While the dust has settled and the team are home, the memories made at Initiate Show 2026 continue to live on.

The second year of Initiate Show has officially raised the bar, delivering an action-packed weekend at the iconic Goodwood Motor Circuit that brought together drifting, automotive culture, live entertainment and thousands of passionate fans from across the UK and beyond.After a hugely successful debut event, the team behind Initiate Show came back in 2026 with major upgrades across the board and the response from fans, drivers, traders and partners was nothing short of incredible.One of the biggest additions for 2026 was the introduction of CTRL, taking charge of all on-screen action throughout the event and helping deliver a next-level spectator experience. To make sure fans didn’t miss a second of the action, three huge track-side screens were installed around the venue, bringing the energy from the track directly to every corner of the show.

VIP also received a major upgrade this year, offering guests premium viewing areas alongside inclusive food and drinks packages, creating one of the best ways to experience the event from inside the venue.And because Initiate Show is all about doing things differently… yes, there was even a snowmobile flying through the sky across the prestigious Goodwood lawn.The event welcomed over 7,000 attendees through the gates, while more than 300 show cars packed out the hugely popular Sonax Showcase display. Across social media, the show generated close to 2 million views in the 30 days leading up to and during the event, proving just how quickly Initiate Show is becoming one of the standout automotive events in the UK calendar.

INITIATE SHOW 2026 RAISED THE BAR AT GOODWOOD

While the dust has settled and the team are home, the memories made at Initiate Show 2026 continue to live on.

The second year of Initiate Show has officially raised the bar, delivering an action-packed weekend at the iconic Goodwood Motor Circuit that brought together drifting, automotive culture, live entertainment and thousands of passionate fans from across the UK and beyond.After a hugely successful debut event, the team behind Initiate Show came back in 2026 with major upgrades across the board and the response from fans, drivers, traders and partners was nothing short of incredible.One of the biggest additions for 2026 was the introduction of CTRL, taking charge of all on-screen action throughout the event and helping deliver a next-level spectator experience. To make sure fans didn’t miss a second of the action, three huge track-side screens were installed around the venue, bringing the energy from the track directly to every corner of the show.

VIP also received a major upgrade this year, offering guests premium viewing areas alongside inclusive food and drinks packages, creating one of the best ways to experience the event from inside the venue.And because Initiate Show is all about doing things differently… yes, there was even a snowmobile flying through the sky across the prestigious Goodwood lawn.The event welcomed over 7,000 attendees through the gates, while more than 300 show cars packed out the hugely popular Sonax Showcase display. Across social media, the show generated close to 2 million views in the 30 days leading up to and during the event, proving just how quickly Initiate Show is becoming one of the standout automotive events in the UK calendar.

Fans were also able to explore an incredible selection of traders and activations throughout the venue, alongside some amazing sponsors whose support helped bring the entire event to life. Thousands of Monster Energy cans were handed out across the weekend, keeping the energy levels high from start to finish.A massive thank you goes out to every sponsor, partner, trader, driver, crew member and attendee who made Initiate Show 2026 possible. Without their support, this event simply wouldn’t happen.Most importantly, Initiate Show 2026 created moments and memories that will stay with people long after the tyre smoke cleared.

CONCORD, NC (May 11, 2026) – The World of Outlaws Late Model Series presented by DIRTVision is rolling east for another stretch of nonstop racing.

This week’s agenda includes five nights of action across four tracks in Delaware and Pennsylvania. It all starts with a bang on Wednesday, May 13, as the World of Outlaws will be joined at Georgetown Speedway by the Super DIRTcar Series Big Block Modifieds for a rare doubleheader in the Delaware Diamond Clash.

From there, a four-hour tow awaits to Selinsgrove Speedway, where the World of Outlaws will visit for the first time since 2019 on Thursday, May 14. Then it’s off to Marion Center Raceway for the annual Connor Bobik Memorial, which starts with a pair of split-field, $6,000-to-win Features on Friday, May 15, before the $30,000-to-win finale on Saturday, May 16.

The week wraps up at Bedford Speedway on Sunday, May 17, with the Billy Winn Classic, one of the marquee events of the track’s 90th anniversary season.

TICKETS & INFO

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Here are this week’s top storylines:

NICK VS. BOBBY: As has been the case all season, you don’t need to look any further than the top of the points table to find intriguing storylines.

Nick Hoffman enters the week as the points leader by three markers over two-time and defending champion Bobby Pierce. The two are still the class of the field from every angle – both drivers picked up a win at the last stop on tour at Mississippi Thunder Speedway, and they both still have zero finishes outside the top 10 all season. While Pierce has more wins with seven compared to Hoffman’s five, Hoffman is out front due to a slight edge in consistency. Hoffman is carrying an 11-race top-five streak into Georgetown, while Pierce has finished seventh or worse three times over that span.

Georgetown and Selinsgrove could be a coin flip, as neither driver has any experience at either track. History gives the edge to Pierce in the second half of the week though, as the “Smooth Operator” is a past winner at both Marion Center (2025) and Bedford (2024). Hoffman is searching for his first win at both tracks, although he has three top fives in three starts at Marion Center and a best of fifth at Bedford from last season.

RYAN’S ROLLING: It took a little longer than he would have liked, but Ryan Gustin has found his groove in 2026.

After going winless in his first 29 starts of the year, Gustin spent a break in the World of Outlaws schedule rattling off three-consecutive regional wins. He maintained that speed at Mississippi Thunder, as he finished third on Thursday and second on Friday before finally breaking through for his first Series win of the season on Saturday, bagging $40,000 in the process.

An up-and-down start to the year likely has Gustin out of the championship conversation, but a top-three finish is still a very realistic goal. The win moved him up to fifth in points, 11 back from the tie for third between Tim McCreadie and Tyler Erb. Given his past success at Marion Center as the 2023 Connor Bobik Memorial winner and his two top fives in two starts at Bedford, this weekend could be Gustin’s chance to make another move up the standings.

FAMILIAR GROUND: There aren’t many weeks on the calendar that Drake Troutman looks forward to more than this one.

Each of the four tracks on the itinerary are within a few hours of Troutman’s Hyndman, PA home, but none are more special than the last stop at Bedford. It’s where Troutman fell in love with racing from the stands and one of the first places where he got behind the wheel. It’s also the home of the DJ Troutman Memorial, the DIRTcar UMP Modified event held every September in honor of Troutman’s late father.

After running countless races at Bedford in Modifieds and Late Models at the regional level, Troutman made his first World of Outlaws start at his home track last year and finished 13th. He’ll try to make Bedford the site of his first Series win of 2026 if he can’t do it beforehand at Georgetown, Selinsgrove or Marion Center, three tracks at which he’s looking to crack the top 10 for the first time in national competition.

TIME TO SHINE: Tim McCreadie isn’t chasing his first win of the year, but it might feel like it.

The Watertown, NY driver’s lone win of the campaign came nearly four months ago in the season-opening DIRTcar Sunshine Nationals at Volusia Speedway Park. Since then, he’s been good enough to secure the third spot in the standings, but he’s still trying to lead his first lap since January.

The Northeast has always been fruitful for McCreadie, and 2025 was no different. Last year’s May swing through the region produced McCreadie’s first two wins of the season at Raceway 7 and Bedford, setting him on a trajectory to score four more victories in the summer and fall.

There’s reason to believe this week could once again be a turning point in McCreadie’s season. Like Bedford, Georgetown and Selinsgrove feature the flat 1/2-mile layout that “T-Mac” has so much experience on from his Big Block Modified days. Selinsgrove in particular is a strong track for McCreadie, as he has a win and four top 10s in five World of Outlaws starts there.

LOCAL FAVORITES: Twenty races into his rookie season on tour with the World of Outlaws, Logan Zarin finally gets to race on some tracks he knows well.

Other than Volusia, every facility the Series has been to in 2026 has been new to Zarin, but that changes this week. The former United Late Model Series (ULMS) regular has finished in the top 10 once each at Selinsgrove, Marion Center and Bedford with the regional tour. He’s no stranger to Georgetown either, as he finished 12th in his first Super Late Model start there at the 2024 Mid-Atlantic Championship to go along with a pair of RUSH Crate Late Model starts at the Delaware facility.

Other names slated to join the World of Outlaws this week include Rick Eckert, Ross Robinson, Gregg Satterlee, Trevor Collins and many more.

WHEN AND WHERE:
Wednesday, May 13, at Georgetown Speedway in Georgetown, DE
Thursday, May 14, at Selinsgrove Speedway in Selinsgrove, PA
Friday-Saturday, May 15-16, at Marion Center Raceway in Marion Center, PA
Saturday, May 17, at Bedford Speedway in Bedford, PA

CURRENT POINT STANDINGS:
1. Nick Hoffman (2779 points)
2. Bobby Pierce (-3)
3. Tim McCreadie (-195)
4. Tyler Erb (-195)
5. Ryan Gustin (-206)
6. Drake Troutman (-216)
7. Ethan Dotson (-244)
8. Daulton Wilson (-251)
9. Dustin Sorensen (-326)
10. Dennis Erb Jr. (-370)

FEATURE WINNERS (8):
Bobby Pierce – 7
Nick Hoffman – 5
Brandon Sheppard – 2
Hudson O’Neal – 2
Ryan Gustin – 1
Tim McCreadie – 1
Chris Madden – 1
Mike Marlar – 1

FEATURE TOP FIVES (20):
Nick Hoffman – 18
Bobby Pierce – 14
Ryan Gustin – 7
Tim McCreadie – 7
Tyler Erb – 7
Brandon Sheppard – 6
Drake Troutman – 6
Chris Madden – 5
Daulton Wilson – 5
Jonathan Davenport – 4
Ethan Dotson – 4
Ricky Thornton Jr. – 4
Hudson O’Neal – 3
Dennis Erb Jr. – 2
Dale McDowell – 2
Ashton Winger – 2
Mike Marlar – 1
Brandon Overton – 1
Brent Larson – 1
Trey Mills – 1

FEATURE LAPS LED (18):
Nick Hoffman – 179
Bobby Pierce – 141
Brandon Sheppard – 78
Chris Madden – 73
Ryan Gustin – 72
Drake Troutman – 65
Hudson O’Neal – 45
Jonathan Davenport – 45
Mike Marlar – 39
Daulton Wilson – 37
Tim McCreadie – 28
Ashton Winger – 22
Ethan Dotson – 12
Brandon Overton – 12
Michael Leach – 10
Sam Seawright – 5
Dale McDowell – 4
Ricky Thornton Jr. – 2

BILSTEIN POLE AWARDS (12):
Nick Hoffman – 6
Drake Troutman – 3
Chris Madden – 2
Ryan Gustin – 1
Daulton Wilson – 1
Jonathan Davenport – 1
Ricky Thornton Jr. – 1
Ethan Dotson – 1
Ashton Winger – 1
Brandon Overton – 1
Michael Leach – 1
Sam Seawright – 1

SIMPSON QUICK TIME AWARDS (13):
Chris Madden – 5
Nick Hoffman – 2
Tim McCreadie – 2
Michael Leach – 2
Bobby Pierce – 1
Brandon Sheppard – 1
Hudson O’Neal – 1
Tyler Erb – 1
Drake Troutman – 1
Jonathan Davenport – 1
Brandon Overton – 1
Cody Overton – 1
Sam Seawright – 1

HEAT RACE WINS (31):
Nick Hoffman – 13
Bobby Pierce – 8
Ryan Gustin – 7
Chris Madden – 7
Tyler Erb – 6
Drake Troutman – 5
Brandon Sheppard – 4
Ricky Thornton Jr. – 3
Jonathan Davenport – 3
Brandon Overton – 3
Hudson O’Neal – 2
Tim McCreadie – 2
Daulton Wilson – 2
Michael Leach – 2
Mike Marlar – 1
Ethan Dotson – 1
Dale McDowell – 1
Ashton Winger – 1
Dennis Erb Jr. – 1
Brent Larson – 1
Trey Mills – 1
Devin Moran – 1
Sam Seawright – 1
Austin Smith – 1
Dan Ebert – 1
Cody Overton – 1
Dallon Murty – 1
Tristan Chamberlain – 1
Donald McIntosh – 1
Dustin Sorensen – 1
Blair Nothdurft – 1

LAST CHANCE SHOWDOWN WINS (29):
Ethan Dotson – 3
Dennis Erb Jr. – 3
Josh Rice – 3
Bobby Pierce – 2
Tristan Chamberlain – 2
Ryan Gustin – 1
Tim McCreadie – 1
Drake Troutman – 1
Daulton Wilson – 1
Ricky Thornton Jr. – 1
Dallon Murty – 1
Carson Ferguson – 1
Logan Zarin – 1
Jake Timm – 1
Luke Morey – 1
Michael Leach – 1
Dan Ebert – 1
Cody Overton – 1
Cory Hedgecock – 1
Dalton Cook – 1
Shane Clanton – 1
Michael Page – 1
Jason Feger – 1
Brian Shirley – 1
Derrick Stewart – 1
Chad Simpson – 1
Dustin Sorensen – 1
Chris Simpson – 1
Dylan Thornton – 1

TOP FIVE STORYLINES: Five-Night Northeast Swing Takes World of Outlaws Through Delaware, Pennsylvania

CONCORD, NC (May 11, 2026) – The World of Outlaws Late Model Series presented by DIRTVision is rolling east for another stretch of nonstop racing.

This week’s agenda includes five nights of action across four tracks in Delaware and Pennsylvania. It all starts with a bang on Wednesday, May 13, as the World of Outlaws will be joined at Georgetown Speedway by the Super DIRTcar Series Big Block Modifieds for a rare doubleheader in the Delaware Diamond Clash.

From there, a four-hour tow awaits to Selinsgrove Speedway, where the World of Outlaws will visit for the first time since 2019 on Thursday, May 14. Then it’s off to Marion Center Raceway for the annual Connor Bobik Memorial, which starts with a pair of split-field, $6,000-to-win Features on Friday, May 15, before the $30,000-to-win finale on Saturday, May 16.

The week wraps up at Bedford Speedway on Sunday, May 17, with the Billy Winn Classic, one of the marquee events of the track’s 90th anniversary season.

TICKETS & INFO

WATCH LIVE ON DIRTVISION

Here are this week’s top storylines:

NICK VS. BOBBY: As has been the case all season, you don’t need to look any further than the top of the points table to find intriguing storylines.

Nick Hoffman enters the week as the points leader by three markers over two-time and defending champion Bobby Pierce. The two are still the class of the field from every angle – both drivers picked up a win at the last stop on tour at Mississippi Thunder Speedway, and they both still have zero finishes outside the top 10 all season. While Pierce has more wins with seven compared to Hoffman’s five, Hoffman is out front due to a slight edge in consistency. Hoffman is carrying an 11-race top-five streak into Georgetown, while Pierce has finished seventh or worse three times over that span.

Georgetown and Selinsgrove could be a coin flip, as neither driver has any experience at either track. History gives the edge to Pierce in the second half of the week though, as the “Smooth Operator” is a past winner at both Marion Center (2025) and Bedford (2024). Hoffman is searching for his first win at both tracks, although he has three top fives in three starts at Marion Center and a best of fifth at Bedford from last season.

RYAN’S ROLLING: It took a little longer than he would have liked, but Ryan Gustin has found his groove in 2026.

After going winless in his first 29 starts of the year, Gustin spent a break in the World of Outlaws schedule rattling off three-consecutive regional wins. He maintained that speed at Mississippi Thunder, as he finished third on Thursday and second on Friday before finally breaking through for his first Series win of the season on Saturday, bagging $40,000 in the process.

An up-and-down start to the year likely has Gustin out of the championship conversation, but a top-three finish is still a very realistic goal. The win moved him up to fifth in points, 11 back from the tie for third between Tim McCreadie and Tyler Erb. Given his past success at Marion Center as the 2023 Connor Bobik Memorial winner and his two top fives in two starts at Bedford, this weekend could be Gustin’s chance to make another move up the standings.

FAMILIAR GROUND: There aren’t many weeks on the calendar that Drake Troutman looks forward to more than this one.

Each of the four tracks on the itinerary are within a few hours of Troutman’s Hyndman, PA home, but none are more special than the last stop at Bedford. It’s where Troutman fell in love with racing from the stands and one of the first places where he got behind the wheel. It’s also the home of the DJ Troutman Memorial, the DIRTcar UMP Modified event held every September in honor of Troutman’s late father.

After running countless races at Bedford in Modifieds and Late Models at the regional level, Troutman made his first World of Outlaws start at his home track last year and finished 13th. He’ll try to make Bedford the site of his first Series win of 2026 if he can’t do it beforehand at Georgetown, Selinsgrove or Marion Center, three tracks at which he’s looking to crack the top 10 for the first time in national competition.

TIME TO SHINE: Tim McCreadie isn’t chasing his first win of the year, but it might feel like it.

The Watertown, NY driver’s lone win of the campaign came nearly four months ago in the season-opening DIRTcar Sunshine Nationals at Volusia Speedway Park. Since then, he’s been good enough to secure the third spot in the standings, but he’s still trying to lead his first lap since January.

The Northeast has always been fruitful for McCreadie, and 2025 was no different. Last year’s May swing through the region produced McCreadie’s first two wins of the season at Raceway 7 and Bedford, setting him on a trajectory to score four more victories in the summer and fall.

There’s reason to believe this week could once again be a turning point in McCreadie’s season. Like Bedford, Georgetown and Selinsgrove feature the flat 1/2-mile layout that “T-Mac” has so much experience on from his Big Block Modified days. Selinsgrove in particular is a strong track for McCreadie, as he has a win and four top 10s in five World of Outlaws starts there.

LOCAL FAVORITES: Twenty races into his rookie season on tour with the World of Outlaws, Logan Zarin finally gets to race on some tracks he knows well.

Other than Volusia, every facility the Series has been to in 2026 has been new to Zarin, but that changes this week. The former United Late Model Series (ULMS) regular has finished in the top 10 once each at Selinsgrove, Marion Center and Bedford with the regional tour. He’s no stranger to Georgetown either, as he finished 12th in his first Super Late Model start there at the 2024 Mid-Atlantic Championship to go along with a pair of RUSH Crate Late Model starts at the Delaware facility.

Other names slated to join the World of Outlaws this week include Rick Eckert, Ross Robinson, Gregg Satterlee, Trevor Collins and many more.

WHEN AND WHERE:
Wednesday, May 13, at Georgetown Speedway in Georgetown, DE
Thursday, May 14, at Selinsgrove Speedway in Selinsgrove, PA
Friday-Saturday, May 15-16, at Marion Center Raceway in Marion Center, PA
Saturday, May 17, at Bedford Speedway in Bedford, PA

CURRENT POINT STANDINGS:
1. Nick Hoffman (2779 points)
2. Bobby Pierce (-3)
3. Tim McCreadie (-195)
4. Tyler Erb (-195)
5. Ryan Gustin (-206)
6. Drake Troutman (-216)
7. Ethan Dotson (-244)
8. Daulton Wilson (-251)
9. Dustin Sorensen (-326)
10. Dennis Erb Jr. (-370)

FEATURE WINNERS (8):
Bobby Pierce – 7
Nick Hoffman – 5
Brandon Sheppard – 2
Hudson O’Neal – 2
Ryan Gustin – 1
Tim McCreadie – 1
Chris Madden – 1
Mike Marlar – 1

FEATURE TOP FIVES (20):
Nick Hoffman – 18
Bobby Pierce – 14
Ryan Gustin – 7
Tim McCreadie – 7
Tyler Erb – 7
Brandon Sheppard – 6
Drake Troutman – 6
Chris Madden – 5
Daulton Wilson – 5
Jonathan Davenport – 4
Ethan Dotson – 4
Ricky Thornton Jr. – 4
Hudson O’Neal – 3
Dennis Erb Jr. – 2
Dale McDowell – 2
Ashton Winger – 2
Mike Marlar – 1
Brandon Overton – 1
Brent Larson – 1
Trey Mills – 1

FEATURE LAPS LED (18):
Nick Hoffman – 179
Bobby Pierce – 141
Brandon Sheppard – 78
Chris Madden – 73
Ryan Gustin – 72
Drake Troutman – 65
Hudson O’Neal – 45
Jonathan Davenport – 45
Mike Marlar – 39
Daulton Wilson – 37
Tim McCreadie – 28
Ashton Winger – 22
Ethan Dotson – 12
Brandon Overton – 12
Michael Leach – 10
Sam Seawright – 5
Dale McDowell – 4
Ricky Thornton Jr. – 2

BILSTEIN POLE AWARDS (12):
Nick Hoffman – 6
Drake Troutman – 3
Chris Madden – 2
Ryan Gustin – 1
Daulton Wilson – 1
Jonathan Davenport – 1
Ricky Thornton Jr. – 1
Ethan Dotson – 1
Ashton Winger – 1
Brandon Overton – 1
Michael Leach – 1
Sam Seawright – 1

SIMPSON QUICK TIME AWARDS (13):
Chris Madden – 5
Nick Hoffman – 2
Tim McCreadie – 2
Michael Leach – 2
Bobby Pierce – 1
Brandon Sheppard – 1
Hudson O’Neal – 1
Tyler Erb – 1
Drake Troutman – 1
Jonathan Davenport – 1
Brandon Overton – 1
Cody Overton – 1
Sam Seawright – 1

HEAT RACE WINS (31):
Nick Hoffman – 13
Bobby Pierce – 8
Ryan Gustin – 7
Chris Madden – 7
Tyler Erb – 6
Drake Troutman – 5
Brandon Sheppard – 4
Ricky Thornton Jr. – 3
Jonathan Davenport – 3
Brandon Overton – 3
Hudson O’Neal – 2
Tim McCreadie – 2
Daulton Wilson – 2
Michael Leach – 2
Mike Marlar – 1
Ethan Dotson – 1
Dale McDowell – 1
Ashton Winger – 1
Dennis Erb Jr. – 1
Brent Larson – 1
Trey Mills – 1
Devin Moran – 1
Sam Seawright – 1
Austin Smith – 1
Dan Ebert – 1
Cody Overton – 1
Dallon Murty – 1
Tristan Chamberlain – 1
Donald McIntosh – 1
Dustin Sorensen – 1
Blair Nothdurft – 1

LAST CHANCE SHOWDOWN WINS (29):
Ethan Dotson – 3
Dennis Erb Jr. – 3
Josh Rice – 3
Bobby Pierce – 2
Tristan Chamberlain – 2
Ryan Gustin – 1
Tim McCreadie – 1
Drake Troutman – 1
Daulton Wilson – 1
Ricky Thornton Jr. – 1
Dallon Murty – 1
Carson Ferguson – 1
Logan Zarin – 1
Jake Timm – 1
Luke Morey – 1
Michael Leach – 1
Dan Ebert – 1
Cody Overton – 1
Cory Hedgecock – 1
Dalton Cook – 1
Shane Clanton – 1
Michael Page – 1
Jason Feger – 1
Brian Shirley – 1
Derrick Stewart – 1
Chad Simpson – 1
Dustin Sorensen – 1
Chris Simpson – 1
Dylan Thornton – 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
Thursday, May 14 / Selinsgrove Speedway / Selinsgrove, PA
Friday, May 15 / Marion Center Raceway / Marion Center, PA
Saturday, May 16 / Marion Center Raceway / Marion Center, PA
Sunday, May 17 / Bedford Speedway / Bedford, PA
Thursday, May 28 / Wayne County Speedway / Orrville, OH
Friday, May 29 / Mansfield Speedway / Mansfield, OH
Saturday, May 30 / Mansfield Speedway / Mansfield, OH
Friday, June 12 / West Virginia Motor Speedway / Mineral Wells, WV
Saturday, June 13 / West Virginia Motor Speedway / Mineral Wells, WV
Friday, June 19 / 141 Speedway / Maribel, WI
Saturday, June 20 / 141 Speedway / Maribel, WI
Monday, June 22 / Ogilvie Raceway / Ogilvie, MN
Wednesday, June 24 / I-94 emr Speedway / Fergus Falls, MN
Friday, June 26 / River Cities Speedway / Grand Forks, ND
Sunday, June 28 / Nodak Speedway / Minot, ND
Tuesday, June 30 / Norman County Raceway / Ada, MN
Thursday, July 2 / Deer Creek Speedway / Spring Valley, MN
Friday, July 3 / Deer Creek Speedway / Spring Valley, MN
Saturday, July 4 / Deer Creek Speedway / Spring Valley, MN
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

Justin Jones (No. 91), Trevor Brunner (No. 21), and Tom Drane (No. 1) battle during the Silver Dollar Short Track. [Photo: Scott Hunter for AMA Pro Racing] Download high-resolution photo from AMA Pro’s Digital Asset Management system

Progressive American Flat Track Announces Launch of ThrottleFestUSA.com

Justin Jones (No. 91), Trevor Brunner (No. 21), and Tom Drane (No. 1) battle during the Silver Dollar Short Track. [Photo: Scott Hunter for AMA Pro Racing] Download high-resolution photo from AMA Pro’s Digital Asset Management system

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (May 11, 2026) – Progressive American Flat Track, sanctioned by AMA Pro Racing, is pleased to announce the launch of ThrottleFestUSA.com, the official online destination for ThrottleFest, the four-day motorsports festival set for May 14-17 at Budds Creek Motocross Park in Mechanicsville, Maryland. Designed to help fans make the most of the full ThrottleFest experience, ThrottleFestUSA.com will serve as the central source for event schedules, start times, activity locations and weekend updates. From on-track racing and fan activities to live entertainment, food, vendors, camping and special events, the website will allow attendees to see what is happening, when it is happening and where to go throughout the weekend. ThrottleFest will be highlighted by Round 6 of the 2026 Progressive American Flat Track season on Saturday, May 16, as the world’s premier dirt track motorcycle racing series brings bar-to-bar action to Budds Creek Motocross Park. The four-day festival will also feature a full lineup of motorsports competition, including amateur flat track, motocross, pit bike racing, endurocross and hare scrambles, giving fans a packed schedule of racing across multiple disciplines. The website will continue to be updated as additional programming, schedules and event details are confirmed. Fans are encouraged to visit ThrottleFestUSA.com before arriving at Budds Creek Motocross Park and throughout the weekend for the latest information. Ticket options include single-day and multi-day packages, with camping also available for fans looking to experience the full ThrottleFest weekend. Fans can visit ThrottleFestUSA.com now for event schedules, ticket information, registration details, camping information and the latest updates. Next Up Progressive American Flat Track returns to action on Saturday, May 16, with ThrottleFest at Budds Creek Motocross Park in Mechanicsville, Maryland. Fans can visit ThrottleFestUSA.com for event schedules, start times, ticket information and weekend updates. To purchase ThrottleFest tickets, visit https://www.tixr.com/groups/americanflattrack/events/2026-throttlefest-saturday-184353. The following weekend, the series heads to Williams Grove Speedway in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, for the Appalachian Harley-Davidson Williams Grove Half-Mile on Saturday, May 23. To purchase Appalachian Harley-Davidson Williams Grove Half-Mile tickets, visit https://www.tixr.com/groups/americanflattrack/events/2026-williams-grove-half-mile-185952. Fans can find complete event information, tickets and updates at AmericanFlatTrack.com.

Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series Invades Eagle Raceway for Malvern Bank High Bank Heist

BATAVIA, Ohio (May 11, 2026) – The stars of the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series presented by FloRacing are set to return to one of the Midwest’s most thrilling dirt tracks for the annual Malvern Bank High Bank Heist at Eagle Raceway, taking place May 14-16. The three-night spectacular promises intense side-by-side racing, and a packed field of the nation’s top dirt late model competitors at the famed “World’s Fastest 1/3-Mile Oval.” Located just east of Lincoln at 617 South 238th Street in Eagle, Nebraska, Eagle Raceway has become one of dirt racing’s premier destinations thanks to its high-banked layout and electric atmosphere. The High Bank Heist has quickly evolved into one of the marquee stops on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series schedule, highlighted by a massive Saturday finale paying $50,000-to-win. The event opens Thursday, May 14, with the first of two preliminary nights featuring complete Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series programs paying $10,000-to-win. Friday night continues with another full show and a second $10,000 winner’s payday before Saturday’s championship finale caps the weekend with one of the richest purses in Eagle Raceway history. Fans can expect complete nightly programs including Dirt Draft Hot Laps, Allstar Performance Time Trials, Heat Races, B-Mains, and A-Main events each night. Pit gates will open daily at 2:00 p.m. General admission gates will open at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, while Saturday’s grandstand gates will open at 5:00 p.m. On-track action is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, with Saturday’s finale getting underway at 6:00 p.m. To find more information or purchase tickets in advance, visit EagleRaceway.com. Hudson O’Neal continues to lead the Big River Steel Championship Standings Presented by ARP, holding a slim 35-point advantage over Devin Moran, who sits second. Brandon Sheppard remains firmly in the title hunt in third, followed by Brandon Overton in fourth and Ricky Thornton Jr. rounding out the top five. Max Blair sits sixth, while Garrett Alberson and Brian Shirley are tied for seventh. Clay Harris and Josh Rice complete the top 10, though Rice is tied on points with Kyle Bronson just outside the top 10. Carson Ferguson, Dan Ebert, Daniel Hilsabeck, Dillon McCowan, Brenden Smith, and Cory Lawler round out the current championship standings as the battle for points remains tight throughout the field. For the latest news, results, and championship standings from the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series presented by FloRacing, please visit LucasDirt.com. Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series Purses:Thursday: 1. $10,000, 2. $5,500, 3. $3,500, 4. $2,700, 5. $2,500, 6. $2,300, 7. $2,200, 8. $2,100, 9. $2,050, 10. $2,000, 11. $1,600, 12. $1,400, 13. $1,200, 14. $1,000, 15. $950, 16. $925, 17. $900, 18. $875, 19. $850, 20. $825, 21. $800, 22. $800, 23. $800, 24. $800 = $48,575 Friday: 1. $10,000, 2. $5,500, 3. $3,500, 4. $2,700, 5. $2,500, 6. $2,300, 7. $2,200, 8. $2,100, 9. $2,050, 10. $2,000, 11. $1,600, 12. $1,400, 13. $1,200, 14. $1,000, 15. $950, 16. $925, 17. $900, 18. $875, 19. $850, 20. $825, 21. $800, 22. $800, 23. $800, 24. $800 = $48,575 Saturday: 1. $50,000, 2. $20,000, 3. $10,000, 4. $8,000, 5. $7,000, 6. $6,000, 7. $4,500, 8. $4,000, 9. $3,800, 10. $3,600, 11. $3,400, 12. $3,200, 13. $3,000, 14. $2,500, 15. $2,400, 16. $2,300, 17. $2,200, 18. $2,100, 19. $2,000, 20. $2,000, 21. $2,000, 22. $2,000, 23. $2,000, 24. $2,000 = $150,000 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series Tire Rule:Left Rear/Fronts – Hoosier (90) NLMT2, (90) NLMT3Right Rear – Hoosier (92) NRM NLMT3, (92) NRM NLMT4

Event: Go Bowling at The GlenLocation: Watkins Glen International, Watkins Glen, New YorkDate: Sunday, May 10, 2026Start: 34thFinish: 32ndAfter making steady progress throughout Sunday’s Go Bowling at The Glen at Watkins Glen International, Josh Berry and the No. 21 DEX team saw a promising afternoon unravel late and ultimately came away with a 32nd-place finish in the 100-lap NASCAR Cup Series event.Berry rolled off 34th on the grid and the No. 21 team immediately went to work on strategy at the historic New York road course. The team made its first pit stop just before pit road closed at the conclusion of the opening 20-lap stage, allowing Berry to gain valuable track position when the remainder of the field pitted under the stage caution. The strategy vaulted the DEX Ford Mustang Dark Horse from 34th to 22nd for the restart.The team utilized a similar approach in the second stage, pitting prior to the end of the 30-lap segment and cycling back to 23rd in the running order for the start of the final stage.A caution on Lap 60 presented another opportunity for crew chief Miles Stanley and the No. 21 team to gain track position, electing to keep Berry on track while others headed to pit road. The call moved Berry up to eighth for the restart, and he maintained a solid top-10 presence over the next several laps.Following a pit stop on Lap 76, Berry returned to the track in 33rd and methodically worked his way back through the field. He climbed to 21st before getting caught in a multi-car incident that shuffled him back several positions. Despite the setback, Berry remained in position for a top-25 result before additional contact in the closing laps relegated the No. 21 entry to a 32nd-place finish at the checkered flag.Next up for Berry and the No. 21 team is next weekend’s NASCAR All-Star Race at Dover Motor Speedway.

Van Gisbergen Makes Late-Race Charge to Capture His First Win of the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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·        Trackhouse Racing’s Shane van Gisbergen drove to yet another statement road course performance in NASCAR’s premier series – making an impressive late-race charge to take the checkered flag and his first victory of the 2026 season. With now seven road course victories to his name, the record ties fellow Team Chevy driver, Chase Elliott, for the lead as the series’ winningest active road course driver.  ·        The victory marks Chevrolet’s third consecutive, and fourth overall, victory in NASCAR’s premier series this season. The manufacturer’s streak has been accompanied by at least half of the top-10 finishing positions in each event. All earning their season-best finish at the upstate New York circuit, the victory was celebrated by a runner-up finish by Michael McDowell, with Austin Dillon, AJ Allmendinger and Kyle Busch taking the checkered flag in the sixth through eighth positions, respectively.  RACE RECAP:  Stage One: A strong Saturday in upstate New York for the Chevrolet camp resulted in the manufacturer’s second-straight front row sweep – an effort led by Trackhouse Racing’s Shane van Gisbergen, who earned his first pole win of the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season. The track’s defending winner set the pace early, edging out fellow Team Chevy driver, Michael McDowell, in Turn One to lead the field on the opening lap. With only 10 laps in the books, the road course ringer had already driven to a 2.5-second lead with a trio of Chevrolet drivers in toe to give the Bowtie brand the top-four of the running order. With the first green flag pit cycle getting underway near the end of the stage, Van Gisbergen surrendered the lead with two laps to go as crew chief Stephen Doran called his driver in for their first scheduled stop of the day. The Auckland, New Zealand, native quickly cycled back up to the eighth position to end the stage, but it was his Trackhouse Racing teammate, Ross Chastain, that opted for points – running out the stage to lead the field to the first green-white checkered flag. Stage Two: Among those that flipped the opening stage included the Team Chevy trio of Van Gisbergen, McDowell and Zilisch, who ultimately cycled back to the front of the field to take the green flag for the 30-lap Stage Two. While Van Gisbergen quickly found his way back to the command position, he had his teammate Zilisch in his rearview mirror throughout the run with the rookie maintaining less than a half-second gap to the lead. Despite a close battle for the lead, there was no challenge for the pair as they pulled to a nearly six-second lead over the field until the first natural caution of the day flew with 10 laps to go in the stage. Among the six cars that chose to run out the stage included the Spire Motorsports teammates of McDowell and Suarez with the pair ultimately lining up on the front row for the restart. But a fresh set of Goodyear tires on the No. 97 Chevrolet paid dividends for Van Gisbergen with the driver going from sixth to the lead in a matter of two laps around the 2.45-mile circuit. Never looking back, Van Gisbergen went on to drive Chevrolet and Trackhouse Racing to a stage win sweep.  Final Stage: Staying out under the stage break, Van Gisbergen reported that he was happy with the handling of his Chevrolet as he geared up to lead the field to the final stage of the race. ECR-powered Chevrolet’s took over half of the top-10 to begin the final run with Richard Childress Racing teammates, Austin Dillon and Kyle Busch, also settled into the top-five. A caution on Lap 60 kickstarted varying strategies along pit road with the No. 97 being among the eight teams that opted to stretch the run. With direction from Doran, Van Gisbergen looked to make a hard charge and build a strong lead to set up for the potential of a green flag pit stop. Maximizing the speed of his Chevrolet, Van Gisbergen pulled to a nearly six-second lead before being called to pit road as the race hit 24 laps to go. The top-12 of the leaderboard were all on the same pit strategy with Zilisch leading the Bowtie brigade in the second position and closing in on then race leader, Ty Gibbs, to a half-second margin with 15 laps remaining. But his fight for the lead came to a disappointing end as a right-front tire going down on his Chevrolet forced crew chief Randall Burnett to bring Zilisch down pit road under the green flag conditions. While the leaders were in fuel-saving mode, Van Gisbergen was able to make an impressive charge through the field to the lead en route to his first trip to victory lane of the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season.

Team Chevy Unofficial Top-10 ResultsPos.     Driver 1st – Shane van Gisbergen2nd – Michael McDowell6th – Austin Dillon7th – AJ Allmendinger8th – Kyle Busch Chevrolet’s season statistics with 12 NASCAR Cup Series races complete: Wins: 4Poles: 3Top-Fives: 22Top 10s: 44Stage Wins: 10

The 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season continues at Dover Motor Speedway with the All-Star Race on Sunday, May 17, at 1 p.m. ET. Live coverage can be found on FS1, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90.

NASCAR Cup SeriesWatkins Glen International Go Bowling at The GlenTeam Chevy Post-Race ReportMay 10, 2026

Van Gisbergen Makes Late-Race Charge to Capture His First Win of the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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·        Trackhouse Racing’s Shane van Gisbergen drove to yet another statement road course performance in NASCAR’s premier series – making an impressive late-race charge to take the checkered flag and his first victory of the 2026 season. With now seven road course victories to his name, the record ties fellow Team Chevy driver, Chase Elliott, for the lead as the series’ winningest active road course driver.  ·        The victory marks Chevrolet’s third consecutive, and fourth overall, victory in NASCAR’s premier series this season. The manufacturer’s streak has been accompanied by at least half of the top-10 finishing positions in each event. All earning their season-best finish at the upstate New York circuit, the victory was celebrated by a runner-up finish by Michael McDowell, with Austin Dillon, AJ Allmendinger and Kyle Busch taking the checkered flag in the sixth through eighth positions, respectively.  RACE RECAP:  Stage One: A strong Saturday in upstate New York for the Chevrolet camp resulted in the manufacturer’s second-straight front row sweep – an effort led by Trackhouse Racing’s Shane van Gisbergen, who earned his first pole win of the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season. The track’s defending winner set the pace early, edging out fellow Team Chevy driver, Michael McDowell, in Turn One to lead the field on the opening lap. With only 10 laps in the books, the road course ringer had already driven to a 2.5-second lead with a trio of Chevrolet drivers in toe to give the Bowtie brand the top-four of the running order. With the first green flag pit cycle getting underway near the end of the stage, Van Gisbergen surrendered the lead with two laps to go as crew chief Stephen Doran called his driver in for their first scheduled stop of the day. The Auckland, New Zealand, native quickly cycled back up to the eighth position to end the stage, but it was his Trackhouse Racing teammate, Ross Chastain, that opted for points – running out the stage to lead the field to the first green-white checkered flag. Stage Two: Among those that flipped the opening stage included the Team Chevy trio of Van Gisbergen, McDowell and Zilisch, who ultimately cycled back to the front of the field to take the green flag for the 30-lap Stage Two. While Van Gisbergen quickly found his way back to the command position, he had his teammate Zilisch in his rearview mirror throughout the run with the rookie maintaining less than a half-second gap to the lead. Despite a close battle for the lead, there was no challenge for the pair as they pulled to a nearly six-second lead over the field until the first natural caution of the day flew with 10 laps to go in the stage. Among the six cars that chose to run out the stage included the Spire Motorsports teammates of McDowell and Suarez with the pair ultimately lining up on the front row for the restart. But a fresh set of Goodyear tires on the No. 97 Chevrolet paid dividends for Van Gisbergen with the driver going from sixth to the lead in a matter of two laps around the 2.45-mile circuit. Never looking back, Van Gisbergen went on to drive Chevrolet and Trackhouse Racing to a stage win sweep.  Final Stage: Staying out under the stage break, Van Gisbergen reported that he was happy with the handling of his Chevrolet as he geared up to lead the field to the final stage of the race. ECR-powered Chevrolet’s took over half of the top-10 to begin the final run with Richard Childress Racing teammates, Austin Dillon and Kyle Busch, also settled into the top-five. A caution on Lap 60 kickstarted varying strategies along pit road with the No. 97 being among the eight teams that opted to stretch the run. With direction from Doran, Van Gisbergen looked to make a hard charge and build a strong lead to set up for the potential of a green flag pit stop. Maximizing the speed of his Chevrolet, Van Gisbergen pulled to a nearly six-second lead before being called to pit road as the race hit 24 laps to go. The top-12 of the leaderboard were all on the same pit strategy with Zilisch leading the Bowtie brigade in the second position and closing in on then race leader, Ty Gibbs, to a half-second margin with 15 laps remaining. But his fight for the lead came to a disappointing end as a right-front tire going down on his Chevrolet forced crew chief Randall Burnett to bring Zilisch down pit road under the green flag conditions. While the leaders were in fuel-saving mode, Van Gisbergen was able to make an impressive charge through the field to the lead en route to his first trip to victory lane of the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season.

Team Chevy Unofficial Top-10 ResultsPos.     Driver 1st – Shane van Gisbergen2nd – Michael McDowell6th – Austin Dillon7th – AJ Allmendinger8th – Kyle Busch Chevrolet’s season statistics with 12 NASCAR Cup Series races complete: Wins: 4Poles: 3Top-Fives: 22Top 10s: 44Stage Wins: 10

The 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season continues at Dover Motor Speedway with the All-Star Race on Sunday, May 17, at 1 p.m. ET. Live coverage can be found on FS1, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90.

Post-Race Driver Quotes: Austin Dillon, No. 3 Richard Childress Racing ChevroletFinished: 6th“Man, God is so good. We work really hard on these road races. I put a lot of effort into them to get better and we didn’t qualify great, but Richard Boswell (crew chief) and everyone on the Bass Pro Shops/Winchester AA White Flyer team did a good job pushing the strategy early to go hard. We really didn’t worry about tires when we short pitted, and that got us our track position at the end of the stage. After that, we were able to maintain, and it was fun saving fuel there behind (Chase) Briscoe. I probably should have pushed a little harder because I actually made it back all the way around on fuel. So, I did a good job on saving fuel, which was cool. Thanks to all of our partners and everybody that helps us go around. We put a lot of effort into it. We’ve been working really hard at RCR. It’s cool that Kyle (Busch) and I both were racing up front. He (Kyle Busch) scared me into the bus stop with like two to go. He just gave up on saving fuel, and he ran out at the line that was kind of fun getting him back by the line. Just a good day for RCR overall. And Happy Mother’s Day to my mom, my wife. We’ll take this and take the momentum and move on.”  Daniel Suarez, No. 7 Spire Motorsports ChevroletFinished: 13th“Our Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation Chevy was decent at times today. We tried to gain track position all race long, and the No. 7 team fought hard to work our way back toward the front and come away with a decent finish. I felt like it was a step in the right direction for our road course package. Our car was definitely better in the race than it was in practice and qualifying. Stage 2 didn’t feel the best, but the rear handling improved some for the final stage.”  Kyle Busch, No. 8 Richard Childress Racing ChevroletFinished: 8th “Strong day for the No. 8 zone Jalapeño Lime Chevrolet. We were a Top 10 car for the majority of the race, and ended eighth here at Watkins Glen International. We made the adjustments and strategy calls we needed to drive forward and make up track position after qualifying 21st, despite battling a car that trended tight throughout the race. We ran out of fuel at the end of the race, but we’re still going home with our second Top-10 finish of the season. I’m proud of the work the entire Richard Childress Racing team is putting in back in Welcome, NC, and will look to continue that momentum as the season progresses.”  AJ Allmendinger, No. 16 Kaulig Racing ChevroletFinished: 7th“That was a crazy race. I thought when we started the race, the No. 16 Grizzly Nicotine Pouches Chevrolet was pretty good. We just still had some of the same issues that we’ve been fighting. After around 12-14 laps, it hits a cliff and gets loose. But we got some stage points. Unfortunately, that put us a little behind in strategy. It was just so tough to pass, so I thought we were going to be in for a long day. Trent (Owens, crew chief) made a really good call there; we had a good restart and started moving through the field. I don’t know if that run would have been better if it would have stayed green, but overall, despite being in a hole on strategy, Trent did a great job to get us back in position to at least be on the offensive side. Obviously you always want more, but it was a good day.”  Michael McDowell, No. 71 Spire Motorsports ChevroletFinished: 2ndWas today the spark this team needed to get back going in the right direction?“Yeah, for sure. It’s been a rough few weeks. But that’s what is great about NASCAR – you’re only one week away from grabbing a top-five finish and having some momentum on our side. We knew this was a track we could come to and, if we executed like we did today, we could contend for the win. We still needed a little bit more to hang with Shane van Gisbergen there. But all-in-all, the No. 71 Go Bowling Chevrolet team had a good day. It wasn’t a perfect day, but it was a good day. That’s what we needed. We just needed some momentum on our side.”  What did you learn today that you can take to other road courses?“We qualified second and we finished second. Shane van Gisbergen was a couple tenths better than us in qualifying and he was around a tenth better in the race. It doesn’t sound like a lot, but we still have work to do. I’m just really proud of everyone at Spire Motorsports. Our road course program is coming along really well. We had a top-five at COTA and another top-five here. We’re close, but we just need to keep tuning in on it.”   Connor Zilisch, No. 88 Trackhouse Racing ChevroletFinished: 20th“It’s just a bummer. I feel like I did almost everything right today that I could, but it just goes like that sometimes. We’ve got a couple more good road courses to go to this season for Trackhouse Racing, so we’ll keep our heads down and keep digging. At the worst, I was going to finish outside the top-five probably and have my best day in this series, by far. I don’t think I could have beat Shane (van Gisbergen). When you’re so close, it’s just frustrating. I should have passed Ty (Gibbs). I don’t think it would have been any better to stay behind him. I could have saved more fuel in front of him and ran faster, but I’ll learn from it and be better moving forward.”  Shane van Gisbergen, No. 97 Trackhouse Racing ChevroletFinished: 1stHow do you describe how that race unfolded and how you got that win?“Yeah, pretty unreal and just thankful for my No. 97 Superfile Chevrolet team. Just an unbelievable day.  It was amazing in the strategies and how they worked out, but the car was just magic to be able to do that and push when I needed to. To back it up from last year is pretty unreal.” What is it like as a driver to be on offense with a magical race car?“I love being able to do that at the end and chase everyone down on a tire difference.  Josh, my spotter, was excellent in giving me the lap times and what the gap was. I was trying to calculate it as I went and manage the tires so that I would still have some when I got there. It’s just so special and really cool.” One of the changes this year was the number on this car. The No. 97 is your family number. You finally bring it to victory lane here. What does that mean to you?“Yeah, it’s pretty awesome. I have done it in the O’Reilly Series before, but not here. So it’s pretty awesome to represent that, and I’m proud to have it here in victory lane.”

Sheppard Banks $30,000 in FALS Spring Shootout at Fairbury

FAIRBURY, IL (May 9, 2026) – Brandon Sheppard of New Berlin, Illinois charged to victory Saturday night at Fairbury Speedway, winning the FALS Spring Shootout presented by Titan Industries. The Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series presented by FloRacing event paid $30,000 to the winner. Sheppard took the lead from Brian Shirley on lap 13 and led the remainder of the race, holding off a late charge from Nick Hoffman over the final five laps to secure his 38th career Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series victory and his 17th career win at Fairbury Speedway. Shirley, who led the opening 12 laps, rounded out the Big River Steel podium in third. Brandon Overton finished fourth, while Bobby Pierce completed the top five. The victory marked Sheppard’s fourth Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series win of the season and his seventh overall triumph of 2026. With the win, he moves to third in the championship standings heading into next weekend’s events at Eagle Raceway in Nebraska. “This feels awesome. It seems like it’s been forever since we won here,” Sheppard said in Lucas Oil Victory Lane. “We always seem to win prelims at the Prairie Dirt Classic, but these bigger races have avoided me for a while, so it’s really special to win one here tonight.” “When I was growing up, I dreaded coming to Fairbury because it’s so tough to win here. It takes such a different driving style, and the track changes so much throughout the night. The last eight laps, I felt like I was hanging on for dear life. I think the right rear tire may have been going down after I ran over something during that caution, but this car is an absolute dream to drive right now.” Hoffman, seeking his second career Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series victory, started seventh and finished just 0.423 seconds behind Sheppard in the Tye Twarog Motorsports entry. Hoffman moved into second with 10 laps remaining after Clay Harris—who advanced from 12th to second by lap 21 – was slowed in lapped traffic. “He’s the Fairbury GOAT,” Hoffman said of Sheppard. “There were times I felt like I could gain a little on him, and I was hoping we’d get back to lapped traffic after that caution. But he was just better than me up on the cushion and could really pull away down the straightaways. The biggest thing is learning something for when we come back for the Prairie Dirt Classic.” Shirley, who started from the pole, was also eligible for the $1,000 Steering Buddy Darkhorse Award, presented to a first-time Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series feature winner in a full-points event. “I think it’s honestly just track time here,” said the defending Prairie Dirt Classic champion, who is following the LOLMDS full time for the first time in his career. “We haven’t had enough laps here yet to get the feel and balance exactly where we need it. But this was a really solid finish for our team and sponsors. We need to focus on consistently finishing races before worrying about winning them. I felt like we had a shot tonight, and while maybe we weren’t quite as good as Nick or Sheppy, being this competitive is a huge confidence boost for our team.” Sheppard’s winning Mark Richards Racing, Rocket Chassis is powered by a Durham Racing Engine and backed by Valvoline, Seubert Calf Ranches, Ace Metal Works, Performance Grading, Petroff Towing, Franklin Enterprises, Sunoco Race Fuels, Gunter’s Honey, Stiles Marine and Maintenance, and Collins Brothers Towing. Completing the top ten were Jason Feger, Josh Rice, Clay Harris, Trey Mills, and Justin Duty. Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series Race Summary FALS Spring Shootout Presented by Titan IndustriesSaturday, May 9, 2026Fairbury Speedway | Fairbury, IL Allstar Performance Time TrialsFast Time Group A: Brian Shirley | 12.883 seconds (Overall)Fast Time Group B: Shannon Babb | 13.116 seconds Penske Shocks Heat Race #1 Finish (10 Laps, Top 4 Transfer): 1. 3S-Brian Shirley[1]; 2. 71-Hudson O’Neal[2]; 3. 111-Max Blair[4]; 4. 09-Michael Leach[3]; 5. 15D-Justin Duty[6]; 6. 60-Dan Ebert[9]; 7. 33-Mike Harrison[7]; 8. 22*-Drake Troutman[10]; 9. 14S-Collen Winebarger[8]; 10. 5S-Kolby Vandenbergh[5]; 11. 122-Timmy Dick[11]; 12. 24-Tyler Wyant[12] Summit Racing Products Heat Race #2 Finish (10 Laps, Top 4 Transfer): 1. 58-Garrett Alberson[2]; 2. 9H-Nick Hoffman[3]; 3. 32-Bobby Pierce[1]; 4. 24U-Ryan Unzicker[4]; 5. 93-Carson Ferguson[6]; 6. 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr[5]; 7. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[7]; 8. 22-Daniel Hilsabeck[9]; 9. 17A-Austin Howes[11]; 10. 93L-Cory Lawler[10]; 11. 8L-Jeffrey Ledford[8]; 12. 729-Mike Winn[12] Cool-It Thermo-Tec Heat Race #3 Finish (10 Laps, Top 4 Transfer): 1. 1-Brandon Sheppard[2]; 2. 76-Brandon Overton[3]; 3. 18-Shannon Babb[1]; 4. 28-Dennis Erb Jr[4]; 5. 13-Dallon Murty[6]; 6. 75-Daniel Adam[5]; 7. 16S-Sam Seawright[9]; 8. 99-Devin Moran[7]; 9. 89-Mike Spatola[8]; 10. 19M-Brenden Smith[10]; 11. Z61-Alex Wilson[11]; 12. B12-Kevin Weaver[12] Simpson Race Products Heat Race #4 Finish (10 Laps, Top 4 Transfer): 1. 1T-Tyler Erb[1]; 2. 25F-Jason Feger[2]; 3. 6-Clay Harris[5]; 4. 11-Josh Rice[7]; 5. 40B-Kyle Bronson[3]; 6. 14-Trey Mills[8]; 7. 8-Dillon McCowan[9]; 8. 45-Kyle Hammer[10]; 9. 42-Mckay Wenger[6]; 10. 16-Tyler Bruening[4]; 11. 32X-Chris Simpson[11]; 12. (DNS) 33 4-Billy Hough Fast Shafts B-Main Race #1 Finish (12 Laps, Top 3 Transfer): 1. 15D-Justin Duty[1]; 2. 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr[4]; 3. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[6]; 4. 22*-Drake Troutman[7]; 5. 93-Carson Ferguson[2]; 6. 22-Daniel Hilsabeck[8]; 7. 14S-Collen Winebarger[9]; 8. 60-Dan Ebert[3]; 9. 93L-Cory Lawler[12]; 10. 122-Timmy Dick[13]; 11. 24-Tyler Wyant[15]; 12. 17A-Austin Howes[10]; 13. 5S-Kolby Vandenbergh[11]; 14. 8L-Jeffrey Ledford[14]; 15. 729-Mike Winn[16]; 16. 33-Mike Harrison[5] UNOH B-Main Race #2 Finish (12 Laps, Top 3 Transfer): 1. 14-Trey Mills[4]; 2. 99-Devin Moran[7]; 3. 40B-Kyle Bronson[2]; 4. 13-Dallon Murty[1]; 5. 45-Kyle Hammer[8]; 6. 75-Daniel Adam[3]; 7. 16S-Sam Seawright[5]; 8. 42-Mckay Wenger[10]; 9. 32X-Chris Simpson[14]; 10. 8-Dillon McCowan[6]; 11. 16-Tyler Bruening[12]; 12. 19M-Brenden Smith[11]; 13. Z61-Alex Wilson[13]; 14. 89-Mike Spatola[9]; 15. B12-Kevin Weaver[15]; 16. (DNS) 33 4-Billy Hough FALS Spring Shootout Presented by Titan Industries Feature Finish (60 Laps):Pos – Start – Car # – Competitor – Hometown – Earnings1 – 2 – 1 – Brandon Sheppard – New Berlin, IL – $30,9002 – 7 – 9H – Nick Hoffman – Mooresville, NC – $15,0003 – 1 – 3S – Brian Shirley – Chatham, IL – $7,9004 – 6 – 76 – Brandon Overton – Evans, GA – $6,4005 – 11 – 32 – Bobby Pierce – Oakwood, IL – $4,5006 – 8 – 25F – Jason Feger – Bloomington, IL – $3,5007 – 16 – 11 – Josh Rice – Crittenden, KY – $4,0008 – 12 – 6 – Clay Harris – Jupiter, FL – $3,4009 – 18 – 14 – Trey Mills – ST. Augustine, FL – $2,40010 – 17 – 15D – Justin Duty – Molalla, OR – $2,30011 – 15 – 24U – Ryan Unzicker – El Paso, IL – $2,20012 – 3 – 58 – Garrett Alberson – Las Cruces, NM – $3,00013 – 10 – 18 – Shannon Babb – Moweaqua, IL – $2,00014 – 14 – 28 – Dennis Erb Jr – Carpentersville, IL – $1,90015 – 24 – 60 – Dan Ebert – Lake Shore, MN – $2,70016 – 26 – 22 – Daniel Hilsabeck – Earlham, IA – $1,25017 – 9 – 111 – Max Blair – Centerville, PA – $2,60018 – 4 – 1T – Tyler Erb – New Waverly, TX – $1,65019 – 5 – 71 – Hudson O’Neal – Martinsville, IN – $3,00020 – 20 – 99 – Devin Moran – Dresden, OH – $2,85021 – 23 – 93 – Carson Ferguson – Lincolnton, NC – $2,45022 – 22 – 40B – Kyle Bronson – Brandon, FL – $2,40023 – 25 – 8 – Dillon McCowan – Urbana, MO – $1,00024 – 13 – 9 – Michael Leach – Sun River, MT – $1,50025 – 21 – 20RT – Ricky Thornton Jr – Chandler, AZ – $2,80026 – 19 – 99JR – Frank Heckenast Jr – Frankfort, IL – $1,50027 – 27 – 19M – Brenden Smith – Dade City, FL – $100 Race Statistics  Entrants: 48Bilstein Shocks Pole Sitter: Brian ShirleyMD3 Lap Leaders: Brian Shirley (Laps 1-12); Brandon Sheppard (Laps 13-60)Hellraizer Jacks Halfway Leader: Brandon SheppardWieland Feature Winner: Brandon SheppardMargin of Victory: 0.423 secondsHellraizer Jacks Cautions: Trey Mills (Lap 13); Ricky Thornton, Jr. (Lap 18); Devin Moran (Lap 27); Ricky Thornton, Jr., Hudson O’Neal, Tyler Erb (Lap 52)MyRacePass Series Provisional: Carson Ferguson; Dan EbertFast Time Provisional: n/aEmergency Provisionals: Dillon McCowan; Daniel Hilsabeck; Brenden SmithTrack Provisional: n/aBig River Steel Podium Top 3: Brandon Sheppard, Nick Hoffman, Brian ShirleyPenske Shocks Top 5: Brandon Sheppard, Nick Hoffman, Brian Shirley, Brandon Overton, Bobby PierceBehrent’s One-Lap-to-Go Top 3: Brandon Sheppard, Nick Hoffman, Brian ShirleyPEM 4th Place Feature: Brandon OvertonDiversified Machine 5th Place Feature: Bobby PierceWilwood Brakes 7th Place Feature: Josh RiceWehrs Machine 11th Place Feature: Ryan UnzickerVelocity Manufacturing 13th Place Feature: Shannon BabbXS Power Batteries 15th Place Feature: Dan EbertHoker Trucking Hard Charger of the Race: Daniel Hilsabeck (Advanced 10 positions)MD3 Most Laps Led: Brandon Sheppard (48 Laps)Sunoco Race Fuels Race for Gas Highest Finisher: Brandon SheppardMidwest Sheet Metal Spoiler Challenge Point Leader: Hudson O’NealO’Reilly Auto Parts Rookie of the Race: Josh RicePro Fabrication Headers Fastest Lap of the Race: Brian Shirley | Lap 3 | 13.558 secondsFK Rod Ends Hard Luck Award: Devin MoranVictory Fuel Power Move of the Race: Nick HoffmanOuterwears Crew Chief of the Race: Danny WhiteARP Engine Builder of the Race: Durham Racing EnginesMiller Welders Chassis Builder of the Race: Rocket ChassisDirt Draft Fastest in Hot Laps: Tyler Erb | 12.5271 secondsTime of Race: 29 minutes 35 seconds Big River Steel Championship Standings Presented by ARP:Pos – Car # – Competitor – Hometown – Points – Earnings1 – 71 – Hudson O’Neal – Martinsville, IN – 2695 – $136,1002 – 99 – Devin Moran – Dresden, OH – 2660 – $152,6993 – 1 – Brandon Sheppard – New Berlin, IL – 2560 – $103,6004 – 76 – Brandon Overton – Evans, GA – 2490 – $61,7505 – 20RT – Ricky Thornton Jr – Chandler, AZ – 2465 – $82,7506 – 111 – Max Blair – Centerville, PA – 2440 – $56,2007 – 58 – Garrett Alberson – Las Cruces, NM – 2210 – $44,6258 – 3s – Brian Shirley – Chatham, IL – 2210 – $41,6009 – 6 – Clay Harris – Jupiter, FL – 2155 – $47,60010 – 11 – Josh Rice – Crittenden, KY – 2135 – $36,87511 – 40B – Kyle Bronson – Brandon, FL – 2135 – $34,27512 – 93 – Carson Ferguson – Lincolnton, NC – 2090 – $36,95013 – 60 – Dan Ebert – Lake Shore, MN – 2060 – $35,57514 – 22 – Daniel Hilsabeck – Earlham, IA – 1795 – $21,97515 – 8 – Dillon McCowan – Urbana, MO – 1785 – $21,90016 – 19M – Brenden Smith – Dade City, FL – 1755 – $23,25017 – 93L – Cory Lawler – Hanover, PA – 1560 – $13,625

