’re behind, obviously. I think that’s the honest thing to say. I was really excited at the beginning of the year from a drag standpoint. I think at the speedways, we showed promise, so hopefully Atlanta is a good direction for us. But we’re all working hard at Chevrolet to try and get to where we need to be. If you just look at the performance side, we’re not where we need to be. We need to get that new body dialed in as fast as possible and make a concerted effort to catch up.”    You look at Austin Hill and the qualifying has been there. The results are starting to get better and better. You look around the landscape a little bit. It seems to make sense that he would stay in the car into next year on the Cup side. Is that fair to say?“I think he’s doing a great job. You know, I’m not going to ‘Christopher Bell’ what the future is of that (laughs). I’ll wait and let RCR make that call.”    I got your reaction back at the All-Star race when you found out that Richard (Childress) was going to go back racing. But now, we’re about 13 days away from him being back on the track. Has he done any preparation for the New England 900? What have you gotten to experience?“All I told him is he better get with somebody at the shop and get the cool shirt up to that Crown Vic or whatever he’s driving up there because it’s probably going to be toasty and he’s got to run more miles than he’s used to. I think he’s walking an extra mile a day probably. But I never put anything past my grandfather. He literally can work anybody in the ground, even at his age. All I know is you’ll probably see him use the bumper up there. If he’s fast enough to get to somebody, he’s going to use it and move them. I think my brother’s in the race, too, and (Danny) Stockman, so they’ll have lead blockers and all kinds of stuff. I think it’s his race to lose. Cleetus (McFarland) better put a big power unit in that thing, or he’ll have an ECR engine sent up there if it’s not.”    So just to confirm, you are not going to be in the race?“Cleetus gave me the opportunity, but we’ve got to get our cars running better, and my focus needs to be locked in on that. I just want to make sure everybody in this room knows where my focus is at RCR and trying to make our cars better. They’ve got a great contingency of people that are going to be there with him, and my brother’s going to be doing it, as well, so I think he’ll be taken care of up there.”   Regardless of what the sanctioning body decides to do with the schedule next year, what are going to be some of the keys to continuing to grow and expand this sport in the Chicagoland market?“This market in particular? I mean, why don’t we go dirt racing? There are some awesome dirt tracks in Illinois. That would be awesome. But I don’t know. I’m good with any kind of new ideas. I love going to places for the first time. It creates opportunity for all the drivers. Trying to figure out something the fastest is cool. You see what we were able to do in San Diego at Coronado and just the fanfare there. I mean, they sold out of merch, I believe. One of the best overall merch sales ever was in San Diego, compared to Daytona this year, so that shows you that any type of new idea, any time you put something new in fans’ faces, it’s a good thing.”    To add on to the topic of racing in the Chicago metro, would racing on the Chicago Street Course be something you’d be open to doing again? There’s been murmurs about it, potentially racing at both Chicagoland and the Street Course. How would you feel?“I mean, I loved the street course. It was great. (Carson) Hocevar knocked a fence down in front of me and took me out last year. I had to stop, and I got wiped out. But, I mean, other than that, I’ve had a blast going to downtown Chicago. I think it’s epic. You get great places to eat down there. That really makes me happy. The view is good. The fireworks show was great last year. I think from a July 4th perspective, we’ve got to do a good job of making sure it’s a great show for our fans and the fans that show up.”    What are the goals for the No. 3 team for the second-half of the season, and do you think that the Chevrolet body will have an effect at places like Richmond, where you’ve been so dominant the last two years?“Yeah, I think we’ve got to see a steady incline of performance. We’re in a pretty deep hole right now from where we are to the next person in points, and it’s the same from behind us. But this stretch of races is a great stretch for us with Chicagoland, North Wilkesboro, Indianapolis and Iowa. We can get around Atlanta. All those places are places that we should perform, and if we’re not performing, we’ve got to really reflect on where we’re at. We’re focused on getting a win right now. That’s the biggest thing is trying to figure out a way to get to victory lane. But also, just steady progress. Yesterday, our cars were not where they needed to be on raw speed, but the 10-lap average was a little closer. That just tells me we’ve got to go to work.”    I talked to a couple of IndyCar drivers a few weeks ago when I went to one of their events, and they are just ecstatic about what happened at Phoenix this year and having kind of a combined series race. What do you guys think about teaming up for a combo race in the next couple of years?“I think it’s great. I mean, it makes sense. I think IndyCar and NASCAR, when you look at like America 250 and July 4th, I think you could pair them up because it’s kind of our two forms of racing that really lead the pack in motorsports here. I think it’s a great showcase for what we do in America for motorsports.”    Yesterday, Tyler Reddick got out of the car and said afterwards that the track didn’t act like an old surface. He was kind of thrown for a loop of, I guess, with what he experienced in practice. From your perspective, what did you expect going in versus what happened, and does that change maybe any expectations for tomorrow and how it will race with everybody out there?“I was thinking that there was going to be more fall-off, I think, from that perspective. I thought we only rubbered up like half the track, so as more and more rubber lays down, it will be interesting to see what happens. This tire, I think when you get deeper into runs, it starts to really fade. But like he said, I really didn’t see the forward drive loss that I thought we were going to have. But our car did build quite a bit of air to the right rear, so we’ll see.”

SUMNER, IL (July 3, 2026) — It’s been nearly six years since Frank Heckenast Jr. tasted victory with the DIRTcar Summer Nationals. Friday night at Red Hill Raceway, the drought finally came to an end.

Heckenast, of Frankfort, IL, took the lead on Lap 12 of the main event and never looked back, winning by over five seconds at the big, 4/10-mile oval for career win No. 6 during the 40th anniversary season of the Hell Tour.

“Six years, sixth win — that’s a long time,” Heckenast said. “I’ve had a lot of seconds and a lot of thirds; these are just hard to win. People think if they just show up, they’re gonna win one because they’re out on the road or something. It’s not that easy.”

Heckenast took the green flag from the pole with two-time series champion Jason Feger starting to his outside. Feger got the jump on the initial start of the race but a caution for two cars tangling brought a complete restart with no laps completed.

Feger got another good launch on the second try at the start and looked to be in control until things got dicey in lap traffic on Lap 11. Series points leader, Tanner English, had worked his way into second and was challenging for the lead before a caution slowed that charge.

While Feger maintained the lead on the Lap 11 restart, Heckenast made the move on English for second down the backstretch. As the top three crossed the start/finish line to complete Lap 12, Feger slowed dramatically, revealing a flat right-rear tire as the caution was thrown once again.

With Feger in the pits for repairs, Heckenast inherited the lead for the restart with 26 laps left. What came next was domination from the No. 99JR, leading the rest of the distance unchallenged for his first Summer Nationals win since August 2020.

“I got into a little argument with my dad because I thought we needed two or three tenths in the heat there because Babb and Feger showed three more tenths than we did,” Heckenast said. “But the car felt good, steered good. Not sure what tires everyone put on; we didn’t even look. It was one of those nights where we had the phones down and the heads down and went with the feel of our ass and it worked out.”

English finished second, Sam Seawright finished third, Kyle Hardy was fourth, and Clay Stuckey finished sixth. Feger rebounded from the flat tire to finish sixth.

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The DIRTcar Summer Nationals celebrates July 4 at Highland Speedway in Highland, IL on Saturday.

How can you watch the DIRTcar Summer Nationals? Every race is live on DIRTVision.

Feature (40 Laps): 1. 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr[1]; 2. 96-Tanner English[4]; 3. 16S-Sam Seawright[9]; 4. 99-Kyle Hardy[8]; 5. 15-Clay Stuckey[5]; 6. 25-Jason Feger[2]; 7. 51B-Brandon Carpenter[10]; 8. 74-Mitch McGrath[13]; 9. 31M-Tyler Millwood[6]; 10. 17SR-Brody Smith[18]; 11. 82B-Jason Milam[16]; 12. (DNF) 49-Luke Morey[15]; 13. (DNF) K67-Braiden Keller[12]; 14. (DNF) 17W-Lee Williams[11]; 15. (DNF) 81-Logan Mounce[20]; 16. (DNF) 51-Dean Carpenter[7]; 17. (DNF) 17-Jarrett Jones[14]; 18. (DNF) 80-Tucker Chastain[19]; 19. (DNF) 18-Shannon Babb[3]; 20. (DNF) 67-Gregory Carrico[23]; 21. (DNF) LIL91-Carter Schlenk[22]; 22. (DNF) 91-Rusty Schlenk[17]; 23. (DNF) 30-Mark Voigt[21]

Cole Falloway Scores First Summit Modified Win of 2026 at Red Hill

Kentucky native Cole Falloway stormed into Illinois’ Red Hill Raceway Friday night and emerged a Feature winner with the DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals for the first time in 2026.

Falloway, of Owensboro, KY, made the pass for the lead slightly before the halfway point of the main event and never looked back, banking his fourth career Summit Modified Feature win.

Ray Bollinger led the field into Turn 1 before a two-car tangle in Turns 1 and 2 restacked the field for a complete restart.

Bollinger again took control of the race on the second attempt at the start until a Lap 9 red flag for a Christopher Cole tip over brought the race to a stop.

On the restart, Bollinger pulled away once more before slowing briefly in Turn 2, allowing Falloway drive by for the lead down the back stretch on Lap 11.

Falloway extended the advantage out to over five seconds over the remainder of the distance and crossed under the checkered flag for his second DIRTcar UMP Modified win at Red Hill in 2026.

“That red was good because my stuff was running a little hot before that, so it gave it a chance to come back down,” Falloway said. “I was kind of just biding my time behind [Bollinger], seeing where I could make a little bit more speed than he was. I don’t know what happened, he went off the pace, and I got into him a little bit. And then he got back going.”

Bollinger finished second, Zeke McKenzie was third, Levi Kissinger was fourth, and Matthew Baker rounded out the top five.

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The DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals return to action on July 4 at Highland Speedway in Highland, IL.

How can you watch the Summit Modifieds? Every race is live on DIRTVision.

Feature (25 Laps): 1. 66-Cole Falloway[3]; 2. 77-Ray Bollinger[1]; 3. 24-Zeke McKenzie[4]; 4. 95K-Levi Kissinger[2]; 5. B5-Matthew Baker[6]; 6. 27G-Jason Garver[5]; 7. 37-Everett Bradham[7]; 8. 744-Justin Jones[11]; 9. 91K-Cody Kibby[8]; 10. (DNF) 2X-Wes Harms[15]; 11. (DNF) 7815-Brandon Justus[10]; 12. (DNF) 81C-Christopher Cole[9]; 13. (DNF) 43A-Larry Anderson[14]; 14. (DNF) 81K-Kyle Cole[13]; 15. (DNF) 22-Jordan Borgmann[16]; 16. (DNS) 118-Dustin Atchison

ARTICLE: https://dirtcarsummernationals.com/recaps/frank-heckenast-jr-ends-six-year-summer-nationals-dry-spell-at-red-hill/

Frank Heckenast Jr. Ends Six-Year Summer Nationals Dry Spell at Red Hill

SUMNER, IL (July 3, 2026) — It’s been nearly six years since Frank Heckenast Jr. tasted victory with the DIRTcar Summer Nationals. Friday night at Red Hill Raceway, the drought finally came to an end.

