6:12 PM ET ESPN News Services BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Scott McLaughlin finally got an opening to surge past Romain Grosjean, took advantage of it and was scarcely challenged the rest of the way to his fourth IndyCar win Sunday at Barber Motorsports Park. It was the second time this season they’ve battled for a potential
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With rain set in for the remainder of the day, NASCAR called the event off early on Sunday morning and the 400-mile race has instead been postponed until noon ET on Monday. With qualifying also rained out on Saturday, Kyle Busch’s opportunistic win last week at Talladega helped him land the pole for this week’s
The world champion crashed out of the lead of the Americas GP two weeks ago and fell from second in the wet Argentina GP prior to that. This raised doubts about his form after he suffered five DNFs in 2022 and was forced to recover a 91-point deficit to win the championship. He batted away
The 2.3-mile 17-turn track has hosted IndyCar since 2010 and has become one of the favourite venues among fans and drivers for its undulating nature, which creates turns that demand great commitment from the drivers but also present great sight-lines for spectators. The multi-year extension coincides with the new multi-year agreement between Medical Properties Trust/Children’s
Early leader Verstappen was brought into the pits on lap 10 of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix after starting to struggle with his rear tyres and being put under pressure by team-mate Sergio Perez. Moments before the decision AlphaTauri’s Nyck de Vries had stopped on track after clipping the wall in Turn 5 and as the
6:35 AM ET Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — It’s Romain Grosjean‘s turn to start up front for Andretti Autosport. The former Formula 1 driver and Swiss-born Frenchman is trying to duplicate teammate Kyle Kirkwood‘s pole-to-win performance after claiming the pole position for Sunday’s IndyCar race at Barber Motorsports Park. Grosjean emerged with his third pole
Verstappen was left furious after Saturday’s Baku F1 sprint race when he felt Russell had unnecessarily made contact with him as they battled for third position in the first corners of the race. The Red Bull driver confronted Russell in parc ferme after the race and, left unimpressed with his rival’s explanation, muttered that he
The Yamaha rider made contact with Gresini Ducati’s Alex Marquez at Turn 2 on the first lap of the sprint race on Saturday. The contact resulted in both crashing, with VR46 Ducati’s Marco Bezzecchi also caught up in it as he struck Morbidelli’s errant Yamaha. The sprint was red-flagged after this and all riders were
Yesterday’s pacesetter McLaughlin wasted no time in flirting with the 1m06-second barrier, getting down to a 1m07.0036s on his third lap and then broke through it with a 1m06.7282s on his fifth lap.With 36 minutes to go, his nearest challenger became team-mate Newgarden, just 0.0053s behind, but Christian Lundgaard and Graham Rahal were an encouraging
Ferrari will soon lavish the SF-23 with performance-finding upgrades. But for now, after a dismal start to the campaign, set-up tweaks alone have allowed the team to take a marked step forward in Australia and this weekend again in Azerbaijan. As proof, lead charge Charles Leclerc used the revised format for sprint race rounds to
11:34 AM ET Max Verstappen called George Russell a “d—head” after they collided on the opening lap of the sprint race at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Verstappen was fuming after the Mercedes driver barged past him on the inside at Turn 2, with the contact almost putting the championship leader in the wall. Cameras later
The five-time World Rally Championship rally winner was invited by the Hyundai Portugal squad to deputise for Breen, who lost his life in a Rally Croatia testing accident earlier this month. Breen had been competing in the Portuguese national championship alongside his WRC commitments for the Hyundai factory team. The Irishman won the opening round
Pedrosa won 31 grands prix and finished runner-up three times in the championship with Honda in a MotoGP career that spanned from 2006 to the end of 2018. Since retiring, Pedrosa joined KTM as an official test rider and has been instrumental in helping develop the bike into a race-winning package. Making his second wildcard
Andretti Autosport’s Grosjean was fastest initially in the top six pole shootout with a 1m06.0289s, 0.0341s ahead of Pato O’Ward of Arrow McLaren, but on fresher tyres Team Penske’s Scott McLaughlin displaced him at the head of the times. However, Grosjean, who lost an engine yesterday, delivered a 1m05.8396s with his fourth lap and it was
Tsunoda started two places ahead de Vries but on the first lap the Dutchman got past him as the pair exited Turn 2. The Japanese driver then had a look down the outside at Turn 3, but on the exit de Vries took his line and clipped his team-mate’s front wing. While de Vries continued
1:13 PM ET Associated Press DOVER, Del. — Before Chase Elliott shredded on a snowboard and Alex Bowman moonlighted in a sprint car, Rick Hendrick issued a warning to all his Cup drivers who craved extracurricular activities outside their lucrative NASCAR careers. Be careful. Or else. Even so, Hendrick Motorsports has become the home of
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Under the safety car during Saturday’s sprint, the Ferrari driver appeared to be raising the alarm about a cut to the power unit, and was publicly revealed as such on television with an on-screen graphic. Asked about his comments regarding a ‘cut’ during the official post-sprint press conference, Leclerc clarified that it he was actually
Quartararo has spent the entirety of the Jerez weekend expressing his unhappiness at the 2023 Yamaha package, which he said on Friday had steadily lost all of its strong points at the Spanish GP venue over the last four years. The 2021 world champion, whose previous worst Jerez qualifying in MotoGP was second, struggled to
The Mercedes driver enjoyed the stronger launch in Saturday’s sprint race to dive up the inside of fourth-starting Verstappen into Turn 1 in Baku and the duo continued to run side-by-side until the exit of the Turn 3 left-hander. In their exchange, Russell and Verstappen bumped at the apex of Turn 2, with the impact
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