AUTO RACING THIS WEEK
NASCAR CUP SERIES KWIK TRIP 250
■ Site: Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.
■ Schedule: Saturday, practice, 11:30 a.m., and qualifying, 12:20 p.m.; Sunday, race, 3 p.m. (USA).
■ Track: Road America.
■ Race distance: 62 laps, 250 miles.
■ Last year: Chase Elliott won after starting 34th, the deepest starting spot for any race winner last season.
■ Last race: Elliott rallied from 25th after 120 laps and pulled away on a restart with four laps to go to win at Nashville, his second victory of the season.
■ Fast facts: The Joe Gibbs Racing trio of pole-stter Denny Hamlin (114), Martin Truex Jr. (82) and Kyle
Busch (54) combined to lead 250 of the 300 laps at Nashville, but late-race traffic relegated Busch to 21st and Truex to 22nd . ... Kurt Busch finished second, followed by Ryan Blaney,
Kye Larson, Ross Chastain and Hamlin . ... Elliott became the fifth multiple race-winner through 17 events. He leads Chastain by 30 points and Blaney by 31 . ... The race was delayed twice by lightning with the second delay lasting more than 2 hours.
■ Next race: July 10, Hampton, Georgia.
NASCAR XFINITY SERIES HENRY 180
■ Site: Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.
■ Schedule: Friday, practice, 5:30 p.m., and qualifying, 6 p.m.; Saturday, race, 2:30 p.m. (USA).
■ Track: Road America.
■ Race distance: 45 laps, 182.16 miles.
■ Last year: Kyle Busch won after starting fifth.
■ Last race: Justin Allgaier led five times for 134 laps, won both early stages and coasted to victory at Nashville, his second victory of the season.
■ Fast facts: JR Motorsports drivers have won five of the last seven races, and Chevrolet has won all seven. JRM also has won 12 consecutive stages on oval tracks . .... AJ Allmendinger, already a two-time winner on road courses this season, remains the series points leader by 25 over Ty Gibbs and 32 over Allgaier . .... Allmendinger’s 16th-place finish was just his second outside the top 10 through 15 races . ... The top five in points have all won at least twice . ... Allgaier has led a series-best 462 laps.
■ Next race: July 9, Hampton, Georgia.
NASCAR TRUCK SERIES
■ Last race: Ryan Preece pulled away on a restart with 10 laps to go, then held off challenges from Zane Smith and Carson Hocevar to win at Nashville for the second year in a row. His two victories have come in just eight career starts.
■ Next race: July 9, Lexington, Ohio.
FORMULA ONE BRITISH GRAND PRIX
■ Site: Silverstone, England.
■ Schedule: Friday, practice, 8 a.m. and 11 a.m.; Saturday, practice, 7 a.m., and qualifying, 10 a.m.; Sunday, race, 10 a.m. (ESPN).
■ Track: Silverstone Circuit.
■ Race distance: 52 laps, 190.263 miles.
■ Last year: Lewis Hamilton won after starting second.
■ Last race: Defending series champion Max Verstappen won from the pole, his fifth victory in six races and sixth overall, in the series’ return to Canada after a two-year hiatus because of the pandemic.
■ Fast facts: Verstappen and Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez have combined to win seven of the nine races run so far, and stand 1-2 in points. Perez is 46 behind, and Charles LeClerc of Ferrari — the winner of the other two races — is 49 behind . ... Hamilton, the seven-time series champion, is sixth in points. ■ Next race: July 10, Spielberg, Austria.
INDYCAR HONDA INDY 200
■ Site: Lexington, Ohio.
■ Schedule: Friday, practice, 3:30 p.m.; Saturday, practice, 9:30 a.m., and qualifying, 2:45 p.m., group 1, 3:05 p.m., group 2, 3:25 p.m. and 3:45 p.m., round 2; Sunday, warmup, 9:45 a.m., and race, 12:45 p.m. (NBC).
■ Track: Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.
■ Race distance: 80 laps, 180.64 miles.
■ Last year: Josef Newgarden won from the pole position.
■ Last race: Newgarden won at Road America, his third victory this season, and claimed a $1 million bonus for winning on an oval, street circuit and road course.
■ Fast facts: Indy 500 champ Marcus Ericsson leads Will Power by 27 points in the standings and Newgarden, the only multiple race winner through eight events, is 32 behind . .... The top three, and fifth-place Alex Palou, the defending series champion, have three topthree finishes . ... There have been eight different pole winners.
■ Next race: July 17, Toronto.
NHRA DRAG RACING
■ Last event: Mike Salinas won in Top Fuel and Robert Hight won in Funny Car in Norwalk, Ohio.
■ Next event: July 15-17, Morrison, Colorado.
WORLD OF OUTLAWS
■ Next events: July 1-2, New Richmond, Wisconsin.