Heckenast, of Frankfort, IL, took the lead on Lap 12 of the main event and never looked back, winning by over five seconds at the big, 4/10-mile oval for career win No. 6 during the 40th anniversary season of the Hell Tour.

“Six years, sixth win — that’s a long time,” Heckenast said. “I’ve had a lot of seconds and a lot of thirds; these are just hard to win. People think if they just show up, they’re gonna win one because they’re out on the road or something. It’s not that easy.”

Heckenast took the green flag from the pole with two-time series champion Jason Feger starting to his outside. Feger got the jump on the initial start of the race but a caution for two cars tangling brought a complete restart with no laps completed.

Feger got another good launch on the second try at the start and looked to be in control until things got dicey in lap traffic on Lap 11. Series points leader, Tanner English, had worked his way into second and was challenging for the lead before a caution slowed that charge.

While Feger maintained the lead on the Lap 11 restart, Heckenast made the move on English for second down the backstretch. As the top three crossed the start/finish line to complete Lap 12, Feger slowed dramatically, revealing a flat right-rear tire as the caution was thrown once again.

With Feger in the pits for repairs, Heckenast inherited the lead for the restart with 26 laps left. What came next was domination from the No. 99JR, leading the rest of the distance unchallenged for his first Summer Nationals win since August 2020.

“I got into a little argument with my dad because I thought we needed two or three tenths in the heat there because Babb and Feger showed three more tenths than we did,” Heckenast said. “But the car felt good, steered good. Not sure what tires everyone put on; we didn’t even look. It was one of those nights where we had the phones down and the heads down and went with the feel of our ass and it worked out.”

English finished second, Sam Seawright finished third, Kyle Hardy was fourth, and Clay Stuckey finished sixth. Feger rebounded from the flat tire to finish sixth.

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The DIRTcar Summer Nationals celebrates July 4 at Highland Speedway in Highland, IL on Saturday.

How can you watch the DIRTcar Summer Nationals? Every race is live on DIRTVision.

Feature (40 Laps): 1. 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr[1]; 2. 96-Tanner English[4]; 3. 16S-Sam Seawright[9]; 4. 99-Kyle Hardy[8]; 5. 15-Clay Stuckey[5]; 6. 25-Jason Feger[2]; 7. 51B-Brandon Carpenter[10]; 8. 74-Mitch McGrath[13]; 9. 31M-Tyler Millwood[6]; 10. 17SR-Brody Smith[18]; 11. 82B-Jason Milam[16]; 12. (DNF) 49-Luke Morey[15]; 13. (DNF) K67-Braiden Keller[12]; 14. (DNF) 17W-Lee Williams[11]; 15. (DNF) 81-Logan Mounce[20]; 16. (DNF) 51-Dean Carpenter[7]; 17. (DNF) 17-Jarrett Jones[14]; 18. (DNF) 80-Tucker Chastain[19]; 19. (DNF) 18-Shannon Babb[3]; 20. (DNF) 67-Gregory Carrico[23]; 21. (DNF) LIL91-Carter Schlenk[22]; 22. (DNF) 91-Rusty Schlenk[17]; 23. (DNF) 30-Mark Voigt[21]

Cole Falloway Scores First Summit Modified Win of 2026 at Red Hill

Kentucky native Cole Falloway stormed into Illinois’ Red Hill Raceway Friday night and emerged a Feature winner with the DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals for the first time in 2026.

Falloway, of Owensboro, KY, made the pass for the lead slightly before the halfway point of the main event and never looked back, banking his fourth career Summit Modified Feature win.

Ray Bollinger led the field into Turn 1 before a two-car tangle in Turns 1 and 2 restacked the field for a complete restart.

Bollinger again took control of the race on the second attempt at the start until a Lap 9 red flag for a Christopher Cole tip over brought the race to a stop.

On the restart, Bollinger pulled away once more before slowing briefly in Turn 2, allowing Falloway drive by for the lead down the back stretch on Lap 11.

Falloway extended the advantage out to over five seconds over the remainder of the distance and crossed under the checkered flag for his second DIRTcar UMP Modified win at Red Hill in 2026.

“That red was good because my stuff was running a little hot before that, so it gave it a chance to come back down,” Falloway said. “I was kind of just biding my time behind [Bollinger], seeing where I could make a little bit more speed than he was. I don’t know what happened, he went off the pace, and I got into him a little bit. And then he got back going.”

Bollinger finished second, Zeke McKenzie was third, Levi Kissinger was fourth, and Matthew Baker rounded out the top five.

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The DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals return to action on July 4 at Highland Speedway in Highland, IL.

How can you watch the Summit Modifieds? Every race is live on DIRTVision.

Feature (25 Laps): 1. 66-Cole Falloway[3]; 2. 77-Ray Bollinger[1]; 3. 24-Zeke McKenzie[4]; 4. 95K-Levi Kissinger[2]; 5. B5-Matthew Baker[6]; 6. 27G-Jason Garver[5]; 7. 37-Everett Bradham[7]; 8. 744-Justin Jones[11]; 9. 91K-Cody Kibby[8]; 10. (DNF) 2X-Wes Harms[15]; 11. (DNF) 7815-Brandon Justus[10]; 12. (DNF) 81C-Christopher Cole[9]; 13. (DNF) 43A-Larry Anderson[14]; 14. (DNF) 81K-Kyle Cole[13]; 15. (DNF) 22-Jordan Borgmann[16]; 16. (DNS) 118-Dustin Atchison

ARTICLE: https://dirtcarsummernationals.com/recaps/frank-heckenast-jr-ends-six-year-summer-nationals-dry-spell-at-red-hill/

EVENT INFO: https://dirtcarsummernationals.com/schedule/event-info/?event=4549575
TRACK INFO: https://redhillraceway.racing/

NASCAR CUP SERIES CHICAGOLAND SPEEDWAY TEAM CHEVY DRIVER QUOTES JULY 3, 2026

Kyle Larson, driver of the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet, and William Byron, driver of the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet, met with the media in advance of NASCAR’s return to Chicagoland Speedway. The teammates will face off in Round Two of the In-Season Challenge.

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NASCAR CUP SERIESCHICAGOLAND SPEEDWAYTEAM CHEVY DRIVER QUOTESJULY 3, 2026

Kyle Larson, driver of the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet, and William Byron, driver of the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet, met with the media in advance of NASCAR’s return to Chicagoland Speedway. The teammates will face off in Round Two of the In-Season Challenge.

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Media Availability Quotes:  This has got to be a blast competing against each other because normally your teammates. You want each other to do well and all that, but now all of a sudden, you’re going to be competing against each other. At end of the day, it’s for a million dollars, but it’s not going to be affecting the season. Talk about the fact that you’re teammates and you’re going to be racing each other and how much fun it’s probably going to be.Kyle Larson: “I mean, I was hopeful to see somebody worse than William (Byron) when I saw the match-up (laughs). But no, I think honestly right now, it’s just cool to have something like this going on in the middle of the season; have a chance to advance, try to execute solid finishes and have a chance at a million dollars. Last year, I got wrapped up in a wreck at Atlanta and didn’t really get to compete. But it was fun to follow along; fun to follow everybody advancing and Ty Dillon making it as far as he did. You know, there’s always some cool stories throughout it, and I think that was the objective of it. So, yeah, I mean, it’d be fun to go heads up with William, but it’s really not something that you’re too focused on in the race. I think you’re always just kind of focused on winning, and if you win, that takes care of it. But yeah, I mean, as it gets closer to the race, I think you pay a little bit of attention to it. But we’re just trying to do a good job every weekend”  William Byron: “Yeah, I mean, I think you just don’t get too consumed with it. For us, we’re trying to get a bunch of points this weekend. We’re pretty far down (in the standings), so we just have to get things rolling. I feel like Kyle always runs well at mile-and-a-halves, so we’re just trying to get up there and mix it up. But there’s 38 other guys out there, too, so trying to focus on just being fast enough.”    We have such a larger sample size of season behind us to look at how the racing has evolved or changed with this championship format. There was a lot of talk going into this year about how maybe there’s not going to be as much going for broke or maybe there will be because of the 15 extra points for winning a race. Has this format changed, in any fundamental way, how you guys approach a season or try to build towards winning a championship or contending for a championship?William Byron: “Yeah, I think to look at it optimistically — I mean, look at what’s happened between the top-two the last four or five weeks, so I think there’s a lot of a lot of reward for winning races. You know, we’ve always tried to get as many points as we can. I think the points system has made that more conscious through the field. But we’ve still seen a lot of chaotic races, too, where it seems like the emotions of the race and kind of being in the middle of the pack is just even more chaotic than ever. The way the Next Gen races play out, you just have to be really aggressive to get track position, so I feel like it’s every bit as much of a crash fest in the middle of the field than it’s been. But yeah, there’s just an emphasis on stage points, and if you can win a few races, it’s a big deal. It changes the points a lot.”   Kyle Larson: “Yeah, for me, I’ve felt this way all year — I know a lot of media keeps trying to push this narrative that the racing is different now that points matter, but I don’t think the racing has changed at all. I think it still is, as he mentioned, as chaotic as it has always been. We were still racing for points before.  I will say, though, that what I’ve appreciated throughout it is I can pull up Jayski right after the race and see the points and actually know where everybody’s at. It was really confusing before. With the old system, you basically just waited until after Daytona and see where you’re at. Now, it’s fun to follow along; see what drivers are around the cutoff to make the Chase and all that. So, yeah, you pay attention to the points more, but I wouldn’t say the points are any more important than they were and the racing has not changed.”    I didn’t realize that in (turns) 3 and 4, there was that very black line. Is that more grip or less grip there, based on what you saw at the test?Kyle Larson: “I never ran up there. I was scared because it’s just really rough in (turns) 3 and 4. I kind of found a comfy line on the bottom and tried not to leave it. At a normal track, it would be more grip. But I don’t know. We’ll see when we get there. I think it’s so narrow that it’d be hard to really make a huge difference. But typically, fresher pavement, newer pavement, would be more grip.”    Do you think you guys will migrate to the top over the course of the weekend here? Do you think you’ll be running the top on Sunday?Kyle Larson: “Yeah, I don’t know. We will see. I think the O’Reilly Series will be able to move around better than us because I think they’ll be able to handle the bumps better than our cars do. At the test, there was so much grip. It just stayed fast, so I just don’t think you would want to give up that distance. And with that distance, you just have to run way harder through the bumps. In those conditions, I don’t foresee us moving up. But that was with three cars at the test with a little cooler conditions. So hotter conditions, more cars, more rubber on the track; the pace should hopefully be slower and maybe then we can move up. But yeah, I never ventured up in 3 and 4 just because I was too nervous to.”   You’ve tested here. You’ve done well here in the past. What’s your confidence level coming back here? And when you come in here, how often do you think about your duel with Kyle (Busch) in 2018 at the end of the race? Kyle Larson: “Well, yeah, I mean, it’s a mile-and-a-half, so any mile-and-a-half, I have some confidence going to before the weekend starts. And then after practice, you kind of realize where you’re at. But I would say getting to test here, I feel like we learned a lot about our race car that has benefited the four of us as we’ve moved on from it. So, yeah, I think just extra laps here gives some confidence. But everybody’s so good. They’re going to get up to speed fast. Touching on the battle with Kyle (Busch), I’ve watched it a lot here lately because we were coming here again. You know, I watched it before coming to test while Kyle was still alive at that time. And then since his passing, you watch it with different meanings. It was a really neat battle. It’s always fun to be a part of battles that still to this day get replayed, and I’ve been a part of a few. So, yeah, I just wish he was here for obvious reasons and we could have another battle.”   How do you evaluate the state of the No. 24 team right now? William Byron: “Yeah, I’d say on the ovals, I thought we were starting to gain on it and get in the right direction. And then the road courses, I thought we were just OK. I made a mistake in San Diego. I wish I could have that back because I thought I was going to finish probably in the top-eight. Last week, I just kind of felt really good about it going in the race and then just a little bit worse throughout the race. But I think based on the ovals, like where we were at Michigan and Pocono, I was starting to feel pretty good about things. But yeah, I think we’ve just kind of been really up and down, and we’re just trying to find the balance and just be able to have some sort of rhythm. You know, in the past, we just had a lot of notes and we could just kind of lean on that. And this year, it has just been kind of relearning everything. It’s been a lot of hits and misses, so hopefully we can just have a good weekend here and kind of get back on track.”   For the In-Season Challenge, do you feel like it’s any kind of disadvantage knowing that Kyle tested here? William Byron: “I mean, I feel like the kid in high school that’s using all his homework because we just kind of used all his notes (laughs). We just kind of used that all week to prepare.  But I mean, I don’t know. I think you just get out there, hopefully get a lot of practice and just try to feel it out.”    EchoPark Speedway is going to be the first racetrack we go back to that you guys will return to with the new Chevrolet. How much do you think it will change with the amount of data you’ve been able to collect up to now?Kyle Larson: “I don’t know. I feel like at the superspeedway’s, our cars this year compared to the past, just naturally with whatever the body is and setup-wise, they’ve been more comfortable. I just don’t know what progression they’ve made and what stuff the crew chiefs and engineers have learned. We just kind of get in, drive it and try not to hit anything too hard (laughs).”  William Byron: “I agree. I think at Atlanta, I was actually really optimistic when we went there in February because we had a lot of speed and a lot of maneuverability, and that didn’t necessarily apply right away. I think we should be good there. It’s going to be hotter and there will be more off-throttle time. I think it’s a great race, especially in the summer. It’s going to be fun.”

