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The NASCAR Cup race at Iowa Speedway was not kind to Kyle Larson, who was hoping to carry the momentum forward from a runner-up finish in the Brickyard 400 one week ago.Larson’s day started to unravel when he and teammate Chase Elliott kept finding each other on restarts. The two Hendrick Motorsports drivers slammed doors multiple times as they fought over a position inside the top …Keep reading

As he tried to fight back from a mid-race incident, Carson Hocevar got loose underneath Zane Smith and sent the Front Row Motorsports driver spinning into the outside wall.However, things did not end there as the damaged No. 38 Ford of Smith appeared to try and get payback later in the race, taking a swipe at the No. 77 and missing. Hocevar even reacted to it on the radio saying, “nice …Keep reading

Brad Keselowski had the car to win, putting in an incredible performance Sunday at Iowa Speedway, but it still wasn’t enough to reach Victory Lane. He won both Stage 1 and 2, and led 68 laps in the No. 6 RFK Racing Ford.However, when a flurry of cautions plagued the race right around the opening of the final fuel window, it became a guessing game for those up front on when to make the final …Keep reading

After a lack of fuel cost him the win at Michigan, William Byron has made up for it by stretching a single fuel tank 144 laps to win the NASCAR Cup race at Iowa.With the help of a caution-filled final stage, and rivals who themselves each faltered in the closing laps, Byron’s Hail Mary play to stay out at all costs earned Byron and the 24 team its second win of the 2025 season.”Man, how …Keep reading

The Formula 1 circus is heading into a well-deserved summer break after a gruelling 14-race stretch. And if the puzzling Budapest weekend is anything to go by, some drivers and teams will need more time than others to decompress. Winner: Lando Norris Starting from the better side of the grid nearly netted Lando Norris second over Piastri at the start, but instead the Briton got boxed in …Keep reading

It is a long-standing matter of humour in the Formula 1 paddock that the “possible race strategies” infographic Pirelli circulates on Sunday mornings often bears no relationship at all to the way the race pans out.So it proved at the Hungaroring as Lando Norris ended up being effectively forced onto an u favourable one-stop strategy after a poor start, only for it to work in his favour …Keep reading

Ninth place for Max Verstappen from eighth on the grid, and a lapped 18th for Yuki Tsunoda from a pitlane start, represented a crushing underperformance in Hungary for a team with Red Bull Racing’s bulging trophy cabinet. Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko highlighted strategy as one of the elements that failed to work out for the team, but said fifth or sixth would still have been the best …Keep reading

The investigation into Max Verstappen’s pass on Lewis Hamilton at the Hungarian Grand Prix has resulted in no further action, as the stewards deemed that the Dutchman had not forced the Ferrari driver off the road at Turn 4.Having made his first stop for hard tyres, Verstappen was attempting to make up ground and was carving his way through the lower reaches of the field at the start of his …Keep reading

Ferrari Formula 1 team principal Fred Vasseur says he understands Lewis Hamilton’s frustration after a poor Hungarian Grand Prix weekend, but backs the seven-time world champion to bounce back after the summer break. Hamilton was dumped out of Q2 on Saturday, relegating him to 12th on the grid, while team-mate Charles Leclerc surprised both McLarens to snatch pole. From his lowly grid …Keep reading

Charles Leclerc has lamented an issue which may have cost him Ferrari’s only shot at victory in the 2025 Formula 1 season.Leclerc had narrowly edged out McLaren drivers Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris as well as Mercedes’ George Russell for pole position at the Hungarian Grand Prix; he led 28 of the opening 39 laps of the race at the Hungaroring, only temporarily ceding first place to …Keep reading