Here's a breakdown of this weekend's action in the world of motorsports. (All times ET)

Winston Cup

FAST FACTS
Event	Sirius Satellite Radio at The Glen
Site	Watkins Glen, N.Y.
Schedule	Friday, qualifying (Speed Channel, 3 p.m.); Sunday, race (NBC, 1 p.m.).
Track	Watkins Glen International (permanent road course, 2.45 miles, 11 turns).
Distance	220.5 miles, 90 laps.

Last race: Bill Elliott passed Rusty Wallace with 11 laps remaining and cruised the rest of the way to win the Brickyard 400.

	Drivers to Watch
	Check out a short list of drivers to keep an eye on this weekend at The Glen.

Last year: Jeff Gordon set the record for road course victories by winning at Watkins Glen International. Gordon won for the seventh time on a road course, breaking a tie with Rusty Wallace, Richard Petty and Bobby Allison for the most in NASCAR history.

Fast facts: NASCAR fined Tony Stewart $10,000 and put him on probation for the rest of the year on Tuesday for punching a photographer after the Brickyard 400. ... Jeff Gordon has a career-long winless streak of 29 races dating to a victory in Kansas last September. Gordon has won four of the last five Winston Cup races on the road course at Watkins Glen. ... Sterling Marlin continues to hold the points lead with 2,866, a 91-point over second-place Jimmie Johnson. ... J.D. McDuffie was fatally injured during the 1991 race after gaining speed on the long backstraight and failing to maneuver the car into the right hand, downhill Turn 5. McDuffie's car got airborne and landed upside down atop Jimmy Means' car. ... Buck Baker won the first NASCAR race at Watkins Glen in 1957. ... The race has been won from the pole seven of 19 times.

Next race: Pepsi 400, Aug. 18, Brooklyn, Mich.

CART

FAST FACTS
Event	Mid-Ohio Grand Prix
Site	Lexington, Ohio
Schedule	Friday, qualifying (Speed Channel, 5 p.m.); Saturday, qualifying (Speed Channel, 1:30 p.m.); Sunday, race (CBS, 12:30 p.m.).
Track	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course (permanent road course, 2.258 miles, 13 turns).
Distance	92 laps, 207.736 miles.

Last race: Scotland's Dario Franchitti drove away from Canadian teammate Paul Tracy in a five-lap sprint in a Vancouver Molson-Indy on July 28, a race full of crashes and attrition. Only seven of 18 starters were running at the end of the 100-lap race on the 1.781-mile street course as Franchitti won for the first time since July 2001 in Cleveland.

	Drivers to Watch
	Check out a short list of drivers to keep an eye on this weekend at Mid-Ohio.

Last year: Helio Castroneves and Gil de Ferran produced their second straight 1-2 finish at the Miller Lite 200. Castroneves averaged 106.627 mph in his Reynard Honda and defeated de Ferran by 1.568 seconds. Castroneves won the previous year by 4.425 seconds.

Fast Facts: Adrian Fernandez is expected to miss the race after suffering a hairline fracture in his left hip following a crash in Vancouver. Max Papis will replace him. ... Cristiano da Matta, who tied a CART record with four straight wins earlier this season, has not finished either of the last two events. He has never finished among the top-five in Mid-Ohio. ... Michel Jourdain Jr. has scored points in each of the first 10 races this season. His 74 points is higher than the amount he recorded in his first six seasons combined. ... Tracy has four career second-place showings at Mid-Ohio, but not victories. He has been at the podium after each of the last two races. ... Two of Michael Andretti's 42 career wins have come at Mid-Ohio, and he is the only current CART driver to have a victory there. Andretti won three straight poles from 1990-1992, converting the first two into wins.

Next race: Road America Grand Prix, Aug. 18, Elkhart Lake, Wis.

IRL

FAST FACTS
Event	Belterra Casino Indy 300
Site	Sparta, Ky.
Schedule	Saturday, qualifying, 5:30 p.m.; Sunday, race (ABC, 1:30 p.m.).
Track	Kentucky Speedway (tri-oval, 1.5 miles, 14 degrees banking in turns).
Distance	200 laps, 300 miles.

Last race: Rookie Tomas Scheckter raced to his first IRL victory, beating teammate Buddy Rice by 1.703 seconds in the inaugural Michigan Indy 400. Scheckter, the 21-year-old son of 1979 Formula One champion Jody Scheckter, started from the pole and overcame a stalled engine on his final pit stop. Rice was making his first IRL start, driving for Red Bull Cheever Racing.

	Drivers to Watch
	Check out a short list of drivers to keep an eye on this weekend at Kentucky.

Last year: Buddy Lazier took his first lead on lap 112 and held off Robbie Buhl to win the Belterra Casino Indy 300. Lazier, who won the 2000 Kentucky event en route to the series championship, became the first IRL driver to win four races in a single season.

Fast facts: This is the third year of the event. Lazier has won the first two races and can become the first IRL driver to win the same event three years in a row with a victory this weekend. ... This is the fourth of six races that will take place on a 1.5-mile track. The first three have produced a different winner this season, including Sam Hornish Jr., Jeff Ward and Airton Dare. ... Team Penske teammates Gil de Ferran and Helio Castroneves are the only drivers who have been running at the finish of every event this season. ... The top four racers in the standings are separated by just 47 points. De Ferran is the leader with 377, which is 12 in front of Castroneves.

Next race: Gateway Indy 250, Aug. 25, Madison, Ill.

Craftsman Trucks

FAST FACTS
Event	Federated Auto Parts 200
Site	Gladeville, Tenn.
Schedule	Friday, qualifying, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, race (ESPN, 9 p.m.).
Track	Nashville Superspeedway (tri-oval 1.33 miles, 14 degrees banking in turns.
Distance	150 laps, 199.5 miles.

Last race: Terry Cook dominated the Power Stroke Diesel 200 at Indianapolis Raceway Park, 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.

Last year: Scott Riggs raced to his fourth victory of the season, leading 131 of 150 laps in the Federated Auto Parts 200. Riggs' Dodge averaged 132.466 mph as just two caution flags, none after the 34th lap, slowed the pace.

Fast facts: Cook became the eighth driver in series history to win four or more races during a single season. ... Jason Leffler recorded his series-record fifth second-place finish without a victory last week. ... The race will be held for the second time at Nashville Superspeedway. The previous events were held at the Nashville Speedway USA short track. ... Richard Petty erased a 66-race winless streak as a Truck Series owner when Jimmy Hensley -- from a provisional start of 30th -- drove to victory in the 1998 race. ... No driver has won more than one truck race in Nashville. Dennis Setzer, who won the 1999 event, is the only previous Nashville winner expected to compete this weekend. ... Joe Ruttman, the second-leading money winner in truck series history, is expected to compete for the first time since Darlington on March 15. ... Riggs set the qualifying record at 155.477 mph last year.

Next race: Craftsman 200, Sept. 5, Richmond, Va.

Formula One
Last race: 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 season, the fourth time he equaled his own record for wins in a year.

Next race: Hungarian Grand Prix, Aug. 18, Budapest.

Busch
Last race: Points leader 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 the fourth victory this season for Biffle, who moves up next year to a Winston Cup car also owned by Roush Racing.

Next race: Michigan 300, Aug. 17, Brooklyn, Mich.

NHRA
Last race: John Force won his 102nd career event at the FRAM Autolite Nationals in Sonoma, Calif. Doug Herbert took the Top Fuel category while Larry Morgan ended an eight-year drought with a victory in Pro Stock.

Next race: Colonel's Truck Nationals, Aug. 18, Brainerd, Minn.