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Jun 26, 2023, 02:35 AM ET Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney are joining Otro Capital and RedBird Capital Partners in an investor group taking a 24% equity stake in Alpine Racing, the Formula One team’s parent company Renault announced on Monday. The €200 million ($218.10m) deal values British-based Alpine Racing at around $900m

Associated Press Jun 24, 2023, 07:27 PM ET LEBANON, Tenn. — A.J. Allmendinger pulled away on the second overtime restart Saturday to win his second NASCAR Xfinity race this year and 17th of his career at the Nashville Superspeedway in the Tennessee Lottery 250. The 41-year-old Allmendinger pitted on Lap 145 and used fresher tires

Michael Schumacher came out of retirement to race for Mercedes between 2010 and 2012. Mark Thompson/Getty Images Mick Schumacher will drive his father Michael’s 2011 Mercedes Formula One car at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in July. Schumacher is currently a reserve driver for Mercedes, who his father raced for between 2010 and 2012 after coming

Associated Press Jun 22, 2023, 03:16 PM ET PHILADELPHIA — The race to reopen a stretch of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia is getting a boost from a truck-mounted jet dryer that’s normally used to keep moisture off the track at the Pocono Raceway. A vehicle-mounted, kerosene-fueled turbine arrived Thursday at the scene of the June

Hazel Southwell Jun 22, 2023, 09:19 AM ET Formula E once had everything F1 wanted. Now it’s searching for relevance. Manuel Romano/NurPhoto via Getty Images To a backdrop of sweeping, mid-season leadership changes, Formula E is making another attempt at cracking the United States. Saturday’s race in Portland puts the all-electric open-wheel series in competition with

Jun 21, 2023, 11:28 AM ET Former Formula One world champion Jenson Button has said that Sergio Perez could be looking for another team next year if the Red Bull driver’s recent struggles continue throughout the rest of the season. Perez was in the thick of the championship hunt just a month ago but has

Daniel Ricciardo has admitted for the first time during his sabbatical year that the dream end to his Formula One career would be a return to racing for the Red Bull team. Ricciardo is currently Red Bull’s third driver, serving as a back-up to Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez, following a tough spell with McLaren.

Jun 19, 2023, 12:35 PM ET Red Bull boss Christian Horner recognised after Sunday’s landmark Canadian Grand Prix that his runaway Formula One leaders could win every race this season. “Can we? Yes. Will we? Who knows, because there are so many variables in this game,” Horner told Sky Sports after Max Verstappen took his

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorJun 19, 2023, 09:10 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Mercedes is hopeful it can continue to close the gap to championship leaders Red Bull over the next four races, with two upgrades planned ahead of Formula One’s summer break. The team introduced a major

Associated Press Jun 18, 2023, 05:02 PM ET ELKHART LAKE, Wis. — Alex Palou built on his commanding lead in the IndyCar points standings by winning Sunday at Road America for his third title in his past four events. Palou won for Chip Ganassi Racing by 4.5610 seconds over Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden, who won

Associated Press Jun 18, 2023, 04:40 PM ET MONTREAL — Max Verstappen tied the late Ayrton Senna for career victories and Red Bull won its 100th Formula One race as the Dutchman extended his season-long dominance on Sunday at the Canadian Grand Prix. Verstappen won for the sixth time this season — the fourth in

Jun 17, 2023, 08:50 PM ET Haas driver Nico Hulkenberg was one of the star qualifiers for the Canadian Grand Prix but a penalty for driving too fast under a red flag has relegated him off the front row of the grid. The penalty moves Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso up to second position alongside Max

Associated Press Jun 17, 2023, 12:38 PM ET ELKHART LAKE, Wis. — Reigning IndyCar champion Will Power shoved Scott Dixon after the two were involved in a crash Saturday that severely damaged both cars during practice at Road America. Dixon, the six-time IndyCar champion, had spun on course and reentered the track ahead of Romain

MONTREAL – A bizarre CCTV issue curtailed the first practice session for the Canadian Grand Prix on Friday. Fans were left sat in the grandstands at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve as F1 teams and drivers watched on waiting for the issue to be fixed. The cameras were not synced correctly to what was happening on

MONTREAL — Max Verstappen said he has no interest in Red Bull completing an unbeaten season if he wins his third championship this year. No F1 team has won every race in a calendar season but the dominant nature of Red Bull’s seven victories this year has led to speculation they can be the first.

