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Truex  was in a strong position to battle for the race win, passing Chris Buescher with less than ten laps to go. Soon after, Kyle Larson passed both drivers and took control of the race on fresher tires.It was not going to be Truex’s first victory of the 2024 season, but it was still going to be a strong runner-up finish until the exit of the final corner.While on the frontstretch, just seconds …Keep reading

Power trailed Team Penske team-mates Josef Newgarden and Scott McLaughlin with 14 laps to go around the 4.014-mile, 14-turn natural terrain road course.Both Power and McLaughlin were running the less preferred softer alternate compound coming to the final pit stop of the afternoon, while Newgarden was on the ideal harder primary tires. McLaughlin was the first to dive to pit lane on lap 42 of 55 …Keep reading

Waters, who has already made a pair of starts in the Truck Series this year, drove a third entry in Sunday’s race at Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway for RFK Racing.He struggled in qualifying on Saturday and started 31st but by the second stage of Sunday’s race he was running in the top 20.On lap 35 of 110, Josh Berry cut across the nose of Erik Jones and hit the inside wall in Turn 11, then turned …Keep reading

After hitting a wet patch of road with his right-hand side slick tyres, Perez clattered into the Turn 6 barriers on Lap 53 of a wet-to-dry race on Montreal’s Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.Perez severely damaged his Red Bull’s rear wing by rear-ending the outside wall, but was asked by the team to bring his car back to the pits. As he limped back slowly to the pitlane for more than half a lap, Perez …Keep reading

Buescher’s up-and-down season has him precariously close to the cutoff line to make the 16-driver playoff field, but a win would lock him in, and he found himself in excellent position late in Sunday’s race to do just that.Buescher, who drives the No. 17 Ford for RFK Racing, made his first stop early in the race and stayed out to take the Stage 2 win.While in the lead, he then was among the …Keep reading

Many of the planned strategies in Sunday’s race went awry with seven cautions in the first 41 laps and that prompted Larson’s crew chief Cliff Daniels to run Larson as long as possible in the final stage before making his final stop.Once Larson finally stopped, he cycled into eighth in the lineup but with much fresher tires he sliced through the field to take the lead with eight of 110 laps …Keep reading

Rookie Linus Lundqvist led the field to the green flag and went into Turn 1, but was bumped at the exit of the corner by Chip Ganassi Racing team-mate Marcus Armstrong. The contact set off a chain reaction as Herta, who started second but fell in line to fourth, checked up as the two drivers spun but was then hit from behind by the nose of Newgarden’s No. 2 Team Penske Chevrolet. Herta was …Keep reading

The Briton overtook both Max Verstappen and polesitter George Russell to take the lead of the race, and started to put over two seconds a lap on the pair in a bid to build up his lead.His progress was nipped in the bud when the first of two safety cars emerged when Logan Sargeant hit the wall on the exit of Turn 5, where it appeared that he had missed the pit entry before the safety car was …Keep reading

A two-time IndyCar Series champion, Power was running third ahead of the final pitstop, but utilized the overcut to jump his team-mates to cycle to the lead and coast to a 3.2609s victory at the 4.014-mile, 14-turn natural terrain road course.It was the 42nd win of Power’s career, moving him into a tie for fourth all-time with Michael Andretti. It also marked the first win for Power since …Keep reading

The Spaniard spent much of the grand prix struggling with pace and could not crack the top 10, and his chances were further dented when he made contact with Alex Albon at Turn 6 after spinning to put the Williams driver out.Sainz felt that he had to “take risks” to make progress in the slick-tyre phase of the race, which he felt was likely responsible for his Turn 6 strife, as he felt the …Keep reading