The two-time champion fends off Justin Whittall to snatch the Morgan Cup from the Posse and bank $20,000

MECHANICSBURG, PA (May 9, 2026) – The Pennsylvania Posse had to stretch a tad to claim the rights to Friday’s HVAC Distributors Morgan Cup opener with Enumclaw, WA’s Kasey Kahne winning in the Macri Motorsports car, but there’s no doubt about who the finale belonged to.

David Gravel is a two-time World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series champion chasing a third straight title. He’s the best of the best, and he made sure the Morgan Cup is heading to World of Outlaws headquarters in Concord, NC for the year.

The Watertown, CT native lined up on the outside of the front row for the Williams Grove Speedway 30-lapper and rocketed around polesitter Kasey Kahne on the opening circuit. Gravel ripped through traffic around the 1/2 mile as the laps fell away. The Big Game Motorsports No. 2 was a rocket ship like it has been several times in 2026. Justin Whittall surged into second late and closed in on Gravel, but he couldn’t find quite enough speed to pose a threat. Gravel took the checkered flag, ripped possession of the Morgan Cup from the Posse, and banked $20,000.

“From that rain this morning, that grip up high was there,” Gravel explained. “They patted it down with the push trucks and water trucks. It just launched really good, and actually my motor was really cold. It didn’t run really good for the first five or six laps but had enough horsepower to beat him (Kahne) going into (Turn) 1. He didn’t try to slide me. It looked like he backpedaled and tried to run the bottom, but that was obviously the winning move of the race. You just don’t know; this could’ve been 10 cautions or green-to-checkered. Luckily, it went green-to-checkered.”

Gravel is up to 125 career victories with The Greatest Show on Dirt. Williams Grove is the first track where he’s reached double digit World of Outlaws triumphs as Saturday’s score marked his 10th at the historic “Keystone State” facility. He joins Steve Kinser (38), Donny Schatz (21), Mark Kinser (18), Lance Dewease (17), and Sammy Swindell (16) as the sixth with at least 10. He and Big Game Motorsports also equaled Michael “Buddy” Kofoid and Roth Motorsports for the most trophies in 2026 with their fifth. The two powerhouses have combined to 10 of the 19 races this season.

Justin Whittall brought the Rod Gross Motorsports No. 67G home second to notch his best career World of Outlaws finish.

Troy Wagaman Jr. finished third in the Heffner Racing No. 27, also marking his top result with The Greatest Show on Dirt and giving the Posse two of the three podium positions despite not getting the win.

Sheldon Haudenschild and Kasey Kahne completed the top five.

NIGHTLY NOTES

Daryn Pittman clocked the Race//Ready Hottest Lap of the Night.

David Gravel collected his eighth Simpson Quick Time of the year in Honest Abe Roofing Qualifying.

Heat Races belonged to David Gravel (NOS Energy Drink Heat One), Kasey Kahne (TheGreatestStoreonDirt.com Heat Two), Justin Whittall (WIX Filters Heat Three), and Chad Trout (Golf Cart Services Heat Four).

The SPA Technique #1 Redraw went to Kasey Kahne.

Kahne also topped the Toyota Dash.

Daryn Pittman won the Micro-Lite Last Chance Showdown.

Carson Macedo earned KSE Racing Products Hard Charger honors.

Freddie Rahmer was the Tub O’ Towels Seventh Place Finisher.

Ashton Torgerson was the Five Star Bodies Rookie of the Race.

David Gravel laid down the ACME Trading Company Fast Lap.

The Smith Titanium Brake Systems Break of the Race went to Cole Macedo.

UP NEXT: The World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Cars meet up with the USAC National Sprint Cars at Rossburg, OH’s Eldora Speedway for #LetsRaceTwo presented by LGMG on May 15-16. For tickets, CLICK HERE.

Where can you watch every World of Outlaws race? Live on DIRTVision.

Where can you see the World of Outlaws in 2026? Click to see the full schedule.

FEATURE RESULTS:

NOS Energy Drink Feature (30 Laps): 1. 2-David Gravel[2]; 2. 67G-Justin Whittall[4]; 3. 27W-Troy Wagaman Jr[5]; 4. 18-Sheldon Haudenschild[6]; 5. 39M-Kasey Kahne[1]; 6. 41-Carson Macedo[9]; 7. 51R-Freddie Rahmer[3]; 8. 99M-Ashton Torgerson[7]; 9. 48-Danny Dietrich[12]; 10. 17B-Bill Balog[10]; 11. 83-Michael Kofoid[14]; 12. 1S-Logan Schuchart[15]; 13. 1X-Chad Trout[8]; 14. 23-Garet Williamson[13]; 15. 95-Kody Hartlaub[18]; 16. 15-Donny Schatz[16]; 17. 75-Cameron Smith[17]; 18. 27-Emerson Axsom[11]; 19. 17N-Dylan Norris[19]; 20. (DNF) 2C-Cole Macedo[23]; 21. (DNF) 69K-Daryn Pittman[21]; 22. (DNF) 22-Doug Hammaker[22]; 23. (DNF) 41R-Logan Rumsey[24]; 24. (DNF) 11-TJ Stutts[26]; 25. (DNF) 12-Brent Shearer[25]; 26. (DNF) 11A-Austin Bishop[20]

OUTLAWS ON TOP: Gravel Grabs the Morgan Cup with Dominant Williams Grove Win

The two-time champion fends off Justin Whittall to snatch the Morgan Cup from the Posse and bank $20,000

MECHANICSBURG, PA (May 9, 2026) – The Pennsylvania Posse had to stretch a tad to claim the rights to Friday’s HVAC Distributors Morgan Cup opener with Enumclaw, WA’s Kasey Kahne winning in the Macri Motorsports car, but there’s no doubt about who the finale belonged to.

David Gravel is a two-time World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series champion chasing a third straight title. He’s the best of the best, and he made sure the Morgan Cup is heading to World of Outlaws headquarters in Concord, NC for the year.

The Watertown, CT native lined up on the outside of the front row for the Williams Grove Speedway 30-lapper and rocketed around polesitter Kasey Kahne on the opening circuit. Gravel ripped through traffic around the 1/2 mile as the laps fell away. The Big Game Motorsports No. 2 was a rocket ship like it has been several times in 2026. Justin Whittall surged into second late and closed in on Gravel, but he couldn’t find quite enough speed to pose a threat. Gravel took the checkered flag, ripped possession of the Morgan Cup from the Posse, and banked $20,000.

“From that rain this morning, that grip up high was there,” Gravel explained. “They patted it down with the push trucks and water trucks. It just launched really good, and actually my motor was really cold. It didn’t run really good for the first five or six laps but had enough horsepower to beat him (Kahne) going into (Turn) 1. He didn’t try to slide me. It looked like he backpedaled and tried to run the bottom, but that was obviously the winning move of the race. You just don’t know; this could’ve been 10 cautions or green-to-checkered. Luckily, it went green-to-checkered.”

Gravel is up to 125 career victories with The Greatest Show on Dirt. Williams Grove is the first track where he’s reached double digit World of Outlaws triumphs as Saturday’s score marked his 10th at the historic “Keystone State” facility. He joins Steve Kinser (38), Donny Schatz (21), Mark Kinser (18), Lance Dewease (17), and Sammy Swindell (16) as the sixth with at least 10. He and Big Game Motorsports also equaled Michael “Buddy” Kofoid and Roth Motorsports for the most trophies in 2026 with their fifth. The two powerhouses have combined to 10 of the 19 races this season.

Justin Whittall brought the Rod Gross Motorsports No. 67G home second to notch his best career World of Outlaws finish.

Troy Wagaman Jr. finished third in the Heffner Racing No. 27, also marking his top result with The Greatest Show on Dirt and giving the Posse two of the three podium positions despite not getting the win.

Sheldon Haudenschild and Kasey Kahne completed the top five.

NIGHTLY NOTES

Daryn Pittman clocked the Race//Ready Hottest Lap of the Night.

David Gravel collected his eighth Simpson Quick Time of the year in Honest Abe Roofing Qualifying.

Heat Races belonged to David Gravel (NOS Energy Drink Heat One), Kasey Kahne (TheGreatestStoreonDirt.com Heat Two), Justin Whittall (WIX Filters Heat Three), and Chad Trout (Golf Cart Services Heat Four).

The SPA Technique #1 Redraw went to Kasey Kahne.

Kahne also topped the Toyota Dash.

Daryn Pittman won the Micro-Lite Last Chance Showdown.

Carson Macedo earned KSE Racing Products Hard Charger honors.

Freddie Rahmer was the Tub O’ Towels Seventh Place Finisher.

Ashton Torgerson was the Five Star Bodies Rookie of the Race.

David Gravel laid down the ACME Trading Company Fast Lap.

The Smith Titanium Brake Systems Break of the Race went to Cole Macedo.

UP NEXT: The World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Cars meet up with the USAC National Sprint Cars at Rossburg, OH’s Eldora Speedway for #LetsRaceTwo presented by LGMG on May 15-16. For tickets, CLICK HERE.

Where can you watch every World of Outlaws race? Live on DIRTVision.

Where can you see the World of Outlaws in 2026? Click to see the full schedule.

FEATURE RESULTS:

NOS Energy Drink Feature (30 Laps): 1. 2-David Gravel[2]; 2. 67G-Justin Whittall[4]; 3. 27W-Troy Wagaman Jr[5]; 4. 18-Sheldon Haudenschild[6]; 5. 39M-Kasey Kahne[1]; 6. 41-Carson Macedo[9]; 7. 51R-Freddie Rahmer[3]; 8. 99M-Ashton Torgerson[7]; 9. 48-Danny Dietrich[12]; 10. 17B-Bill Balog[10]; 11. 83-Michael Kofoid[14]; 12. 1S-Logan Schuchart[15]; 13. 1X-Chad Trout[8]; 14. 23-Garet Williamson[13]; 15. 95-Kody Hartlaub[18]; 16. 15-Donny Schatz[16]; 17. 75-Cameron Smith[17]; 18. 27-Emerson Axsom[11]; 19. 17N-Dylan Norris[19]; 20. (DNF) 2C-Cole Macedo[23]; 21. (DNF) 69K-Daryn Pittman[21]; 22. (DNF) 22-Doug Hammaker[22]; 23. (DNF) 41R-Logan Rumsey[24]; 24. (DNF) 11-TJ Stutts[26]; 25. (DNF) 12-Brent Shearer[25]; 26. (DNF) 11A-Austin Bishop[20]

For complete results, CLICK HERE.

CHEVROLET IN THE NTT INDYCAR SERIES Sonsio Grand Prix2.439-mile, 14-turn Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course Speedway, Indiana Saturday Race Report May 9, 2026 INDIANAPOLIS (May 9, 2026) – Christian Lundgaard in the No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet, made an outside pass in Turn 4 and led the final 18 laps to grab his first NTT INDYCAR SERIES win while powered by a Bowtie. The Danish driver is no stranger to the podium, standing on his ninth podium in only his 23rd race with Chevrolet-power, upping his podium percentage over his two seasons with Arrow McLaren to just shy of 40%.  David Malukas, who led a race high 27 laps in the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet came home in second place, giving Team Chevy a 1-2 start to a two race stay at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.  “What a great first win with Chevrolet for Christian Lundgaard”, said Andrew Schutter, GM Motorsports INDYCAR Program Manager. “The team nailed the set-up and strategy, the No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet executed quick pit stops, and Christian made an exciting pass for the win. David Malukas and Team Penske’s great day capped off a 1-2 finish for Team Chevy and a great way to start the ‘Month of May’ after a lot of hard work by our Chevrolet engineering team.” Josef Newgarden’s 4th place finish in the No. 2 Astemo Team Penske Chevrolet made a three of the top four for Team Chevy.  Chevrolet by the numbersLundgaard’s win is the 239th for Chevrolet all-timeLundgaard’s win is the 129th for Chevrolet since the introduction of the 2.2L Twin-Turbo V6 in 2012Lundgaard’s win is the 10th for Chevrolet at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road CourseLundgaard’s win is his first for Chevrolet all time and since the introduction of the 2.2L Twin-Turbo V6 in 2012Lundgaard’s win is the 10th win by Arrow McLaren for Arrow McLaren all-time and since the introduction of the 2.2L Twin-Turbo V6 in 2012, which moves them into 4th all-time and 2nd since the introduction of the 2.2L Twin-Turbo V6 in 2012Lundgaard’s podium is the 682nd all-time for ChevroletMalukas’ podium is the 683rd all-time for ChevroletLundgaard’s podium is the 367th since the introduction of the 2.2L Twin-Turbo V6 in 2012Malukas’ podium is the 368th since the introduction of the 2.2L Twin-Turbo V6 in 2012Lundgaard’s podium is the 23rd for Chevrolet at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road CourseMalukas’ podium is the 24th for Chevrolet at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course

Sonsio Grand Prix – Race Results

Up Next The NTT INDYCAR SERIES has a two-day break before practice for the “Greatest Spectacle In Racing” gets underway on Tuesday, May 12. FOX will have 80 hours of Indianapolis 500 coverage during the “Month of May” beginning with practice at noon (ET) on FS2 and ending with the 110th Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge on FOX at 12:30 pm (ET).

What they’re saying – Sonsio Grand Prix Christian Lundgaard, No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet won:“All I hope is that it doesn’t take another three years (until my next win). It feels really good. I’ve had a lot of unfinished business here at the Road Course. This was my eighth start (at the IMS Road Course), and I have been fighting for podiums every single time, except last year actually. I think that’s why it feels better. Obviously, I struggled a lot here last year. That was just a tough one to take mentally, knowing how strong I’ve been around here. It feels good. Obviously, it does give some momentum, but the Speedway is a very different animal. The cars were good at the open test. We have Ryan (Hunter-Reay) joining the team this year, so I think there’s a lot of good to come for us.” David Malukas, No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet finished 2nd:“Well, honestly, it was just a matter of attrition. You know, we knew almost 40 laps before that that time was going to come. He was just so fast, and we were burning push to pass to keep the time up. And, you know, it was, like I said, a matter of time, and then he ended up getting us, and we couldn’t even compete. I mean, you saw how we took off at the end there, but overall, it’s fantastic. result for us. You know, we went into this weekend thinking we were going to struggle, and here we are on the podium in P2. So, it’s fantastic!” Josef Newgarden, No. 2 Astemo Team Penske Chevrolet finished 4th:“It’s a pretty good day. It’s not it’s not like a great day, but, you know, fourth, we can work with that. Good points, which is good. Now we get to go the other way. So, yeah, I’m proud of the team. The team was amazing on the pit stop strategy. That’s really what made our day. We had some decent speed, not race winning speed, but I think top-five for sure. So, we probably finished about where our potential was, which, you know, I don’t want my potential and our potential to be fourth, but some days, I guess, you have got to take that. So, we’re chipping away at getting back in front.” Nolan Siegel, No. 6 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet finished 10th:“Best result of the season. We’re still building. We still didn’t maximize potential, and on a day when we don’t maximize potential and we’re still 10th, that’s a very good sign moving forward. I felt super competitive pace-wise today. I passed cars; we made a good strategy work. Good pit stops aside from the one I kind of messed up. I’m frustrated with myself today, making mistakes in qualifying and a couple in the race, but overall, it was just a competitive weekend for us. I’m looking forward to building on it for the 500.” Santino Ferrucci, No. 14 Homes For Our Troops Chevrolet finished 14th:“I don’t even know what to say, nothing like 85 laps on a downforce track with a crushed rear diffuser. So just got really unlucky. At the start, my row just didn’t go, I got rear-ended, and then I nailed the car in front of me, but we avoided all the carnage at the start. In fact, we avoided all the carnage all day long. I definitely think even with the wounded car, we could have finished a little bit better. We missed some stuff in pit lane and just little things we need to work on as a team before we get to the 500. What about the incident getting knocked out at the end? “Oh, I’m not quite sure what happened at the end with Schumacher, because I think he was trying to dive to the inside, and he just misjudged it, and he just fully punted us. So I think he just misjudged the timing. He got his drive through. It cost us only three positions. So, it sucks, but we also shouldn’t have been back there to begin with.”  Rinus VeeKay, No. 76 Juncos Hollinger Chevrolet finished 15th:“Today was quite the day. This weekend was tough from the start. Having no warmup is a bit tough for us, you know, after we kind of threw a shake at the car. I think, it was pretty decent in qualifying.  Had a few issues, unfortunately. Then in the race, at the start, I was one of many cars that got damaged. Kind of got towards the back of the field. A lot of stuff happened. I think we did the right things. “Tried to let cars buy because I had to let them by, but then they didn’t want to pass me, and I got a penalty. So interesting stuff there. In the end, I think, you know, very, very hard fought P 15. But, honestly, after the weekend we had, I think that’s, quite a decent result. Could have been a lot better.  It’s definitely not easy out there. We have a lot of work to do, but I think, coming away with a top 15 is decent.  “And, I’m excited for all the turning left we’re gonna do this month. Car felt great in the open test, so excited to get working on that car even more and, have a good month.” Scott McLaughlin, No. 3 Sonsio Vehicle Protection Team Penske Chevrolet finished 16th: Sting Ray Robb, No. 77 Juncos Hollinger – Goodheart Chevrolet finished 17th:“Very long tough weekend. And I say long not because it was only 2 days, but just with all the drama that we had with the team. I mean, we threw two kitchen sinks at the car over the weekend. Thankfully, race time came around, and we had a decent car. Decent pace.Very chaotic race. I think that without our, helped spin in the middle there with Pato that, we may have had a shot at top -10. I think that we had decent enough pace to run up there, but, having to stop for repairs and then getting the penalty with the drive through – frustrating. So 17th overall, I mean, I think that that was decent considering all the chaos that went on. I think that we did a good job to get the race car in a much better spot, but we just started off on the wrong foot this weekend. “So, thanks to the crew. They did a lot of changes, lots of hard work to get to that point, and they nailed it every time we got back on the racetrack. So, we’ll sit back down with engineers getting ready for the 500, and I think that we have a decent package here for that. And I think that that’ll be our, next focus with momentum from this event.” Pato O’Ward, No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet finished 18th:“Happy to see Christian and the No. 7 guys get their first win together. As for my race, that hit was the start to a very bad and frustrating day from all angles.” Caio Collet, No. 4 Combitrans Amazonia Chevrolet finished 19th:“A couple of positives to take away from the weekend. Our best qualifying of the year. I think we had good pace all weekend long. Unfortunately, in the race, we were involved in a lap one incident at turn one. I have to look at the replay and see exactly what happened. I felt that I was just in a sandwich there with Kyle (Kirkwood) and Scott (Dixon), and we both hit Felix, as he was spun in the middle of the track. I have to see the replay of what happened, to see maybe if I could have avoided or not. But it was kind of tricky. And after that, I had a lot of damage. So we tried our best to finish the race and try to manage the damage with some front wing adjustments on the pit stops. But, yeah, it’s not easy.” What damage were you feeling?“I think one of the push rods bent, so my steering was little bit to the left, not a little bit, quite a bit to the left. And yeah, the car was pulling one side quite a lot on the straights, and had a little bit of a different balance from left handers to right handers. So yeah, we tried to offset that with the front wing. And I think the last two stints were a little bit better. But still far from ideal. And I think quite frustrating, because we were on for maybe a really good race, a top 10 possibly with how the yellow plays out and yeah, we just have to keep pushing and have a clean weekend.” Christian Rasmussen, No. 21 Splenda Chevrolet finished 24th: Alexander Rossi, No. 20 Java House Chevrolet finished 25th: “Well. It’s pretty annoying to have failures on the car because of a product that we didn’t ask for, that doesn’t improve the racing, so that’s frustrating. Second of all, the fact that it took that long to throw a full course yellow when a car is on the front straight and people are going by at 170mph also seems insane when they don’t let us drive in the wet yesterday. So, I don’t really know where the priorities lie, so pretty frustrated.”

