WEST ALLIS, Wis. — The Camping World Truck series race at the Milwaukee Mile was postponed by rain Friday.
It was rescheduled for today at 10:30 a.m. Tucson time on Speed.
Heavy showers swept through the Milwaukee area for the second night in a row, forcing series officials to postpone the race.
Brian Ickler, whose team is leading the truck series owner points because Sprint Cup series star Kyle Busch won two races for the team earlier in the season, will start on the pole today.
Sunny and warm weather is expected for the Milwaukee area.
Vickers on pole
SONOMA, Calif. — There was little celebrating at Red Bull Racing after Brian Vickers won his second consecutive pole.
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Instead, team management was busy securing a deal to get rookie Scott Speed in the field.
Vickers claimed the top starting spot with a strong run Friday through the road course at Infineon Raceway, but his teammate missed the race when Speed ran off the course in Turn 10 and failed to qualify.
Team general manager Jay Frye worked a deal with Joe Nemechek, who qualified 31st, to put Speed in his car for Sunday's race. Nemechek races in old Red Bull cars. He qualified in one of its Toyotas from last season.
Speed, a former Formula One driver with plenty of road course experience, was having a strong run that would have solidly put him in the field when he overdrove his car and went off course. Although he saved it from a wreck, it sank his qualifying chances.
Vickers, meanwhile, won his fourth pole of the season. His lap of 93.678 mph in a Toyota gave him the top starting spot for the second straight week. He also won the pole last weekend at Michigan, where he finished ninth. Vickers edged defending race winner Kyle Busch, who ran a lap at 93.415 mph to qualify second. Marcos Ambrose qualified third to give Toyotas the top three qualifying spots.
Cutbacks continue
SONOMA, Calif. — Support for General Motors remained strong Friday, even as teams adjust to reduced funding as the automaker navigates through its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing.
Team owner Richard Childress said his four-car organization was among those that have been informed GM support is being scaled back.
Rick Hendrick and Tony Stewart said earlier this week that they met with GM officials, who must cut spending since filing earlier this month for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Stewart said the cuts are immediate.
"We'll make it through the year, for sure," Stewart said at Infineon Raceway. "We just got our budget cut percentage-wise."
GM last week cut funding completely to Nationwide and Truck Series teams. It met with its Sprint Cup teams this week, but GM officials have declined to reveal which teams had their budgets slashed.
Pit stops
• Tony Stewart would consider adding a third car to his organization if he found the right combination. Stewart is off to a strong start to his first season as owner and driver of Stewart-Haas Racing. He's won two races and is leading the Sprint Cup Series standings.
• The next chance for Jeremy Mayfield to have his indefinite drug suspension lifted will be at a July 1 hearing in federal court. U.S. District Judge Graham Mullen has added Mayfield's preliminary injunction request to his calendar. If the ruling goes in his favor, Mayfield could compete that weekend at Daytona. Mayfield has been suspended since May 9 for failing a random drug test.
• The NASCAR Hall of Fame will open next May in Charlotte, N.C., after more than four years of construction.
• Formula One's governing body says it will sue Ferrari, McLaren and six other teams after they announced plans for a rival series. The actions by the breakaway group come after the collapse of negotiations with organizers over a budget cap for next season.
