Kyle Busch Starts In 10th Place Sunday
Kyle Busch is coming off a disqualification and will start in 10th place at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday. Last week at Pocono looked like the week where Busch broke out of his slump with a second-place finish. However, in the post-race inspection, Busch and teammate Denny Hamlin were disqualified and they finished 35th and... Read More
Todd Gilliland Will Start In Ninth
Todd Gilliland, shockingly, will be starting inside the top 10 in ninth place at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday. Gilliland has not done much this season, so this is a pleasant surprise that he did this well in qualifying. Gilliland has stats this season of zero wins, zero top-fives and zero top-10 finishes, which shows... Read More
Chase Elliott Starts In Eighth Place
Chase Elliott will be looking to get his fifth win of the season while starting in eighth place at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday. Technically, Elliott did win last week, but he came across the line third, so he will be looking for back-to-back wins. However, he has a fantastic streak going on in the... Read More
Michael McDowell Will Start Seventh
Michael McDowell will be starting inside the top 10 in seventh place at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday. McDowell has been in the news lately, as he has been stripped of 100 points, which drops him a lot in the standings. However, McDowell needed to win to get into the playoffs anyway, so it doesn't... Read More
Ryan Blaney Starts Inside The Top 10
Ryan Blaney will be starting inside the top 10 in sixth place at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday. Blaney is one of the drivers with zero wins this year, but he is still holding onto a playoff spot. With only five races left until the playoffs, it's more and more likely that he will make... Read More
Joey Logano Starts In Fifth
Joey Logano will be starting in fifth place at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday. Logano will be looking for his third win of the season as he looks to show he can contend for his second career championship. However, in his last three races, he has not finished inside the top 20. But Logano has... Read More
Christopher Bell Starts In Fourth
Christopher Bell will be starting inside the top five and will start in fourth place at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday. In a matter of weeks, Bell went from a fringe playoff driver to firmly in the playoffs after he had had two excellent races back-to-back. A win at New Hampshire and a top-five finish... Read More
Chase Briscoe Starts In Third Place
Chase Briscoe will be starting inside the top five as he starts in third place at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday. Once again, Briscoe has shown that he is fantastic at road courses, and had another strong showing in qualifications. He is looking for his second win of the season and is showing the NASCAR... Read More
Austin Cindric Starts In Second
Austin Cindric will be looking for his second win of the season as he starts on the front row in second place at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday. Luckily for Cindric, this is a road course, not the normal Brickyard 400. Cindric does shine on road courses, as he finished inside the top 10 at... Read More
Tyler Reddick Dominates For The Pole
Tyler Reddick completely dominated qualifying and will start on the pole on Sunday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Reddick was significantly faster then the field and said he could have been even faster. This could very well be the race that shows us that Reddick is the real deal and can make a run into the... Read More
Erik Jones Worth A Look At Indianapolis
This may seem foolhardy, at best, but Erik Jones is at least worth a look at Indianapolis. No one knows how Martin Truex Jr. and some of the other Toyotas will perform on Sunday. The No. 43 driver from Petty GMS Motorsports just re-upped with the team for a couple more seasons. With his racing... Read More
Kyle Larson Place Differential Rise Inevitable Sunday
Kyle Larson starting just 22nd turned a few heads during qualifying on Saturday but do not panic. Look at who is around him. A.J. Allmendinger who won last year is 20th and Ross Chastain is 21st (COTA winner). Other than Chase Elliott, Larson is the only driver to win multiple times on road courses the... Read More
Ross Chastain Can Run Strong At Indianapolis
Ross Chastain, like Daniel Suarez, has a fast road racing car for Indianapolis on Sunday. The TrackHouse Racing driver has already won a road race this year at COTA. Chastain was running pretty well last year after starting ninth. He just had some bad luck later in the race which sealed his fate. Again, he... Read More
A.J. Allmendinger Starts Title Defense 20th At Indy
A.J. Allmendinger had a wild ride at Indianapolis last year en route to a glorious victory. The Kaulig Racing driver begins 20th on Sunday but should be able to move upward track position wise pretty quickly. After all, in seven laps last year, Allmendinger moved up from seventh to first and did win. He can... Read More
Kevin Harvick Running Out Of Time For Chase
Kevin Harvick is at a track he did not like all that much in Indianapolis. To be fair, quite a few drivers prepare the Indy race to be an oval like it was once before (Brickyard 400). That being said, Harvick is running out of time. He qualified 17th on Sunday for the race but... Read More
Chris Buescher Has Solid Road Racing History
