Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Preece wins Xfinity race

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Ryan Preece survived a green-white-checkered finish to win the NASCAR Xfinity US Cellular 250 Saturday at Iowa Speedway for his first career victory.

The 26-year-old Preece, running the second of a two-race deal in the No. 20 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing, held off Kyle Benjamin on three restarts in the final 17 laps at the track in Newton, Iowa. Preece started from the pole.

Benjamin was second, followed by Brian Scott, Brennan Poole and rookie Cole Custer.

William Byron, who began a streak of three wins in five races at Iowa last month, finished ninth. NASCAR Trucks Series: Christophe­r Bell grabbed a late lead and held on to win the Overton’s 150 at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa.

Bell passed John Hunter Nemechek and held off Ben Rhodes over the final two laps to win for the fourth time this season. Bell crashed out of one

race but hasn’t otherwise finished worse than ninth in 12 races this season.

Rhodes was second, followed by Ryan Truex, Nemechek and Johnny Sauter.

IndyCar: Will Power, still looking for a victory at the Mid-Ohio Sport Car Course, took his fifth pole of the season and fellow Team Penske driver Josef Newgarden qualified second for Sunday’s Honda Indy 200 in Lexington.

For Power, it was his third pole at Mid-Ohio and the 49th of his career to tie Bobby Unser for fourth among IndyCar drivers. Power has also been on the front row at Mid-Ohio for six straight years.

Formula One: Ferrari got a huge boost as Sebastian Vettel took pole position for the Hungarian Grand Prix with a blistering­ly fast lap, while teammate Kimi Raikkonen was second.

The four-time F1 champion clocked a best lap of 1 minute, 16.276 seconds, while Raikkonen was .168 behind in front of large contingent of flag-waving Finnish fans in Budapest.

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