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Reality hit the 43-year-old Aussie in exactly the 38.3753s it took team-mate Scott McLaughlin’s opening lap that equates to running 234.526mph around the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway.“It sucks, man,” said Power, a two-time IndyCar Series champion. “As soon as I saw the first lap, I knew it was over.”Power ended up with a four-lap average of 233.917mph, while McLaughlin soared to …Keep reading

Hours after team owner Roger Penske’s IndyCar drivers swept the front row for this year’s Indianapolis 500 in qualifying, Logano added a $1 million prize with his win in NASCAR’s annual all-star event.Logano, who has yet to win a points-paying NASCAR Cup race this season, started on the pole and led 199 of the 200 laps, which included the use of multiple tire compounds this season.Denny …Keep reading

In what turned out to be a rather tame first 100 laps of the 200-lap main event, the race actually got off to an eventful start as Kyle Busch tagged the outside wall on the opening lap as the field went three-wide.Busch, who thought he had been hit by Ricky Stenhouse Jr., then knocked Stenhouse into the wall on lap 2 in retaliation. The damage was extensive and brought an early end to …Keep reading

Former F1 racer Ericsson  the 2022 Indy 500 winner, was on course to make the field when he backed off at the end of his third tour of the four-lap qualifying run.After realizing his error, he got back up to speed but it was too late to set a representative speed.That meant he had to sit in the pits, cooling his car, before a last-gasp final run which ended inside the final five minutes of the …Keep reading

The New Zealander was the last of the drivers in the Fast Six to go out and delivered an ominous opening lap of 234.526mph before going on to grab a four-lap average of 234.220mph to take the top spot from team-mate Will Power.When told by NBC Sports that it was a new pole record, McLaughlin replied in shock: “It was? Pennzoil Chevy was unreal. Indy hasn’t been kind to me and, and a lot of it was …Keep reading

Ty Gibbs, who drives the No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, dominated the 100-lap All-Star Open from start to finish, leading every lap at North Wilkesboro (N.C.) Speedway and cleared Wallace by 1.572 seconds at the checkered flag.“I feel we were pretty solid, so it’s good to make it in,” said Gibbs, who made it to last year’s All-Star Race after finishing second in the Open. “Hopefully, we …Keep reading

The 11th driver to go out on track as track temperatures hit a scorching 125F, McLaughlin’s No. 3 Team Penske Chevrolet put together four inch-perfect laps – including an opening circuit of 233.870mph – for 233.492mph to lead the six drivers transferring into the Fast Six and the shootout for pole.Power was the last driver of the 12 to go out and was level on pace until a slight wind change …Keep reading

Dale Coyne Racing’s 19-year-old rookie is the only driver who will go home today, despite a huge scare for 2022 Indy 500 winner Marcus Ericsson (Andretti Global), who miscounted his laps and backed off after the white flag on his first run. He had to run again and jumped to P2 with just minutes remaining.Graham Rahal (Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing) also went through the mill for the second …Keep reading

Red Bull driver Verstappen narrowly edged McLaren’s Lando Norris after he gapped the Briton in the first stint on mediums, but struggled much more on the hard Pirelli rubber for the majority of Imola’s 63-lap race.Verstappen explained that he couldn’t keep the hard compound in the right operating window, which led to a lack of grip that he says nearly saw him crash at Turn 7’s Tosa hairpin.”On the …Keep reading

At one point Saturday, Heim’s No. 11 Tricon Garage Toyota was swamped in water when the race was halted by severe storms at the track, but Heim had no issues when it resumed on Sunday morning.Heim powered past leader Jake Garcia on a restart with 65 of 250 laps to go then repeated the feat over Layne Riggs on another restart with 32 laps to go.From there, Heim stayed steady and beat Grant …Keep reading