Doug Kalitta in Top Fuel and Allen Johnson in Pro Stock broke through for their first wins of the season and were joined in the winner’s circle by Robert Hight (Funny Car) and Andrew Hines (Pro Stock Motorcycle) at the Mopar Mile-High NHRA Nationals at Bandimere Speedway outside of Denver. READ FULL STORY

INDIANAPOLIS — Car owner Chip Ganassi got the expected result from an unexpected source in Sunday’s Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, as race winner Jamie McMurray joined one of Cup racing’s most exclusive clubs.   Restarting second thanks to a two-tire call on a Lap 140 pit stop, McMurray powered his No. 1 Earnhardt Ganassi Racing Chevrolet past Kevin Harvick’s No. 29 Chevy on a restart with 11 laps left and pulled away to beat Harvick to the finish line by 1.391 seconds. READ FULL STORY

CLERMONT, Ind. — This time, there was no controversial finish.  For the second Nationwide Series race in a row, Carl Edwards went side-by-side for the lead on the final lap. But Saturday night at O’Reilly Raceway Park, Kyle Busch held Edwards off to win the Kroger 200 at the 0.686-mile track — his eighth victory of the 2010 season. READ FULL STORY

CLERMONT, Ind. — The back-to-basics approach seems to work for Ron Hornaday and the No. 33 Kevin Harvick Inc. Camping World Truck Series team.   Hornaday snapped a 22-race winless streak in the Truck Series on Friday night, winning the AAA Insurance 200 at O’Reilly Raceway Park. READ FULL STORY

Just a quick reminder, that the Roddin’ & Racin’ TV show will not air on Saturday July 31st, because that’s a 5th Saturday of the month and we don’t air the show on 5th Saturdays. Show #204 will air on Sat. Aug. 7th and again on the 14th. It features FUN coverage of the “Cannonball Phoenix Spree” from late April. Plus, a Shop-Time segment from Drew’s Garage in Tempe. On a sad note, my wife Donna’s mother Helen passed away on July 17th. It was a blessing, that all three of her daughters were right there with her when she passed.

Karen Leisinger and her '67 Camaro "Scar"

Columbus, OH

– Lady’s came first at the Goodguys 13th PPG Nationals presented by Bridgestone. At least when it came to picking the country’s top Street Machine.     Karen Leisinger’s radical all steel first-gen 1967 Camaro “Scar”, built by Lakeside Rods & Rides in Rockwell City, Iowa took home the Goodguys 2010 Ridetech Street Machine of the Year award. Leisinger, a first-gen Camaro lover wanted a car that featured extreme performance while combining the looks of a 1967 with some of the design and style elements of the new 2010 Camaros. READ FULL STORY

Ron Capps Funny Car winner

Ron Capps scored his first win of the season in Funny Car and was joined in the winner’s circle at the Fram Autolite NHRA Nationals at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif., by Larry Dixon (Top Fuel), Jeg Coughlin Jr. (Pro Stock), and Michael Phillips (Pro Stock Motorcycle) at race two of the annual Western Swing. READ FULL STORY

MADISON, Ill. — The feud between Carl Edwards and Brad Keselowski — dormant since Atlanta in March — erupted like an angry volcano at Gateway International Raceway.    In a drag race to the finish line, Edwards sent Keselowski hard into the outside wall on the way to winning Saturday night’s Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers 250 Nationwide Series race at the 1.25-mile track. As Edwards took the checkered flag two car lengths ahead of runner-up Reed Sorenson, Keselowski careened into the inside retaining wall and took a vicious shot from Shelby Howard’s Chevrolet just short of the finish line. READ FULL STORY

On a blistering hot day that left fourth-place finisher Todd Bodine lying on the tile floor of the media center with ice packs on his chest, Kevin Harvick beat the heat and trounced the rest of the field to win Saturday afternoon’s blackout-delayed CampingWorld.com 200.   Despite a stiff neck Harvick, who won the pole on Friday before a power failure forced postponement of the race, cruised to his third victory in four Camping World Truck Series starts this season. READ FULL STORY

TORONTO – Justin Wilson had it all in his corner with 20 laps left in the Honda Indy Toronto: Firestone alternate tires on the No. 22 Z-Line Designs car, plenty of ethanol in the tank and a 3.1-second lead over Team Penske’s Will Power.     Then, one of the worst things to beset a race leader – a full-course caution on Lap 65 for contact on the tight street circuit – opened the door for Power to challenge Wilson on the restart. That he did in Turn 1 of Lap 72, overtaking the pole sitter of Dreyer & Reinbold Racing to mark the sixth lead change. READ FULL STOTY