NTT INDYCAR SERIES News ConferenceSaturday, May 9, 2026David MalukasPress Conference THE MODERATOR: Wrapping up today’s Sonsio Grand Prix, Christian Lundgaard and a representative from Arrow McLaren will join us here momentarily, as will Graham Rahal, but clearly no introduction needed, David Malukas, who led a race high 27 laps in the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet. Best finish of the season, matching his career best finish as well. Second podium of the season, fifth career. Boy, you came close. Leading a lot of laps. Your thoughts on today? DAVID MALUKAS: We keep getting close. We keep getting close. Look, that race was honestly — it was very fortunate. We were having so much luck. You have the start, which took out a lot of fast guys. Then you go into this pit cycle, and I’m not too sure what happened to Kirkwood. He went into the pits, and then I just see him going through the grass. I was confused what happened there. Played out, again, in our favor. Then lap cars got out of the way, and then we actually got some clean air, which we so desperately needed with the way our setup was. We were having so much push being behind some cars. Everything was just so fortunate. I said, wow, the IMS gods, they’re with me. They gave me all this luck. Then at the end, I mean, Lundgaard was just so fast. I was trying everything I could sideways pretty much 50% of those laps. He was just still pulling, pulling. Look, we came into this weekend thinking this was going to be — at least for me, I came in thinking this was going to be our hardest race of the whole season, and it ended up being our best result yet, which it was just fantastic. It’s really, really cool. It’s really good momentum going into the 500, and yeah, I’m very, very happy. DAVID MALUKAS: Yeah, we were having some moments. I could see he was trying to set up for the undercut. We ended up having some little issue, and he managed to stick around the outside. Probably could have been maybe a little bit more, you know — a little bit more aggressive, but I thought I have some fair racing. Yeah, I mean, it was a proper move. It was very good. Yeah, I don’t know. It was also that last site we were struggling with pace. Not really too sure what went wrong. We’ll go back and study it and see what we can find. THE MODERATOR: We’ll start with questions. Q.  Going back to that battle in turn 4, it was aggressive, but it was clean. When you’re a professional race driver, that’s got to be the best of the best. Just how much did you enjoy that even though you didn’t come out on top? DAVID MALUKAS: No, it’s really good racing. I think Christian Lundgaard is obviously very professional, and me and him, we go actually way back. I remember we were teammates go-karting in the Ricciardo karts in Italy. We go way, way back. We’re good friends, and it was fantastic racing. You know, I could be a little bit more aggressive and push him wide, whatever, but I think it was fair racing, and he made a proper move. At a certain point there’s also I think some skill in racing, though, and when you’ve lost a spot. Q.  When a lot of people wanted to go ahead and mail the trophy to Alex Palou, I guess today shows why you run the race, because anything can happen, and today it wasn’t — didn’t fall in his favor. Christian Lundgaard is celebrating, and you’re second place, and Alex was fifth.DAVID MALUKAS: Yeah, like I said, we were fortunate that race. So many things went our way. We were struggling with pace pretty much all weekend, and the guys just did a fantastic job. I’m spoiled. I get to go to bed and get some nice food, get a good rest, and these guys, they didn’t sleep all night. They were studying — shout out Fernando, Mustafa, James, these guys, they’re working so hard working their butts off, and they came back to me in the morning with a whole new philosophy on the car. I truly believe that’s what got us into that Fast Six. A big shout-out for this team. They’re doing fantastic work for me. Q.  David, after Christian made that pass, you didn’t really have enough push-to-pass to really defend that. What do you think led to you burning so much early on in the race?DAVID MALUKAS: Well, I think it’s just the way the strategies play out. We tried burning it a lot on these ins and outs to try to keep in that position. I think what was the highest priority for us was I knew my car was not good, especially when I got in traffic, so we wanted clean air as the priority, and that was the only chance we were really going to have. We burned a lot of the button on these ins and outs, on these pit cycles to make sure that any time we come out, we’re going to be in clean air, which obviously the deficit was we’re not going to have as much in the end. But that was our only strategy play with the setup that we have. Looking back, I think we would have started with a very different car. On track that was the strategy I wanted to play with, and that’s the strategy we went with. Q.  David, the first lap was the — to Graham too, it was kind of like the parting of the seas with all the cars going off. What was kind of your reaction in the cockpit when that happened?DAVID MALUKAS: Well, initially because I broke earlier than everybody. I was, like, oh, no way, did I just brake too early? Am I about to get swarmed? Then I was thinking about adding a little bit of throttle. Then I saw everybody start getting some smoke and locking brakes. I was, like, oh, no, I definitely have pushed the limit there.We barely scraped through. I mean, for me I was, like, oh, wow, that was so lucky. All these guys were so fast, and now we’re in a really good spot. Yeah, it made my job easy. That was great. I loved it. NTT INDYCAR SERIES News ConferenceSaturday, May 9, 2026Christian LundgaardTony KanaanPress Conference THE MODERATOR: Wrapping up today’s Sonsio Grand Prix with the champion driver and team principal from Arrow McLaren. Christian Lundgaard led 20 of the 85 laps today in the 7 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet. First win of the season, second career win, matching what he did on the Streets of Toronto back in 2023. Third podium of the season. With the win Christian jumps up to fourth in points. Also joining us, Tony Kanaan, as mentioned team principal for Arrow McLaren, as McLaren celebrates a 28th win, INDYCAR SERIES win, matching what Pato did and of course the great Johnny Rutherford. Christian, congratulations. Your thoughts on a win and a track you really enjoy competing at? CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Yeah, I think, first of all, it’s a lot of unfinished business for me around here. Obviously being competitive here pretty much every year except last year, and I really wanted to get some redemption for that. We worked hard to try to figure out where we really went wrong last year. I think we obviously did, but I mean, it just feels awesome. I hope that it doesn’t take another three years for another one, right? TONY KANAAN: It won’t. CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Thanks. It feels awesome right now, and I’m sure I will probably realize tomorrow what really happened today. It really wasn’t what I expected waking up this morning. Obviously with qualifying getting pushed to this morning and racing the same day, it’s not really a traditional INDYCAR weekend. Obviously this is a two-day weekend already, and everything just kind of felt very fast. We made a lot of good progress from P1 to P2. I thought we were going to be a little better in qualifying than we were. So keeping my head cool after obviously the lap 1 incidents with everything that happened there. Obviously you go into turn 1 wanting to make position, not lose positions. I felt so bad for Pato, because we had such a good plan planned for how we were going to attack the race between the two of us. We had two cars in the front, and we knew the 10 car was going to be strong. Obviously having one car left up there, but also losing positions kind of hurt a little bit. For me it was just take my race as it was from there. Then the strategy didn’t work out for them. TONY KANAAN: Finally. THE MODERATOR: The pass in turn 4 is going to be replayed for a while probably. That was a heck of a pass. Just talk through that a little bit. CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: It probably looks more spectacular from the outside than it really did inside the helmet. You know, at the end of the day, I’ve been now watching it on the TV screen probably 50 times, but it doesn’t look the same way as what it felt.No, I knew I had one chance, maybe two on David at that time. He seemed to be pretty strong in 14, and we weren’t. His braking performance was also a little stronger than I thought ours were. I knew I could do it around that pit sequence. Obviously we tried to undercut him. I struggled a lot on out laps. He seemed to be a little better than I was.I think it was Grosjean that was ahead. There was another car in play at the time that slowed him down. I tried to set him up for 2 and actually make the slingshot to be on the inside for turn 4, but he was pretty slow kind of through the kink of 3. I thought, okay, F it, I’m going to stay on the outside and see how it goes. THE MODERATOR: Big win for the team, Tony. Talk about getting one like this heading into the oval portion here at Indianapolis? TONY KANAAN: A win is always a win. Obviously a great feeling. We’ve been a lot of ups and downs on the team this year, and obviously for me personally a tough week with the news of Zanardi. For sure wherever he is, he is happy for us. Dedicate that for him.Obviously been working with Christian quite a bit, and we’ve started this tradition, you know, giving him a kiss on the cheek, a Brazilian kiss on his cheek every time he gets in the car before the race. I was trying to understand if I should keep doing that, if it was working or not. I guess — CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: It worked. TONY KANAAN: It worked. It feels good. It feels good for the team. It feels good for Chris, his engineer. It’s his first win as an engineer. Moyer, I don’t need to say anything else about Kyle Moyer. Really happy for the team. Shame on Pato. He was pretty disappointed. He had no control on that. Good day for the team. THE MODERATOR: We’ll take questions.Q.  Christian, you mentioned the plan between you and Pato at the start. Now all of a sudden you’re the lone ranger when he gets hit. Was that a plan B for you? Did you ever think, oh, if something happens, we’re going to do this, or was it just we’re just going to do it anyway, it doesn’t matter if he is there or not?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Obviously it kind of sounds very spectacular when I say a plan, right? Obviously we kind of had an idea of how we wanted to attack the race. We were on two different strategies, different start tires. Obviously Alex started on the primes.It was really just how we were going to attack around the first pit sequence really, and at the end of the day, I lost positions, so for me it kind of just turned out to be, okay, keep your head cool and let’s see what we can do from here. What can we salvage really?At that point I certainly did not expect to win the race. Not necessarily just from where I was on track, but also just the pace we had at the time. The car kind of seemed to come alive a lot more on the new alts at the end of the race on the last stint, obviously once I got past David. I think a lot of it just had to do with clean air. Turn 14 today was pretty tough for me, and it was just a lot of tire deg from that. Obviously I got some good information from Pato starting on the alts and how their tires degged. Q.  When you made the pass on David, how important is it to have that trust that he’s not going to go further to the left and now you have two more wheels on the curb on the grass there completing the move?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Yeah, I mean, David has always been very respectful to race against. I mean, I’ve been teammates with him in go-karts many, many years ago now, but again, I mean, there’s certainly drivers that you trust less. There’s drivers you trust more. That’s just how it goes. At the end of the day, I had, again, nothing to lose. I finished second. Okay, that’s fine, but I have so much unfinished business here. For me, I wanted to win. I have enough second places in the past year and a half. I wanted a win. I was kind of willing to do what it took. I also knew that it was going to be respectful. Again, I wouldn’t have done that if it was someone else. Q.  Your career got started here in 2021, and you had a great qualifying effort and a decent first-time race. You’ve had some good finishes here and now a win here. What is it about this racecourse that’s just suited your style so well?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Well, considering it took me nine times to win it, I would say I’ve been better on qualifying there than I have on race day. I think that’s really what feels good right now is just knowing that I finally got that done. I think that was my big mistake last year was I came in with too much expectation of, okay, I’m in a car that has been so good all year round up until that point. My only reference around this track was in a car that qualified in the Fast Six every single time, if not just on the front row, on pole or second. I think this year I came in just wanting to manage expectations and continue working on the package that we have. We know that we’re very good on road courses. Last year it was the 10 and the 7 car on road courses. We’ve now done two, and it’s pretty much been the same thing. Q.  You spent so much time in your career with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing with Graham Rahal, and to be able to celebrate your victory with him on the podium, how special was that?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Yeah, I mean, we’ve been on the podium twice this year together now, obviously Barber and here. It feels nice. We actually were going to play golf tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. I don’t think we’re doing that now, but no, it feels good.I have a lot of respect for Graham. He’s a good friend of mine, obviously. I learned so much from Graham. You know, on race craft, racing for Rahal at the time obviously. Just that experience that he had in INDYCAR and just understanding how the races really worked out wasn’t really an understanding that I had coming to INDYCAR in the first place. I think he helped me a lot in the first year. You know, it was very nice, and just kind of satisfying the time when you start beating that guy already in the same car, but I think I have a lot of respect for him. I know what he’s capable of, and I think he’s showing it right now. Q.  Christian, it feels like every weekend until now you’ve ended up saying you just need to qualify better to kind of break through that barrier and get the win. How rewarding was it for you to start on the second row and then follow through on that?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Yeah, I mean, I had a lot of worries, because you know, I qualified further up, first on Fast Six of the year. I was kind of thinking, okay, is this the time where turns to go the wrong way? It feels nice, and I think we proved the point to ourselves. We need to qualify better, and the results will come. Q.  To follow up on that, what is your mindset there in that cockpit when you see the big pile-up and everything that happened right away in turn 1 with Felix just locking up and causing a few cars to go off track? CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: My first impression and thought was I feel very bad for Felix, because I know both Felix and Pato are very good friends. Obviously I felt worse for Pato for obvious reasons, but I also know Felix is not that kind of guy, right? Just seeing how it all unfolded and all the other cars that were involved, I think the most satisfying thing from today and how the race worked out was seeing the 10 car getting called out on the strategy. They’ve always been on the right side of it. Not going to say lucky, but they’ve always been on the right side of it, and I think it was very nice to see them in many ways get hurt from that today from a points perspective, but I still think it’s impressive to see them drive as far up as they did after that. Q.  Tony, you’ve been adamant that when it comes to Christian and Nolan, you just want to see the performance speak for itself. What does his performance today show to you?TONY KANAAN: I wouldn’t put it — CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: This is why I got hired in the first place. TONY KANAAN: Exactly, I hired you to win races. I don’t think I put him to the judgment. They know my expectations, but I think we’re level up at the same — we have the same expectations. He drove a brilliant race. I think, you know, it didn’t come easy. We qualified really well. In the first lap Felix did us a favor and put us exactly where we didn’t want to be. I mean, I think he’s been driving extremely well. It was just like when are we going to get a break? He kept asking himself that. Not a single day that I don’t believe in him or Nolan. I’m still doing everything we can to give them and Pato the best equipment and the best support.Pressure a little bit. A little bit of pressure sometimes is good, and Christian, doesn’t phase him — CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: I like pressure, clearly. Q.  Christian, you’re the third driver to win for McLaren at INDYCAR joining Johnny Rutherford and Pato O’Ward. What does that mean to reward this team that has put so much faith in you?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: A lot, obviously. This guy that sat next to me, Tony, is a big reason of why I joined the team in the first place. You know, when he approached me, it was, hmm, okay, that sounds like a good idea. Let’s see how this is going to work out.I mean, Tony mentioned it already. It feels better knowing that it’s the first win for the 7 car, because I know the drivers that have been through that car. They’re not bad drivers. And to get that win for Chris, my race engineer, Chris Lawrence, and the whole crew in general, honestly feels better in many ways, because I’ve always known what I’m capable of. Again, I don’t want to sound too optimistic or cocky in that way, but on a good day, I know I can beat anyone. I’m sure 95% of the field will say the same thing, but I know the task that I was hired to do, and that’s to win races. To finally get it, obviously it took a year and a half. I think we’ve come close many, many times. I think we’ve unlocked the door now. I’m pretty confident many more will come. Q.  Tony, Christian mentioned the concept of the door unlocking. You’ve been in this position before. Kind of talk about the next few days for Christian Lundgaard and how soon he may get back to victory lane?TONY KANAAN: I mean, hopefully in a couple of weeks. It will look pretty good to be back there again. I mean, it’s one of those things how many times I’ve seen it. It happened to me, and you see a couple of other drivers. They fight. They fight. They fight. They struggle. I mean, it doesn’t unlock it. When it does, for some reason it just goes. Like I said, I never doubted him. We work pretty close together. I support my drivers and my team at any time. I used to say that I got their back, but we will talk — we need to get uncomfortable, we get uncomfortable. Nice to see that unlock for him. The next couple of days I told him just enjoy. I told him let’s go get drunk tonight, which for me will take a glass, so it’s not really that fun. He needs to enjoy. Obviously in a couple of days time the stress will hit again, and it’s why we race, and that’s why we’re here. So next couple of days will be good enough that I will be paranoid again. We live for that, so… Q.  Christian, you talk about being hired to win races. Just how big of a day is this and is it a feeling of, like, excitement? Is it a feeling of relief? When you look back at the last year and a half, what does this mean just as far as this accomplishment in your career?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Yeah, I mean, I think I’ve had the question many times. You know, when is it going to come, right? We’ve come so close many times. How does it feel being on the podium when the 10 car keeps being the guy that wins? I mean, in many ways I live to win races. I don’t live to finish second. I don’t live to just be in the race. I think that’s how I was always taught, you know, growing up. I don’t just compete to compete. I compete to win. I think, again, that was one of the conversations that Tony and I had. That’s the mutual agreement in many ways that we have is we want to win. It’s pretty simple. It feels good, of course. I think, again, I’ll realize what really happened today tomorrow, when we wake up from that one glass, but I’m going to hold you up on that, Tony, by the way. No, I mean, it feels really good. The one thing I’m sad about is knowing that my family won’t be here for the 500 this year. Race day is on my mom’s birthday this year. In many ways — TONY KANAAN: Better give her a gift. That’s what you need to do. CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: It’s Mother’s Day tomorrow. So I kind of tried today. I think it’s a very good way to start the month of May, obviously. I fell short so many times. I mean, in the past two years I don’t even know how many seconds I’ve had. I finished second around here before. I think that was what felt sweetest was the unfinished business that I had around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course was I knew I’ve been so competitive here and I never got it done. Getting it done in the beginning of May in a car that I know is good enough to win the 500 feels very good. Q.  Do you hate losing more than you love winning?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: I would say so.TONY KANAAN: I think he fears losing a lot more than anything else. We do.CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Yeah, it sucks.THE MODERATOR: Christian, one glass for Tony is more than I’ve ever seen him have.TONY KANAAN: Exactly.CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: At least if I can get him to have a glass.TONY KANAAN: I said that, if I do that, I won’t be able to speak for ten minutes.THE MODERATOR: Good point. Q.  A couple of questions for Tony. The first one is not just Christian, but this team in general, this 7 team, we knew you had a right rear — new right rear tire changer for this race for this weekend. Just overall, from engineer throughout the team, what did this team tap into that it hadn’t had a chance to yet previously? TONY KANAAN: I think, you know, looking at my job, I think we had always had the right people. I think it’s trying to put everybody with the same mentality and the same culture of we’re here to win a race. We need to lay it out there every weekend with the best people and making people accountable when we rightfully so let Christian down in Barber on a pit stop. I mean, I’m not saying we were going to win the race, but we lost a race there or a chance to win a race. I think having this team with Christian and Chris Lawrence, they are very particular. They have a personality that we actually — we’re very similar in many ways, and we don’t — if I tell Christian I dare that you’re going to do this, I’m asking him to do this. I think Chris and Christian had a very good dynamic there that actually transpired to the team.Like you said, we had a few issues. We’re not replacing people. We’re placing people at the right places at the right time. Anybody is allowed to make a mistake, but at the end of the day, we all hate losing, so everybody is on the same page. To answer your question, I think we do have to make some changes. We do have to relocate people, but everybody is part of this team. It doesn’t mean that we send anybody home. Unfortunately, sometimes you have to have a tough conversation, and your ego is going to get hurt. It happens to me. It happens to Christian. We had some many tough ones, but at the end of the day, the result is there. They executed.Yeah, I guess hopefully I answer your question, but I’ll keep — somebody said to me the other day, sometimes looks like you spin the revolving door. I said, yeah, I keep spinning until I’m happy to stop. So hopefully they got the message. Q.  Then just lastly, I know you met with a lot of us media Muppets in Long Beach. One of the things that we talked about was contracts, and it was about Nolan and it was about Christian. You said that winning helps everything obviously. You might have to do something sooner than you would like if the results start ticking in. Obviously there’s not a better result than winning. What does this do to the mindset to try to get things wrapped up with the guy sitting next to you?TONY KANAAN: Yeah, I told you guys. And that’s nothing that, you know — I said that I hate talking about contracts because I was on the other side for 25 years. I told Christian and his following and Nolan is on the way, if you guys keep winning, I don’t need to make a decision, and nobody needs to make a decision. I think we’re all on the same page on that. There is no — it’s not going to do a driver or myself any good to try to threaten like that. We all know. Nobody comes to a race weekend to just think that, you know, we’re going to be happy with a non-win. Obviously Christian was one of — I remember back a couple of years ago when we talked, and I still support all of them. I don’t think it’s the time, especially during the month of May, to talk about it. Look what happened. In one race you can change your life. I’m never making my decisions about one race or not results because I felt that myself throughout my career. I was extremely useful when I was Scott’s teammate, and he won three championships, and I won one race. Chip did not fire me. So I guess I was useful for the team. Everybody have a part of the team. Obviously we have a big brand that requires that we need to win every race. I can be the most popular guy in Mexico one weekend and probably the one that they want me dead the following weekend. In Denmark the same thing and — I mean, it’s just the way it is. So we’re here. The drivers that I have are the drivers that I’m going to support until, you know, we all decide that we’ll talk about what’s going to happen.THE MODERATOR: Congratulations on a great start to the month of May.

CHEVROLET IN THE NTT INDYCAR SERIESSonsio Grand Prix2.439-mile, 14-turn Indianapolis Motor Speedway road courseSpeedway, IndianaSaturday Race ReportMay 9, 2026 INDIANAPOLIS (May 9, 2026) – Christian Lundgaard in the No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet, made an outside pass in Turn 4 and led the final 18 laps to grab his first NTT INDYCAR SERIES win while powered by a Bowtie. The Danish driver is no stranger to the podium, standing on his ninth podium in only his 23rd race with Chevrolet-power, upping his podium percentage over his two seasons with Arrow McLaren to just shy of 40%.  David Malukas, who led a race high 27 laps in the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet came home in second place, giving Team Chevy a 1-2 start to a two race stay at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.  “What a great first win with Chevrolet for Christian Lundgaard”, said Andrew Schutter, GM Motorsports INDYCAR Program Manager. “The team nailed the set-up and strategy, the No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet executed quick pit stops, and Christian made an exciting pass for the win. David Malukas and Team Penske’s great day capped off a 1-2 finish for Team Chevy and a great way to start the ‘Month of May’ after a lot of hard work by our Chevrolet engineering team.” Josef Newgarden’s 4th place finish in the No. 2 Astemo Team Penske Chevrolet made a three of the top four for Team Chevy.  Chevrolet by the numbersLundgaard’s win is the 239th for Chevrolet all-timeLundgaard’s win is the 129th for Chevrolet since the introduction of the 2.2L Twin-Turbo V6 in 2012Lundgaard’s win is the 10th for Chevrolet at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road CourseLundgaard’s win is his first for Chevrolet all time and since the introduction of the 2.2L Twin-Turbo V6 in 2012Lundgaard’s win is the 10th win by Arrow McLaren for Arrow McLaren all-time and since the introduction of the 2.2L Twin-Turbo V6 in 2012, which moves them into 4th all-time and 2nd since the introduction of the 2.2L Twin-Turbo V6 in 2012Lundgaard’s podium is the 682nd all-time for ChevroletMalukas’ podium is the 683rd all-time for ChevroletLundgaard’s podium is the 367th since the introduction of the 2.2L Twin-Turbo V6 in 2012Malukas’ podium is the 368th since the introduction of the 2.2L Twin-Turbo V6 in 2012Lundgaard’s podium is the 23rd for Chevrolet at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road CourseMalukas’ podium is the 24th for Chevrolet at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course

Sonsio Grand Prix – Race Results

Up Next The NTT INDYCAR SERIES has a two-day break before practice for the “Greatest Spectacle In Racing” gets underway on Tuesday, May 12. FOX will have 80 hours of Indianapolis 500 coverage during the “Month of May” beginning with practice at noon (ET) on FS2 and ending with the 110th Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge on FOX at 12:30 pm (ET).

What they’re saying – Sonsio Grand Prix Christian Lundgaard, No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet won:“All I hope is that it doesn’t take another three years (until my next win). It feels really good. I’ve had a lot of unfinished business here at the Road Course. This was my eighth start (at the IMS Road Course), and I have been fighting for podiums every single time, except last year actually. I think that’s why it feels better. Obviously, I struggled a lot here last year. That was just a tough one to take mentally, knowing how strong I’ve been around here. It feels good. Obviously, it does give some momentum, but the Speedway is a very different animal. The cars were good at the open test. We have Ryan (Hunter-Reay) joining the team this year, so I think there’s a lot of good to come for us.” David Malukas, No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet finished 2nd:“Well, honestly, it was just a matter of attrition. You know, we knew almost 40 laps before that that time was going to come. He was just so fast, and we were burning push to pass to keep the time up. And, you know, it was, like I said, a matter of time, and then he ended up getting us, and we couldn’t even compete. I mean, you saw how we took off at the end there, but overall, it’s fantastic. result for us. You know, we went into this weekend thinking we were going to struggle, and here we are on the podium in P2. So, it’s fantastic!” Josef Newgarden, No. 2 Astemo Team Penske Chevrolet finished 4th:“It’s a pretty good day. It’s not it’s not like a great day, but, you know, fourth, we can work with that. Good points, which is good. Now we get to go the other way. So, yeah, I’m proud of the team. The team was amazing on the pit stop strategy. That’s really what made our day. We had some decent speed, not race winning speed, but I think top-five for sure. So, we probably finished about where our potential was, which, you know, I don’t want my potential and our potential to be fourth, but some days, I guess, you have got to take that. So, we’re chipping away at getting back in front.” Nolan Siegel, No. 6 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet finished 10th:“Best result of the season. We’re still building. We still didn’t maximize potential, and on a day when we don’t maximize potential and we’re still 10th, that’s a very good sign moving forward. I felt super competitive pace-wise today. I passed cars; we made a good strategy work. Good pit stops aside from the one I kind of messed up. I’m frustrated with myself today, making mistakes in qualifying and a couple in the race, but overall, it was just a competitive weekend for us. I’m looking forward to building on it for the 500.” Santino Ferrucci, No. 14 Homes For Our Troops Chevrolet finished 14th:“I don’t even know what to say, nothing like 85 laps on a downforce track with a crushed rear diffuser. So just got really unlucky. At the start, my row just didn’t go, I got rear-ended, and then I nailed the car in front of me, but we avoided all the carnage at the start. In fact, we avoided all the carnage all day long. I definitely think even with the wounded car, we could have finished a little bit better. We missed some stuff in pit lane and just little things we need to work on as a team before we get to the 500. What about the incident getting knocked out at the end? “Oh, I’m not quite sure what happened at the end with Schumacher, because I think he was trying to dive to the inside, and he just misjudged it, and he just fully punted us. So I think he just misjudged the timing. He got his drive through. It cost us only three positions. So, it sucks, but we also shouldn’t have been back there to begin with.”  Rinus VeeKay, No. 76 Juncos Hollinger Chevrolet finished 15th:“Today was quite the day. This weekend was tough from the start. Having no warmup is a bit tough for us, you know, after we kind of threw a shake at the car. I think, it was pretty decent in qualifying.  Had a few issues, unfortunately. Then in the race, at the start, I was one of many cars that got damaged. Kind of got towards the back of the field. A lot of stuff happened. I think we did the right things. “Tried to let cars buy because I had to let them by, but then they didn’t want to pass me, and I got a penalty. So interesting stuff there. In the end, I think, you know, very, very hard fought P 15. But, honestly, after the weekend we had, I think that’s, quite a decent result. Could have been a lot better.  It’s definitely not easy out there. We have a lot of work to do, but I think, coming away with a top 15 is decent.  “And, I’m excited for all the turning left we’re gonna do this month. Car felt great in the open test, so excited to get working on that car even more and, have a good month.” Scott McLaughlin, No. 3 Sonsio Vehicle Protection Team Penske Chevrolet finished 16th: Sting Ray Robb, No. 77 Juncos Hollinger – Goodheart Chevrolet finished 17th:“Very long tough weekend. And I say long not because it was only 2 days, but just with all the drama that we had with the team. I mean, we threw two kitchen sinks at the car over the weekend. Thankfully, race time came around, and we had a decent car. Decent pace.Very chaotic race. I think that without our, helped spin in the middle there with Pato that, we may have had a shot at top -10. I think that we had decent enough pace to run up there, but, having to stop for repairs and then getting the penalty with the drive through – frustrating. So 17th overall, I mean, I think that that was decent considering all the chaos that went on. I think that we did a good job to get the race car in a much better spot, but we just started off on the wrong foot this weekend. “So, thanks to the crew. They did a lot of changes, lots of hard work to get to that point, and they nailed it every time we got back on the racetrack. So, we’ll sit back down with engineers getting ready for the 500, and I think that we have a decent package here for that. And I think that that’ll be our, next focus with momentum from this event.” Pato O’Ward, No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet finished 18th:“Happy to see Christian and the No. 7 guys get their first win together. As for my race, that hit was the start to a very bad and frustrating day from all angles.” Caio Collet, No. 4 Combitrans Amazonia Chevrolet finished 19th:“A couple of positives to take away from the weekend. Our best qualifying of the year. I think we had good pace all weekend long. Unfortunately, in the race, we were involved in a lap one incident at turn one. I have to look at the replay and see exactly what happened. I felt that I was just in a sandwich there with Kyle (Kirkwood) and Scott (Dixon), and we both hit Felix, as he was spun in the middle of the track. I have to see the replay of what happened, to see maybe if I could have avoided or not. But it was kind of tricky. And after that, I had a lot of damage. So we tried our best to finish the race and try to manage the damage with some front wing adjustments on the pit stops. But, yeah, it’s not easy.” What damage were you feeling?“I think one of the push rods bent, so my steering was little bit to the left, not a little bit, quite a bit to the left. And yeah, the car was pulling one side quite a lot on the straights, and had a little bit of a different balance from left handers to right handers. So yeah, we tried to offset that with the front wing. And I think the last two stints were a little bit better. But still far from ideal. And I think quite frustrating, because we were on for maybe a really good race, a top 10 possibly with how the yellow plays out and yeah, we just have to keep pushing and have a clean weekend.” Christian Rasmussen, No. 21 Splenda Chevrolet finished 24th: Alexander Rossi, No. 20 Java House Chevrolet finished 25th: “Well. It’s pretty annoying to have failures on the car because of a product that we didn’t ask for, that doesn’t improve the racing, so that’s frustrating. Second of all, the fact that it took that long to throw a full course yellow when a car is on the front straight and people are going by at 170mph also seems insane when they don’t let us drive in the wet yesterday. So, I don’t really know where the priorities lie, so pretty frustrated.”