Chris Buescher and his Ford have pretty good racing history the past three seasons. That includes an average finish of 12.7 with three top-five results and four top ten's. The RFK Racing driver begins 16th on Sunday which is four positions behind Brad Keselowski, his teammate. Kind of like Austin Cindric, Buescher's road racing results... Read More
Denny Hamlin Qualifies Respectably At Indianapolis
Denny Hamlin qualified third best among Joe Gibbs Racing drivers for The Brickyard. Christopher Bell starts fourth and Kyle Busch is tenth. Those two has slightly better road resumes lately when compared to the No. 11 driver. The last three seasons have seen Hamlin with a 11.5 average finish on courses with left and right... Read More
Aric Almirola Might Struggle At Indianapolis
Aric Almirola and his Ford may have some problems at Indianapolis. The Stewart-Haas Racing driver has a stronger car than last year but will it last on Sunday? That is a bit of an unknown. He begins 14th with several big names right behind. This could be a good thing for Almirola. He will race... Read More
Brad Keselowski Not Expecting Much Sunday At Indy
Brad Keselowski begins Sunday's race at The Brickyard from the 12th position. Now, the RFK Racing driver has not had a very good year and Keselowski has less than stellar road course history. Last year at Indianapolis was more of the same. Keselowski managed to lead a couple of laps but finished 24th (started 31st).... Read More
Daniel Suarez Starts 11th At The Brickyard
Daniel Suarez begins the Verizon 200 at The Brickyard from the inside of Row 6. The 11th place start was not that much of a surprise for the TrackHouse Racing driver. It is a team that will enjoy better speed and performance as the laps start ticking off. Suarez has been running in the top... Read More
Jacob deGrom To Make Season Debut Tuesday
New York Mets starting pitcher Jacob deGrom (shoulder) is set to come off the injured list to make his 2022 season debut on Tuesday against the Washington Nationals, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation. It will be the two-time Cy Young winner's first major league start since July 7 of last year.... Read More
Chase Silseth To Start Saturday Against Texas
Los Angeles Angels pitcher Chase Silseth will start Saturday's game against the Texas Rangers. He is expected to be recalled from Double-A Rocket City ahead of Saturday's contest. Reid Detmers' start will be moved to Sunday, giving him an extra day of rest. Noah Syndergaard will be moved to Tuesday, which is after the Aug.... Read More
Amanda Nunes Seeking Revenge On Saturday
Considered by many to be the women's GOAT in the world of mixed martial arts, Amanda Nunes will return to action in the main event of UFC 277 on Saturday in an attempt to recapture her bantamweight title after a shocking loss to Julianna Pena at UFC 269 in December of last year. Prior to... Read More
Julianna Pena Hoping To Shock The World Again
Julianna Pena (11-4) will defend her UFC women's bantamweight title on Saturday in the main event at UFC 277 against the woman she defeated for the crown, Amanda Nunes, in what many may consider one of the biggest upsets in UFC history. In their first matchup, Pena scored a second-round submission victory (rear-naked choke) to... Read More
Brandon Moreno Has A Chance To Earn Interim Title
After dropping the UFC flyweight title in his last contest, Brandon Moreno (19-6-2) will have the opportunity to become the interim champion if he can defeat Kai Kara-France in Saturday's co-main event at UFC 277. Prior to the loss, Moreno had not suffered defeat in his previous seven bouts. Dangerous on the mat, 11 of... Read More
Kai Kara-France Set For Co-Main-Event Showing
On a three-fight winning streak (two coming via first-round knockout), Kai Kara-France (24-9) finds himself in the co-main event of UFC 277 on Saturday in hopes of capturing the interim flyweight title over Brandon Moreno. In their first meeting, Moreno earned a unanimous-decision victory back in December of 2019. The City Kickboxing product has scored... Read More
Sergei Pavlovich Can Make A Big Climb In Division
Since losing his UFC debut, Sergei Pavlovich (15-1) has won three fights since, all by first-round knockout. His loss to Alistair Overeem is the only loss of his professional career. A dangerous striker like his opponent Derrick Lewis, 12 of Pavlovich's 15 wins have come by knockout/TKO, with all 12 coming in the first round... Read More
Derrick Lewis Set For Very Important Matchup
With losses in two of his last three contests, it is more important than ever for Derrick Lewis (26-9) to secure a victory at UFC 277 on Saturday. With a knockout always within reach for the Black Beast, 21 of his 26 career wins have come by KO/TKO. Lewis' opponent, Sergei Pavlovich, has won his... Read More
Alex Perez Returns To Action At UFC 277
It has been nearly 20 months since we have seen Alex Perez (24-6) in action, but he returns to the main card of UFC 277 on Saturday with a huge opportunity to find himself in title contention when he faces Alexandre Pantoja. Perez has not secured a victory since June of 2020 when he defeated... Read More
Alexandre Pantoja Could Find Himself Atop The Contender's List
With the men's interim flyweight title on the line in Saturday night's co-main event, the UFC 277 main-card matchup for Alexandre Pantoja (24-5) could put him in line for a title shot in the very near future. With wins in three of his last four outings, Pantoja is a solid finisher, even in smaller weight... Read More