ON TRACK This weekend's events

NASCAR WINSTON CUPBrickyard 400
Schedule: Saturday, qualifying (TNT, 11 a.m.); Sunday, race (NBC, 2:30 p.m.).
Track: Indianapolis Motor Speedway (rectangular oval, 2.5 miles, 9 degrees banking in turns).
Race distance: 400 miles, 160 laps.
Last race: Late caution flags helped Ryan Newman stretch his gas to the end, allowing him to barely hold off hard-charging Kurt Busch and win the Pennsylvania 500 at Pocono Raceway. Newman, who started on the pole, used the same strategy to win two weeks ago at Chicagoland Speedway.
Last year: Bill Elliott passed Rusty Wallace with 11 laps remaining and cruised the rest of the way to win the Brickyard 400.
Fast facts: Newman leads all drivers with five poles and four victories in 2003. ... Points leader Matt Kenseth finished 13th at Pocono and leads Dale Earnhardt Jr. by 232 points and Jeff Gordon by 308 after 20 of 36 races. ... Mike Skinner will drive for MB2 Motorsports beginning with this weekend's race. Skinner replaces Mike Wallace, who had been subbing for the injured Jerry Nadeau since the Winston Open. ... Tony Stewart was fined $10,000 and put on probation for the rest of the 2002 season for punching a photographer during last year's Brickyard 400. ... Bobby Labonte won the 2000 race after he finished second in 1997 and 1999, and third in 1998. ... In 1998, Ernie Irvan started from the pole position. The next year, he started from the 40th position after using a provisional to make the field, marking the first time in race history that a defending pole winner needed a provisional to make the field.
BUSCH SERIESKroger 200
Schedule: Saturday, qualifying, 4:35 p.m. (Speed Channel, 5:30 p.m., tape), race (TNT, 8 p.m.).
Track: Indianapolis Raceway Park (oval, 0.686 miles, 7.5 degrees banking in turns).
Race distance: 137.2 miles, 200 laps.
Last race: Scott Wimmer won the Busch 250 at Pikes Peak International Raceway in a race that had a track-record 15 lead changes. Wimmer led for 70 laps and took the lead for good on the 227th lap by overtaking Jason Keller, who finished 1.045 seconds behind.
Last year: Greg Biffle held off a late charge by Jason Keller over the final laps in the crash-filled Kroger 200 to win a battle between the top drivers in the series. It was Biffle's fourth Busch victory in 2002.
Fast facts: Kyle Busch is expected to make his second career Busch start this weekend. He led 33 laps and finished second at Lowe's Motor Speedway in May. ... There have been 17 different winners in the race's 21-year history. The polesitter has won four of the last seven Busch races at IRP. ... Keller has five top-five and seven top-10 finishes in nine career starts at IRP. He won the event in 1995 and from the pole in 1999 before finishing second last year. ... This is the fifth night race of the season. Kevin Harvick, Scott Riggs, Bobby Hamilton Jr. and Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the first four.
Next race: Cabela's 250, Aug. 16, Brooklyn, Mich.
CRAFTSMAN TRUCKSPower Stroke Diesel 200
Schedule: Today, qualifying, 5:30 p.m., race (Speed Channel, 9 p.m.).
Track: Indianapolis Raceway Park (oval, 0.686 miles, 7.5 degrees banking in turns).
Race distance: 137.2 miles, 200 laps.
Last race: Brendan Gaughan ran the fastest race in Craftsman Truck Series history and continued his domination of the circuit by winning the Sears 200 at Michigan International Speedway. Gaughan averaged 154.044 mph, eclipsing the previous record of 144.260 set by Kurt Busch at California Speedway in 2000.
Last year: Terry Cook dominated the Power Stroke Diesel 200, leading 189 laps and winning the race by more than a second. Cook, who started on the pole in his Ford, won for the second time in three races and posted a season-high fourth victory of 2002.
Next race: Federated Auto Parts 200, Aug. 8, Gladeville, Tenn.
FORMULA ONEGerman Grand Prix
Schedule: Saturday, qualifying (Speed Channel, 8 a.m.); Sunday, race (Speed Channel, 7:30 p.m.).
Track: Hockenheimring (road course, 2.842 miles).
Last race: Rubens Barrichello of Ferrari won the British Grand Prix on July 20, ending the recent dominance of Williams-BMW with his first victory of the year. Barrichello finished 5.4 seconds ahead of Juan Pablo Montoya of Williams-BMW in a race disrupted on the 12th lap when a protester ran onto the track.
Last year: Michael Schumacher followed up his record-tying fifth Formula One championship by winning the German Grand Prix to match another milestone. It was Schumacher's ninth victory of the 2002 season, the fourth time he equaled his own record for wins in a year.
Next race: Hungarian Grand Prix, Aug. 24, Budapest.
NHRAFRAM Autolite Nationals
Schedule: Today, qualifying, 6 p.m.; Saturday, qualifying, 2:30 p.m. (ESPN2, 8 p.m., tape); Sunday, early eliminations, 3 p.m. (ESPN, 5 p.m.), final eliminations (ESPN2, 7 p.m.).
Track: Sears Point Raceway, Sonoma, Calif.
Last event: John Force won his second straight Funny Car race at Pacific Raceways near Seattle, beating Whit Bazemore in the final for his 108th career victory. Larry Dixon claimed his seventh Top Fuel victory while Greg Anderson won Pro Stock.
Last year: John Force won his 102nd career event at the FRAM Autolite Nationals. Doug Herbert took the Top Fuel category while Larry Morgan ended an eight-year drought with a victory in Pro Stock.
Next event: Rugger Liner Nationals, Aug. 17, Brainerd, Minn.
CHAMPIONSHIP AUTO RACING TEAMS|Mario Andretti Grand Prixat Road America
Schedule: Today, qualifying, 3:30 p.m.; Saturday, qualifying 2:45 p.m.; Sunday, race, 3 p.m.
Track: Road America (road course, 4.048 miles), 60 laps, Elkhart Lake, Wis.
Last event: Canadian Paul Tracy bounced back from another dispute in his rocky relationship with CART officials by turning the 100-lap Vancouver Molson Indy into a rout. Tracy said he felt "betrayed" by CART over a series of recent calls against him, including being stripped of the provisional pole and the championship point that goes with it after Tracy blocked other cars during last weekend's qualifying.
Last year: Cristiano da Matta returned to form, ending a three-race slump with his first victory on the scenic four-mile road course.
Next race: Mid-Ohio Grand Prix, Aug. 10, Lexington, Ohio