The Ford Racing Mustang Challenge for the Miller Cup will compete at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course June 20-22 to replace the canceled event, which was to be held in conjunction with the Champ Car World Series, at Cleveland’s Burke Lakefront Airport... Michigan Int’l Speedway hired Dennis Bickmeier as vice president of consumer sales and marketing. In addition, the track promoted Dan Dubois to the new senior director of accounting and planning; Linda Wyne the new director of ticketing; and Alisha Cottrell as director of government and community relations... O’Reilly Auto Parts extended its contract with the National Hot Rod Ass’n as the title-rights sponsor of the O’Reilly NHRA Summer Nationals at Heartland Park Topeka through 2010... K2M, Inc., a spinal technology company, is the new associate sponsor for all four of the Kalitta Motorsports cars...Bob Dini is returning to DIRTcar Racing NorthEast as the director of technical operations, a position he helped create three years ago...Windshear Inc., the rolling-road wind tunnel opening in Concord, N.C., in April, hired specialized technicians Bryon Randolf and Peter Schneider...The Kobalt Tools race weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway March 7-9 will award nearly $7 million in prize money for the three combined events, which will include NASCAR’s Craftsman Truck, Nationwide and Sprint Cup series...Sunoco Race Fuel and the Bearden Oil Company of Eastman, Ga. will sponsor the 2008 NeSmith Chevolet Rookie of the Year Award...The deadline to buy tickets for the 2009 Chili Bowl Nationals has been changed to May 21.