AUTO RACING: Auto Racing Glance
All Times EDT
NASCAR CUP SERIES
Quaker State 400 presented by Walmart
Site: Hampton, Georgia
Schedule: Sunday, race, 3:30 p.m.
Track: Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Chase Elliott (9) holds up his trophy after winning a NASCAR Cup Series auto race Sunday, July 4, 2021, at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
Race distance: 260 laps, 400 miles.
Last year: Did not race (pandemic).
Last race: Chase Elliott passed Kyle Busch with 16 laps to go and won at Road America, his second race win this season.
Fast facts: Winless Denny Hamlin has a three-point lead over Kyle Larson through 20 races. Larson has won a series-best four races and matched Hamlin with a series-high 11 top-five finishes. ... Hamlin and Elliott (sixth overall) lead with 18 lead-lap finishes. ... Larson has won four times. The next best are Martin Truex Jr (7th overall) and Alex Bowman (11th overall). Both have three wins.
Next race: July 18, Loudon, New Hampshire.
Online: http://www.nascar.com
___
NASCAR XFINITY SERIES
Credit Karma Money 250
Site: Hampton, Georgia.
Schedule: Saturday, race 3:30 p.m.
Track: Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Race distance: 163 laps, 235.1 miles.
Last year: Did not race (pandemic).
Last race: Kyle Busch won for the fourth time in as four starts this seasomn, claiming his 101st victory in the series.
Fast facts: Defending series champ Austin Cindric leads A.J. Allmendinger by 89 points in the standings. Winless Daniel Hemric is third, 105 points back.
Next race: July 17, Loudon, New Hampshire.
Online: http://www.nascar.com
___
NASCAR TRUCK SERIES
Corn Belt 150 presented by Premier Chevy Dealers
Site: Knoxville, Iowa.
Schedule: Friday, race 9 p.m.
Track: Knoxville Raceway.
Race distance: 200 laps, 100 miles.
Last race: John Hunter Nemechek passed team owner Kyle Busch on a restart with six laps to go and won at Pocono, his series-best fifth victory of the season. ... There are two races remaining - July 9 in Iowa and Aug. 7 at Watkins Glen, New York - before the 10-driver playoff field is set.
Fast facts: The series is making its debut at Knoxville Raceway, the half-mile dirt oval with eight degrees of banking in the turns. ... Nemechek's five race wins are more than the rest of the series points contenders combined.
Next race: Aug. 7, Watkins Glen, New York.
Online: http://www.nascar.com
___
FORMULA ONE
Last race: Max Verstappen won his third race in a row and increased his points lead over seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton, 182 points to 150.
Next race: July 18, Silverstone, United Kingdom.
Online: http://www.formula1.com
___
INDYCAR
Last race: Josef Newgarden led 73 laps and won for the first time this year.
Next race: Aug. 8, Nashville, Tennessee.
Online: http://www.indycar.com
___
NHRA
Last event: Steve Torrence won in Top Fuel and Cruz Pedregon won in Funny Car at Norwalk, Ohio.
Next event: July 18, Morrison, Colorado.
Online: http://www.nhra.com
___
WORLD OF OUTLAWS
Next events: July 10, Wilmot, Wisconsin.
Online: http://worldofoutlaws.com/sprintcars
___
More AP auto racing: https://apnews.com/apf-AutoRacing and https://twitter.com/AP
Chase Elliott (9) leads a group through a turn during a NASCAR Cup Series auto race Sunday, July 4, 2021, at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
First place Red Bull driver Max Verstappen of the Netherlands, left, jubilates on the podium with second place Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas of Finland during the Austrian Formula One Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring racetrack in Spielberg, Austria, Sunday, July 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