NASCAR CUP SERIES CHICAGOLAND SPEEDWAY TEAM CHEVY DRIVER QUOTES JULY 3, 2026

Chase Elliott, driver of the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet and the No. 88 JR Motorsports Chevrolet, met with the media in advance of running double duty in the NASCAR Cup and O’Reilly Auto Parts Series at Chicagoland Speedway.

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NASCAR CUP SERIESCHICAGOLAND SPEEDWAYTEAM CHEVY DRIVER QUOTESJULY 3, 2026

Chase Elliott, driver of the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet and the No. 88 JR Motorsports Chevrolet, met with the media in advance of running double duty in the NASCAR Cup and O’Reilly Auto Parts Series at Chicagoland Speedway.

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Media Availability Quotes:  Elliott on NASCAR’s return to Chicagoland Speedway: “I’m excited to be back here. When we used to visit, I thought that it was always a great stop on our schedule, and one that we made quite a few times over the years early in my career. I thought we had some good runs throughout that time period. Certainly, it was better than the street course was for me, so hopefully this weekend’s a better effort, and we can try and just put together a solid day. We need a good solid day, so hopefully we can put that together this weekend on Sunday.  And then, yeah, it’ll be nice to be back in the O’Reilly car. I haven’t been in a Saturday race in a while. It’s been like over a year, I think, so I’m kind of curious to see how that goes. I appreciate Dale (Earnhardt Jr.), the boss and just everybody for having me and letting me do it. Hopefully, I can get up to speed quick and get going.”   Recognizing that not all intermediate tracks are the so-called cookie cutters, these types of tracks have been very entertaining. Drivers seem to enjoy them with this car. Do you expect a similar race product and race craft as you’ve seen in Kansas or Charlotte?“I think so. Really, all I have to go off of is the conversations I’ve had with Kyle (Larson) from the test. I mean, outside that, I don’t know. I’ve watched a lot of video from that, but it looks like it will race well. I think the big thing is just going to be how do our cars navigate the bump in (turns) 3 and 4. Is that bump and how rough these cars ride at different points in time going to prohibit you from running a lane that you need to run to have fresh air? If the answer to that is ‘yes’, then how late into the run do you have to go to get the tires pumped up well enough to have a good enough ride to run across a section of the racetrack that’s not too long of a distance. So until we kind of get into those racing environments, I don’t really have those answers, I guess. But it looked like a lot of fun from the onboard. Obviously, he was out there by himself, but it looked like a lot of fun. It looked like the Chicago that I remember from the last couple of trips that we made. I think it has a lot of potential to race really well, as long as we can navigate around that bump and have options from that perspective.”    I think you’re 17 points out of fifth. Given how the seeding for the Chase for the championship works, do you view being top-five as something that’s extremely vital, or are you just not concerned that if you perform the championship will work itself out? How do you view where you are in the final regular season standings?“Yeah, I want to get as far forward as I can. Where that is, I don’t know, but I want to try and stack as many points as I can between now and the last race and just kind of see where it all shakes out. I view that stuff from a pretty simplistic standpoint. You do a good job and you get rewarded. And if you don’t, you’re going to fall back. We had two bad weeks and we lost spots. That’s kind of how it should work. We had a good run of races there for a period of time, and we were up there in the points and had a few spots better than we are now. To me, that’s all up to us. We just have to perform at a higher level than we have last couple weeks; stack some more points, get some stage points, all those things, and the seeding will reward you and it will place you where you deserve to be.”   Given the amount of time since the series was last here and the fact that it is a brand-new race car, do you almost look at this race like it’s a new race? It’s a new race weekend, a new racetrack type of deal…“A little. I mean, again, watching some of those onboards and listening to the comments, it sounds like Chicago. Having that experience and having some laps here is nice. It was a long time ago, but I do remember it.  So, yeah, I think a little bit of both. But certainly, this car has some different tendencies, as we probably have well documented at this point in time. But for me, it’s been a little bit of a challenge kind of coming back to this place and thinking through the Cup car; kind of what I think is going to be expected on that side, or my best educated guess. And then also trying to piece together the Saturday race stuff, too, just having not done that in so long. I feel like I’ve got a lot of catch-up to play on that front. I’m glad we get a little longer practice for this weekend with those guys and they didn’t cancel practice. I was getting really nervous that I was going to have to go out there and make a qualifying lap in that thing after a year-plus. That would have been interesting. So, yeah, glad we got to practice and hope that it plays out in our favor.”   The test that (Kyle) Larson did, what can he tell or how can he explain things, like drivers to drivers, when he comes back to you guys and explains what he experienced that you all will want to listen to and try to put in that notebook?“I mean, I think just as much detail as he’s willing to share. Obviously, that’s up to him on how much of that he wants to share or not. I feel like he was really open about what he experienced; what caught him off guard, what was kind of normal, all those things.  Look, I think all the fine details, you have to it experience firsthand. There’s really no way he can verbalize that to any of us and it make complete and total sense. But I think he can hit the high spots of what he saw, what he felt, what he thought was good, what he thought was bad, where our cars need to be better, and where they did a good job. And then from there, it’s like, okay, we’ve got to go make laps and kind of see.  But yeah, I think it’s going to take a minute to get up to speed for everybody that wasn’t at the test, to be honest. Hopefully, we can do that quickly and get to a place that we feel confident and make changes from there.”   How much will the extra track time with the O’Reilly race help you this weekend?“Yeah, I hope a lot. Like I said, it’s been a minute. The cars have evolved, I’m sure, since last year. I just haven’t done a lot of that racing at all. I watch it and I see it, and you’re kind of studying while you’re not really trying to study, I guess, in a way while you’re watching those races on Saturday’s. But yeah, I think it’s going to be tough for me. I mean, I told Mardy (Lindley, crew chief) this week to give me a minute because it’s going to take me a few laps. I just hope I can get up to speed in a semi-reasonable manner and try to keep the car going straight in one piece; rely on some of the information and confidence that they have in certain things with their cars and just go race and see where we stack up.”    I saw on Wednesday you were at the England-Congo World Cup game. How was that? What was that experience like? And had you been to a pro soccer game before?“No, I’ve never been, and I’ve never been to a World Cup game either, so that was really cool just to experience that. Obviously, you know, just the different cultures and all the different people that it brings together I think is really cool. I had a good time. I don’t know a lot about soccer. I just had the opportunity to go. I thought it would be cool to see it and just kind of take some time to learn a different sport; learn something new and kind of see what it was all about. I’ve watched a handful of the games before that, and I’ve watched a few after that, too. It’s neat to see it in person and then come back and watch it on TV. It would have been really cool if the USA had been playing. I thought that was a really electric game the other night, at least on TV, it seemed that way. But yeah, it was really cool, and I would love to maybe check another one out at some point down the road.”   What was the atmosphere like that night? “I wouldn’t say it was that much different than other sporting events that I’ve been to. But for me, I wasn’t really for either side. You know, I was just kind of there for a good time. I wasn’t really there to root on any specific side, so I definitely think that makes a difference. If you’re a sports fan and you have a team, you want to see your team do good and you’re passionate about that. I think that makes a difference for a fan. Just being in that environment, I kind of didn’t really know which way to go. But it was a lot of fun to just see it. Like I said, there were a lot of passionate fans and people that knew a lot more about what was going on than me, so I was trying to learn.”   Looking at being monitor on your wrist, how much are you diving into the data throughout the season, as far as like your heart rate, your recovery, all those different things?“A fair amount, I guess. I would say probably more during the week than I do on the weekends. I mean, certainly, I’m capturing that data, as well. I think that there’s a lot of cool stuff between your sleep and some of the workouts that you do during the week. And certainly, the races are interesting, too, just to kind of see what’s what. I mean, I kind of know. Like typically, your body does a pretty good job of telling you whether or not you’re tired or whether or not you slept good. But it is interesting to see that put into numbers.”   The different training that you guys do over on the Chevy side, plus the races, have you noticed a discernible difference in how that’s affected your body, your resting heart rate, all those different things?“Yeah, just generally speaking, I think at the end of the day, it’s up to the individual of much you want to work out or not and how much time you want to put into trying to improve some of those things. I enjoy working out. I feel like I have a pretty good routine. My routine’s a little different, I would say, than some of the other folks. I’m not necessarily in the facility every day. I am when I’m in town and enjoy that, too. But I have a buddy I enjoy working out with and we have a good little routine that we run through. We enjoy tracking all that and kind of pushing each other to do better. I think that impacts the car kind of indirectly, you know, in that sense. But, yeah, it’s been fun.”    In (turns) 3 and 4, there’s that black patch or strip or something… something’s like repaved. Are you guys trying to avoid that or do you want to get your tires on that?“I’ll let you know after I feel it. I don’t know. I think anytime you have spots on the racetrack that are discolored to the rest of the track, it could go either way, truthfully. Sometimes sealer can be slick. Sometimes those freshly paved spots can have a lot of grip. So, yeah, it’s very circumstantial, but you’ll know really quick whether or not you want to be on it and use it or not. But if it is actually fresh asphalt, then it’s probably going to have some grip after a period of time. The stuff they used at North Wilkesboro, for instance, before they totally repaved it, it was almost like sandpaper. Like it wasn’t – I don’t know what it was, but it wasn’t like a fresh asphalt, and it kind of worked both ways.  So, I don’t know. I think it just kind of depends on what it feels like when you get on it. But we’ve used all sorts of different materials, it seems like, here recently, so I need to see it.”    Do you let somebody else try that first or you go try it first?“I think it just depends. Like, is it cleaned off? You know, what does it look like? Is that the lane I want to be in? Kind of get eyes on it and feel it out from there.”    Can anything can top last year at EchoPark Speedway, where you were able to win in dramatic fashion? You had the charity on the car, and you’re going back there with the charity on the car again.. “Doing it again could make it better, so that’s the goal, for sure. I mean, certainly, that was an incredible way to celebrate nine years of Desi9n to Drive and all the things that went on with that event, the race and just all of it. I hope we can run that back and have that type of performance again. It certainly made all of it kind of come full circle and come together, which I really enjoyed. It was an incredible experience, and I hope we can have just a night that was half as good as that. It would be a huge win. We’re certainly going to try to put our best foot forward to go and get a win, no doubt.”    You mentioned it’s going to take you at least a second to get up to speed in terms of the O’Reilly car, but I am wondering, what are some of the first things you’re going to be looking for when you get onto the track?“Well, I think just general laps. How big the bumps are will probably first and foremost, and general grip and feel. My first laps will be in the Saturday car, so I think from that perspective, it’s just like, okay, I have to recalibrate myself to this. Really, everything is going to probably feel a little new to me for a minute, I think, on that front. Hopefully after a handful of laps, I can kind of recalibrate my mind to those cars, the pace and all that. And then also, at the same time, take that time and hopefully learn kind of where I need to be, line-wise, so I can get in the Cup car and be up to speed. They’re just so different. It can really be a challenge, from what I watch on TV at least, to what I experience on Sunday’s. They look a lot different. But hopefully, just the track and the general feel will help me make up for some of the lost time.”   Now we’re at the halfway point of the overall season, what is it that you feel like you’ve improved on the most this year in 2026, and what are you most proud of?“I think our high spots and our good days have been better than some of our good days last year to this point in the season. I think that when we’ve been good and we’ve been on, I think we’ve been really competitive at different points throughout the year this year. I would say the downside of that is the inconsistency. I think we’ve been a little inconsistent, and I’ve certainly made a lot of mistakes throughout the course of the year that have cost us some finishes. So we’d love to just clean some of that up, but I’m encouraged by that in a lot of ways. It’s kind of hard to sift through some of the bad days when you’re frustrated and mad, but I do think some of the high spots have been really encouraging from a pace perspective and just a performance perspective. I really think it’s been pretty good, and I think our team’s performing at a high level. So yeah, I just look forward to these next handful of races. I just want to try and get a good little string of races together, which would be really nice, and just have some good solid days. Obviously, we want to win. But if you can’t, just try and have some good solid days; minimize mistakes, myself included, and just put together some good races and see where that takes us. I feel like our team’s in a good spot, and I look forward to these next number of races, and then certainly, starting the final ten.”   It was recently announced that the IROC Series is going to be joining the IndyCar Series in Washington D.C., and one of the drivers is going to be your dad. Your dad is 70 years old, and he’s still choosing to go throw on a fire suit and go race. How cool is that to just watch him race? “Yeah, it’s really cool. I don’t know why he’s doing it. I think he just really enjoys racing. And honestly, I think for him, I really think him and Ray (Evernham) are just such good buddies, and I think when Ray asks him to go do something, it’s really hard for him to say ‘no’, if you want the real honest answer. But he does enjoy driving. I don’t think in his mind it’s a super competitive thing. I think he just enjoys getting out there and making laps. I do think he pushes himself, for sure. I think, naturally, you probably don’t have a choice just from doing this all the years that he’s done it. But I think more than anything, he just enjoys going with those guys. He loves Ray and likes to help where he can. He feels like he can lend a hand, contribute there and help out what they’ve got going on. It sounds like a really cool thing in D.C., and that would be a really cool one, I think, to consider on our side of things one day, too.”