NTT INDYCAR SERIES News ConferenceSaturday, May 9, 2026David MalukasPress Conference THE MODERATOR: Wrapping up today’s Sonsio Grand Prix, Christian Lundgaard and a representative from Arrow McLaren will join us here momentarily, as will Graham Rahal, but clearly no introduction needed, David Malukas, who led a race high 27 laps in the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet. Best finish of the season, matching his career best finish as well. Second podium of the season, fifth career. Boy, you came close. Leading a lot of laps. Your thoughts on today? DAVID MALUKAS: We keep getting close. We keep getting close. Look, that race was honestly — it was very fortunate. We were having so much luck. You have the start, which took out a lot of fast guys. Then you go into this pit cycle, and I’m not too sure what happened to Kirkwood. He went into the pits, and then I just see him going through the grass. I was confused what happened there. Played out, again, in our favor. Then lap cars got out of the way, and then we actually got some clean air, which we so desperately needed with the way our setup was. We were having so much push being behind some cars. Everything was just so fortunate. I said, wow, the IMS gods, they’re with me. They gave me all this luck. Then at the end, I mean, Lundgaard was just so fast. I was trying everything I could sideways pretty much 50% of those laps. He was just still pulling, pulling. Look, we came into this weekend thinking this was going to be — at least for me, I came in thinking this was going to be our hardest race of the whole season, and it ended up being our best result yet, which it was just fantastic. It’s really, really cool. It’s really good momentum going into the 500, and yeah, I’m very, very happy. DAVID MALUKAS: Yeah, we were having some moments. I could see he was trying to set up for the undercut. We ended up having some little issue, and he managed to stick around the outside. Probably could have been maybe a little bit more, you know — a little bit more aggressive, but I thought I have some fair racing. Yeah, I mean, it was a proper move. It was very good. Yeah, I don’t know. It was also that last site we were struggling with pace. Not really too sure what went wrong. We’ll go back and study it and see what we can find. THE MODERATOR: We’ll start with questions. Q.  Going back to that battle in turn 4, it was aggressive, but it was clean. When you’re a professional race driver, that’s got to be the best of the best. Just how much did you enjoy that even though you didn’t come out on top? DAVID MALUKAS: No, it’s really good racing. I think Christian Lundgaard is obviously very professional, and me and him, we go actually way back. I remember we were teammates go-karting in the Ricciardo karts in Italy. We go way, way back. We’re good friends, and it was fantastic racing. You know, I could be a little bit more aggressive and push him wide, whatever, but I think it was fair racing, and he made a proper move. At a certain point there’s also I think some skill in racing, though, and when you’ve lost a spot. Q.  When a lot of people wanted to go ahead and mail the trophy to Alex Palou, I guess today shows why you run the race, because anything can happen, and today it wasn’t — didn’t fall in his favor. Christian Lundgaard is celebrating, and you’re second place, and Alex was fifth.DAVID MALUKAS: Yeah, like I said, we were fortunate that race. So many things went our way. We were struggling with pace pretty much all weekend, and the guys just did a fantastic job. I’m spoiled. I get to go to bed and get some nice food, get a good rest, and these guys, they didn’t sleep all night. They were studying — shout out Fernando, Mustafa, James, these guys, they’re working so hard working their butts off, and they came back to me in the morning with a whole new philosophy on the car. I truly believe that’s what got us into that Fast Six. A big shout-out for this team. They’re doing fantastic work for me. Q.  David, after Christian made that pass, you didn’t really have enough push-to-pass to really defend that. What do you think led to you burning so much early on in the race?DAVID MALUKAS: Well, I think it’s just the way the strategies play out. We tried burning it a lot on these ins and outs to try to keep in that position. I think what was the highest priority for us was I knew my car was not good, especially when I got in traffic, so we wanted clean air as the priority, and that was the only chance we were really going to have. We burned a lot of the button on these ins and outs, on these pit cycles to make sure that any time we come out, we’re going to be in clean air, which obviously the deficit was we’re not going to have as much in the end. But that was our only strategy play with the setup that we have. Looking back, I think we would have started with a very different car. On track that was the strategy I wanted to play with, and that’s the strategy we went with. Q.  David, the first lap was the — to Graham too, it was kind of like the parting of the seas with all the cars going off. What was kind of your reaction in the cockpit when that happened?DAVID MALUKAS: Well, initially because I broke earlier than everybody. I was, like, oh, no way, did I just brake too early? Am I about to get swarmed? Then I was thinking about adding a little bit of throttle. Then I saw everybody start getting some smoke and locking brakes. I was, like, oh, no, I definitely have pushed the limit there.We barely scraped through. I mean, for me I was, like, oh, wow, that was so lucky. All these guys were so fast, and now we’re in a really good spot. Yeah, it made my job easy. That was great. I loved it. NTT INDYCAR SERIES News ConferenceSaturday, May 9, 2026Christian LundgaardTony KanaanPress Conference THE MODERATOR: Wrapping up today’s Sonsio Grand Prix with the champion driver and team principal from Arrow McLaren. Christian Lundgaard led 20 of the 85 laps today in the 7 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet. First win of the season, second career win, matching what he did on the Streets of Toronto back in 2023. Third podium of the season. With the win Christian jumps up to fourth in points. Also joining us, Tony Kanaan, as mentioned team principal for Arrow McLaren, as McLaren celebrates a 28th win, INDYCAR SERIES win, matching what Pato did and of course the great Johnny Rutherford. Christian, congratulations. Your thoughts on a win and a track you really enjoy competing at? CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Yeah, I think, first of all, it’s a lot of unfinished business for me around here. Obviously being competitive here pretty much every year except last year, and I really wanted to get some redemption for that. We worked hard to try to figure out where we really went wrong last year. I think we obviously did, but I mean, it just feels awesome. I hope that it doesn’t take another three years for another one, right? TONY KANAAN: It won’t. CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Thanks. It feels awesome right now, and I’m sure I will probably realize tomorrow what really happened today. It really wasn’t what I expected waking up this morning. Obviously with qualifying getting pushed to this morning and racing the same day, it’s not really a traditional INDYCAR weekend. Obviously this is a two-day weekend already, and everything just kind of felt very fast. We made a lot of good progress from P1 to P2. I thought we were going to be a little better in qualifying than we were. So keeping my head cool after obviously the lap 1 incidents with everything that happened there. Obviously you go into turn 1 wanting to make position, not lose positions. I felt so bad for Pato, because we had such a good plan planned for how we were going to attack the race between the two of us. We had two cars in the front, and we knew the 10 car was going to be strong. Obviously having one car left up there, but also losing positions kind of hurt a little bit. For me it was just take my race as it was from there. Then the strategy didn’t work out for them. TONY KANAAN: Finally. THE MODERATOR: The pass in turn 4 is going to be replayed for a while probably. That was a heck of a pass. Just talk through that a little bit. CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: It probably looks more spectacular from the outside than it really did inside the helmet. You know, at the end of the day, I’ve been now watching it on the TV screen probably 50 times, but it doesn’t look the same way as what it felt.No, I knew I had one chance, maybe two on David at that time. He seemed to be pretty strong in 14, and we weren’t. His braking performance was also a little stronger than I thought ours were. I knew I could do it around that pit sequence. Obviously we tried to undercut him. I struggled a lot on out laps. He seemed to be a little better than I was.I think it was Grosjean that was ahead. There was another car in play at the time that slowed him down. I tried to set him up for 2 and actually make the slingshot to be on the inside for turn 4, but he was pretty slow kind of through the kink of 3. I thought, okay, F it, I’m going to stay on the outside and see how it goes. THE MODERATOR: Big win for the team, Tony. Talk about getting one like this heading into the oval portion here at Indianapolis? TONY KANAAN: A win is always a win. Obviously a great feeling. We’ve been a lot of ups and downs on the team this year, and obviously for me personally a tough week with the news of Zanardi. For sure wherever he is, he is happy for us. Dedicate that for him.Obviously been working with Christian quite a bit, and we’ve started this tradition, you know, giving him a kiss on the cheek, a Brazilian kiss on his cheek every time he gets in the car before the race. I was trying to understand if I should keep doing that, if it was working or not. I guess — CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: It worked. TONY KANAAN: It worked. It feels good. It feels good for the team. It feels good for Chris, his engineer. It’s his first win as an engineer. Moyer, I don’t need to say anything else about Kyle Moyer. Really happy for the team. Shame on Pato. He was pretty disappointed. He had no control on that. Good day for the team. THE MODERATOR: We’ll take questions.Q.  Christian, you mentioned the plan between you and Pato at the start. Now all of a sudden you’re the lone ranger when he gets hit. Was that a plan B for you? Did you ever think, oh, if something happens, we’re going to do this, or was it just we’re just going to do it anyway, it doesn’t matter if he is there or not?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Obviously it kind of sounds very spectacular when I say a plan, right? Obviously we kind of had an idea of how we wanted to attack the race. We were on two different strategies, different start tires. Obviously Alex started on the primes.It was really just how we were going to attack around the first pit sequence really, and at the end of the day, I lost positions, so for me it kind of just turned out to be, okay, keep your head cool and let’s see what we can do from here. What can we salvage really?At that point I certainly did not expect to win the race. Not necessarily just from where I was on track, but also just the pace we had at the time. The car kind of seemed to come alive a lot more on the new alts at the end of the race on the last stint, obviously once I got past David. I think a lot of it just had to do with clean air. Turn 14 today was pretty tough for me, and it was just a lot of tire deg from that. Obviously I got some good information from Pato starting on the alts and how their tires degged. Q.  When you made the pass on David, how important is it to have that trust that he’s not going to go further to the left and now you have two more wheels on the curb on the grass there completing the move?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Yeah, I mean, David has always been very respectful to race against. I mean, I’ve been teammates with him in go-karts many, many years ago now, but again, I mean, there’s certainly drivers that you trust less. There’s drivers you trust more. That’s just how it goes. At the end of the day, I had, again, nothing to lose. I finished second. Okay, that’s fine, but I have so much unfinished business here. For me, I wanted to win. I have enough second places in the past year and a half. I wanted a win. I was kind of willing to do what it took. I also knew that it was going to be respectful. Again, I wouldn’t have done that if it was someone else. Q.  Your career got started here in 2021, and you had a great qualifying effort and a decent first-time race. You’ve had some good finishes here and now a win here. What is it about this racecourse that’s just suited your style so well?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Well, considering it took me nine times to win it, I would say I’ve been better on qualifying there than I have on race day. I think that’s really what feels good right now is just knowing that I finally got that done. I think that was my big mistake last year was I came in with too much expectation of, okay, I’m in a car that has been so good all year round up until that point. My only reference around this track was in a car that qualified in the Fast Six every single time, if not just on the front row, on pole or second. I think this year I came in just wanting to manage expectations and continue working on the package that we have. We know that we’re very good on road courses. Last year it was the 10 and the 7 car on road courses. We’ve now done two, and it’s pretty much been the same thing. Q.  You spent so much time in your career with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing with Graham Rahal, and to be able to celebrate your victory with him on the podium, how special was that?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Yeah, I mean, we’ve been on the podium twice this year together now, obviously Barber and here. It feels nice. We actually were going to play golf tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. I don’t think we’re doing that now, but no, it feels good.I have a lot of respect for Graham. He’s a good friend of mine, obviously. I learned so much from Graham. You know, on race craft, racing for Rahal at the time obviously. Just that experience that he had in INDYCAR and just understanding how the races really worked out wasn’t really an understanding that I had coming to INDYCAR in the first place. I think he helped me a lot in the first year. You know, it was very nice, and just kind of satisfying the time when you start beating that guy already in the same car, but I think I have a lot of respect for him. I know what he’s capable of, and I think he’s showing it right now. Q.  Christian, it feels like every weekend until now you’ve ended up saying you just need to qualify better to kind of break through that barrier and get the win. How rewarding was it for you to start on the second row and then follow through on that?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Yeah, I mean, I had a lot of worries, because you know, I qualified further up, first on Fast Six of the year. I was kind of thinking, okay, is this the time where turns to go the wrong way? It feels nice, and I think we proved the point to ourselves. We need to qualify better, and the results will come. Q.  To follow up on that, what is your mindset there in that cockpit when you see the big pile-up and everything that happened right away in turn 1 with Felix just locking up and causing a few cars to go off track? CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: My first impression and thought was I feel very bad for Felix, because I know both Felix and Pato are very good friends. Obviously I felt worse for Pato for obvious reasons, but I also know Felix is not that kind of guy, right? Just seeing how it all unfolded and all the other cars that were involved, I think the most satisfying thing from today and how the race worked out was seeing the 10 car getting called out on the strategy. They’ve always been on the right side of it. Not going to say lucky, but they’ve always been on the right side of it, and I think it was very nice to see them in many ways get hurt from that today from a points perspective, but I still think it’s impressive to see them drive as far up as they did after that. Q.  Tony, you’ve been adamant that when it comes to Christian and Nolan, you just want to see the performance speak for itself. What does his performance today show to you?TONY KANAAN: I wouldn’t put it — CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: This is why I got hired in the first place. TONY KANAAN: Exactly, I hired you to win races. I don’t think I put him to the judgment. They know my expectations, but I think we’re level up at the same — we have the same expectations. He drove a brilliant race. I think, you know, it didn’t come easy. We qualified really well. In the first lap Felix did us a favor and put us exactly where we didn’t want to be. I mean, I think he’s been driving extremely well. It was just like when are we going to get a break? He kept asking himself that. Not a single day that I don’t believe in him or Nolan. I’m still doing everything we can to give them and Pato the best equipment and the best support.Pressure a little bit. A little bit of pressure sometimes is good, and Christian, doesn’t phase him — CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: I like pressure, clearly. Q.  Christian, you’re the third driver to win for McLaren at INDYCAR joining Johnny Rutherford and Pato O’Ward. What does that mean to reward this team that has put so much faith in you?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: A lot, obviously. This guy that sat next to me, Tony, is a big reason of why I joined the team in the first place. You know, when he approached me, it was, hmm, okay, that sounds like a good idea. Let’s see how this is going to work out.I mean, Tony mentioned it already. It feels better knowing that it’s the first win for the 7 car, because I know the drivers that have been through that car. They’re not bad drivers. And to get that win for Chris, my race engineer, Chris Lawrence, and the whole crew in general, honestly feels better in many ways, because I’ve always known what I’m capable of. Again, I don’t want to sound too optimistic or cocky in that way, but on a good day, I know I can beat anyone. I’m sure 95% of the field will say the same thing, but I know the task that I was hired to do, and that’s to win races. To finally get it, obviously it took a year and a half. I think we’ve come close many, many times. I think we’ve unlocked the door now. I’m pretty confident many more will come. Q.  Tony, Christian mentioned the concept of the door unlocking. You’ve been in this position before. Kind of talk about the next few days for Christian Lundgaard and how soon he may get back to victory lane?TONY KANAAN: I mean, hopefully in a couple of weeks. It will look pretty good to be back there again. I mean, it’s one of those things how many times I’ve seen it. It happened to me, and you see a couple of other drivers. They fight. They fight. They fight. They struggle. I mean, it doesn’t unlock it. When it does, for some reason it just goes. Like I said, I never doubted him. We work pretty close together. I support my drivers and my team at any time. I used to say that I got their back, but we will talk — we need to get uncomfortable, we get uncomfortable. Nice to see that unlock for him. The next couple of days I told him just enjoy. I told him let’s go get drunk tonight, which for me will take a glass, so it’s not really that fun. He needs to enjoy. Obviously in a couple of days time the stress will hit again, and it’s why we race, and that’s why we’re here. So next couple of days will be good enough that I will be paranoid again. We live for that, so… Q.  Christian, you talk about being hired to win races. Just how big of a day is this and is it a feeling of, like, excitement? Is it a feeling of relief? When you look back at the last year and a half, what does this mean just as far as this accomplishment in your career?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Yeah, I mean, I think I’ve had the question many times. You know, when is it going to come, right? We’ve come so close many times. How does it feel being on the podium when the 10 car keeps being the guy that wins? I mean, in many ways I live to win races. I don’t live to finish second. I don’t live to just be in the race. I think that’s how I was always taught, you know, growing up. I don’t just compete to compete. I compete to win. I think, again, that was one of the conversations that Tony and I had. That’s the mutual agreement in many ways that we have is we want to win. It’s pretty simple. It feels good, of course. I think, again, I’ll realize what really happened today tomorrow, when we wake up from that one glass, but I’m going to hold you up on that, Tony, by the way. No, I mean, it feels really good. The one thing I’m sad about is knowing that my family won’t be here for the 500 this year. Race day is on my mom’s birthday this year. In many ways — TONY KANAAN: Better give her a gift. That’s what you need to do. CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: It’s Mother’s Day tomorrow. So I kind of tried today. I think it’s a very good way to start the month of May, obviously. I fell short so many times. I mean, in the past two years I don’t even know how many seconds I’ve had. I finished second around here before. I think that was what felt sweetest was the unfinished business that I had around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course was I knew I’ve been so competitive here and I never got it done. Getting it done in the beginning of May in a car that I know is good enough to win the 500 feels very good. Q.  Do you hate losing more than you love winning?CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: I would say so.TONY KANAAN: I think he fears losing a lot more than anything else. We do.CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: Yeah, it sucks.THE MODERATOR: Christian, one glass for Tony is more than I’ve ever seen him have.TONY KANAAN: Exactly.CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD: At least if I can get him to have a glass.TONY KANAAN: I said that, if I do that, I won’t be able to speak for ten minutes.THE MODERATOR: Good point. Q.  A couple of questions for Tony. The first one is not just Christian, but this team in general, this 7 team, we knew you had a right rear — new right rear tire changer for this race for this weekend. Just overall, from engineer throughout the team, what did this team tap into that it hadn’t had a chance to yet previously? TONY KANAAN: I think, you know, looking at my job, I think we had always had the right people. I think it’s trying to put everybody with the same mentality and the same culture of we’re here to win a race. We need to lay it out there every weekend with the best people and making people accountable when we rightfully so let Christian down in Barber on a pit stop. I mean, I’m not saying we were going to win the race, but we lost a race there or a chance to win a race. I think having this team with Christian and Chris Lawrence, they are very particular. They have a personality that we actually — we’re very similar in many ways, and we don’t — if I tell Christian I dare that you’re going to do this, I’m asking him to do this. I think Chris and Christian had a very good dynamic there that actually transpired to the team.Like you said, we had a few issues. We’re not replacing people. We’re placing people at the right places at the right time. Anybody is allowed to make a mistake, but at the end of the day, we all hate losing, so everybody is on the same page. To answer your question, I think we do have to make some changes. We do have to relocate people, but everybody is part of this team. It doesn’t mean that we send anybody home. Unfortunately, sometimes you have to have a tough conversation, and your ego is going to get hurt. It happens to me. It happens to Christian. We had some many tough ones, but at the end of the day, the result is there. They executed.Yeah, I guess hopefully I answer your question, but I’ll keep — somebody said to me the other day, sometimes looks like you spin the revolving door. I said, yeah, I keep spinning until I’m happy to stop. So hopefully they got the message. Q.  Then just lastly, I know you met with a lot of us media Muppets in Long Beach. One of the things that we talked about was contracts, and it was about Nolan and it was about Christian. You said that winning helps everything obviously. You might have to do something sooner than you would like if the results start ticking in. Obviously there’s not a better result than winning. What does this do to the mindset to try to get things wrapped up with the guy sitting next to you?TONY KANAAN: Yeah, I told you guys. And that’s nothing that, you know — I said that I hate talking about contracts because I was on the other side for 25 years. I told Christian and his following and Nolan is on the way, if you guys keep winning, I don’t need to make a decision, and nobody needs to make a decision. I think we’re all on the same page on that. There is no — it’s not going to do a driver or myself any good to try to threaten like that. We all know. Nobody comes to a race weekend to just think that, you know, we’re going to be happy with a non-win. Obviously Christian was one of — I remember back a couple of years ago when we talked, and I still support all of them. I don’t think it’s the time, especially during the month of May, to talk about it. Look what happened. In one race you can change your life. I’m never making my decisions about one race or not results because I felt that myself throughout my career. I was extremely useful when I was Scott’s teammate, and he won three championships, and I won one race. Chip did not fire me. So I guess I was useful for the team. Everybody have a part of the team. Obviously we have a big brand that requires that we need to win every race. I can be the most popular guy in Mexico one weekend and probably the one that they want me dead the following weekend. In Denmark the same thing and — I mean, it’s just the way it is. So we’re here. The drivers that I have are the drivers that I’m going to support until, you know, we all decide that we’ll talk about what’s going to happen.THE MODERATOR: Congratulations on a great start to the month of May.

Chevrolet History at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course Wins – 10 2025 – Christian Lundgaard – Arrow McLaren2021 Race #2 – Will Power – Team Penske2021 Race #1 – Rinus VeeKay – ECR2020 Rce #3 – Will Power – Team Penske2020 Race #2 – Josef Newgarden – Team Penske2019 – Simon Pagenaud – Team Penske2018 – Will Power – Team Penske2017 – Will Power – Team Penske2016 – Simon Pagenaud – Team Penske2015 – Will Power – Team Penske Poles – 11 2022 Race #2 – Felix Rosenqvist – Arrow McLaren2022 Race #1 – Will Power – Team Penske2021 Race #2 – Pato O’Ward – Arrow McLaren2020 Race #3 – Will Power – Team Penske2020 Race #2 – Rinus VeeKay – ECR2020 Race #1 – Will Power – Team Penske2018 – Will Power – Team Penske2017 – Will Power – Team Penske 2016 – Simon Pagenaud – Team Penske2015 – Will Power – Team Penske2014 – Sebastian Saavedra – KV Racing Technology Chevrolet Podiums – 24 Driver Podiums:  Will Power (9), Pato O’Ward (3), Simon Pagenaud (3), Helio Castroneves (2), Rinus VeeKay (2), Christian Lundgaard (1), David Malukas (1), Juan Montoya (1), Josef Newgarden (1), Alexander Rossi (1) Team Podiums: Team Penske (17), Arrow McLaren (5), ECR (2) Chevrolet Laps Led: 684 Driver Laps Led: Will Power (348), Simon Pagenaud (69), Josef Newgarden (61), Rinus VeeKay (48), Helio Castroneves (46), David Malukas (27), Pato O’Ward (23), Christian Lundgaard (20), Scott McLaughlin (17), Felix Rosenqvist (14), Alexander Rossi (4), Charlie Kimball (3), Kyle Kirkwood (2), Tatiana Calderon (1), Scott Dixon (1) Team Laps Led: Team Penske (568), ECR (48), Arrow McLaren (61), Chip Ganassi Racing (4), Juncos Hollinger Racing (2), A.J. Foyt Racing (1) Manufacturer History on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course Wins (with competition)  10 – Chevrolet (2026, 2021 Race #2, 2021 Race #1, 2020 Race #3, 2020 Race #2, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)8 – Honda (2025, 2024, 2023 Race #2, 2023 Race #1, 2022 Race #2, 2022 Race #1, 2020 Race #1, 2014) Poles (with competition)  11 – Chevrolet (2022 Race #2, 2021 Race #1, 2021 Race #2, 2020 Race #3, 2020 Race #2, 2020 Race #1, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014)7- Honda (2026, 2025, 2024, 2023 Race #2, 2023 Race #1, 2021 Race #1, 2019)

Van Gisbergen, McDowell Lead Chevrolet to Second-Straight Front-Row Sweep

TEAM CHEVY UNOFFICIAL TOP-10 STARTING LINEUP:  1st – Shane van Gisbergen2nd – Michael McDowell4th – Ross Chastain5th – Connor Zilisch

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·        For the first time this season and the fifth time in his NASCAR Cup Series career, Shane van Gisbergen will lead the NASCAR Cup Series to the green flag from to the pole position. Laying down a best-lap of 71.165 seconds around the upstate New York circuit, the road course ringer led Chevrolet to its third pole win of the 2026 season. The trio of Trackhouse Racing drivers had a strong showing in Saturday’s qualifying session with teammates, Ross Chastain and Connor Zilisch, both earning top-five starting positions for tomorrow’s race.   ·        Spire Motorsports’ Michael McDowell landed second on the final speed chart to earn his best qualifying effort of the season and back-to-back front-row sweeps for the Bowtie brigade.  

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Van Gisbergen, McDowell Lead Chevrolet to Second-Straight Front-Row Sweep

TEAM CHEVY UNOFFICIAL TOP-10 STARTING LINEUP:  1st – Shane van Gisbergen2nd – Michael McDowell4th – Ross Chastain5th – Connor Zilisch

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·        For the first time this season and the fifth time in his NASCAR Cup Series career, Shane van Gisbergen will lead the NASCAR Cup Series to the green flag from to the pole position. Laying down a best-lap of 71.165 seconds around the upstate New York circuit, the road course ringer led Chevrolet to its third pole win of the 2026 season. The trio of Trackhouse Racing drivers had a strong showing in Saturday’s qualifying session with teammates, Ross Chastain and Connor Zilisch, both earning top-five starting positions for tomorrow’s race.   ·        Spire Motorsports’ Michael McDowell landed second on the final speed chart to earn his best qualifying effort of the season and back-to-back front-row sweeps for the Bowtie brigade.  