Austin Lindberg, Senior EditorJun 15, 2023, 09:39 AM ET Butt patches are one of the last remaining forms of identification and self expression in MotoGP. Alpinestars From American football to the football that the rest of the world plays, and practically every sport in between, fans have learned that the best way to identify their favorite

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorJun 14, 2023, 01:31 PM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Sebastian Vettel will drive the famous Nurburgring Nordschleife circuit in a Formula One car later this year when he is reunited with his championship-winning Red Bull RB7. The four-time world champion retired at the end

Jun 13, 2023, 06:59 AM ET The auction of trophies that would have been awarded at this year’s cancelled Emilia Romagna Grand Prix have raised £247,171 ($310,666) for flood relief in the region. The race at Imola was called off last month after flooding in the Emilia Romagna region claimed 14 lives and displaced more

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorJun 12, 2023, 08:29 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff says he regrets not signing Max Verstappen when he had the chance but doubts a driver combination of Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton would have worked. Before Verstappen was announced as

Associated Press Jun 11, 2023, 10:43 AM ET LE MANS, France — Ferrari ended a 50-year absence from the 24 Hours of Le Mans by toppling mighty Toyota on Sunday in the centenary running of the most iconic sports car race in the world. Ferrari last competed at Le Mans in 1973 but returned to

Red Bull chief engineer Paul Monaghan said the team were annoyed by the pictures which circulated of its car floor design, but they do not think “ignorant copies” will make any of their rivals go faster. The underside of the dominant RB19 was photographed after Sergio Perez crashed out of qualifying and his car was

Associated Press Jun 8, 2023, 09:53 AM ET Ryan Hunter-Reay will return to the IndyCar Series as Conor Daly‘s replacement at Ed Carpenter Racing, the team announced Thursday. Daly was let go Wednesday in what team owner Carpenter called one of the most difficult decisions of his tenure running the organization. Carpenter cited performance issues

Jun 8, 2023, 01:57 PM ET Next week’s Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal will be a bigger challenge for resurgent Mercedes than last Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix, the team’s trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin said on Thursday. Mercedes finished second and third at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya with seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton

Associated Press Jun 8, 2023, 03:39 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Noah Gragson will miss Sunday’s NASCAR race at Sonoma Raceway with concussion-like symptoms from a crash last weekend outside St. Louis. Legacy Motor Club said Thursday that Truck Series driver Grant Enfinger will make his Cup debut as Gragson’s replacement in the No. 42

Marshall Pruett, Racing columnistJun 8, 2023, 06:44 PM ET With the Hypercar class surging, the buzz is back at Le Mans. James Moy Photography/Getty Images LE MANS, France — Toyotas are being hunted this weekend in France, and it’s for a good reason. Thanks to an overall victory streak that has reached the gaudy heights of

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorJun 8, 2023, 12:49 PM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Formula One has said the running of next weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal is not at risk from the wildfires burning in Quebec. Smoke from more than 150 active wildfires has blown south from

Associated Press Jun 7, 2023, 01:18 PM ET Ed Carpenter Racing on Wednesday ended its relationship with driver Conor Daly effective immediately, and it will announce a new driver for the No. 20 Chevrolet by IndyCar’s next race. Daly has been working with ECR since 2020, but did not run a full season with the

Former McLaren technical boss James Key has joined Alfa Romeo in the same role, the team announced on Wednesday. Key, who left McLaren shortly after the start of the season, will begin his new role in September, replacing Jan Monchaux. The move marks a return to the Swiss-based Sauber operation, which currently races under the

Lewis Hamilton told ESPN in May that he was pushing for a South African race to be added to the Formula One calendar Joan Valls/Urbanandsport /NurPhoto via Getty Images Formula One’s plan to hold a South African Grand Prix in 2024 has fallen through, sources have told ESPN, meaning the popular Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps

Associated Press Jun 4, 2023, 07:02 AM ET DETROIT — IndyCar is throwing two new wrinkles — and a lot of bumps — at its drivers in the Motor City. The Detroit Grand Prix will make its debut on a 10-turn, 1.7-mile downtown street circuit Sunday. One unique aspect that could add intrigue for fans