CHEVROLET IN THE NTT INDYCAR SERIESHonda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio2.258-Mile, 13-Turn Mid-Ohio road courseLexington, OhioFriday Practice ReportJuly 3, 2026 LEXINGTON, Ohio (July 3, 2026) – Matching the temperatures approaching triple digits, Christian Lundgaard in the No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet continued his hot streak on natural terrain courses at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course during Friday’s practice. The 24-year-old winner of the last two natural terrain road courses, including two weeks ago at Road America, led six Chevrolet-powered drivers in the top ten.  “It’s pretty toasty out there, said Lundgaard after practice. “It was a good session. I feel like we are somewhat there. We need to find some time for the 10 car. Ultimately, I feel like it’s where we left off. We’re on the right path. I’m trying to stay hydrated and trying to stay cool. That’s the most important thing right now. We’ll keep digging.”  Pato O’Ward in the No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet, Rinus VeeKay in the No. 76 Juncos Hollinger Racing Chevrolet, Nolan Siegel in the No. 6 NTT DATA Arrow McLaren Chevrolet, Josef Newgarden in the No. 2 PPG Team Penske Chevrolet and David Malukas in the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet were the other Bowtie-wearing drivers to end Friday’s practice in the top ten on the combined timesheet.  Lundgaard and his teammate O’Ward were quick on both compounds of tires with the No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet leading Team Chevy on the Primary Firestone Firehawk racing tires (Black) and the No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet going quickest on the Alternate Firestone Firehawk racing tires (Red). Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio – Friday Practice Results:

NTT INDYCAR SERIES News Conference Friday, July 3, 2026 Rinus VeekayPress Conference THE MODERATOR: Wrapping up practice today ahead of Sunday’s Honda INDY 200 at Mid-Ohio presented by the 2027 CR-V hybrid. Rinus VeeKay has joined us in the No. 76 Juncos Hollinger Racing Chevrolet. Sunday will be his eighth start at Mid-Ohio. Best finish was fourth in 2022. That was a good year for you. Fourth in group 2 here this afternoon.You guys tested here last week. Obviously it may have paid off a little bit. RINUS VEEKAY: Yes, we tested here last week. Went straight from Road America to here, and this is one of those places you test, you roll off the truck and you’re quick right away. Definitely enjoying that still. That carried over from the test to here. It’s about 30 degrees warmer now, so you can feel the whole car just behaves a little bit different because the heat has just been restricted by — just as an athlete, as a person, it’s hard to breathe through the car. You can feel that for sure. But I think we didn’t test the reds and we were quick on reds, so we were happy with that. Q.  Good start overall? What do you think can happen for you this weekend when it’s all said and done on Sunday night?RINUS VEEKAY: We need a good road course. We struggled in Indy on the road course. We definitely struggled in Road America. You roll off not good and you’re scrambling to get something together, a package that can work. The test really paid off, but also I think we found some things that we can carry to the other road courses this season.Now it’s just coming off a really good May, a fourth place in Gateway. I want to carry that through on road and street courses. I think this is our time to do it. Of course you need a fast car, and we have that this weekend, so that makes my life a bit easier. Q.  What has been the biggest issue when it comes to road and street? Obviously you said the speed, but what other extraneous factors have there been?RINUS VEEKAY: The speed can come from many things. Our biggest issue in Road America was we had decent balance. We were just waiting too long to go back to throttle because of an imbalance, because of understeer. Just how do we — we could find that understeer or that front grip and fix the understeer, but then the entries got exposed. We were always kind of balancing between an imbalance of some kind. I think we’ve figured out what we need to do. You’ll just feel more grip to the car. It’s just like you put on a faster pair of running shoes. You will go faster. Q.  First year with Juncos Hollinger, but obviously with Scott Dixon and Felix Rosenqvist hitting the market in back-to-back weeks, it seems like there’s a big scramble in the paddock in terms of seats. What’s been your reaction to it all, and what are you anticipating? RINUS VEEKAY: I think I’ve seen that coming for a while. I’ve paid attention.It’s definitely one of the craziest silly seasons so far. I think it’s only 14 cars that are confirmed right now, 15? So definitely a lot of open seats. But yeah, we’ll start seeing dominos fall this week. We saw two fall yesterday and today. We’ll see. Q.  Rinus, you said earlier if you understood you correctly, the temperatures were not so extreme at testing like they were today. Can you use the results of testing for the weekend, or is the car totally different in behavior considering the hot temperatures?RINUS VEEKAY: Even though it’s a lot quicker, the track still goes the same way, so a fast car will be a fast car, doesn’t matter the temperature, I think. You have to dial it in a little bit. It’s fine-tuning to conditions. But it’s not completely different. It’s also the wind that’s a little bit different, as well. Like I said, a fast car is a fast car on a road course. Q.  Hot temperatures has a different effect on aerodynamics?RINUS VEEKAY: For sure, yes. We had to dial in the car for sure. We made some good changes in practice, and we found things that were — we found that the balance wasn’t perfect to start with, but even though the balance wasn’t perfect, we were still quick. We got it dialed in pretty well for reds. Q.  How do you personally handle the heat in the cockpit?RINUS VEEKAY: I think the gym I train in is another 10 degrees warmer than this, so that’s been nice. I’ve been sweating a lot this week. But it is nice when you’re used to something that’s worse than this. We’ve got a cool suit in the car that I ran already, just precautionary. The team does a good job for me, as well, to keep me cool and keep me fresh in the car. Q.  The silly season discussion, has the speed at which everything is moving maybe increased your sense of urgency to figure out your situation for next year?RINUS VEEKAY: Well, it is usually kind of June, July when you see things starting to happen. For me, I think we’ve been working towards finding our best decision for next year but also the future. Of course with dominos falling you look at things a little bit differently, and it moves things. But in the end I think we’ve got a pretty good idea of what we want to do. Q.  What was your reaction to finding out officially that Scott was leaving?ALEX PALOU: Yeah, it’s sad. It’s sad because of what he has done for the team, for everybody at Chip Ganassi Racing. I’ve not been since the beginning, obviously, but I know I would not be here today without him and also with the results I had. It’s big-time due to him. Very sad, but at the same time, it’s okay. It’s just part of life. It’s part of the sport. I wish him the best, honestly. I’m going to try and keep on learning as much as I can throughout the races that we still have. But yeah, nothing I can do, right? I think it’s been incredible to be his teammate, and I’m sure the next drivers that will be sharing teams with him, they’re going to be very lucky. Q.  Rinus, a lot of guys were doing short runs because of the heat. Do you find that hard to get the car dialed in with your balance when you’re running short runs because of heat?RINUS VEEKAY: We didn’t do it necessarily for the heat. We did do short runs more because you’re short on time. You want to go through as many changes as possible. With the track temperature being as high, you will build tire temperature quicker, so you don’t need as many warm-up laps. Seems like the reds don’t like many laps anyway, so yeah, that’s going to be something we have to look into for sure. But for sure there was no prediction on temperatures or my body heat or anything in the car during this session. Q.  Can you both talk a little bit about track conditions today and also the potential for rain, how that might impact your plans?RINUS VEEKAY: Yeah, it’s hot. Tires are going to be overheating for sure. That’s one thing that will happen in the race. We’re working hard on making sure we can manage that during the race. If it rains, you can always have a backup plan, but it definitely changes everything a lot.I think as a driver from the Netherlands where it rains probably 250 days a year, 300 days a year, I’d be happy in the wet for sure.

