Harvick had just made his final green-flag stop for tyres and fuel when Christopher Bell and Ross Chastain wrecked on lap 160 of 200 to bring out a caution. Bell had attempted to block an advance by Chastain and the two ended up crashing together at the Turn 4 wall, allowing the leaders to pit.
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Andretti, 35, is the grandson of motorsports icon Mario Andretti. Andretti competed full-time as an IndyCar driver from 2006 to 2020, winning twice. Since then, he has made one-off appearances in the Indianapolis 500, a race he has started 17 times. Most recently, he earned the championship in Season 2 of Tony Stewart’s six-week Superstar
The ex-Red Bull and Toro Rosso F1 racer will make his Cup Series debut this weekend on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course, driving a second entry for the part-time organisation Team Hezeberg. The current plan is for Kvyat to run all three remaining road courses on the 2022 Cup schedule – Indy on Sunday,
The former Toro Rosso, Red Bull and AlphaTauri F1 racer will join the Dutch-owned Team Hezeberg squad to drive the #26 Toyota Camry at Indianapolis, and subsequent road courses at Watkins Glen (21 August) and the Charlotte Roval playoff race on 9 October. Team Hezeberg, a joint effort between former racer Toine Hezemans, Dutch entrepreneur
More than two and a half following the conclusion of Sunday’s race at Pocono Raceway, won by Denny Hamlin, NASCAR announced that Hamlin’s #11 Toyota and the #18 of his Joe Gibbs Racing team-mate Kyle Busch had failed post-race inspection. It means Elliott is elevated from third to first, with the podium completed by Tyler
What race does the Chicago Street Course replace on the NASCAR Cup schedule? After a two-year run on the Cup schedule, Road America will not be among the series’ 36 points-paying races next season. The Chicago Street Course will take Road America’s place in the schedule on the 4 July weekend. In a statement Tuesday,
It’s no secret in recent years NASCAR has made several bold changes, from shaking up its schedule with new venues to the introduction of the Next Generation car in the Cup Series. NASCAR has also championed efforts to improve inclusion and diversity within the sport and the addition of a street course in downtown Chicago
At least in part that appears to be a good thing for both 23XI Racing and Reddick’s current Richard Childress Racing team, as each will have big decisions to make in the next year-and-a-half. Both 23XI Racing team co-owner Denny Hamlin and team president Steve Lauletta emphasised in Tuesday’s surprise announcement that only one piece
Reddick, who just earned his first career NASCAR Cup Series win two weeks ago at Road America, unexpectedly joined a scheduled Toyota media conference call on Tuesday about 23XI Racing in which he was introduced as a new driver with the organisation beginning with the 2024 season. “This is a conversation that started a long
Spire Motorsports Chevrolet driver LaJoie led the way on a restart with three of 260 laps remaining at Atlanta Motor Speedway, but Hendrick Motorsports’ Elliott was able to get around him with one to go. LaJoie wasn’t giving up on a potential first win in the Cup Series however, and at the start of the final lap
The Joe Gibbs Racing driver was battling up around the top-five late in the race when Chastain came up the track and made contact with the left-rear of the #11 car, sending Hamlin spinning. Chastain went on to place second, very nearly taking the lead from Chase Elliott before the race-ending caution. Hamlin, who sustained
A late caution set up a pit strategy decision as several of those contending for the win elected to pit for new tyres while Elliott and nine others remained on the track. On the restart with four of 300 laps to go, Elliott easily cleared Kurt Busch for the lead with a push from Ryan
Following a final round of pitstops, Reddick passed Elliott for position on the track and inherited the lead for the first and only time on lap 47. He then spent the last 16 laps masterfully matching Elliott move for move, and pulled away to take victory by 3.304 seconds. Reddick’s first career win comes in
In a sport driven by characters that at times seemed larger-than-life – Dale Earnhardt, Darrell Waltrip, Richard Petty among them – Smith always seemed to be among the best at capitalising on their appeal to the masses. Yes, the drivers were the stars. But to be stars, there had to be an audience that adored
But for Cindric the most notable contrast is not in the technical regulations nor the completely different sporting approach. Instead, it is fan engagement that stands out for him as the biggest deviation. Cindric attended his first F1 race in Canada last weekend and got to see up close how a real life grand prix
