MOTOR SPORTS

IndyCar race postponed

IndyCar officials postponed Sunday’s race at Pocono Raceway until 11 a.m. Central today because of persistent mid-afternoon rain in Long Pond, Pa. With no lights to allow for night racing and no quick end to the downpour in sight, drying the track in time to get in 101 of the 200 laps to make the race official was not possible. The race was scheduled to begin at 2:09 p.m. Sunday. Mikhail

Aleshin turned a fast two-lap average of 220.454 mph on Saturday in his No. 7 Schmidt Peterson Motorsports Honda

to edge Josef Newgarden for the pole. It’s the third time this season Newgarden has qualified second. He was on the front row at the Indy 500 and at Iowa, just missing the top spot Saturday with a two-lap average of 220.195 mph. Takuma Sato will start third, followed by Helio Castroneves and Carlos Munoz. Team Penske’s Simon

Pagenaud and Will Power are 1-2 in the points standings, separated by 58 points.

Force wins NHRA event

Brittany Force raced to her third Top Fuel victory of the season Sunday in the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals at Brainerd (Minn.) International Raceway. The daughter of Funny Car great John Force, Force beat defending season champion Antron Brown with a 4.169-second pass at 180.21 mph. Brown had a 6.566 at 103.47. Brown’s car rattled and lost traction early while Force’s dragster backfired and released the parachutes just a little farther down track than Brown, allowing her to coast to the finish line in front. Force raced to her first career victory in Gainesville, Fla., in March, and also won the Four-Wide Nationals in April in Concord, N.C. Del Worsham won in Funny Car, Drew Skillman in Pro Stock, and Andrew Hines in Pro Stock Motorcycle.