Tune-In Guide Saturday, July 4 NTT INDYCAR SERIES Practice #2 – 10am (ET)/9am (CT)/8am (MT)/7am (PT) – FS1/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218NTT INDYCAR SERIES Qualifying – 2:30pm (ET)/1pm (CT)/noon (MT)/11am (PT) – FS1/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218 Sunday, July 5 NTT INDYCAR SERIES Warm Up – 9am (ET)/8am (CT)/7am (MT)/6am (PT) – FS1/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio (90 laps)– 12:30pm (ET)/11:30:am (CT)/10:30am (MT)/9:30am (PT) – FOX/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218

Scott McLaughlin (Team Penske) is interviewed after winning the 2022 race at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.

Chevrolet at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car CourseChevrolet wins at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course: 122024 – Pato O’Ward – Arrow McLaren2022 – Scott McLaughlin – Team Penske2021 – Josef Newgarden – Team Penske2020 Race #1 – Will Power – Team Penske2017 – Josef Newgarden – Team Penske2016 – Simon Pagenaud – Team Penske2014 – Scott Dixon – Chip Ganassi Racing1993 – Emerson Fittipaldi – Team Penske1992 – Emerson Fittipaldi – Team Penske1991 – Michael Andretti – Newman Haas Racing1990 – Michael Andretti – Newman Haas Racing 1988 – Emerson Fittipaldi – Patrick RacingChevrolet poles at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course: 132022 – Pato O’Ward – Arrow McLaren2021 – Josef Newgarden – Team Penske2020 Race #1 – Will Power – Team Penske2019 – Will Power – Team Penske2017 – Will Power – Team Penske2016 – Simon Pagenaud – Team Penske2015 – Scott Dixon – Chip Ganassi Racing2014 – Sebastien Bourdais – KV Racing Technology2013 – Ryan Hunter-Reay – Andretti Global2012 – Will Power – Team Penske1991 – Michael Andretti – Newman Haas Racing1990 – Michael Andretti – Newman Haas Racing 1988 – Danny Sullivan – Team Penske Chevrolet podiums at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course: 34Chevrolet podiums at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course by driver: Will Power (7), Emerson Fittipaldi (4), Michael Andretti (3), Josef Newgarden (3), Al Unser Jr. (3), Mario Andretti (2), Scott McLaughlin (2), Simon Pagenaud (2), Sebastien Bourdais (1), Christian Lundgaard (1), Rick Mears (1), Pato O’Ward (1), Bob Rahal (1), Danny Sullivan (1) and Paul Tracy (1).  Chevrolet podiums at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course by team: Team Penske (19), Newman Haas Racing (6), Galles Racing (4), Arrow McLaren (2), Chip Ganassi Racing (1), KV Racing Technology (1) and Patrick Racing (1) Chevrolet laps led at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course: 1034Chevrolet laps led at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course by driver: Will Power (178), Emerson Fittipaldi (168), Michael Andretti (152), Scott Dixon (67), Pato O’Ward (52), Scott McLaughlin (49), Mario Andretti (44), Sebastien Bourdais (38), Ryan Hunter-Reay (30), Juan Montoya (30), Simon Pagenaud (23), Paul Tracy (23), Al Unser Jr. (11), Helio Castroneves (6), James Hinchcliffe (2), and Danny Sullivan (2) Chevrolet laps led at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course by team: Team Penske (573), Newman Haas Racing (196), Chip Ganassi Racing (67), Patrick Racing (63), Arrow McLaren (52), KV Racing Technology (38), Andretti Global (32), Galles Racing (11), and ECR (2) Manufacturer History at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car CourseWins (with competition)13 – Honda (2025, 2023, 2020 Race #2, 2019, 2018, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2001, 2000, 1999 1997, 1996)12 – Chevrolet (2024, 2022, 2021, 2020 Race #1, 2017, 2016, 2014, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989)6 – Cosworth (1987, 1986, 1986, 1984, 1983, 1980)2 – Ford (2002, 1998)1 – Ilmor (1994)1 – Mercedes (1995)1 – Porsche (1989)Poles (with competition)13 – Chevrolet (2022, 2021, 2020 Race #1, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 1991, 1990, 1988)10 – Honda (2025, 2024, 2023, 2020 Race #2, 2018, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1996)6 – Cosworth (1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1980)5 – Ford (2002, 1997, 1995, 1993, 1992)1 – Ilmor (1994)1 – Porsche (1989)

Christian Lundgaard during Friday practice at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course

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CHEVROLET IN THE NTT INDYCAR SERIESHonda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio2.258-Mile, 13-Turn Mid-Ohio road courseLexington, OhioFriday Practice ReportJuly 3, 2026 LEXINGTON, Ohio (July 3, 2026) – Matching the temperatures approaching triple digits, Christian Lundgaard in the No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet continued his hot streak on natural terrain courses at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course during Friday’s practice. The 24-year-old winner of the last two natural terrain road courses, including two weeks ago at Road America, led six Chevrolet-powered drivers in the top ten.  “It’s pretty toasty out there, said Lundgaard after practice. “It was a good session. I feel like we are somewhat there. We need to find some time for the 10 car. Ultimately, I feel like it’s where we left off. We’re on the right path. I’m trying to stay hydrated and trying to stay cool. That’s the most important thing right now. We’ll keep digging.”  Pato O’Ward in the No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet, Rinus VeeKay in the No. 76 Juncos Hollinger Racing Chevrolet, Nolan Siegel in the No. 6 NTT DATA Arrow McLaren Chevrolet, Josef Newgarden in the No. 2 PPG Team Penske Chevrolet and David Malukas in the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet were the other Bowtie-wearing drivers to end Friday’s practice in the top ten on the combined timesheet.  Lundgaard and his teammate O’Ward were quick on both compounds of tires with the No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet leading Team Chevy on the Primary Firestone Firehawk racing tires (Black) and the No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet going quickest on the Alternate Firestone Firehawk racing tires (Red). Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio – Friday Practice Results:

NTT INDYCAR SERIES News Conference Friday, July 3, 2026 Rinus VeekayPress Conference THE MODERATOR: Wrapping up practice today ahead of Sunday’s Honda INDY 200 at Mid-Ohio presented by the 2027 CR-V hybrid. Rinus VeeKay has joined us in the No. 76 Juncos Hollinger Racing Chevrolet. Sunday will be his eighth start at Mid-Ohio. Best finish was fourth in 2022. That was a good year for you. Fourth in group 2 here this afternoon.You guys tested here last week. Obviously it may have paid off a little bit. RINUS VEEKAY: Yes, we tested here last week. Went straight from Road America to here, and this is one of those places you test, you roll off the truck and you’re quick right away. Definitely enjoying that still. That carried over from the test to here. It’s about 30 degrees warmer now, so you can feel the whole car just behaves a little bit different because the heat has just been restricted by — just as an athlete, as a person, it’s hard to breathe through the car. You can feel that for sure. But I think we didn’t test the reds and we were quick on reds, so we were happy with that. Q.  Good start overall? What do you think can happen for you this weekend when it’s all said and done on Sunday night?RINUS VEEKAY: We need a good road course. We struggled in Indy on the road course. We definitely struggled in Road America. You roll off not good and you’re scrambling to get something together, a package that can work. The test really paid off, but also I think we found some things that we can carry to the other road courses this season.Now it’s just coming off a really good May, a fourth place in Gateway. I want to carry that through on road and street courses. I think this is our time to do it. Of course you need a fast car, and we have that this weekend, so that makes my life a bit easier. Q.  What has been the biggest issue when it comes to road and street? Obviously you said the speed, but what other extraneous factors have there been?RINUS VEEKAY: The speed can come from many things. Our biggest issue in Road America was we had decent balance. We were just waiting too long to go back to throttle because of an imbalance, because of understeer. Just how do we — we could find that understeer or that front grip and fix the understeer, but then the entries got exposed. We were always kind of balancing between an imbalance of some kind. I think we’ve figured out what we need to do. You’ll just feel more grip to the car. It’s just like you put on a faster pair of running shoes. You will go faster. Q.  First year with Juncos Hollinger, but obviously with Scott Dixon and Felix Rosenqvist hitting the market in back-to-back weeks, it seems like there’s a big scramble in the paddock in terms of seats. What’s been your reaction to it all, and what are you anticipating? RINUS VEEKAY: I think I’ve seen that coming for a while. I’ve paid attention.It’s definitely one of the craziest silly seasons so far. I think it’s only 14 cars that are confirmed right now, 15? So definitely a lot of open seats. But yeah, we’ll start seeing dominos fall this week. We saw two fall yesterday and today. We’ll see. Q.  Rinus, you said earlier if you understood you correctly, the temperatures were not so extreme at testing like they were today. Can you use the results of testing for the weekend, or is the car totally different in behavior considering the hot temperatures?RINUS VEEKAY: Even though it’s a lot quicker, the track still goes the same way, so a fast car will be a fast car, doesn’t matter the temperature, I think. You have to dial it in a little bit. It’s fine-tuning to conditions. But it’s not completely different. It’s also the wind that’s a little bit different, as well. Like I said, a fast car is a fast car on a road course. Q.  Hot temperatures has a different effect on aerodynamics?RINUS VEEKAY: For sure, yes. We had to dial in the car for sure. We made some good changes in practice, and we found things that were — we found that the balance wasn’t perfect to start with, but even though the balance wasn’t perfect, we were still quick. We got it dialed in pretty well for reds. Q.  How do you personally handle the heat in the cockpit?RINUS VEEKAY: I think the gym I train in is another 10 degrees warmer than this, so that’s been nice. I’ve been sweating a lot this week. But it is nice when you’re used to something that’s worse than this. We’ve got a cool suit in the car that I ran already, just precautionary. The team does a good job for me, as well, to keep me cool and keep me fresh in the car. Q.  The silly season discussion, has the speed at which everything is moving maybe increased your sense of urgency to figure out your situation for next year?RINUS VEEKAY: Well, it is usually kind of June, July when you see things starting to happen. For me, I think we’ve been working towards finding our best decision for next year but also the future. Of course with dominos falling you look at things a little bit differently, and it moves things. But in the end I think we’ve got a pretty good idea of what we want to do. Q.  What was your reaction to finding out officially that Scott was leaving?ALEX PALOU: Yeah, it’s sad. It’s sad because of what he has done for the team, for everybody at Chip Ganassi Racing. I’ve not been since the beginning, obviously, but I know I would not be here today without him and also with the results I had. It’s big-time due to him. Very sad, but at the same time, it’s okay. It’s just part of life. It’s part of the sport. I wish him the best, honestly. I’m going to try and keep on learning as much as I can throughout the races that we still have. But yeah, nothing I can do, right? I think it’s been incredible to be his teammate, and I’m sure the next drivers that will be sharing teams with him, they’re going to be very lucky. Q.  Rinus, a lot of guys were doing short runs because of the heat. Do you find that hard to get the car dialed in with your balance when you’re running short runs because of heat?RINUS VEEKAY: We didn’t do it necessarily for the heat. We did do short runs more because you’re short on time. You want to go through as many changes as possible. With the track temperature being as high, you will build tire temperature quicker, so you don’t need as many warm-up laps. Seems like the reds don’t like many laps anyway, so yeah, that’s going to be something we have to look into for sure. But for sure there was no prediction on temperatures or my body heat or anything in the car during this session. Q.  Can you both talk a little bit about track conditions today and also the potential for rain, how that might impact your plans?RINUS VEEKAY: Yeah, it’s hot. Tires are going to be overheating for sure. That’s one thing that will happen in the race. We’re working hard on making sure we can manage that during the race. If it rains, you can always have a backup plan, but it definitely changes everything a lot.I think as a driver from the Netherlands where it rains probably 250 days a year, 300 days a year, I’d be happy in the wet for sure.