With 10 races remaining before the start of the 2022 playoffs, NASCAR has already seen higher TV ratings, strong race-day crowds and plenty of on-track action, particularly on intermediate tracks. While the Next Gen car hasn’t been a smashing success everywhere – short track races at Martinsville and Richmond were sub-par for instance – but
Kostecki began to put his NASCAR plan into place during a recent trip to the US where he took in both the Indianapolis 500 and the Cup Series race at Gateway. While Stateside he kicked off talks with potential parties that could facilitate a partial Cup or Xfinity Series programme next season. The idea isn’t
In his 195th Cup Series start since his 2017 debut with Joe Gibbs Racing, the 30-year-old cruised to a 3.849 second win to book his place in the playoffs alongside team-mate Ross Chastain. The 2016 Xfinity Series champion, one of the first success stories to come out of NASCAR’s Drive for Diversity programme, Suarez had posted
Busch had taken control of the race, but a late caution from a wreck involving Kevin Harvick sent Sunday’s race into a two-lap overtime and allowed Logano a chance to attack the Joe Gibbs Toyota driver. The 2018 Cup champion lined up alongside Busch on the restart and got a big push from Penske Ford
The Trackhouse Racing driver, who has won two Cup Series races this year at the Circuit of the Americas and Talladega, began the Gateway race with an uneventful run to fifth in Stage 1. But shortly after action resumed following the break between stages, Chastain ran deep into Turn 1 and punted Denny Hamlin into the wall,
Raikkonen will join up with Trackhouse Racing for the road course race at Watkins Glen on 21 August, driving a Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 alongside team-mates Daniel Suarez and Ross Chastain. It will mark Raikkonen’s first outing in a motorsport event since he called time on his 20-year F1 career last December with his final appearance
As Kimi Raikkonen walked out of the paddock on Sunday night in Abu Dhabi, it was very clear that he was done with Formula 1. On Friday, Raikkonen had sat down with Autosport for what was meant to be a quick interview. It overran by around 10 minutes, to the surprise of his Alfa Romeo
Under the programme, dubbed ‘Project 91,’ Trackhouse Racing will enter the #91 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 at least once during the remainder of this Cup season with plans to expand it in the future. The first international driver to participate in the program will be announced with the next few days. Previous international drivers in the
The Trackhouse team run by Justin Marks and co-owned by rapper Pitbull already fields two Cup Series entries for Ross Chastain and Daniel Suarez, but plans to enter its #91 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 at least once during the remainder of this Cup season. It intends to expand the programme in the future. “Project 91’s mission
Initially, Blaney took the chequered flag ahead of Denny Hamlin but a caution was displayed on the final lap for Ricky Stenhouse Jr who crashed into the backstretch wall. Under normal NASCAR rules Blaney would have been declared the winner, but under the special rules for Sunday night’s All-Star event, the winner had to take
NASCAR announced in March that it plans to take its new Next Gen stock car, which debuted in the Cup Series this season, to the Le Mans 24 Hours as a Garage 56 entry in 2023. Garage 56 is the entry that the Automobile Club de l’Ouest sets aside for the “technology of tomorrow and
The 2004 Cup champion Busch dominated much of the race, leading a race-high 116 laps, but emerged behind his younger brother’s Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota after a round of pit stops under caution. Following the restart, as Kyle Busch led the field, Kurt fell back to fourth before mounting a charge back to the front. After Hendrick
Logano lined up in the lead on the final restart with 25 of 293 laps remaining with Byron and Tyler Reddick right behind him. As Byron and Logano battled side-by-side in Turn 2, Logano felt Byron crowded him up the track to complete a pass for the lead which triggered a clash between the two
Joey Logano ran down William Byron and nudged him out of the way with one lap remaining at Darlington Speedway to claim his first NASCAR Cup Series win of 2022. Byron had moved into the lead for the first time on Lap 268 of 293 but as the final laps ticked down, Logano was quickly
Formula 1 has never raced in Miami before 2022 but plenty of other forms of motorsport have been active there – some even using the banner of the ‘Grand Prix of Miami’ long before F1 came to town. Miami used to play host to a downtown street race event, promoted by Cuban-American businessman Ralph Sanchez,