Schmidt Peterson Motorsport's drivers say tire degradation will be key to strategy in tonight's Firestone 600 at Texas Motor Speedway… and that their team holds that key. Anne Proffit reports. When the series’ Firestone 600 was called due to rain on June 12, Schmidt Peterson Motorsport-Honda  teammates James Hinchcliffe and Mikhail Aleshin ran first and third. The Canadian has been in that lead ever since and will start at the front of a 20-car field at Texas Motor Speedway at 9pm ET tonight. Hinchcliffe has been making light of the duration of that lead, but thinks the best quote came from Dale Coyne Racing’s Gabby Chaves, who said he “started the Texas race at 22 years old and...
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