Dixon Is IndyCar Winner

Scott Dixon held off Target Chip Ganassi Racing teammate Dan Wheldon in the final laps and won his second race of the season Saturday night at Nashville Superspeedway at Gladeville, Tenn.

Wheldon, the defending IndyCar Series champ, tried to pass his teammate on the backstretch of the final lap, but he went too high and couldn’t get around Dixon, who won his sixth race of his career in the Firestone Indy 200.

“I think being out front, it was easy to protect it,” said Dixon, who also won at Watkins Glen.

Vitor Meira, whose victory drought stretched to 54 races, finished third. Danica Patrick, who started 10th, turned in her best finish this year at fourth. Helio Castroneves was fifth.

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Carl Edwards easily held off a late challenge from Kevin Harvick to win the NASCAR Busch Series race at New Hampshire International Speedway at Loudon, N.H.

Edwards has finished first or second in five of the last eight races, including all three of his Busch victories. But the Roush Racing driver remained second in the season standings, 308 points behind runaway series leader Harvick.

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Jack Sprague raced to his first victory of the season and the 26th of his NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career, holding off rookie Erik Darnell by 0.251 of a second in the O’Reilly 200 at Millington, Tenn.

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Seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher led a Ferrari sweep of the front row to claim pole position for the French Grand Prix at Magny Cours.