Shane van Gisbergen, No. 97 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet – Pole Win Quotes Just how different or similar is it with the Cup car here with the track limits now that you’ve experienced it?“Yeah, only turn one I find different. You really have to brake a bit earlier and harder to stop the corner, and then you’ve got no margin for error. Like you were trying to stay relatively tight last year, but you could blow the corner if you needed to and still make time. So yeah, it has changed how accurate you need to be at turn one. And then yesterday on the restarts, I really found how much tighter of a corner it was and how much you don’t want to be on the outside. But sometimes you can’t help it. So yeah, it’s a tough corner. The carousel’s not really different, I don’t think.”   In following the ghost car on the chart there, it looked like you gained pretty much two-tenths in the bus stop and that’s where you beat everybody else. Is that a particular point of emphasis for you or are you doing something different there that no one else is?“I haven’t studied it fully yet, but I did nail it on my first lap. The first half of the lap was pretty average, I thought. And then on my second lap, I had less tire grip, but it was a better lap so I think I was ahead until the bus stop and then mucked it up. My first lap was really good there, so I probably got it right and maybe the others got it wrong. But generally, that is a reasonably strong point for me here.”   How much of a handful were the cars out there today?“It was odd. I expected it to be faster in the cold conditions, which it was, but then the fall off was insane. I didn’t expect that. The O’Reilly car felt pretty good. You could push hard and there wasn’t much fall off. The marbles and the fall off was extreme today. It’s kind of like Bristol when it’s cold, the tires would fall apart. It was very interesting. We fell off four seconds or something. It was crazy. It’ll be a good race to watch, but probably a hard one to manage.”   How much of an impact do you think the added 10 laps to this race we’ll have tomorrow? “I’m not really sure. I think you’ll stay out the whole time, it’ll just drag out that second stage. Some people might do something different to leapfrog them into the third stage, maybe, if there’s an option there. But yeah, not too sure. It’ll be cool to see how it plays out.”  Now that you’ve turned 37 and you’re still relatively a young guy, even in racing these days, where do you feel you are in your career and how much better can you get, not even have turned 40 yet?“Yeah, I think we’re lucky as racecar drivers compared to other sports. We have a very long shelf life. You see guys competitive into their mid-late 40s or even longer. It’s a pretty cool career we have, so yeah, I can keep doing this for as long as I want. I still enjoy it and I still feel like I’m learning a lot, especially the last couple of years, it’s probably more than I’ve ever learned. I feel like my mind is still open to improving and getting better, and I don’t feel like I’m getting any slower. So yeah, I keep doing it as much as I can.”  Do you feel like this is kind of a race to lose? If you do everything right, your pit crew does everything right, you should win this race?“Not with the tires like they are. I think there’s going to be a lot of strategy tomorrow and a lot of execution. Like we saw, Connor made a mistake and just got half a car wide in the marbles and then he lost three seconds for the next few laps, so it’s all going to be about executing. I think there’s going to be a lot of variables tomorrow. So yeah, I don’t think it’s an easy race, for sure. Well, it’s never easy, but not as straightforward. I don’t think it’s going to be like that tomorrow.”  NASCAR repositioned a little bit of that tire barrier by the restart zone. Did you tell a difference today?“No, I didn’t even look at it. Jerry from NASCAR told me that they’d moved it this morning, but I was kind of looking at the markers on the fence yesterday. I did track walk yesterday and there’s all the timing lines, so I can see why it tripped everyone up yesterday. It’s very confusing, but I kind of always use the lines on the fence anyway.”   You’re one of the three Trackhouse guys doing triple duty this weekend, so when you jump from the Truck to, O’Reilly, to the Cup car, what’s the car or dynamic that feels the most foreign to you whenever you swap?“I guess they’re so different that it doesn’t crossover as much. But yeah, I sat in the Cup car a little early and tried to visualize the lap and make sure I was going the right way on the gears. And then, thankfully with the weather, they let us run wets if we needed to, so that was kind of handy to run the wet laps and just familiarize myself with the car again and then didn’t waste the newness of the slick tires. But yeah, thankfully they’re kind of too different, so you don’t really get crossed over with the gears and stuff.”  Give us a little something about the No. 97 team and what they mean to you… “Yeah, you see how much that lap and getting a good result means to everyone. It’s been rough the last few months for our team and not many highlights, but you could feel this cool vibe and energy in the shop this week and how pumped everyone was. We’re three good road course guys capable of results, and it was good we executed and all three of us are in the top-five. So yeah, it’s a fun bunch of people to spend your weekends with. I really enjoy being around all the guys and girls and hopefully we can reward them with a result tomorrow.”

TF Sport battles through tough LMGT3 battles to finish in top-10 STAVELOT, Belgium (May 9, 2026) – TF Sport’s two Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.Rs finished in the points and grabbed a dose of momentum ahead of the 24 Hours of Le Mans with a pair of top-10 finishes in Saturday’s Six Hours of Spa.

The team’s No. 33 Corvette of Nicky Catsburg, Jonny Edgar and Blake McDonald drove from outside the top-10 to eighth place in LMGT3 at the end of the FIA World Endurance Championship’s wild second round at Spa-Francorchamps. It followed a season-opening, runner-up finish at Imola in the first race together for the trio. They were just one spot ahead of the Racing Team Turkey by TF Corvette of Charlie Eastwood, Salih Yoluc and Peter Dempsey. Eastwood crossed the finish line fifth in class but the No. 34 had 10 seconds added to its race time for an infringement during the car’s next-to-last pit stop. The early parts of the race – including the two Corvettes’ starting positions – mirrored the team’s start at Imola in the season’s opening round. Yoluc was the biggest mover as he gained five positions in the opening half-lap to go from 10th to fifth in the No. 34 Corvette. It was even more impressive that Yoluc drove the first stint on used tires as the team played strategy from the very beginning.

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Meanwhile McDonald raced his way from 14th and into ninth after his first stop. He climbed as high as sixth before the No. 33 had to serve a drive-through penalty. The two Corvettes made their second stops one lap after each other just prior to the two-mark with Dempsey relieving Yoluc and Edgar taking over for McDonald. The middle two hours of the race were fairly uneventful as both Corvettes ran in the top-10 and in points-scoring position when a safety car period with a little more than two hours left reset things. All of the LMGT3 cars stopped on the same lap with Eastwood and Catsburg both getting into their respective Corvettes for the final two stints – Eastwood in sixth and Catsburg in ninth. Unfortunately the Racing Team Turkey entry received a 10-second, post-race penalty for an infraction during the stop. Another safety car neutralized the pack with an hour to go. Eastwood made the No. 34’s last stop with 56 minutes left for tires and fuel from fifth, and Catsburg pitted a lap later for the same with Edgar back in for the final run to the finish. TF Sport’s next race in the FIA WEC is the 24 Hours of Le Mans on June 13-14.

CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R POST-RACE DRIVER QUOTES

NICKY CATSBURG, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “A short and unexpected stint. I got three track limits on one of the restarts in a row. It’s a bit risky to continue and get another penalty. We already had a penalty early on in the race and didn’t want to get another one. Jonny was the right man for the job. He did great today and at the end. We got away with some unexpected points, I would say, which is good where we had a lot of weight. So to get away with points is good. We just need to focus forward and take it from there.”

JONNY EDGAR, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “It was quite a fun last stint with the safety car restarts. It was hard to make positions as I had some understeer following cars because we had some damage to a diveplane. In the end we seemed quite OK. The car was better at the end than the middle which is good. I enjoyed driving at the end full-push for the last 30 minutes trying to hold on to positions and trying to make some up. Happy to score points with the pace we had. We did a good job to finish eighth because it could have very easily been zero. So I’m happy.”(Opening stint) “It didn’t feel too bad. Our car doesn’t have quite as much as pace Imola so it’s been a more difficult race. It was quite a lonely stint. I only saw one other my car in my class so I was trying to make no mistakes and no penalties to keep the car in one piece. We were hoping for a safety car to pack the field up, which we got. I think this track is hard with the Hypercar and GT3 speed difference in some places. There also are some places where there’s a lot of gravel on the track so you can’t go side by side. It was easy to lose a lot of time if you got overtaken in the wrong place. Some of the Hypercars are very aggressive, especially when they are close to each other and fighting for position.”

BLAKE McDONALD, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “I got off to a half-decent start and then was in a fight with one of the Mercs and the Porsche for a good portion of it. Track limits was a tough thing to manage and ended up getting five, and that was just enough to get us a penalty so that dropped us back. An anti-stall issue kicked in at one point and lost us a couple of spots but nowhere near as much time as the drive-through. It definitely wasn’t we wanted to do but it was a ton of fun though. The car turned out to be pretty decent and pretty competitive against some of the others.”(On Hypercar traffic) “The majority of the time it isn’t an issue at all. It’s maybe one of out of 10 times that puts you in a (bad) situation where you are super compromised. Here some of the speed differentials mean you just get swamped from the cars you’re competing against. One of the track limits was exactly that when I got pushed into the marbles by a Hypercar then was side by side with one of the McLarens in Blanchimont and got a track limits there. The majority of the time it’s pretty easy because most of them are very respectful in how they do it and make it super easy by just waiting for a straight and checking out. Then none of us lose too much time, but here and there they are a little aggressive.”

CHARLIE EASTWOOD, NO. 34 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “It didn’t feel like an uneventful run! It was just busy at the front the whole time and kind of always in a bit of a train. It seemed harder than probably everyone expected to pass but I was able to manage with the sort of front gap. Unfortunately we got the pitstop infringement which we couldn’t serve because everyone boxed under VSC and had to take it at the end of the race to drop us to P9. That was a shame, for sure. A P5 or P4 would have been a decent result. All in all, we executed a pretty solid weekend. The Corvette was fast and now we get ready for the big one.”(On the final hour) “Eau Rouge is just one of those corners. I think it’s because all the GTs were in a train battling and all the Hypercars were in a train battling, so that’s when you’re always going to get caught up. To be honest a lot of the GTs defend quite heavily when they are on defense against another GT car, and that’s when crashes happen.”

SALIH YOLUC, NO. 34 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “I think the start was just being opportunistic with what was going on ahead of me. I found some space to move up the order. And it felt nice in the car as well. The traffic wasn’t too bad. The Hypercars were behaving much better today, if I’m honest, than Imola. We didn’t have any issues in the traffic. The issue was much more the tire deg than anything. I don’t think we have the ultimate pace of the cars in front of us like the Ford and Ferrari who are in another league. We did our best. There is just no grip there. Ten laps are OK but the rest are quite a lot of trying to survive.”

CORVETTE RACING AT SPA: Double-Points Heading to Le MansTF Sport battles through tough LMGT3 battles to finish in top-10 STAVELOT, Belgium (May 9, 2026) – TF Sport’s two Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.Rs finished in the points and grabbed a dose of momentum ahead of the 24 Hours of Le Mans with a pair of top-10 finishes in Saturday’s Six Hours of Spa.

The team’s No. 33 Corvette of Nicky Catsburg, Jonny Edgar and Blake McDonald drove from outside the top-10 to eighth place in LMGT3 at the end of the FIA World Endurance Championship’s wild second round at Spa-Francorchamps. It followed a season-opening, runner-up finish at Imola in the first race together for the trio. They were just one spot ahead of the Racing Team Turkey by TF Corvette of Charlie Eastwood, Salih Yoluc and Peter Dempsey. Eastwood crossed the finish line fifth in class but the No. 34 had 10 seconds added to its race time for an infringement during the car’s next-to-last pit stop. The early parts of the race – including the two Corvettes’ starting positions – mirrored the team’s start at Imola in the season’s opening round. Yoluc was the biggest mover as he gained five positions in the opening half-lap to go from 10th to fifth in the No. 34 Corvette. It was even more impressive that Yoluc drove the first stint on used tires as the team played strategy from the very beginning.

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Meanwhile McDonald raced his way from 14th and into ninth after his first stop. He climbed as high as sixth before the No. 33 had to serve a drive-through penalty. The two Corvettes made their second stops one lap after each other just prior to the two-mark with Dempsey relieving Yoluc and Edgar taking over for McDonald. The middle two hours of the race were fairly uneventful as both Corvettes ran in the top-10 and in points-scoring position when a safety car period with a little more than two hours left reset things. All of the LMGT3 cars stopped on the same lap with Eastwood and Catsburg both getting into their respective Corvettes for the final two stints – Eastwood in sixth and Catsburg in ninth. Unfortunately the Racing Team Turkey entry received a 10-second, post-race penalty for an infraction during the stop. Another safety car neutralized the pack with an hour to go. Eastwood made the No. 34’s last stop with 56 minutes left for tires and fuel from fifth, and Catsburg pitted a lap later for the same with Edgar back in for the final run to the finish. TF Sport’s next race in the FIA WEC is the 24 Hours of Le Mans on June 13-14.

CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R POST-RACE DRIVER QUOTES

NICKY CATSBURG, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “A short and unexpected stint. I got three track limits on one of the restarts in a row. It’s a bit risky to continue and get another penalty. We already had a penalty early on in the race and didn’t want to get another one. Jonny was the right man for the job. He did great today and at the end. We got away with some unexpected points, I would say, which is good where we had a lot of weight. So to get away with points is good. We just need to focus forward and take it from there.”

JONNY EDGAR, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “It was quite a fun last stint with the safety car restarts. It was hard to make positions as I had some understeer following cars because we had some damage to a diveplane. In the end we seemed quite OK. The car was better at the end than the middle which is good. I enjoyed driving at the end full-push for the last 30 minutes trying to hold on to positions and trying to make some up. Happy to score points with the pace we had. We did a good job to finish eighth because it could have very easily been zero. So I’m happy.”(Opening stint) “It didn’t feel too bad. Our car doesn’t have quite as much as pace Imola so it’s been a more difficult race. It was quite a lonely stint. I only saw one other my car in my class so I was trying to make no mistakes and no penalties to keep the car in one piece. We were hoping for a safety car to pack the field up, which we got. I think this track is hard with the Hypercar and GT3 speed difference in some places. There also are some places where there’s a lot of gravel on the track so you can’t go side by side. It was easy to lose a lot of time if you got overtaken in the wrong place. Some of the Hypercars are very aggressive, especially when they are close to each other and fighting for position.”

BLAKE McDONALD, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “I got off to a half-decent start and then was in a fight with one of the Mercs and the Porsche for a good portion of it. Track limits was a tough thing to manage and ended up getting five, and that was just enough to get us a penalty so that dropped us back. An anti-stall issue kicked in at one point and lost us a couple of spots but nowhere near as much time as the drive-through. It definitely wasn’t we wanted to do but it was a ton of fun though. The car turned out to be pretty decent and pretty competitive against some of the others.”(On Hypercar traffic) “The majority of the time it isn’t an issue at all. It’s maybe one of out of 10 times that puts you in a (bad) situation where you are super compromised. Here some of the speed differentials mean you just get swamped from the cars you’re competing against. One of the track limits was exactly that when I got pushed into the marbles by a Hypercar then was side by side with one of the McLarens in Blanchimont and got a track limits there. The majority of the time it’s pretty easy because most of them are very respectful in how they do it and make it super easy by just waiting for a straight and checking out. Then none of us lose too much time, but here and there they are a little aggressive.”

CHARLIE EASTWOOD, NO. 34 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “It didn’t feel like an uneventful run! It was just busy at the front the whole time and kind of always in a bit of a train. It seemed harder than probably everyone expected to pass but I was able to manage with the sort of front gap. Unfortunately we got the pitstop infringement which we couldn’t serve because everyone boxed under VSC and had to take it at the end of the race to drop us to P9. That was a shame, for sure. A P5 or P4 would have been a decent result. All in all, we executed a pretty solid weekend. The Corvette was fast and now we get ready for the big one.”(On the final hour) “Eau Rouge is just one of those corners. I think it’s because all the GTs were in a train battling and all the Hypercars were in a train battling, so that’s when you’re always going to get caught up. To be honest a lot of the GTs defend quite heavily when they are on defense against another GT car, and that’s when crashes happen.”

SALIH YOLUC, NO. 34 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “I think the start was just being opportunistic with what was going on ahead of me. I found some space to move up the order. And it felt nice in the car as well. The traffic wasn’t too bad. The Hypercars were behaving much better today, if I’m honest, than Imola. We didn’t have any issues in the traffic. The issue was much more the tire deg than anything. I don’t think we have the ultimate pace of the cars in front of us like the Ford and Ferrari who are in another league. We did our best. There is just no grip there. Ten laps are OK but the rest are quite a lot of trying to survive.”

PETER DEMPSEY, NO. 34 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “It was pretty good. Obviously I was lacking a lot of laps since Thursday; missing FP3 hurt us a little bit in race laps for me and Charlie. But we gained with Salih getting those laps in. It took me a little while setting into a rhythm. The first stint was me making a few mistakes but once I settled in the pace was pretty good. Then a big improvement in the second stint and stayed in the same position and status quo with where we were. I was able to hand off the car off to Charlie with no damage, which was the plan.”

CHEVROLET IN THE NTT INDYCAR SERIES Sonsio Grand Prix2.439-mile, 14-turn Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course Speedway, Indiana Saturday Qualifying Report May 9, 2026  INDIANAPOLIS (May 9, 2026) – For the second race event in a row, Pato O’Ward in the No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet was the quickest Chevrolet-powered driver and will start on the outside of the front row beside the driver he’s chasing in the championship for the second straight event, turning a lap of 70.2962 seconds (125.886 mph).  “My team turned it around for me, so I’ve got to thank them,” said O’Ward, who was 15th on the combined timesheet. “I really do. I think yesterday was a perfect example. When it’s not working, it doesn’t matter how hard you try, you just can’t get it there, unless you at least get it into the window of performance. We did that today. I want to thank my teammates as well. They found stuff that has obviously helped me today. It was a collaborative team effort to really turn it around from where we were yesterday. I’m happy with that. I wouldn’t say my Q3 lap was the best I’ve done. I was pretty annoyed with that. It’s another front row for us this year. Pretty long way into Turn 1, which is pretty chaotic. I’m looking forward to the race. This place has always been good to us. I think we can turn a front row into a very good day.” O’Ward’s teammate, Christian Lundgaard, the pilot of the No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet, will start on the outside of the second row, right behind the fellow Papaya colored Chevrolet of his teammate.  “A little disappointed,” said the Dane. “I think we expected a little more. We were much better at at the end of P2 yesterday, and I think it got our got our hopes high. Obviously, it’s it’s good for for the 5 car to turn things around. So proud of that group. At the end of the day, we need to see later today, but the No. 10 car is so fast. We have two cars up there so, hopefully we can put up a fight from there.” The third Team Chevy driver in the Firestone Fast Six, David Malukas, in the throwback to 2018 No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet, will start on the inside of the third row.  “That first group, that first round, that was the best lap I’ve done in my whole career, to get that zero (70.0584 seconds),” said Malukas, who is the top qualifying Team Penske driver for the fifth straight race. “We’ve been struggling with pace this whole weekend and we put our heads down. Right before we went out I was looking at so many videos and trying to figure out a strategy. That lap was perfect. We got the set-up as close as we can be. We’re still lacking to some of these guys, but for us that is amazing. In Group 2, we barely scraped across there and couldn’t replicate that lap. We made the (Firestone) Fast Six which is incredible for us.” A trio of Chevrolet-powered drivers, O’Ward, Josef Newgarden in the No. 2 Astemo Team Penske Chevrolet and rookie Caio Collet in the No. 4 Combitrans Amazonia Chevrolet, advanced into the Fast 12 from the first dozen drivers. Alexander Rossi in the No. 20 Java House Chevrolet missed out by 11-thousandths of a second, with the entire group covered by less than a second over the 2.439-mile, 14-turn Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course.  “It’s annoying that it wasn’t three amazing laps from my side,” said Rossi. “I’ve been struggling a lot getting the balance in the window to what we need. I think we’ve made a lot of improvements from yesterday. I just didn’t put it all together there, which is annoying. I don’t know that we had a car for pole, but I think we could have easily been in the top 12. It’s unfortunate that’s not the case.”  The second group of the first segment was even closer than the first group, with only six-tenths of a second separating the 13 drivers. Malukas, with a lap at 70.0584 seconds, was the quickest of the Chevrolet-powered drivers, with Christian Lundgaard in the No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet joining his teammate O’Ward in the Fast 12.  Newgarden, Collet and Malukas were in a position to advance when the dozen drivers came in to put on fresh Alternate Firestone Firehawk racing tires (Red) for one last push to advance. As lap times continued to fall, O’Ward, Lundgaard and Malukas made it through to the Firestone Fast Six.  Sonsio Grand Prix qualifying results: Tune-In Alert Saturday, May 9Sonsio Grand Prix (85 laps) – 4:30pm (ET)/3:30pm (CT)/2:30pm (MT)/1:30pm(PT) – – FOX/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218

CHEVROLET IN THE NTT INDYCAR SERIESSonsio Grand Prix2.439-mile, 14-turn Indianapolis Motor Speedway road courseSpeedway, IndianaSaturday Qualifying ReportMay 9, 2026  INDIANAPOLIS (May 9, 2026) – For the second race event in a row, Pato O’Ward in the No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet was the quickest Chevrolet-powered driver and will start on the outside of the front row beside the driver he’s chasing in the championship for the second straight event, turning a lap of 70.2962 seconds (125.886 mph).  “My team turned it around for me, so I’ve got to thank them,” said O’Ward, who was 15th on the combined timesheet. “I really do. I think yesterday was a perfect example. When it’s not working, it doesn’t matter how hard you try, you just can’t get it there, unless you at least get it into the window of performance. We did that today. I want to thank my teammates as well. They found stuff that has obviously helped me today. It was a collaborative team effort to really turn it around from where we were yesterday. I’m happy with that. I wouldn’t say my Q3 lap was the best I’ve done. I was pretty annoyed with that. It’s another front row for us this year. Pretty long way into Turn 1, which is pretty chaotic. I’m looking forward to the race. This place has always been good to us. I think we can turn a front row into a very good day.” O’Ward’s teammate, Christian Lundgaard, the pilot of the No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet, will start on the outside of the second row, right behind the fellow Papaya colored Chevrolet of his teammate.  “A little disappointed,” said the Dane. “I think we expected a little more. We were much better at at the end of P2 yesterday, and I think it got our got our hopes high. Obviously, it’s it’s good for for the 5 car to turn things around. So proud of that group. At the end of the day, we need to see later today, but the No. 10 car is so fast. We have two cars up there so, hopefully we can put up a fight from there.” The third Team Chevy driver in the Firestone Fast Six, David Malukas, in the throwback to 2018 No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet, will start on the inside of the third row.  “That first group, that first round, that was the best lap I’ve done in my whole career, to get that zero (70.0584 seconds),” said Malukas, who is the top qualifying Team Penske driver for the fifth straight race. “We’ve been struggling with pace this whole weekend and we put our heads down. Right before we went out I was looking at so many videos and trying to figure out a strategy. That lap was perfect. We got the set-up as close as we can be. We’re still lacking to some of these guys, but for us that is amazing. In Group 2, we barely scraped across there and couldn’t replicate that lap. We made the (Firestone) Fast Six which is incredible for us.” A trio of Chevrolet-powered drivers, O’Ward, Josef Newgarden in the No. 2 Astemo Team Penske Chevrolet and rookie Caio Collet in the No. 4 Combitrans Amazonia Chevrolet, advanced into the Fast 12 from the first dozen drivers. Alexander Rossi in the No. 20 Java House Chevrolet missed out by 11-thousandths of a second, with the entire group covered by less than a second over the 2.439-mile, 14-turn Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course.  “It’s annoying that it wasn’t three amazing laps from my side,” said Rossi. “I’ve been struggling a lot getting the balance in the window to what we need. I think we’ve made a lot of improvements from yesterday. I just didn’t put it all together there, which is annoying. I don’t know that we had a car for pole, but I think we could have easily been in the top 12. It’s unfortunate that’s not the case.”  The second group of the first segment was even closer than the first group, with only six-tenths of a second separating the 13 drivers. Malukas, with a lap at 70.0584 seconds, was the quickest of the Chevrolet-powered drivers, with Christian Lundgaard in the No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet joining his teammate O’Ward in the Fast 12.  Newgarden, Collet and Malukas were in a position to advance when the dozen drivers came in to put on fresh Alternate Firestone Firehawk racing tires (Red) for one last push to advance. As lap times continued to fall, O’Ward, Lundgaard and Malukas made it through to the Firestone Fast Six.  Sonsio Grand Prix qualifying results: Tune-In Alert Saturday, May 9Sonsio Grand Prix (85 laps) – 4:30pm (ET)/3:30pm (CT)/2:30pm (MT)/1:30pm(PT) – – FOX/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218

Chevrolet History at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road CourseWins – 9 2021 Race #2 – Will Power – Team Penske2021 Race #1 – Rinus VeeKay – ECR2020 Race #3 – Will Power – Team Penske2020 Race #2 – Josef Newgarden – Team Penske2019 – Simon Pagenaud – Team Penske2018 – Will Power – Team Penske2017 – Will Power – Team Penske2016 – Simon Pagenaud – Team Penske2015 – Will Power – Team Penske Poles – 11 2022 Race #2 – Felix Rosenqvist – Arrow McLaren2022 Race #1 – Will Power – Team Penske2021 Race #2 – Pato O’Ward – Arrow McLaren2020 Race #3 – Will Power – Team Penske2020 Race #2 – Rinus VeeKay – ECR2020 Race #1 – Will Power – Team Penske2018 – Will Power – Team Penske2017 – Will Power – Team Penske 2016 – Simon Pagenaud – Team Penske2015 – Will Power – Team Penske2014 – Sebastian Saavedra – KV Racing Technology Chevrolet Podiums – 22 Driver Podiums:  Will Power (9), Pato O’Ward (3), Simon Pagenaud (3), Helio Castroneves (2), Rinus VeeKay (2), Juan Montoya (1), Josef Newgarden (1), Alexander Rossi (1) Team Podiums: Team Penske (16), Arrow McLaren (4), ECR (2) Chevrolet Laps Led: 637 Driver Laps Led: Will Power (348), Simon Pagenaud (69), Josef Newgarden (61), Rinus VeeKay (48), Helio Castroneves (46), Pato O’Ward (23), Scott McLaughlin (17), Felix Rosenqvist (14), Alexander Rossi (4), Charlie Kimball (3), Kyle Kirkwood (2), Tatiana Calderon (1), Scott Dixon (1) Team Laps Led: Team Penske (541), ECR (48), Arrow McLaren (41), Chip Ganassi Racing (4), Juncos Hollinger Racing (2), A.J. Foyt Racing (1) Manufacturer History on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course Wins (with competition)  9 – Chevrolet (2021 Race #2, 2021 Race #1, 2020 Race #3, 2020 Race #2, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)8 – Honda (2025, 2024, 2023 Race #2, 2023 Race #1, 2022 Race #2, 2022 Race #1, 2020 Race #1, 2014) Poles (with competition)  11 – Chevrolet (2022 Race #2, 2021 Race #1, 2021 Race #2, 2020 Race #3, 2020 Race #2, 2020 Race #1, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014)7 – Honda (2026, 2025, 2024, 2023 Race #2, 2023 Race #1, 2021 Race #1, 2019)

NASCAR CUP SERIES WATKINS GLEN INTERNATIONAL TEAM CHEVY DRIVER QUOTES MAY 9, 2026

Kyle Larson, driver of the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet, met with the media in advance of the NASCAR Cup Series practice and qualifying session at Watkins Glen International.

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NASCAR CUP SERIESWATKINS GLEN INTERNATIONAL TEAM CHEVY DRIVER QUOTESMAY 9, 2026

Kyle Larson, driver of the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet, met with the media in advance of the NASCAR Cup Series practice and qualifying session at Watkins Glen International.

