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WEEKEND AUTO RACING

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NASCAR Cup Series NASCAR All-Star Race

TV (p.m. ET): All-Star Open, 5:30 Sunday, FS1; All-Star Race, 8 Sunday, FS1. Track: Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth. Race distance: 100 laps, 150 miles.

Fast facts: Kyle Larson’s All-Star Race victory last season in the non-points race came during a stretch when he won four consecutiv­e main events in the series on his way to becoming the season champion. … Kurt Busch ended a 27-race series winless streak Sunday at Kansas Speedway and gave 23XI its first 2022 victory as a team. Busch has now won Cup Series races for five different car owners and with four different manufactur­ers. … Chase Elliott’s points lead is now 52 over Ryan Blaney and 58 over Kyle Busch.

NASCAR Xfinity Series SRS Distributi­on 250

TV: 1:30 p.m. ET Saturday, FS1. Track: Texas Motor Speedway. Race distance: 167 laps, 250.5 miles. Fast facts: AJ Allmending­er leads Noah Gragson by 25 points in the standings through 11 races. Allmending­er also leads with 11 top-10 finishes, but Gragson

leads with eight top-5s. … Ty Gibbs is 41 points back despite a series-best three wins. … The top six drivers in the standings have all won at least once.

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series SpeedyCash.com 220

TV: 8:30 p.m. ET Friday, FS1. Track: Texas Motor Speedway. Race distance: 147 laps, 220.5 miles. Fast facts: With last weekend’s win at Kansas, his third in 2022, Zane Smith climbed to third in the points race, 21 behind Ben Rhodes and one point behind John Hunter Nemechek. … Smith also leads with seven top-10 finishes and has led a series-high 201 laps through eight races. … Rhodes has one victory and leads with five top-five runs.

Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix

TV: 9 a.m. ET Sunday, ESPN.

Track: Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Race distance: 66 laps, 191.6 miles. Fast fact: With three wins in five races, defending series champion Max Verstappen closed to within 19 points of leader Charles LeClerc in the standings.

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