THE LINE - JUNE 11, 2014

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Ed Carpenter (No. 20 Ed Carpenter Racing/Fuzzy's Premium Vodka Chevrolet) held off Will Power (No. 12 Team Penske Verizon Chevrolet) and three other drivers during a restart shootout in the final three laps to win the Firestone 600 Verizon IndyCar Series race at Texas Motor Speedway by 0.5247 of a second Saturday night. It was the third career victory for the owner/driver and second for Ed Carpenter Racing this season. "I just felt like we left some on the table in qualifying, but it made me extra motivated," said Carpenter, who qualified fifth. "I think we were for sure the car to beat at the end. I have loved this race track for a long time and had a lot of bad luck here. I have really always wanted to win here, so I'm super excited." Carpenter, who led but a single lap in his previous 12 starts on the 1.455-mile, high-banked oval with a previous best finish of fourth, led 90 laps.

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Will Power, the Verizon P1 Award winner in Texas, gets pit service from his Team Penske crew. Power led more than half of the 248-lap race, but was issued a drive-through penalty because of a pit lane speed violation with 35 laps left, which crushed his chances. He was sixth when the final yellow flag was shown on Lap 242, and Team Penske's Tim Cindric called in Power to pit two laps later for fresh tires. Following the restart, he overtook three cars to gain back most of the points he would have lost because of the penalty. Power has a 39-point lead over teammate Helio Castroneves in the Verizon IndyCar Series championship heading to the doubleheader in Houston.

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Juan Pablo Montoya (No. 2 Team Penske Verizon Chevrolet) finished a season-high third place at Texas. "I'm happy," said Montoya, who at 38 years old returned this year to Indy car racing after a 13-year absence. "I had a hell of a race. It would have been nice to come out of here with a victory because I think we had a car that could have done that, but it was a lot of fun and I think a win is just around the corner," said Montoya, who started a season-high fourth. "I'm getting better every race," said Montoya, who recorded his third top-five finish in eight races. "It was fun. What a handful. To be good here it's got to be a handful."... I'll tell you the truth, I haven't had this much fun in a long time."

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Dale Earnhardt, Jr. (No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports National Guard Chevrolet SS) won the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania, on Sunday. It was Earnhardt Jr.'s second win of the season and first at Pocono, locking him into the Sprint Cup Series Chase. Brad Keselowski (No. 2 Team Penske Redd's Ford Fusion) led 95 of Sunday's 160 laps and led Earnhardt by more than one second when his engine temperature forced him into a desperate act with five laps to go. Keselowski tucked in behind the lapped car of Danica Patrick (No. 10 Stewart-Haas Racing GoDaddy Chevrolet SS) hoping to suck the debris off his grille, and Earnhardt blew by him for the win. Keselowski finished second. Kurt Busch (No. 41 Stewart-Haas Racing Haas Automation Chevrolet SS) finished third. Watch a NASCAR video here.

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Twenty-four-year-old Daniel Ricciardo (No. 3 Infiniti Red Bull Racing-Renault RB10) scored his first F1 win at the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal, the Australian fighting his way past Sergio Perez (No. 11 Sahara Force India Mercedes Hybrid) and Nico Rosberg (No. 6 Mercedes AMG Petronas W05 Hybrid) to also claim the first win of the season for Infiniti Red Bull Racing. Sebastian Vettel (No. 1 Infiniti Red Bull Racing-Renault RB10) finished third.

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Corvette Racing will debut its new Chevrolet Corvette C7.R at the Circuit de la Sarthe for the 24 Hours of Le Mans on Saturday, and American fans can ride along with the team for the entirety of the race. Three dedicated cameras will stream live video on FOXsports.com, helping to highlight Corvette Racing’s massive undertaking in this year’s race. Each of the two Corvettes – the No. 73 and No. 74 Corvette C7.R – will sport in-car cameras from green flag to checkered flag. In addition, a fixed camera in the Corvette Racing garage will stream to the Web for the full 24 hours. Antonio Garcia, Jan Magnussen and Jordan Taylor drive the No. 73 Corvette C7.R, with Oliver Gavin, Tommy Milner and Richard Westbrook in the No. 74 Corvette. The two cars were fourth and sixth in the annual Test Day on June 1. Corvette Racing has seven class victories at Le Mans since 2001. Watch the 24 Hours of Le Mans Saturday, June 14 - Sunday, June 15 – all times ET on FOX Sports properties: 8:30 a.m-4 p.m., Saturday (FOX Sports 1); 4-5 p.m., Saturday (FOX Sports 2); 5-6:30 p.m., Saturday (FOX Sports GO); 6:30 p.m., Saturday-1 a.m., Sunday (FOX Sports 2); 1-7:30 a.m., Sunday (FOX Sports 1);  7:30-9:30 a.m., Sunday (FOX Sports 2).

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Antonio Garcia set a best time of 3:54.777 (129.867 mph) in the No. 73 Corvette C7.R and will start second in the GTE Pro class for the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Oliver Gavin (No. 74 Corvette C7.R) qualified fourth in class at 3:55.190 (129.618 mph). Garcia – driving with Jan Magnussen and Jordan Taylor – posted his quickest time in the middle portion of the night's final session around the 8.3-mile circuit. “I had a very good qualifying lap today,” Garcia said. “It’s always difficult to know exactly how much you can push, especially on Thursday when you more or less know that these laps in the last session are the last laps before race day. You don’t want to take too many risks and we have seen on quite a few occasions this year and in the past that if it goes wrong here, it goes wrong big time.” Gavin - driving with Tommy Milner and Richard Westbrook - also set his best lap time in Thursday’s final session. The GTE class is setting up to be a knock-down, drag-out battle this weekend with the gap from Garcia to the seventh-place Porsche being less than a second. “This is a solid start and represents a complete team effort," Doug Fehan, Corvette Racing Program Manager commented. "Our drivers, engineers and crew worked in sync to sort out a few handling issues with our Chevrolet Corvette C7.Rs following multiple red-flag periods tonight and Wednesday. The time we did have on track was extremely beneficial as we were finally able to get back to a competitive aero package tonight. We don't have much in the way of long-run performance testing, so that could still bite us. But the ultimate performance should at least let us compete. Now we just need to execute and have some luck for a clean race. We really appreciate our drivers for not putting a foot wrong in practice and helping us work through to good setups. From the time sheet, this looks like it could be a very exciting race!”

Doug Fehan was presented with The Spirit of Le Mans award from the Automobile Club de l'Quest on Friday, June 13th. The Spirit of Le Mans award is presented annually by the ACO to the person who has been instrumental in the growth of the stature of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Fehan has been the program manager for Corvette Racing since its debut in 1999. 

Three years earlier, he and former GM Racing executive director Herb Fishel – a Spirit of Le Mans recipient in 2003 – helped put the plans in place to launch Corvette’s return to professional road racing in 1999, and the program debuted at Le Mans in 2000. A year later, Corvette Racing captured the first of its seven class wins at Le Mans.

“I am deeply honored and grateful to receive the esteemed Spirit of Le Mans award,” Fehan said. “To be in a group that includes some of endurance racing’s most famous names is extremely humbling.

“Returning to the 24 Hours of Le Mans each year is a very powerful and emotional time for me personally, along with everyone at Corvette Racing,” Fehan added. “Le Mans is one of the world’s great competitions and one where we have had considerable success. But even without that, Le Mans would still retain the mystique that comes over me each time I drive into the track for the first time each year. Those experiences – and many others we have achieved at Corvette Racing – are ones that I will remember for the rest of the my life.”