Tune-In Guide Saturday, July 4 NTT INDYCAR SERIES Practice #2 – 10am (ET)/9am (CT)/8am (MT)/7am (PT) – FS1/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218NTT INDYCAR SERIES Qualifying – 2:30pm (ET)/1pm (CT)/noon (MT)/11am (PT) – FS1/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218 Sunday, July 5 NTT INDYCAR SERIES Warm Up – 9am (ET)/8am (CT)/7am (MT)/6am (PT) – FS1/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio (90 laps)– 12:30pm (ET)/11:30:am (CT)/10:30am (MT)/9:30am (PT) – FOX/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218

Scott McLaughlin (Team Penske) is interviewed after winning the 2022 race at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.

Chevrolet at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car CourseChevrolet wins at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course: 122024 – Pato O’Ward – Arrow McLaren2022 – Scott McLaughlin – Team Penske2021 – Josef Newgarden – Team Penske2020 Race #1 – Will Power – Team Penske2017 – Josef Newgarden – Team Penske2016 – Simon Pagenaud – Team Penske2014 – Scott Dixon – Chip Ganassi Racing1993 – Emerson Fittipaldi – Team Penske1992 – Emerson Fittipaldi – Team Penske1991 – Michael Andretti – Newman Haas Racing1990 – Michael Andretti – Newman Haas Racing 1988 – Emerson Fittipaldi – Patrick RacingChevrolet poles at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course: 132022 – Pato O’Ward – Arrow McLaren2021 – Josef Newgarden – Team Penske2020 Race #1 – Will Power – Team Penske2019 – Will Power – Team Penske2017 – Will Power – Team Penske2016 – Simon Pagenaud – Team Penske2015 – Scott Dixon – Chip Ganassi Racing2014 – Sebastien Bourdais – KV Racing Technology2013 – Ryan Hunter-Reay – Andretti Global2012 – Will Power – Team Penske1991 – Michael Andretti – Newman Haas Racing1990 – Michael Andretti – Newman Haas Racing 1988 – Danny Sullivan – Team Penske Chevrolet podiums at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course: 34Chevrolet podiums at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course by driver: Will Power (7), Emerson Fittipaldi (4), Michael Andretti (3), Josef Newgarden (3), Al Unser Jr. (3), Mario Andretti (2), Scott McLaughlin (2), Simon Pagenaud (2), Sebastien Bourdais (1), Christian Lundgaard (1), Rick Mears (1), Pato O’Ward (1), Bob Rahal (1), Danny Sullivan (1) and Paul Tracy (1).  Chevrolet podiums at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course by team: Team Penske (19), Newman Haas Racing (6), Galles Racing (4), Arrow McLaren (2), Chip Ganassi Racing (1), KV Racing Technology (1) and Patrick Racing (1) Chevrolet laps led at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course: 1034Chevrolet laps led at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course by driver: Will Power (178), Emerson Fittipaldi (168), Michael Andretti (152), Scott Dixon (67), Pato O’Ward (52), Scott McLaughlin (49), Mario Andretti (44), Sebastien Bourdais (38), Ryan Hunter-Reay (30), Juan Montoya (30), Simon Pagenaud (23), Paul Tracy (23), Al Unser Jr. (11), Helio Castroneves (6), James Hinchcliffe (2), and Danny Sullivan (2) Chevrolet laps led at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course by team: Team Penske (573), Newman Haas Racing (196), Chip Ganassi Racing (67), Patrick Racing (63), Arrow McLaren (52), KV Racing Technology (38), Andretti Global (32), Galles Racing (11), and ECR (2) Manufacturer History at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car CourseWins (with competition)13 – Honda (2025, 2023, 2020 Race #2, 2019, 2018, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2001, 2000, 1999 1997, 1996)12 – Chevrolet (2024, 2022, 2021, 2020 Race #1, 2017, 2016, 2014, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989)6 – Cosworth (1987, 1986, 1986, 1984, 1983, 1980)2 – Ford (2002, 1998)1 – Ilmor (1994)1 – Mercedes (1995)1 – Porsche (1989)Poles (with competition)13 – Chevrolet (2022, 2021, 2020 Race #1, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 1991, 1990, 1988)10 – Honda (2025, 2024, 2023, 2020 Race #2, 2018, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1996)6 – Cosworth (1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1980)5 – Ford (2002, 1997, 1995, 1993, 1992)1 – Ilmor (1994)1 – Porsche (1989)

LINCOLN, IL (July 2, 2026) — Milestone moments rarely come easy. Jason Feger had to work for a big one Thursday night at Lincoln Speedway, topping a thrilling, three-car battle for the lead and going on to his 40th career DIRTcar Summer Nationals Feature win.

Feger, the two-time Hell Tour champion from Bloomington, IL, made the most of a restart just past the halfway point to get by Sam Seawright and race-long Tanner English in a race that had the crowd on their feet before driving off with his fifth Feature win of the summer.

“When it’s right, Lincoln puts on a heck of a show,” Feger said. “I feel like a lot of times it can get a little top dominant, but usually when you can keep the bottom around and run the top like that, it’s a lot of fun. The top is just skinny and technical, so it’s not like anyone can get up there and do really good.”

A Lap 18 debris caution was the catalyst for a thrilling battle for the lead that started with current points leader English leading the opening 18 laps.

What happened next was nothing short of spectacular as the field restarted with just 12-to-go. Seawright dove under English entering Turn 3 and threw a big slide job on the No. 96 before making contact with the outside wall in Turn 4 and allowing English to slip back by to his inside.

As English and Seawright continued their battle, Feger soon reeled-in both drivers to make it a three-car duel for the top spot.

Feger rolled the bottom and attempted to pick off both as the exited Turn 2 with just 10 laps to go. The lead trio went three wide down the backstretch, splitting Seawright and leaving the top two in points side-by-side as they entered Turn 3.

Feger then executed a slide job of his own on English, bouncing off the Turn 4 wall and speeding down the front stretch to take the lead on Lap 21. From there, it was all Feger and his No. 25 out front as he went on to lead the final 10 laps and pick up the win in front of his home-state crowd.

“I didn’t think my car was that good; I was just trying to be really patient, and I knew there was a few different tire combinations there, and I wasn’t sure what was going to play out,” Feger said. “I was really struggling to get off the bottom like I wanted to, I didn’t think we had anything for [English]. I raced Sam (Seawright) hard because I wanted that row on the restart. I got to the bottom on the restart and everything I needed to happen, happened.”

English finished second, Jake Little rallied for third, Luke Morey was fourth, and Trey Mills rounded out the top five.

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The DIRTcar Summer Nationals Late Models head to Red Hill Raceway in Sumner, IL, on Friday, July 3. Tickets for the event will be sold at the track on race day.

How else can you watch the DIRTcar Summer Nationals? Every race is live on DIRTVision.

Feature (30 Laps): 1. 25-Jason Feger[5]; 2. 96-Tanner English[1]; 3. 38J-Jake Little[9]; 4. 49-Luke Morey[8]; 5. 14JR-Trey Mills[4]; 6. 16S-Sam Seawright[2]; 7. 91-Rusty Schlenk[3]; 8. 45-Kyle Hammer[10]; 9. 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr[15]; 10. 99-Kyle Hardy[12]; 11. 21B-Rich Bell[16]; 12. 74-Mitch McGrath[11]; 13. 17SR-Brody Smith[21]; 14. 37L-Michael Ledford[13]; 15. 31M-Tyler Millwood[14]; 16. 15-Clay Stuckey[18]; 17. 09-Michael Leach[19]; 18. 89-Mike Spatola[6]; 19. 30-Mark Voigt[20]; 20. 74X-Ethan Dotson[7]; 21. 51B-Brandon Carpenter[17]; 22. 75-Daniel Adam[22]

Trevor Neville Wins at Lincoln for Sixth Career Summit Modified Win

Trevor Neville came into Lincoln Speedway hungry for the taste of victory. After 25 laps around the Illinois bullring, consider his hunger satisfied.

Neville, of Mackinaw, IL, hadn’t won in DIRTcar Modified competition since May. But on Thursday night, the 25-year-old capitalized on his pole starting position to end the drought in a big way with his first Feature win with the DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals in over a year.

“We’re just doing this for fun this year,” Neville said. “We decided to catch the back half of this, we were working on stuff and decided to have some fun. This tour is what makes or breaks people on this whole deal because the back-to-back racing makes you a better driver.”

The green flag dropped on the main event and into the lead went polesitter Austin Friedman, leading the opening lap with Neville in tow.

Neville quickly battled back and pulled even down the backstretch as the lead duo went side-by-side around the 1/4-mile oval. Friedman tried to slide up as they exited Turn 4, but Neville had the outside lane momentum and cleared Friedman before crossing the start/finish line to lead Lap 2.

Multiple cautions throughout the race forced Neville’s No. 777 to maintain the lead through multiple restarts, but he stood tall each time and kept the field behind him.

Neville went the rest of the way uncontested, leading the final 23 laps for his first win with the series since June 2025 at Peoria Speedway.

Steven Brooks finished second, Zeke McKenzie third, Ray Bollinger fourth, and Carson Friedman was fifth.

UP NEXT

The DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals head to Red Hill Raceway in Sumner, IL on Friday, July 3.

How can you watch the Summit Modifieds? Every race is live on DIRTVision.

Feature (25 Laps): 1. 777-Trevor Neville[1]; 2. 5-Steven Brooks[4]; 3. 24-Zeke McKenzie[7]; 4. 77-Ray Bollinger[12]; 5. 389-Carson Friedman[3]; 6. 10K-Kelly Kovski[10]; 7. 150-Collin Alexander[6]; 8. 21-Lyndon Whitfill[5]; 9. 2-Brayden Doyle[8]; 10. 01-Jeremy Nichols[13]; 11. 25W-Allen Weisser[9]; 12. 96M-Mike McKinney[14]; 13. B5-Matthew Baker[20]; 14. 27G-Jason Garver[21]; 15. 01K-Billy Knippenberg[19]; 16. 11D-Brian Diveley[23]; 17. 14L-Brian Lynn[15]; 18. 89-Austin Friedman[2]; 19. 110-Landen Miller[17]; 20. 97-Charles Hess[16]; 21. 35-Brandon Roberts[11]; 22. 9S-Ken Schrader[18]; 23. (DNS) 19C-Carter Sinkhorn; 24. (DNS) 14-Dalton Lane

ARTICLE: https://dirtcarsummernationals.com/recaps/jason-feger-earns-milestone-summer-nationals-win-no-40-at-lincoln/, https://dirtcarsummernationals.com/recaps/trevor-neville-wins-at-lincoln-for-sixth-career-summit-modified-win/

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Jason Feger Earns Milestone Summer Nationals Win No. 40 at Lincoln

LINCOLN, IL (July 2, 2026) — Milestone moments rarely come easy. Jason Feger had to work for a big one Thursday night at Lincoln Speedway, topping a thrilling, three-car battle for the lead and going on to his 40th career DIRTcar Summer Nationals Feature win.