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Media Availability Quotes:  In terms of the tire packs and the restart zone that made a little bit of headlines yesterday, from what you were able to see from yesterday’s race and what you’re expecting today, how do you think that’s all played out so far and what you might expect to see from it tomorrow, as well?“Yeah, I don’t know. I mean, I think the barriers and stuff, just from watching on TV, seemed to work out okay. We have a much different perspective as a fan watching on TV than behind the wheel of the restart zone, but it sounded like maybe it was hard to see, listening to some of the guys’ interviews. But, yeah, I think they made some changes overnight, not sure what that was, but hopefully I’m on the front row and I can see, or not see, how difficult it is.”   What happened last week on pit road with Chase Briscoe, and do you have to change anything on entry or exit?“I don’t know. I mean, I was committed to getting in my pit stall. I had my eyes aware of what he was doing and I thought I was close enough to my pit stall that they would hold him, just because his car was still up on the jack when I was about next to him. So, I was surprised when we hit. I’m curious if they think it was my fault or our team’s fault. But, I don’t know, maybe just more communication between the two teams coming in.”   Katherine Legge was in here earlier and she said it would be awesome to do “The Double”. And I’m just wondering, somebody who has done it and had every benefit of the resources between the two organizations to do what you needed to do, what do you think the challenges would be facing her if she elects to try that?“Yeah, first off, I think it would be awesome if she could do it. I believe she would be the first female and only female to have done it, so that would be great.  And then the challenges, as everybody was aware of mine, is just the weather. So, yeah, I mean, the driving and whatnot is a challenge on its own, but ultimately it’s the weather that kind of can put a damper on things if you get any bit of delay. So, yeah, if anybody does do “The Double” in the future, I hope it goes smoother than it did for me and they can enjoy the great race day that it is supposed to be.”   I’m just curious your reaction to Kasey Kahne winning at Williams Grove last night after 29 years… “Yeah, that was awesome. I was flying here, so I didn’t get to watch the race live, but I’d gotten texts from multiple people when he won and landed in time to watch his interview and just see how excited everybody was for him… the fans, himself, the team. Kasey Kahne’s put a lot into the sport of sprint car racing. He’s achieved everything you can achieve as an owner, so to conquer something that he’s been trying to get for a long time and been somewhat close, was cool. He was fast at Lincoln the other night, and then really good last night, so that was awesome.”   Obviously, you’ve won at Watkins Glen. Since then, the results have been kind of all over. What’s made this place so challenging the last few years?“Well, last year we had brake issues. I think our car was probably okay, we just didn’t qualify good. And honestly, I can’t remember the other years. I think I sped on pit road one year. I was fast, but I think I sped on the final pit stop and we had a decent shot at a good run then. And then in 2024, I just didn’t do the best job on restarts. I remember everybody was very aggressive and it was in the playoffs, I think, at that point. I was just trying to not crash and go into whatever weekend was next with a rough finish, so just got kind of taken advantage of then. But yeah, I don’t know. Road courses have gotten a little bit tougher for me. I feel like since we’ve gone to a softer tire, I just don’t feel like I do the best job of kind of treating it how it wants to be treated. And I think, too, our car setup was just right for the old tire and we’re still trying to figure it out. But yeah, hopefully this weekend will be smooth and we can have a decent practice. I don’t know what the conditions will be like when we get out there, but just try to do a good job all weekend.”  Monday will mark one calendar year since you last won a Cup race. I know a lot of people in this room and the media in general, fans, they make a big deal out of that. Does that hold any water to you? Do you make a big deal out of that? Is that important to you at all?“I mean, I think you guys pay attention to it way more than I pay attention to it. But yeah, obviously I would have loved to have won to this point, but we just haven’t been good enough. I feel like at times, we’re really close to getting a win. And then at other times, I feel like we’re far from getting a win. I just kind of shows how tough this series is.  But yeah, I don’t know. We’re working really hard. I say the same thing every time you guys ask… it’s not like we’re not trying to win. We’re just kind of searching of how to be better and sometimes maybe search too much and get off track a little bit.  But you know, Chase (Elliott) has had a good start to the year, but the rest of us have been kind of off, so we’re still trying to work through it. We’re just going to keep fighting. We’ve made this sport, the Cup Series, look easy at times, and I never thought it was, so I’m glad that we can show you that it’s not easy.”   We’ve seen the brake issues here last year, but what benefit would there be for future races in kind of being able to use the rest of that race as a test session to experiment, as well?“I don’t know how much experimenting was going on after we came back out. I was just kind of making laps and trying not to get in people’s way and get in the middle of their battles. But, yeah, I don’t know. It was good to just get back out and make laps because I think any time you can make laps, you learn something, more probably behind the wheel because there’s not much you can adjust on your race car and stuff during the race besides air pressure and things. So, yeah, maybe they learned some on that. Just kind of looking back and studying the race, I think we were actually better than I remember being, pace-wise.  Just excited to get on track. I guess it hasn’t really been that long, it was just in the fall, but we race so much, it’s easy to forget kind of how you were. I think we were better off than what I remembered, so we’ll see.”   Does the cold temperatures have any impact on how you guys setup or go about things with your car?“I guess I’ve never been here when it’s this cold, but it’s a pavement track, so you do have grip differences when it’s hot and sunny, like it’s been most of the time we’ve been here. So I’m curious how it will be the balance of just speed, grip and pace fall-off. If it was like an oval, you would say it’s going to be much more gripped up and fast, but you also could potentially have more tire wear from that, so a higher pace fall-off. But we’ll see. We’ll pay attention to the O’Reilly race. We’ll try and make the most out of our practice laps to see what we can do to learn and go into Saturday night and just try to make the best decisions.”  Have you given much thought to the All-Star race at all, the rules, the format, anything about it at all?“I have not yet. It’s kind of wild that it’s here. You know, I haven’t really put any thought into it. I got interviewed this week and they were asking about the format. I was like, I don’t even honestly know the format off the top of my head. So, yeah, we’ll see. I don’t know what to expect going there. I think that aero package has been a challenge for the Chevy’s, just based off of what Bristol looked like. We had a good day, but I didn’t feel good, and then the rest of the Chevys were really struggled. I’m a bit skeptical on just how we will be on balance and pace, but it’s the All-Star Race and you get to go for a million bucks, so that has you excited. We’ll see when we get there.”   “The Double” documentary premiere is soon. Can you tell folks what they can expect when it comes out?“Yeah. I’m excited for it to come out and have everybody see what it was like for me and our team; the stress behind all the logistics, the weather and all of that. I didn’t know what to think on how it would turn out because in my head before it, I was like, it has to go good for this documentary to be good. I need to finish well, this and that. And then with the weather and not doing as good as I wanted to, I was just super bummed because I was like, man, these guys have been following me for three years and now they’ve got nothing to produce something exciting with. But I think because it went so poorly for me and behind the wheel, as well as the weather and the drama behind that, it actually made for a much better film than I think it could have been.  I watched it one time and it was really, really good. Getting to see the family and the kids growing up through it was awesome, as well. So, yeah, it turned out well. I’m just excited to see what everybody else thinks about it.”

NASCAR CUP SERIES WATKINS GLEN INTERNATIONAL TEAM CHEVY DRIVER QUOTES MAY 9, 2026

AJ Allmendinger, No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet, met with the media in advance of the NASCAR Cup Series practice and qualifying session at Watkins Glen International.

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NASCAR CUP SERIESWATKINS GLEN INTERNATIONAL TEAM CHEVY DRIVER QUOTESMAY 9, 2026

AJ Allmendinger, No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet, met with the media in advance of the NASCAR Cup Series practice and qualifying session at Watkins Glen International.

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Media Availability Quotes:  WHERE DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU STACK UP RIGHT NOW ON ROAD COURSES?  “I mean, I have to be better, you know, but I think as a race team, we got to be better as well, but I’m always going to put that on my shoulders. You know, there’s no secret SVG (Shane Van Gisbergen) is dominant right now on the Cup side of it. Obviously, Connor (Zilisch), I think is going to be really good, but there’s um, so many guys now and teams that focus on the road courses. I mean I felt like, you know, 10 years ago or whatever, you could kind of show up and you’re going to run top 10 if you didn’t make any mistakes. And you know, you’d be happy with that and move on. And that’s not the way it works now. So, I’m continually trying to figure out how to be better, you know, how to make our race cars better. The ultimate goal is always to show up and try to win these races, but with that said, If we could come here and run inside the top seven, top eight, it’s going to be interesting stage wise because at COTA felt like we made the decision early in the race, hey, we’re probably not going to win, so let’s go maximize the points. It’s so much tougher to pass here than COTA. So that strategy of what we’re doing, we’ll have to figure out kind of after qualifying and see where we stack up speed-wise, but I think we’re going to be better.  I mean, it’s frustrating to struggle a little bit and not have the exact speed that we want, but we just keep fighting. So, I’m always going to put it on my shoulders. I need to be better for us.” SO WE’RE 11 RACES IN. YOU’RE 20TH IN POINTS. IF I WERE TO HAVE TOLD YOU THAT AT DAYTONA, GOING INTO THE YEAR WITH WHAT YOU GUYS HAVE OR MAYBE WHAT YOU GUYS DON’T HAVE, WHAT WOULD YOUR REACTION HAVE BEEN?  “Oh, that’s a good question because I don’t know what it’s……this is what’s tough. I don’t know what expectations should be. I guess in a way, we don’t really have any because we’re just trying to make it better.  You know, I feel like there’s only been one race this year and that was Kansas when we got spun on pit road that probably cost us 15 spots because that was unfortunate in the sense that we had a pretty good car there and we were going to run I thought 12th to 15th. But everybody can say that throughout the course of the year of losing points.  I feel like we’re okay. We just, it’s, it kind of goes back to that truck comment. It’s like, you know, even like last week, it’s like we just, we don’t have enough raw speed in the car to go out there and get to the next grouping of cars, which I feel like is that 10th to 15th. So we’re trying to do that, but, I’ve been proud of the cars we built. You know, I think there’s really been one race this year – and a lot of that was the aero change, and not having anything to go off of and Darlington, where we just, I mean, we struggled from start to finish. So I expected having weekends like that but we’ve only truly had one just outright bad weekend of just struggling on speed and not really being in the ball game. So, you know, I think if we can go look at it over the next 10 races and we get done with those 10 and we’re a lot better than we were the previous 10, that’s what we can be happy with now. Now, where that puts us in points, I don’t know, but, you know, I’ve tried to really focus on making sure we run all the laps that we can and we don’t take ourselves out and I feel like we’ve done a really good job of that. I feel bad because our pit stops and our pit crew right now is one of the best in the business. And we’re not taking advantage of it. So I feel bad for those guys, but they’re doing a great job as well. So, yeah, I mean, it’s, if we can stay in the top 20 through the rest of the year, I mean, that’s a good year for us.”   DID YOU GIVE NASCAR FEEDBACK ON THE TIRE PACKS AND OR THAT TIRE BARRIER THAT THEY ADDED FOR THIS WEEKEND?  “Yeah, Jeff Burton reached out about it. I didn’t really have a good answer. I thought it was fine. It definitely tightens up, you know, the carousel is really tied on exit. You know, we’ll see if one of these 2 races where there’s contact off the carousel and, you know, if that makes the car bounce back into the racetrack, I think looking at that tire barrier, that’s the only question I got. I don’t mind that it takes away room because you give race car drivers room, we’re going to use it all. But I thought it was fine. Like, there was enough room off turn one where we could be 2 or 3 wide and still have just enough room. So overall, I honestly didn’t have a good answer of like anything that they can improve.”

The Snohomish, WA driver steadily worked up the ladder through 30 laps at Benton Speedway to leave Friday night with a $4,000 payday and a closer gap to the Series points lead.

Beginning on the opening lap, Carson Short flipped in Turn 4 and knocked down the catch fence. Once work was completed, Sam Hafertepe Jr. powered around Matt Covington to take the lead.

At the helm, Hafertepe used the cushion to keep his distance from Covington as Bergman moved around Jordon Mallett and Howard Moore to take his No. 23 into the podium on Lap 2.

On Lap 9, Covington lost control of his car and slid near the wall in Turn 3. Though he kept forward momentum, he dropped to fifth place – giving Bergman second place.

When lapped traffic affected Hafertepe’s line around the cushion, he resorted to taking the bottom lane, then sliding up the corner to keep a one-car distance from Bergman.

On Lap 17, Blake Hahn drifted into the Turn 3 wall, which added more catchfence removal. When the restart ensued, Hafertepe withstood an attempt from Bergman to steal the lead by keeping his No. 15H on the high side of the 3/8mile track.

Hafertepe’s chances for victory came to a sudden stop on Lap 25 when he made contact with Whit Gastineau when he attempted to lap him, sending him spinning into the infield.

Bergman capitalized on Hafertepe’s woes by inheriting the lead and commanding the final five laps for his 27th Series victory. The win moved him up to third in the standings, 65 points away from Hafertepe for the lead.

“I feel like sometimes that’s the way these things work out,” Bergman said. “You can be the best car and win, or you can be an ok car like us and circumstantially put yourself in position. They say all the time that you have to put yourself in position, and tonight we did. 

“We were in position, I don’t think we were the best car, I think we were creeping on it there, and get ourselves closer to Sam. I felt like it was gonna be a race in traffic, and it was. Unfortunately, he got taken out in traffic, but that’s the tough part about tracks like this; it takes a lot out of a race car driver.”

Recap Notes:

Quick Time Award: Howard Moore (12.517 sec.)

Heat Race Winners: Jordon Mallett, Matt Covington, Seth Bergman

Dash Winner: Matt Covington

Smith Titanium Last Chance Showdown Winner: Gage Montgomery

Hard Charger Award: Joe B. Miller (+10)

Up Next: The American Sprint Car Series makes the first trip to Kansas in 2026 as Salt City Speedway is set for Saturday, May 30, with the ASCS Gunsmoke Region joining alongside the Series.

SALT CITY INFO

Where can you watch every lap of the American Sprint Car Series? Live on DIRTVision.

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Seth Bergman Captures First American Sprint Car Series Feature of 2026 at Benton Speedway BENTON, MO (May 8, 2026) — Seth Bergman could not have predicted the order of events that led him to his first American Sprint Car Series victory of 2026.

The Snohomish, WA driver steadily worked up the ladder through 30 laps at Benton Speedway to leave Friday night with a $4,000 payday and a closer gap to the Series points lead.

Beginning on the opening lap, Carson Short flipped in Turn 4 and knocked down the catch fence. Once work was completed, Sam Hafertepe Jr. powered around Matt Covington to take the lead.

At the helm, Hafertepe used the cushion to keep his distance from Covington as Bergman moved around Jordon Mallett and Howard Moore to take his No. 23 into the podium on Lap 2.

On Lap 9, Covington lost control of his car and slid near the wall in Turn 3. Though he kept forward momentum, he dropped to fifth place – giving Bergman second place.

When lapped traffic affected Hafertepe’s line around the cushion, he resorted to taking the bottom lane, then sliding up the corner to keep a one-car distance from Bergman.

On Lap 17, Blake Hahn drifted into the Turn 3 wall, which added more catchfence removal. When the restart ensued, Hafertepe withstood an attempt from Bergman to steal the lead by keeping his No. 15H on the high side of the 3/8mile track.

Hafertepe’s chances for victory came to a sudden stop on Lap 25 when he made contact with Whit Gastineau when he attempted to lap him, sending him spinning into the infield.

Bergman capitalized on Hafertepe’s woes by inheriting the lead and commanding the final five laps for his 27th Series victory. The win moved him up to third in the standings, 65 points away from Hafertepe for the lead.

“I feel like sometimes that’s the way these things work out,” Bergman said. “You can be the best car and win, or you can be an ok car like us and circumstantially put yourself in position. They say all the time that you have to put yourself in position, and tonight we did. 

“We were in position, I don’t think we were the best car, I think we were creeping on it there, and get ourselves closer to Sam. I felt like it was gonna be a race in traffic, and it was. Unfortunately, he got taken out in traffic, but that’s the tough part about tracks like this; it takes a lot out of a race car driver.”

Recap Notes:

Quick Time Award: Howard Moore (12.517 sec.)

Heat Race Winners: Jordon Mallett, Matt Covington, Seth Bergman

Dash Winner: Matt Covington

Smith Titanium Last Chance Showdown Winner: Gage Montgomery

Hard Charger Award: Joe B. Miller (+10)

Up Next: The American Sprint Car Series makes the first trip to Kansas in 2026 as Salt City Speedway is set for Saturday, May 30, with the ASCS Gunsmoke Region joining alongside the Series.

SALT CITY INFO

Where can you watch every lap of the American Sprint Car Series? Live on DIRTVision.

FEATURE RESULTS: Feature (30 Laps): 1. 23-Seth Bergman[5]; 2. 3A-Jordon Mallett[2]; 3. 95-Matt Covington[1]; 4. 9JR-Derek Hagar[10]; 5. 40-Howard Moore[4]; 6. 47-Dale Howard[8]; 7. 51B-Joe B Miller[17]; 8. 3-Cole Schroeder[13]; 9. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr[3]; 10. 10-Landon Britt[9]; 11. 938-Bradley Fezard[19]; 12. 2B-Garrett Benson[11]; 13. 29R-Corey Ray[20]; 14. 88C-Brogan Carder[15]; 15. 16G-Austyn Gossel[14]; 16. 2-Whit Gastineau[24]; 17. 10M-Morgan Turpen Havener[18]; 18. 52-Blake Hahn[7]; 19. 79-Gage Montgomery[16]; 20. G6-Jake Jones[21]; 21. 7-Paul Solomon[6]; 22. 28-Keith Ainsworth[22]; 23. 21-Carson Short[12]; 24. 45X-Kyler Johnson[23]

The Washington native finally visits Victory Lane nearly 30 years after his 1997 World of Outlaws debut

MECHANICSBURG, PA (May 8, 2026) – Add his name to the record books. Kasey Kahne is forever a World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series winner.

The kid from Enumclaw, WA made his debut with The Greatest Show on Dirt on Aug. 22, 1997 at Grays Harbor Raceway in his home state. After that, he made a successful journey into NASCAR that included wins in the Coca-Cola 600 and Brickyard 400. Kahne ventured into Sprint Car team ownership that brought six World of Outlaws titles with Brad Sweet (five) and Daryn Pittman (one). But one thing that remained absent from his résumé was a victory with the World of Outlaws as a driver.

Entering Friday’s HVAC Distributors Morgan Cup opener at Williams Grove Speedway, Kahne had made 227 starts with the Series and boasted a pair of third place runs as his best results. But 10,364 days after he made that first appearance at Grays Harbor, Kahne finally made his way to Victory Lane.

With Anthony Macri sidelined due to an injury, Macri Motorsports opted to put Kahne in the car for a stretch of racing in Pennsylvania. Friday marked only their third night together, and Kahne forever cemented his name in the sport’s history. He fended off an early challenge from David Gravel and survived a fierce duel with Sheldon Haudenschild in the closing laps to take the checkered flag.

“This is crazy,” Kahne said. “I couldn’t believe this would happen this weekend. Two weeks ago, I was still building my own cars to get prepared to hopefully race them later this year. Nick Macri and their whole family. Man, this whole Macri Motorsports team. Joe Mooney, he’s exceptional on the wrenches. He worked at KKR (Kasey Kahne Racing), and he’s done so much more since then with Anthony. Bob, Doug, the whole team. This is a really good team.”

It was an extraordinarily special moment for Macri Motorsports crew chief, Joe Mooney, as well. Kahne’s team was a major part of his career and path to where he’s at now.

“It’s just badass,” Mooney said. “It’s a little bit of repaying the favor of getting to work for him (Kahne) for four years and a lot of good times. When I went to take this job and told him I was probably leaving and where I was going, he was my biggest cheerleader. It’s pretty damn cool.”

Kahne becomes the 156th different competitor to top a World of Outlaws Feature and the third from the state of Washington, joining Jason Solwold and Travis Jacobsen. It’s Macri Motorsports’ 10th triumph with The Greatest Show on Dirt but first with a driver other than Anthony in the car. With Kahne’s own acknowledgement of being in the No. 39M making him Posse for the stint, the win also knotted up the score in the rivalry after Michael “Buddy” Kofoid claimed the first battle at Lincoln Speedway on Tuesday for the World of Outlaws.

Sheldon Haudenschild brought the KCP Racing/NOS Energy Drink No. 18 home second for his fourth podium of the year.

David Gravel rounded out the podium in the Big Game Motorsports No. 2 to slightly up his point lead over Carson Macedo.

Chase Dietz and Troy Wagaman Jr. completed the top five.

NIGHTLY NOTES

David Gravel clocked both his seventh Race//Ready Hottest Lap of the Night and seventh Simpson Quick Time of the year.

Heat Races belonged to Kasey Kahne (NOS Energy Drink Heat One), Chase Dietz (TheGreatestStoreonDirt.com Heat Two), David Gravel (WIX Filters Heat Three), and Bill Balog (Golf Cart Services Heat Four).

The SPA Technique #1 Redraw went to Chase Dietz.

Dietz also topped the Toyota Dash.

Doug Hammaker won the Micro-Lite Last Chance Showdown.

Cameron Smith picked up KSE Racing Products Hard Charger honors.

Daryn Pittman was the Tub O’ Towels Seventh Place Finisher.

Ashton Torgerson got the Five Star Bodies Rookie of the Race in his debut with Moody Motorsports.

Kasey Kahne laid down the ACME Trading Company Fast Lap.

The Smith Titanium Brake Systems Break of the Race went to T.J. Stutts.

UP NEXT: The World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series battles the Pennsylvania Posse at Williams Grove Speedway on Saturday, May 9 for $15,000 and the HVAC Distributors Morgan Cup. For tickets, CLICK HERE.

Where can you watch every World of Outlaws race? Live on DIRTVision.

Where can you see the World of Outlaws in 2026? Click to see the full schedule.

FEATURE RESULTS:

NOS Energy Drink Feature (25 Laps): 1. 39M-Kasey Kahne[2]; 2. 18-Sheldon Haudenschild[4]; 3. 2-David Gravel[3]; 4. 23D-Chase Dietz[1]; 5. 27W-Troy Wagaman Jr[5]; 6. 83-Michael Kofoid[11]; 7. 69K-Daryn Pittman[7]; 8. 41-Carson Macedo[10]; 9. 17B-Bill Balog[6]; 10. 15-Donny Schatz[13]; 11. 1S-Logan Schuchart[14]; 12. 48-Danny Dietrich[16]; 13. 17-Spencer Bayston[12]; 14. 95-Kody Hartlaub[8]; 15. 75-Cameron Smith[23]; 16. 11-TJ Stutts[9]; 17. 67G-Justin Whittall[15]; 18. 8-Lance Dewease[20]; 19. 11A-Austin Bishop[17]; 20. 3Z-Brock Zearfoss[19]; 21. 22-Doug Hammaker[21]; 22. 12-Brent Shearer[22]; 23. 99M-Ashton Torgerson[24]; 24. 7S-Chris Windom[25]; 25. 2C-Cole Macedo[27]; 26. (DNF) 17N-Dylan Norris[26]; 27. (DNF) 1X-Chad Trout[18]

KASEY KAHNE FRIDAY: Kahne Tops Williams Grove Duel with Haudenschild for First World of Outlaws Win

The Washington native finally visits Victory Lane nearly 30 years after his 1997 World of Outlaws debut

MECHANICSBURG, PA (May 8, 2026) – Add his name to the record books. Kasey Kahne is forever a World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series winner.

The kid from Enumclaw, WA made his debut with The Greatest Show on Dirt on Aug. 22, 1997 at Grays Harbor Raceway in his home state. After that, he made a successful journey into NASCAR that included wins in the Coca-Cola 600 and Brickyard 400. Kahne ventured into Sprint Car team ownership that brought six World of Outlaws titles with Brad Sweet (five) and Daryn Pittman (one). But one thing that remained absent from his résumé was a victory with the World of Outlaws as a driver.

Entering Friday’s HVAC Distributors Morgan Cup opener at Williams Grove Speedway, Kahne had made 227 starts with the Series and boasted a pair of third place runs as his best results. But 10,364 days after he made that first appearance at Grays Harbor, Kahne finally made his way to Victory Lane.

With Anthony Macri sidelined due to an injury, Macri Motorsports opted to put Kahne in the car for a stretch of racing in Pennsylvania. Friday marked only their third night together, and Kahne forever cemented his name in the sport’s history. He fended off an early challenge from David Gravel and survived a fierce duel with Sheldon Haudenschild in the closing laps to take the checkered flag.

“This is crazy,” Kahne said. “I couldn’t believe this would happen this weekend. Two weeks ago, I was still building my own cars to get prepared to hopefully race them later this year. Nick Macri and their whole family. Man, this whole Macri Motorsports team. Joe Mooney, he’s exceptional on the wrenches. He worked at KKR (Kasey Kahne Racing), and he’s done so much more since then with Anthony. Bob, Doug, the whole team. This is a really good team.”

It was an extraordinarily special moment for Macri Motorsports crew chief, Joe Mooney, as well. Kahne’s team was a major part of his career and path to where he’s at now.

“It’s just badass,” Mooney said. “It’s a little bit of repaying the favor of getting to work for him (Kahne) for four years and a lot of good times. When I went to take this job and told him I was probably leaving and where I was going, he was my biggest cheerleader. It’s pretty damn cool.”

Kahne becomes the 156th different competitor to top a World of Outlaws Feature and the third from the state of Washington, joining Jason Solwold and Travis Jacobsen. It’s Macri Motorsports’ 10th triumph with The Greatest Show on Dirt but first with a driver other than Anthony in the car. With Kahne’s own acknowledgement of being in the No. 39M making him Posse for the stint, the win also knotted up the score in the rivalry after Michael “Buddy” Kofoid claimed the first battle at Lincoln Speedway on Tuesday for the World of Outlaws.

Sheldon Haudenschild brought the KCP Racing/NOS Energy Drink No. 18 home second for his fourth podium of the year.

David Gravel rounded out the podium in the Big Game Motorsports No. 2 to slightly up his point lead over Carson Macedo.

Chase Dietz and Troy Wagaman Jr. completed the top five.

NIGHTLY NOTES

David Gravel clocked both his seventh Race//Ready Hottest Lap of the Night and seventh Simpson Quick Time of the year.

Heat Races belonged to Kasey Kahne (NOS Energy Drink Heat One), Chase Dietz (TheGreatestStoreonDirt.com Heat Two), David Gravel (WIX Filters Heat Three), and Bill Balog (Golf Cart Services Heat Four).

The SPA Technique #1 Redraw went to Chase Dietz.

Dietz also topped the Toyota Dash.

Doug Hammaker won the Micro-Lite Last Chance Showdown.

Cameron Smith picked up KSE Racing Products Hard Charger honors.

Daryn Pittman was the Tub O’ Towels Seventh Place Finisher.

Ashton Torgerson got the Five Star Bodies Rookie of the Race in his debut with Moody Motorsports.

Kasey Kahne laid down the ACME Trading Company Fast Lap.

The Smith Titanium Brake Systems Break of the Race went to T.J. Stutts.

UP NEXT: The World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series battles the Pennsylvania Posse at Williams Grove Speedway on Saturday, May 9 for $15,000 and the HVAC Distributors Morgan Cup. For tickets, CLICK HERE.

Where can you watch every World of Outlaws race? Live on DIRTVision.

Where can you see the World of Outlaws in 2026? Click to see the full schedule.

