Monday Motorsports: Kimball Gets First IndyCar Win Charlie Kimball took the checkered flag at Sunday's Mid-Ohio IndyCar series event, his first victory. Kimball took the lead with 18 laps to go in the 90-lap event, with a pass of Simon Pagenaud. Pagenaud, who didn't give up easily, held on for a tenacious second place, followed by Dario Franchitti and Will Power. Helio Castroneves, the series points leader, finished sixth. Kimball received a diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes in 2007. In other racing action from the weekend: Kasey Kahne executed a bold pass around the outside of Jeff Gordon on the penultimate lap of the 400-mile, 160-lap Nascar Sprint Cup race at Pocono Raceway in Pennsylvania on Sunday, driving to a clear victory. As was the case at the Brickyard 400 in Indianapolis the previous week, the four-car Hendrick Motorsports juggernaut took turns running away with the race. Jimmie Johnson, the team leader, was out front in the early stages, but hit the wall. He rebounded to finish 13th and retained his lead in the season points standings. Kahne had his Chevrolet out front by a margin of up to seven seconds at one point - a huge lead in the side-by-side, door-banging world of ferocious Nascar competition - only to have it erased in the late going when a caution flag for some debris on the track bunched the field. Kahne got his chance at the win later, when the caution came out again for a Matt Kenseth spin. Kurt Busch finished third, followed by the Brickyard 400 winner Ryan Newman and Dale Earnhardt Jr. In a final-round showdown, Morgan Lucas held off David Grubnic for the Top Fuel class victory Sunday at the N.H.R.A. Northwest Nationals in Kent, Wash. Matt Hagan beat Bob Tasca III in the Funny Car final, and Vincent Nobile outran Jeg Couhglin Jr. for the Pro Stock category victory. Kramer Williamson, a sprint car legend who was inducted into the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in 2008, died Sunday after a crash at Lincoln Speedway in Abbottstown, Pa. Williamson, 63, had been racing for more than 40 years, according to The Associated Press. He was racing in a preliminary event when his car struck another and flipped over. He was transported by helicopter from the scene to a nearby hospital, where he died of internal injuries.