Feger, the two-time Hell Tour champion from Bloomington, IL, made the most of a restart just past the halfway point to get by Sam Seawright and race-long Tanner English in a race that had the crowd on their feet before driving off with his fifth Feature win of the summer.

“When it’s right, Lincoln puts on a heck of a show,” Feger said. “I feel like a lot of times it can get a little top dominant, but usually when you can keep the bottom around and run the top like that, it’s a lot of fun. The top is just skinny and technical, so it’s not like anyone can get up there and do really good.”

A Lap 18 debris caution was the catalyst for a thrilling battle for the lead that started with current points leader English leading the opening 18 laps.

What happened next was nothing short of spectacular as the field restarted with just 12-to-go. Seawright dove under English entering Turn 3 and threw a big slide job on the No. 96 before making contact with the outside wall in Turn 4 and allowing English to slip back by to his inside.

As English and Seawright continued their battle, Feger soon reeled-in both drivers to make it a three-car duel for the top spot.

Feger rolled the bottom and attempted to pick off both as the exited Turn 2 with just 10 laps to go. The lead trio went three wide down the backstretch, splitting Seawright and leaving the top two in points side-by-side as they entered Turn 3.

Feger then executed a slide job of his own on English, bouncing off the Turn 4 wall and speeding down the front stretch to take the lead on Lap 21. From there, it was all Feger and his No. 25 out front as he went on to lead the final 10 laps and pick up the win in front of his home-state crowd.

“I didn’t think my car was that good; I was just trying to be really patient, and I knew there was a few different tire combinations there, and I wasn’t sure what was going to play out,” Feger said. “I was really struggling to get off the bottom like I wanted to, I didn’t think we had anything for [English]. I raced Sam (Seawright) hard because I wanted that row on the restart. I got to the bottom on the restart and everything I needed to happen, happened.”

English finished second, Jake Little rallied for third, Luke Morey was fourth, and Trey Mills rounded out the top five.

UP NEXT 

The DIRTcar Summer Nationals Late Models head to Red Hill Raceway in Sumner, IL, on Friday, July 3. Tickets for the event will be sold at the track on race day.

How else can you watch the DIRTcar Summer Nationals? Every race is live on DIRTVision.

Feature (30 Laps): 1. 25-Jason Feger[5]; 2. 96-Tanner English[1]; 3. 38J-Jake Little[9]; 4. 49-Luke Morey[8]; 5. 14JR-Trey Mills[4]; 6. 16S-Sam Seawright[2]; 7. 91-Rusty Schlenk[3]; 8. 45-Kyle Hammer[10]; 9. 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr[15]; 10. 99-Kyle Hardy[12]; 11. 21B-Rich Bell[16]; 12. 74-Mitch McGrath[11]; 13. 17SR-Brody Smith[21]; 14. 37L-Michael Ledford[13]; 15. 31M-Tyler Millwood[14]; 16. 15-Clay Stuckey[18]; 17. 09-Michael Leach[19]; 18. 89-Mike Spatola[6]; 19. 30-Mark Voigt[20]; 20. 74X-Ethan Dotson[7]; 21. 51B-Brandon Carpenter[17]; 22. 75-Daniel Adam[22]

Trevor Neville Wins at Lincoln for Sixth Career Summit Modified Win

Trevor Neville came into Lincoln Speedway hungry for the taste of victory. After 25 laps around the Illinois bullring, consider his hunger satisfied.

Neville, of Mackinaw, IL, hadn’t won in DIRTcar Modified competition since May. But on Thursday night, the 25-year-old capitalized on his pole starting position to end the drought in a big way with his first Feature win with the DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals in over a year.

“We’re just doing this for fun this year,” Neville said. “We decided to catch the back half of this, we were working on stuff and decided to have some fun. This tour is what makes or breaks people on this whole deal because the back-to-back racing makes you a better driver.”

The green flag dropped on the main event and into the lead went polesitter Austin Friedman, leading the opening lap with Neville in tow.

Neville quickly battled back and pulled even down the backstretch as the lead duo went side-by-side around the 1/4-mile oval. Friedman tried to slide up as they exited Turn 4, but Neville had the outside lane momentum and cleared Friedman before crossing the start/finish line to lead Lap 2.

Multiple cautions throughout the race forced Neville’s No. 777 to maintain the lead through multiple restarts, but he stood tall each time and kept the field behind him.

Neville went the rest of the way uncontested, leading the final 23 laps for his first win with the series since June 2025 at Peoria Speedway.

Steven Brooks finished second, Zeke McKenzie third, Ray Bollinger fourth, and Carson Friedman was fifth.

UP NEXT

The DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals head to Red Hill Raceway in Sumner, IL on Friday, July 3.

How can you watch the Summit Modifieds? Every race is live on DIRTVision.

Feature (25 Laps): 1. 777-Trevor Neville[1]; 2. 5-Steven Brooks[4]; 3. 24-Zeke McKenzie[7]; 4. 77-Ray Bollinger[12]; 5. 389-Carson Friedman[3]; 6. 10K-Kelly Kovski[10]; 7. 150-Collin Alexander[6]; 8. 21-Lyndon Whitfill[5]; 9. 2-Brayden Doyle[8]; 10. 01-Jeremy Nichols[13]; 11. 25W-Allen Weisser[9]; 12. 96M-Mike McKinney[14]; 13. B5-Matthew Baker[20]; 14. 27G-Jason Garver[21]; 15. 01K-Billy Knippenberg[19]; 16. 11D-Brian Diveley[23]; 17. 14L-Brian Lynn[15]; 18. 89-Austin Friedman[2]; 19. 110-Landen Miller[17]; 20. 97-Charles Hess[16]; 21. 35-Brandon Roberts[11]; 22. 9S-Ken Schrader[18]; 23. (DNS) 19C-Carter Sinkhorn; 24. (DNS) 14-Dalton Lane

ARTICLE: https://dirtcarsummernationals.com/recaps/jason-feger-earns-milestone-summer-nationals-win-no-40-at-lincoln/, https://dirtcarsummernationals.com/recaps/trevor-neville-wins-at-lincoln-for-sixth-career-summit-modified-win/

EVENT INFO: https://dirtcarsummernationals.com/schedule/event-info/?event=4549574
TRACK INFO: https://lincolnspeedwayil.com/

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Event: eero 400Date/Time: Sunday, July 5, 2026, 6 p.m. ETLocation: Chicagoland Speedway, Joliet, IllinoisLayout: 1.5-Mile OvalTV/Radio: TNT, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR RadioAs NASCAR returns to Chicagoland Speedway for the first time since 2019, Josh Berry and the No. 21 Wood Brothers Racing team are set for a big weekend with primary partner eero, which also serves as the entitlement sponsor of Sunday’s eero 400.“It’s going to be good to get back to Chicagoland,” Berry said. “It’s obviously a track we haven’t raced at in a while, so it’s great to see it back on the schedule.“From everything we’ve heard and what we’ve seen, it looks like the facility is in great shape, and I think it’ll produce some good racing.“It’s also a big weekend for our partner eero with them serving as the entitlement sponsor of the race, so we’d love to put together a good run for them.”Adding to the significance of the weekend, the No. 21 Ford Mustang will sport a special patriotic paint scheme celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States.“We’ve got a really sharp patriotic paint scheme on the No. 21 Ford Mustang, and hopefully we can give everyone at eero a weekend they’ll be proud of,” Berry said.As part of the eero 400 weekend festivities, Berry will throw out the ceremonial first pitch prior to Saturday night’s Fourth of July game between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals at Wrigley Field.Berry heads to Chicagoland with one previous NASCAR national series start at the 1.5-mile oval, where he finished 13th after starting 22nd in a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race in 2016.Track activity begins with practice Friday at 6 p.m. ET, followed by qualifying Saturday at 3 p.m. ET. Both sessions will air live on truTV.Sunday’s 267-lap eero 400 is scheduled to take the green flag shortly after 6 p.m. ET. Stage breaks are planned for Laps 80 and 165, with live television coverage provided by TNT.Josh BerryAge: 35 (Oct. 22, 1990)Hometown: Hendersonville, TennesseeCrew Chief: Miles StanleyIG: @joshberry88X: @joshberryAbout eero eero was founded to make wifi and networking the way they should be—fast, reliable, secure, and, most importantly, easy to use. After introducing the first home mesh wifi system with a high-quality design that blends into its environment and technology that intuitively works behind the scenes, eero became known for sweating every single detail and delivering award-winning hardware and software for homes, businesses, communities, and service providers. Founded and headquartered in San Francisco in 2014, eero is an Amazon company. For more information, visit eero.com.

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CHEVROLET IN THE NTT INDYCAR SERIESHonda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio2.258-Mile, 13-Turn Mid-Ohio road courseLexington, OhioRace AdvanceJuly 3-5, 2026  LEXINGTON, Ohio (July 2, 2026) – The Heartbeat of America, Chevrolet, heads into the July 4th weekend chasing a third straight NTT INDYCAR SERIES win to celebrate the U.S.A.’s 250th Birthday.  The 11th race of the 2026 NTT INDYCAR SERIES season, the 90-lap Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio, begins a stretch run of eight races across ten weekends to decide the championship. As the summer temperatures rise, Team Chevy has a pair of the hottest drivers chasing the title.  David Malukas (No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet) is currently in second place, and his 172 points are the most scored across the last five races. Christian Lundgaard (No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet) has scored 102 points since the Indianapolis 500, the most of any driver.

Chevrolet at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Chevrolet-powered drivers have made 254 starts across 27 races since 1980 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, with 167 of those coming since the introduction of the 2.2L Twin-Turbo V6 in 2012. Eight drivers representing five teams have won a dozen races at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course while powered by Chevrolet. Emerson Fittipaldi leads all Team Chevy drivers with three wins, while Michael Andretti and current Team Penske driver Josef Newgarden have a pair each. Team Penske’s seven wins lead all Chevrolet-powered teams. Team Chevy’s thirteen poles on the 2.258-Mile, 13-Turn Mid-Ohio road course lead all manufacturers. Nine drivers representing five teams have won poles at the Lexington, Ohio, road course, with Will Power (4) and Team Penske (7) leading the way. A driver wearing a Chevrolet Bowtie has stood on the podium 34 times, including current Team Chevy drivers Josef Newgarden (3), Christian Lundgaard (1), Scott McLaughlin (1), and Pato O’Ward (1). Chevrolet-powered cars have led 1034 laps at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, with Team Penske’s 573 laps led, the best of the nine teams that have had drivers lead at least one lap. Chevrolet-powered drivers and teams hold the overall and race-track records at the historic track in Lexington, Ohio. Simon Pagenaud’s (Team Penske) lap of 63.8700 seconds (127.271mph) set during qualifying for the 2016 is the best overall lap. Will Power (Team Penske), also in 2016, set the best mark during the race, completing a lap at 65.2600 seconds (124.560mph).