FEATURE RESULTS:

KASEY KAHNE FRIDAY: Kahne Tops Williams Grove Duel with Haudenschild for First World of Outlaws Win

The Washington native finally visits Victory Lane nearly 30 years after his 1997 World of Outlaws debut

MECHANICSBURG, PA (May 8, 2026) – Add his name to the record books. Kasey Kahne is forever a World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series winner.

The kid from Enumclaw, WA made his debut with The Greatest Show on Dirt on Aug. 22, 1997 at Grays Harbor Raceway in his home state. After that, he made a successful journey into NASCAR that included wins in the Coca-Cola 600 and Brickyard 400. Kahne ventured into Sprint Car team ownership that brought six World of Outlaws titles with Brad Sweet (five) and Daryn Pittman (one). But one thing that remained absent from his résumé was a victory with the World of Outlaws as a driver.

Entering Friday’s HVAC Distributors Morgan Cup opener at Williams Grove Speedway, Kahne had made 227 starts with the Series and boasted a pair of third place runs as his best results. But 10,364 days after he made that first appearance at Grays Harbor, Kahne finally made his way to Victory Lane.

With Anthony Macri sidelined due to an injury, Macri Motorsports opted to put Kahne in the car for a stretch of racing in Pennsylvania. Friday marked only their third night together, and Kahne forever cemented his name in the sport’s history. He fended off an early challenge from David Gravel and survived a fierce duel with Sheldon Haudenschild in the closing laps to take the checkered flag.

“This is crazy,” Kahne said. “I couldn’t believe this would happen this weekend. Two weeks ago, I was still building my own cars to get prepared to hopefully race them later this year. Nick Macri and their whole family. Man, this whole Macri Motorsports team. Joe Mooney, he’s exceptional on the wrenches. He worked at KKR (Kasey Kahne Racing), and he’s done so much more since then with Anthony. Bob, Doug, the whole team. This is a really good team.”

It was an extraordinarily special moment for Macri Motorsports crew chief, Joe Mooney, as well. Kahne’s team was a major part of his career and path to where he’s at now.

“It’s just badass,” Mooney said. “It’s a little bit of repaying the favor of getting to work for him (Kahne) for four years and a lot of good times. When I went to take this job and told him I was probably leaving and where I was going, he was my biggest cheerleader. It’s pretty damn cool.”

Kahne becomes the 156th different competitor to top a World of Outlaws Feature and the third from the state of Washington, joining Jason Solwold and Travis Jacobsen. It’s Macri Motorsports’ 10th triumph with The Greatest Show on Dirt but first with a driver other than Anthony in the car. With Kahne’s own acknowledgement of being in the No. 39M making him Posse for the stint, the win also knotted up the score in the rivalry after Michael “Buddy” Kofoid claimed the first battle at Lincoln Speedway on Tuesday for the World of Outlaws.

Sheldon Haudenschild brought the KCP Racing/NOS Energy Drink No. 18 home second for his fourth podium of the year.

David Gravel rounded out the podium in the Big Game Motorsports No. 2 to slightly up his point lead over Carson Macedo.

Chase Dietz and Troy Wagaman Jr. completed the top five.

NIGHTLY NOTES

David Gravel clocked both his seventh Race//Ready Hottest Lap of the Night and seventh Simpson Quick Time of the year.

Heat Races belonged to Kasey Kahne (NOS Energy Drink Heat One), Chase Dietz (TheGreatestStoreonDirt.com Heat Two), David Gravel (WIX Filters Heat Three), and Bill Balog (Golf Cart Services Heat Four).

The SPA Technique #1 Redraw went to Chase Dietz.

Dietz also topped the Toyota Dash.

Doug Hammaker won the Micro-Lite Last Chance Showdown.

Cameron Smith picked up KSE Racing Products Hard Charger honors.

Daryn Pittman was the Tub O’ Towels Seventh Place Finisher.

Ashton Torgerson got the Five Star Bodies Rookie of the Race in his debut with Moody Motorsports.

Kasey Kahne laid down the ACME Trading Company Fast Lap.

The Smith Titanium Brake Systems Break of the Race went to T.J. Stutts.

UP NEXT: The World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series battles the Pennsylvania Posse at Williams Grove Speedway on Saturday, May 9 for $15,000 and the HVAC Distributors Morgan Cup. For tickets, CLICK HERE.

Where can you watch every World of Outlaws race? Live on DIRTVision.

Where can you see the World of Outlaws in 2026? Click to see the full schedule.

FEATURE RESULTS:

NOS Energy Drink Feature (25 Laps): 1. 39M-Kasey Kahne[2]; 2. 18-Sheldon Haudenschild[4]; 3. 2-David Gravel[3]; 4. 23D-Chase Dietz[1]; 5. 27W-Troy Wagaman Jr[5]; 6. 83-Michael Kofoid[11]; 7. 69K-Daryn Pittman[7]; 8. 41-Carson Macedo[10]; 9. 17B-Bill Balog[6]; 10. 15-Donny Schatz[13]; 11. 1S-Logan Schuchart[14]; 12. 48-Danny Dietrich[16]; 13. 17-Spencer Bayston[12]; 14. 95-Kody Hartlaub[8]; 15. 75-Cameron Smith[23]; 16. 11-TJ Stutts[9]; 17. 67G-Justin Whittall[15]; 18. 8-Lance Dewease[20]; 19. 11A-Austin Bishop[17]; 20. 3Z-Brock Zearfoss[19]; 21. 22-Doug Hammaker[21]; 22. 12-Brent Shearer[22]; 23. 99M-Ashton Torgerson[24]; 24. 7S-Chris Windom[25]; 25. 2C-Cole Macedo[27]; 26. (DNF) 17N-Dylan Norris[26]; 27. (DNF) 1X-Chad Trout[18]

CHEVROLET IN THE NTT INDYCAR SERIES Sonsio Grand Prix2.439-mile, 14-turn Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course Speedway, IndianaFriday ReportMay 8, 2026  INDIANAPOLIS (May 8, 2026) – After waiting out heavy rain for an hour, race control announced that qualifying for the Sonsio Grand Prix, the 7th round of the 2026 NTT INDYCAR SERIES season, was postponed until Saturday morning. Full group/fast 12 and Firestone Fast Six qualifying will begin on FS2 at 10:30 am (ET) and move to FS1 at 11:30 am (ET).  In the first practice on a green track in cool conditions, David Malukas in the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet was the quickest Chevrolet-powered driver at 70.3773 seconds (124.762mph), during a practice session in which 24 of the 25 drivers were within one second. Christian Lundgaard in the No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet was the quickest Chevrolet-powered during a windy and cool second practice session with a lap at 70.7370 seconds (124.127mph).  Tune-In Guide Saturday, May 9NTT INDYCAR SERIES Qualifying – 10:30am (ET)/10:30am (CT)/9:30am (MT)/8:30am (PT) – FS2/ INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218Sonsio Grand Prix (85 laps) – 4:30pm (ET)/3:30pm (CT)/2:30pm (MT)/1:30pm (PT) – – FOX/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218

Chevrolet History at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road CourseWins – 9 2021 Race #2 – Will Power – Team Penske2021 Race #1 – Rinus VeeKay – ECR2020 Race #3 – Will Power – Team Penske2020 Race #2 – Josef Newgarden – Team Penske2019 – Simon Pagenaud – Team Penske2018 – Will Power – Team Penske2017 – Will Power – Team Penske2016 – Simon Pagenaud – Team Penske2015 – Will Power – Team Penske Poles – 11 2022 Race #2 – Felix Rosenqvist – Arrow McLaren2022 Race #1 – Will Power – Team Penske2021 Race #2 – Pato O’Ward – Arrow McLaren2020 Race #3 – Will Power – Team Penske2020 Race #2 – Rinus VeeKay – ECR2020 Race #1 – Will Power – Team Penske2018 – Will Power – Team Penske2017 – Will Power – Team Penske 2016 – Simon Pagenaud – Team Penske2015 – Will Power – Team Penske2014 – Sebastian Saavedra – KV Racing Technology Chevrolet Podiums – 22 Driver Podiums:  Will Power (9), Pato O’Ward (3), Simon Pagenaud (3), Helio Castroneves (2), Rinus VeeKay (2), Juan Montoya (1), Josef Newgarden (1), Alexander Rossi (1) Team Podiums: Team Penske (16), Arrow McLaren (4), ECR (2) Chevrolet Laps Led: 637 Driver Laps Led: Will Power (348), Simon Pagenaud (69), Josef Newgarden (61), Rinus VeeKay (48), Helio Castroneves (46), Pato O’Ward (23), Scott McLaughlin (17), Felix Rosenqvist (14), Alexander Rossi (4), Charlie Kimball (3), Kyle Kirkwood (2), Tatiana Calderon (1), Scott Dixon (1) Team Laps Led: Team Penske (541), ECR (48), Arrow McLaren (41), Chip Ganassi Racing (4), Juncos Hollinger Racing (2), A.J. Foyt Racing (1) Manufacturer History on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course Wins (with competition)  9 – Chevrolet (2021 Race #2, 2021 Race #1, 2020 Race #3, 2020 Race #2, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)8 – Honda (2025, 2024, 2023 Race #2, 2023 Race #1, 2022 Race #2, 2022 Race #1, 2020 Race #1, 2014) Poles (with competition)  11 – Chevrolet (2022 Race #2, 2021 Race #1, 2021 Race #2, 2020 Race #3, 2020 Race #2, 2020 Race #1, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014)6 – Honda (2025, 2024, 2023 Race #2, 2023 Race #1, 2021 Race #1, 2019)

CHEVROLET IN THE NTT INDYCAR SERIESSonsio Grand Prix2.439-mile, 14-turn Indianapolis Motor Speedway road courseSpeedway, IndianaFriday ReportMay 8, 2026  INDIANAPOLIS (May 8, 2026) – After waiting out heavy rain for an hour, race control announced that qualifying for the Sonsio Grand Prix, the 7th round of the 2026 NTT INDYCAR SERIES season, was postponed until Saturday morning. Full group/fast 12 and Firestone Fast Six qualifying will begin on FS2 at 10:30 am (ET) and move to FS1 at 11:30 am (ET).  In the first practice on a green track in cool conditions, David Malukas in the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet was the quickest Chevrolet-powered driver at 70.3773 seconds (124.762mph), during a practice session in which 24 of the 25 drivers were within one second. Christian Lundgaard in the No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet was the quickest Chevrolet-powered during a windy and cool second practice session with a lap at 70.7370 seconds (124.127mph).  Tune-In Guide Saturday, May 9NTT INDYCAR SERIES Qualifying – 10:30am (ET)/10:30am (CT)/9:30am (MT)/8:30am (PT) – FS2/ INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218Sonsio Grand Prix (85 laps) – 4:30pm (ET)/3:30pm (CT)/2:30pm (MT)/1:30pm (PT) – – FOX/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218

Chevrolet History at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road CourseWins – 9 2021 Race #2 – Will Power – Team Penske2021 Race #1 – Rinus VeeKay – ECR2020 Race #3 – Will Power – Team Penske2020 Race #2 – Josef Newgarden – Team Penske2019 – Simon Pagenaud – Team Penske2018 – Will Power – Team Penske2017 – Will Power – Team Penske2016 – Simon Pagenaud – Team Penske2015 – Will Power – Team Penske Poles – 11 2022 Race #2 – Felix Rosenqvist – Arrow McLaren2022 Race #1 – Will Power – Team Penske2021 Race #2 – Pato O’Ward – Arrow McLaren2020 Race #3 – Will Power – Team Penske2020 Race #2 – Rinus VeeKay – ECR2020 Race #1 – Will Power – Team Penske2018 – Will Power – Team Penske2017 – Will Power – Team Penske 2016 – Simon Pagenaud – Team Penske2015 – Will Power – Team Penske2014 – Sebastian Saavedra – KV Racing Technology Chevrolet Podiums – 22 Driver Podiums:  Will Power (9), Pato O’Ward (3), Simon Pagenaud (3), Helio Castroneves (2), Rinus VeeKay (2), Juan Montoya (1), Josef Newgarden (1), Alexander Rossi (1) Team Podiums: Team Penske (16), Arrow McLaren (4), ECR (2) Chevrolet Laps Led: 637 Driver Laps Led: Will Power (348), Simon Pagenaud (69), Josef Newgarden (61), Rinus VeeKay (48), Helio Castroneves (46), Pato O’Ward (23), Scott McLaughlin (17), Felix Rosenqvist (14), Alexander Rossi (4), Charlie Kimball (3), Kyle Kirkwood (2), Tatiana Calderon (1), Scott Dixon (1) Team Laps Led: Team Penske (541), ECR (48), Arrow McLaren (41), Chip Ganassi Racing (4), Juncos Hollinger Racing (2), A.J. Foyt Racing (1) Manufacturer History on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course Wins (with competition)  9 – Chevrolet (2021 Race #2, 2021 Race #1, 2020 Race #3, 2020 Race #2, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)8 – Honda (2025, 2024, 2023 Race #2, 2023 Race #1, 2022 Race #2, 2022 Race #1, 2020 Race #1, 2014) Poles (with competition)  11 – Chevrolet (2022 Race #2, 2021 Race #1, 2021 Race #2, 2020 Race #3, 2020 Race #2, 2020 Race #1, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014)6 – Honda (2025, 2024, 2023 Race #2, 2023 Race #1, 2021 Race #1, 2019)

Front row start for Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA in Spa

May 8th, 2026 – Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA will start from the front row of the grid for the second round of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) in Spa-Francorchamps. The No.12 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA V-Series.R, driven by Will Stevens, posted the second quickest time in Hyperpole, just 0.043 seconds off pole position. Ahead of qualifying, the No.12 car had topped the timesheets for FP3. The No. 12 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA V-Series.R advanced to the Hyperpole session after recording the 6th fastest time (02:01:239) in the initial qualifying session. Throughout Hyperpole, Stevens continued to improve on this time, with his final lap a 2:00.693. The No. 12 car driven by Will Stevens, Norman Nato and Louis Deletraz, will line up in second position on the grid for the TotalEnergies 6 Hours of Spa. The No.38 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA V-Series.R driven by Jack Aitken also had a strong qualifying session and progressed to Hyperpole. Aitken closed the session with a lap time of 2:00.940, the fifth quickest of Hyperpole. Jack Aitken, Sebastian Bourdais and Earl Bamber will share driving duties in the No.38 car for tomorrow’s race. The TotalEnergies 6 Hours of Spa will take place on the 7.004-kilometre (4.532-mile), 19-turn Spa-Francorchamps circuit. It is scheduled for 2pm local/8am ET Saturday May 9th.  What they’re saying No. 12 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA V-Series.RWill Stevens: “So P2 in qualifying. It’s my first qualifying for a while, so it’s nice to be very competitive. It’s always good when you are disappointed to be second! I lost a little bit of time in Turn 8, so we felt we had it in the car today to be on Pole for sure. Overall a very solid week so far, now it’s full focus on the race and let’s hope for a good one.”  No. 38 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA V-Series.RJack Aitken: “We’ve finished P5 in qualifying with the sister car in P2, so it’s a really good start for the team. We’ve now got 6 hours to work our way up and the car looks good. It’s always fun to qualify in Spa.”

Pair of Corvette Z06 GT3.Rs aim to follow Imola script to get to the front early STAVELOT, Belgium (May 8, 2026) – TF Sport’s pair of Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.Rs will start Saturday from familiar spots in the FIA World Endurance Championship’s Six Hours of Spa following two qualifying sessions in the LMGT3 class Friday.

The No. 34 Racing Team Turkey by TF Corvette of Charlie Eastwood, Salih Yoluc and Peter Dempsey advanced out of the first qualifying session and into Hyperpole for the second straight race. Dempsey, the team’s Bronze-rated driver, was fifth in the opening 15-minute qualifying session followed by Yoluc’s run in Hyperpole that put the Corvette on the fifth row of the LMGT3 grid. Meanwhile the No. 33 TF Sport Corvette of Nicky Catsburg, Jonny Edgar and Blake McDonald will start 14th in class after just missing the top-10 in the first session. The trio showed, however, that the starting spot can mean very little by the end of the race.

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The Catsburg/Edgar/McDonald trio came from 14th at the start of the season-opening round at Imola to a runner-up finish at the end. McDonald raced his way into the top-five there, and both Edgar and Catsburg led in their stints before coming home in second place. The sister Corvette had a similar run going as Yoluc went from 10th to sixth in class at the start before a technical issue retired the No. 34 in the late stages. Eastwood showed good pace early in the Spa week with the fastest LMGT3 time in Friday’s opening free practice session in the red Corvette, and Dempsey went slightly quicker than his factory teammate in the second practice. While the one-lap gap to the LMGT3 front-runners was significant, the TF Sport team is counting on superior tire management and strategy to again work its way forward in the race, which goes green at 8 a.m. ET / 2 p.m. CET on Saturday. Live streaming coverage 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.

CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R POST-QUALIFYING DRIVER QUOTES

CHARLIE EASTWOOD, NO. 34 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “It’s been a pretty straightforward weekend. We started as good as we could with P1 in FP1. The Corvette felt great right out of the box. We tested here about six weeks ago, and it went really well. We ended up P10 in qualifying. There were a couple of cars that seemed very good over one lap, but the ones at the front definitely we know that the Corvette has better degradation than them which seems to be a huge factor over the stint here. I think it will play into our hands in the longer stints but we’re in a good spot for the race. We just need to get some points on the board. Imola didn’t go to plan, obviously. We need to get a solid result… no mistakes, no drive-throughs for track limits and all that stuff. Le Mans is just around the corner and we need a bit of momentum behind us going into the big one.”

PETER DEMPSEY, NO. 34 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “It’s been good so far. We’ve been building, really, and trying to rebound from the disappointment at Imola. Free practice went well. Our car feels good but the tire deg is really high here for all so I think we’re in a decent spot to start the race tomorrow and try to get a bit of redemption from Imola. Everyone is maybe not showing their full cards yet, but we feel like we are in a good window. The balance feels good, and it seems we’ve improved from where the team was last year. Hopefully we can manage the deg better than everyone else, have good stops with no penalties and see where we end up.”

NICKY CATSBURG, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “I feel like we had a very good start at Imola. We should have won that race; our Corvette was super-fast but we had some bad luck on our last two pitstops. But it was a super-nice fight with the BMW at the end. So very close but a good start to the season.”We are a lot heavier now (than Imola due to success ballast) so that will not help us here. I feel like the gap in (practices) was a little bigger than anticipated. We need to see how to drive around that, which will be difficult. The sister car was super-fast so we will see if we can learn a bit from them.”

BLAKE McDONALD, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “I think the weekend has gone OK for us. We’re carrying 24 extra kilos of success ballast and I’m not sure how much that is helping us. It’s also a big track to work up to in general. I have been here before, but every time you come here it almost feels like the first time working up to Eau Rouge and Blanchimont and everything. On my personal side I feel like I’ve made good progress but this is a very stiff field of Bronzes so I think everyone has made that step even a bit more than me. The P1 time seems very unachievable by our car, but that is how it goes sometimes. I think in general we have a very good racecar. We started P14 in Imola and finished P2 and almost had a win there. I’m not going to let this session hold me back too much. I’m going to give it hell tomorrow like I always do. Ultimately that will make me better and stronger for ELMS later this year. It’ll be critical in that regard. I’m disappointed we didn’t get into Hyperpole but still proud of myself at the end of the day so I’m happy overall.”

BEN KEATING, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “I’m excited to be here at the track even though I’m handicapped with the elbow. It’s a nice environment and makes me hungry to get back in the car. The recovery is going well and there’s no doubt that I will be ready to go in Le Mans. It’s very nice to be a spectator at one of these events. I get to sleep as late as I want, eat breakfast, have coffee, come to the track whenever I feel like being here instead of having to make the early-morning drivers meetings and everything else! So it’s quite relaxing and very nice to be a spectator at the track.”

CORVETTE RACING AT SPA: Knowing the Way ForwardPair of Corvette Z06 GT3.Rs aim to follow Imola script to get to the front early STAVELOT, Belgium (May 8, 2026) – TF Sport’s pair of Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.Rs will start Saturday from familiar spots in the FIA World Endurance Championship’s Six Hours of Spa following two qualifying sessions in the LMGT3 class Friday.

The No. 34 Racing Team Turkey by TF Corvette of Charlie Eastwood, Salih Yoluc and Peter Dempsey advanced out of the first qualifying session and into Hyperpole for the second straight race. Dempsey, the team’s Bronze-rated driver, was fifth in the opening 15-minute qualifying session followed by Yoluc’s run in Hyperpole that put the Corvette on the fifth row of the LMGT3 grid. Meanwhile the No. 33 TF Sport Corvette of Nicky Catsburg, Jonny Edgar and Blake McDonald will start 14th in class after just missing the top-10 in the first session. The trio showed, however, that the starting spot can mean very little by the end of the race.

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The Catsburg/Edgar/McDonald trio came from 14th at the start of the season-opening round at Imola to a runner-up finish at the end. McDonald raced his way into the top-five there, and both Edgar and Catsburg led in their stints before coming home in second place. The sister Corvette had a similar run going as Yoluc went from 10th to sixth in class at the start before a technical issue retired the No. 34 in the late stages. Eastwood showed good pace early in the Spa week with the fastest LMGT3 time in Friday’s opening free practice session in the red Corvette, and Dempsey went slightly quicker than his factory teammate in the second practice. While the one-lap gap to the LMGT3 front-runners was significant, the TF Sport team is counting on superior tire management and strategy to again work its way forward in the race, which goes green at 8 a.m. ET / 2 p.m. CET on Saturday. Live streaming coverage 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.

CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R POST-QUALIFYING DRIVER QUOTES

CHARLIE EASTWOOD, NO. 34 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “It’s been a pretty straightforward weekend. We started as good as we could with P1 in FP1. The Corvette felt great right out of the box. We tested here about six weeks ago, and it went really well. We ended up P10 in qualifying. There were a couple of cars that seemed very good over one lap, but the ones at the front definitely we know that the Corvette has better degradation than them which seems to be a huge factor over the stint here. I think it will play into our hands in the longer stints but we’re in a good spot for the race. We just need to get some points on the board. Imola didn’t go to plan, obviously. We need to get a solid result… no mistakes, no drive-throughs for track limits and all that stuff. Le Mans is just around the corner and we need a bit of momentum behind us going into the big one.”

PETER DEMPSEY, NO. 34 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “It’s been good so far. We’ve been building, really, and trying to rebound from the disappointment at Imola. Free practice went well. Our car feels good but the tire deg is really high here for all so I think we’re in a decent spot to start the race tomorrow and try to get a bit of redemption from Imola. Everyone is maybe not showing their full cards yet, but we feel like we are in a good window. The balance feels good, and it seems we’ve improved from where the team was last year. Hopefully we can manage the deg better than everyone else, have good stops with no penalties and see where we end up.”

NICKY CATSBURG, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “I feel like we had a very good start at Imola. We should have won that race; our Corvette was super-fast but we had some bad luck on our last two pitstops. But it was a super-nice fight with the BMW at the end. So very close but a good start to the season.”We are a lot heavier now (than Imola due to success ballast) so that will not help us here. I feel like the gap in (practices) was a little bigger than anticipated. We need to see how to drive around that, which will be difficult. The sister car was super-fast so we will see if we can learn a bit from them.”

BLAKE McDONALD, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “I think the weekend has gone OK for us. We’re carrying 24 extra kilos of success ballast and I’m not sure how much that is helping us. It’s also a big track to work up to in general. I have been here before, but every time you come here it almost feels like the first time working up to Eau Rouge and Blanchimont and everything. On my personal side I feel like I’ve made good progress but this is a very stiff field of Bronzes so I think everyone has made that step even a bit more than me. The P1 time seems very unachievable by our car, but that is how it goes sometimes. I think in general we have a very good racecar. We started P14 in Imola and finished P2 and almost had a win there. I’m not going to let this session hold me back too much. I’m going to give it hell tomorrow like I always do. Ultimately that will make me better and stronger for ELMS later this year. It’ll be critical in that regard. I’m disappointed we didn’t get into Hyperpole but still proud of myself at the end of the day so I’m happy overall.”

BEN KEATING, NO. 33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “I’m excited to be here at the track even though I’m handicapped with the elbow. It’s a nice environment and makes me hungry to get back in the car. The recovery is going well and there’s no doubt that I will be ready to go in Le Mans. It’s very nice to be a spectator at one of these events. I get to sleep as late as I want, eat breakfast, have coffee, come to the track whenever I feel like being here instead of having to make the early-morning drivers meetings and everything else! So it’s quite relaxing and very nice to be a spectator at the track.”

Mike Kidd (No. 72), 1981 AMA Grand National Champion and 1998 AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame inductee. [Photo: AMA Pro Racing] Download high-resolution photo from AMA Pro’s Digital Asset Management system

AMA Pro Racing Mourns the Passing of 1981 Grand National Champion Mike Kidd

Mike Kidd (No. 72), 1981 AMA Grand National Champion and 1998 AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame inductee. [Photo: AMA Pro Racing] Download high-resolution photo from AMA Pro’s Digital Asset Management system

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (May 8, 2026) –  AMA Pro Racing joins the motorcycle racing community in mourning the passing of Mike Kidd, the 1981 AMA Grand National Champion, AMA Motorcycle Hall of Famer, race promoter, series builder, and former AMA Pro Racing executive. Kidd was 72. A native of Fort Worth, Texas, Kidd authored one of the most respected careers in American motorcycle racing, first as a rider who overcame repeated adversity to reach the sport’s highest level, and later as a promoter and executive who helped shape the future of flat track and indoor motorcycle racing. Kidd turned professional in 1972 and quickly established himself among the elite riders of the Grand National era. His first AMA Grand National victory came at the 1974 Charity Newsies Half Mile in Columbus, Ohio, and he went on to collect 12 AMA national wins during his professional racing career. His greatest competitive triumph came in 1981. Riding for the Lawwill/Roberts team, Kidd earned eight podium finishes and victories at the Ascot Park TT national and the Du Quoin Mile. The championship battle came down to the final race at Ascot Park, where Kidd finished second to secure the AMA Grand National Championship by five points over Gary Scott. After the 1981 title, Kidd joined Honda’s newly formed dirt track effort and played an important role in the development of machinery that would help power Honda riders to multiple Grand National Championships in the years that followed. Kidd retired from professional racing after the 1983 season, but his influence on the sport only expanded. He was named AMA Promoter of the Year in 1984, built and operated Boyd Raceway in Texas, and created the AMA National Arenacross Series in 1985. He later worked as a vice president with Clear Channel Motor Sports and continued to shape motorcycle racing through event promotion, sponsorship development, and television initiatives. Kidd also served the sport from within AMA Pro Racing, including leadership roles with AMA Pro Flat Track and later as AMA Pro Racing Director of Sales. Across those roles, he brought the same racer’s determination and promoter’s vision that defined his life in motorcycling. Inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1998, Kidd leaves behind a legacy that reaches far beyond his 1981 Grand National Championship. He was a racer, promoter, innovator, salesman, and advocate whose work helped sustain and grow the uniquely American discipline of flat track racing. AMA Pro Racing extends its deepest condolences to Kidd’s family, friends, former competitors, colleagues, and the many fans whose lives he touched.