August 17, 2024

The NASCAR Xfinity race ended in a two-lap dash to the checkered flag. Justin Allgaier jumped ahead, but the Joe Gibbs Racing duo of Sheldon Creed and John-Hunter Nemechek were in hot pursuit. Going down the backstretch on the final lap, Carson Kvapil was hooked into the outside wall. Sieg and Chandler Smith spun to the inside, skidding across the apron.In a blowover crash reminiscent of …Keep reading

The 21-year-old Briton led all 75 laps en route crossing the finish line by 3.3406s over championship rival Jacob Abel. Yuven Sundaramoorthy, Abel’s rookie team-mate at Abel Motorsports, finished third to collect the first Indy NXT podium of his career.For Foster, the performance marks his sixth victory of the season and has now extended his championship lead to 91 points over Abel …Keep reading

While on air with NBC Sports during a rain delay at Michigan International Speedway, Richmond winner Austin Dillon was careful when asked about the ongoing appeal process. However, he had plenty to say regarding Joey Logano, who was central to the dramatic and ugly finish last weekend.He was the leading driver in Turn 3 when Dillon intentionally overdrove the corner entry, spinning Logano out …Keep reading

NASCAR fans are relatively acquainted with AJ Allmendinger, who has been a major part of the series since 2007, but his path to racing stock cars was never really a straight line, nor was it originally aimed at this particular series at all. What could be considered a series of course-correcting events, most interesting and eventually considered fortunate across his career, would eventually land …Keep reading

In the championship format of old, the storyline from Richmond would have been very different. We would have spent this week talking about how Austin Dillon has struggled through a very difficult season, but he was able to find one bright spot with a surprisingly strong run at Richmond. Maybe he would have come away with a race win. No matter the outcome, it wouldn’t have changed the fact that he …Keep reading

Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia thinks the long lap penalty his MotoGP title rival Jorge Martin received for going off track and cutting a chicane in the Austrian Grand Prix sprint was ‘not necessary’.Bagnaia and Martin were engaged in a tough duel on the second lap at Spielberg when the Pramac rider couldn’t stop his bike in time and had to go straight at the Turn 2 chicane, where an escape …Keep reading

Jamie Chadwick could very well be Britain’s best hope of having a full-time presence on the IndyCar Series grid in 2025.Consider the fates of Callum Ilott, Jack Harvey, Katherine Legge, Toby Sowery and Tom Blomqvist, all of whom have raced in the series this season but are either uncertain to be competing there next year or definitely won’t be on the 2025 grid. Over the past decade, the torch …Keep reading

McLaughlin currently sits sixth in the title race at 83 points behind Palou (411-328). It is a remarkable comeback after he sat 29th in the championship standings after two rounds following Team Penske’s push-to-pass scandal. The penalty negated his podium finish in the season-opening Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, but the New Zealander has since gone on to claim two wins, five podiums and seven …Keep reading

Marc Marquez has admitted he gave away an “easy podium” by being “too optimistic” and crashing out of the MotoGP Austrian Grand Prix sprint race.Gresini rider Marquez was running second behind race leader Francesco Bagnaia on lap 10 of 14 when he tucked the front heading into the uphill Turn 3, barely hanging on to his Ducati as he hit the deck.Although the six-time champion was able to …Keep reading

The end of Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) may be near, but the rise of the Haas Factory Team (HFT) is almost upon us. However, if they want to compete in 2025, they’re going to need drivers. On Saturday, the reborn race team finally revealed its full roster driver roster for the 2025 NASCAR Xfinity Series season, signing two from rival teams.Sheldon Creed joins from Joe Gibbs Racing to pilot the No …Keep reading