Christian Rasmussen and the No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet gets the checkered flag at Road America a couple of weeks agoRoad Course Ringer Part 2 Lundgaard’s stellar form on natural terrain courses continued last time the NTT INDYCAR SERIES was on track at Road America. The 24-year-old found himself in last place after a first-lap incident, and utilized a combination of Team Chevy power, fuel mileage, great strategy from his team, and a little luck to make his second trip to victory lane in 2026. Lundgaard’s win gives him an average finish of 1.33 on natural terrain course, allowing him to score 25 more points across the trio of races at Barber Motorsports Park, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course, and Road America.  Since joining Arrow McLaren in 2025, the Danish driver has stood on the podium at eight of the ten races held on natural terrain road courses, including a third-place finish at this week’s stop on the calendar, the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.  Lundgaard, who has scored the most points in the three races (Streets Of Detroit, World Wide Technology Raceway At Gateway and Road America) since the Indianapolis 500 in May, is currently fourth in the season-long standings, less than 20 points out of third place.  “Obviously, super pleased with the result at Road America,” said Lundgaard. “We certainly proved that we can maneuver through the field and overcome adversity. We have finished P1 or P2 at every road course this year, so I’m excited to get back on another one at Mid-Ohio. We’ll be focused on qualifying better and giving ourselves an easier path to the top of the podium.” Lundgaard’s average starting position at the first three natural terrain road course races stands at 8.7, and across the first ten races of the season, he’s gained 44 positions, tied for the most of any driver. Lundgaard has completed all 1300 laps contest thus far in 2026, one of only three drivers still batting a thousand.  Arrow McLaren has had recent success at the 2.258-Mile, 13-Turn Mid-Ohio road course. In addition to Lundgaard’s podium last year, Pato O’Ward won the first race of the hybrid era at the track in 2024, along with starting from the pole in 2022 Tune-In Guide Friday, July 3 NTT INDYCAR SERIES Practice #1 – 3pm (ET)/2pm (CT)/1pm (MT)/noon (PT) – FS1/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218 Saturday, July 4 NTT INDYCAR SERIES Practice #2 – 10am (ET)/9am (CT)/8am (MT)/7am (PT) – FS1/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218NTT INDYCAR SERIES Qualifying – 2:30pm (ET)/1pm (CT)/noon (MT)/11am (PT) – FS1/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218 Sunday, July 5 NTT INDYCAR SERIES Warm Up – 9am (ET)/8am (CT)/7am (MT)/6am (PT) – FS1/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio (90 laps)– 12:30pm (ET)/11:30:am (CT)/10:30am (MT)/9:30am (PT) – FOX/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218

Scott McLaughlin (Team Penske) is interviewed after winning the 2022 race at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.

Pato O’Ward and the Arrow McLaren crew celebrate the first win in the hybrid era at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in 2024

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CHEVROLET IN THE NTT INDYCAR SERIESHonda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio2.258-Mile, 13-Turn Mid-Ohio road courseLexington, OhioRace AdvanceJuly 3-5, 2026  LEXINGTON, Ohio (July 2, 2026) – The Heartbeat of America, Chevrolet, heads into the July 4th weekend chasing a third straight NTT INDYCAR SERIES win to celebrate the U.S.A.’s 250th Birthday.  The 11th race of the 2026 NTT INDYCAR SERIES season, the 90-lap Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio, begins a stretch run of eight races across ten weekends to decide the championship. As the summer temperatures rise, Team Chevy has a pair of the hottest drivers chasing the title.  David Malukas (No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet) is currently in second place, and his 172 points are the most scored across the last five races. Christian Lundgaard (No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet) has scored 102 points since the Indianapolis 500, the most of any driver.

Chevrolet at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Chevrolet-powered drivers have made 254 starts across 27 races since 1980 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, with 167 of those coming since the introduction of the 2.2L Twin-Turbo V6 in 2012. Eight drivers representing five teams have won a dozen races at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course while powered by Chevrolet. Emerson Fittipaldi leads all Team Chevy drivers with three wins, while Michael Andretti and current Team Penske driver Josef Newgarden have a pair each. Team Penske’s seven wins lead all Chevrolet-powered teams. Team Chevy’s thirteen poles on the 2.258-Mile, 13-Turn Mid-Ohio road course lead all manufacturers. Nine drivers representing five teams have won poles at the Lexington, Ohio, road course, with Will Power (4) and Team Penske (7) leading the way. A driver wearing a Chevrolet Bowtie has stood on the podium 34 times, including current Team Chevy drivers Josef Newgarden (3), Christian Lundgaard (1), Scott McLaughlin (1), and Pato O’Ward (1). Chevrolet-powered cars have led 1034 laps at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, with Team Penske’s 573 laps led, the best of the nine teams that have had drivers lead at least one lap. Chevrolet-powered drivers and teams hold the overall and race-track records at the historic track in Lexington, Ohio. Simon Pagenaud’s (Team Penske) lap of 63.8700 seconds (127.271mph) set during qualifying for the 2016 is the best overall lap. Will Power (Team Penske), also in 2016, set the best mark during the race, completing a lap at 65.2600 seconds (124.560mph).

Christian Rasmussen and the No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet gets the checkered flag at Road America a couple of weeks agoRoad Course Ringer Part 2 Lundgaard’s stellar form on natural terrain courses continued last time the NTT INDYCAR SERIES was on track at Road America. The 24-year-old found himself in last place after a first-lap incident, and utilized a combination of Team Chevy power, fuel mileage, great strategy from his team, and a little luck to make his second trip to victory lane in 2026. Lundgaard’s win gives him an average finish of 1.33 on natural terrain course, allowing him to score 25 more points across the trio of races at Barber Motorsports Park, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course, and Road America.  Since joining Arrow McLaren in 2025, the Danish driver has stood on the podium at eight of the ten races held on natural terrain road courses, including a third-place finish at this week’s stop on the calendar, the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.  Lundgaard, who has scored the most points in the three races (Streets Of Detroit, World Wide Technology Raceway At Gateway and Road America) since the Indianapolis 500 in May, is currently fourth in the season-long standings, less than 20 points out of third place.  “Obviously, super pleased with the result at Road America,” said Lundgaard. “We certainly proved that we can maneuver through the field and overcome adversity. We have finished P1 or P2 at every road course this year, so I’m excited to get back on another one at Mid-Ohio. We’ll be focused on qualifying better and giving ourselves an easier path to the top of the podium.” Lundgaard’s average starting position at the first three natural terrain road course races stands at 8.7, and across the first ten races of the season, he’s gained 44 positions, tied for the most of any driver. Lundgaard has completed all 1300 laps contest thus far in 2026, one of only three drivers still batting a thousand.  Arrow McLaren has had recent success at the 2.258-Mile, 13-Turn Mid-Ohio road course. In addition to Lundgaard’s podium last year, Pato O’Ward won the first race of the hybrid era at the track in 2024, along with starting from the pole in 2022 Tune-In Guide Friday, July 3 NTT INDYCAR SERIES Practice #1 – 3pm (ET)/2pm (CT)/1pm (MT)/noon (PT) – FS1/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218 Saturday, July 4 NTT INDYCAR SERIES Practice #2 – 10am (ET)/9am (CT)/8am (MT)/7am (PT) – FS1/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218NTT INDYCAR SERIES Qualifying – 2:30pm (ET)/1pm (CT)/noon (MT)/11am (PT) – FS1/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218 Sunday, July 5 NTT INDYCAR SERIES Warm Up – 9am (ET)/8am (CT)/7am (MT)/6am (PT) – FS1/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio (90 laps)– 12:30pm (ET)/11:30:am (CT)/10:30am (MT)/9:30am (PT) – FOX/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218

Scott McLaughlin (Team Penske) is interviewed after winning the 2022 race at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.

Chevrolet at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Chevrolet wins at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course: 12 2024 – Pato O’Ward – Arrow McLaren2022 – Scott McLaughlin – Team Penske2021 – Josef Newgarden – Team Penske2020 Race #1 – Will Power – Team Penske2017 – Josef Newgarden – Team Penske2016 – Simon Pagenaud – Team Penske2014 – Scott Dixon – Chip Ganassi Racing1993 – Emerson Fittipaldi – Team Penske1992 – Emerson Fittipaldi – Team Penske1991 – Michael Andretti – Newman Haas Racing1990 – Michael Andretti – Newman Haas Racing 1988 – Emerson Fittipaldi – Patrick Racing Chevrolet poles at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course: 13 2022 – Pato O’Ward – Arrow McLaren2021 – Josef Newgarden – Team Penske2020 Race #1 – Will Power – Team Penske2019 – Will Power – Team Penske2017 – Will Power – Team Penske2016 – Simon Pagenaud – Team Penske2015 – Scott Dixon – Chip Ganassi Racing2014 – Sebastien Bourdais – KV Racing Technology2013 – Ryan Hunter-Reay – Andretti Global2012 – Will Power – Team Penske1991 – Michael Andretti – Newman Haas Racing1990 – Michael Andretti – Newman Haas Racing 1988 – Danny Sullivan – Team Penske  Chevrolet podiums at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course: 34 Chevrolet podiums at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course by driver: Will Power (7), Emerson Fittipaldi (4), Michael Andretti (3), Josef Newgarden (3), Al Unser Jr. (3), Mario Andretti (2), Scott McLaughlin (2), Simon Pagenaud (2), Sebastien Bourdais (1), Christian Lundgaard (1), Rick Mears (1), Pato O’Ward (1), Bob Rahal (1), Danny Sullivan (1) and Paul Tracy (1).  Chevrolet podiums at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course by team: Team Penske (19), Newman Haas Racing (6), Galles Racing (4), Arrow McLaren (2), Chip Ganassi Racing (1), KV Racing Technology (1) and Patrick Racing (1) Chevrolet laps led at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course: 1034 Chevrolet laps led at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course by driver: Will Power (178), Emerson Fittipaldi (168), Michael Andretti (152), Scott Dixon (67), Pato O’Ward (52), Scott McLaughlin (49), Mario Andretti (44), Sebastien Bourdais (38), Ryan Hunter-Reay (30), Juan Montoya (30), Simon Pagenaud (23), Paul Tracy (23), Al Unser Jr. (11), Helio Castroneves (6), James Hinchcliffe (2), and Danny Sullivan (2) Chevrolet laps led at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course by team: Team Penske (573), Newman Haas Racing (196), Chip Ganassi Racing (67), Patrick Racing (63), Arrow McLaren (52), KV Racing Technology (38), Andretti Global (32), Galles Racing (11), and ECR (2) Manufacturer History at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Wins (with competition) 13 – Honda (2025, 2023, 2020 Race #2, 2019, 2018, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2001, 2000, 1999 1997, 1996)12 – Chevrolet (2024, 2022, 2021, 2020 Race #1, 2017, 2016, 2014, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989)6 – Cosworth (1987, 1986, 1986, 1984, 1983, 1980)2 – Ford (2002, 1998)1 – Ilmor (1994)1 – Mercedes (1995)1 – Porsche (1989) Poles (with competition) 13 – Chevrolet (2022, 2021, 2020 Race #1, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 1991, 1990, 1988)10 – Honda (2025, 2024, 2023, 2020 Race #2, 2018, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1996)6 – Cosworth (1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1980)5 – Ford (2002, 1997, 1995, 1993, 1992)1 – Ilmor (1994)1 – Porsche (1989)