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8:28 AM ET The Australian Grand Prix’s stewards have rejected Ferrari’s attempt to reopen the investigation into Carlos Sainz’s in-race penalty. Sainz dropped from fourth place to last in the final results of the race due to a five-second penalty for making contact with Fernando Alonso at a late red-flag restart. The stewards issued the

6:17 PM ET Associated Press LONG BEACH, Calif. — As Kyle Kirkwood crossed the finish line for his first career IndyCar win, his new race strategist urged him to soak up the sights and sounds of victory. It nearly brought the 24-year-old to tears. “A first win, it’s a big deal for any driver. I

6:06 AM ET Associated Press LONG BEACH, Calif. — Kyle Kirkwood won the first pole of his IndyCar career Saturday with a flying fast lap around the downtown streets of Long Beach, giving the series three different pole winners through the first three races of the season. The Andretti Autosport crew erupted in celebration when

7:58 PM ET Associated Press LONG BEACH, Calif. — Roger Penske earned his first IMSA sports car victory since partnering with Porsche with a win at the Grand Prix of Long Beach. Mathieu Jaminet won Saturday’s race under caution for Porsche Team Penske when Ricky Taylor of Wayne Taylor Racing crashed trying to pass him

9:42 AM ET ESPN News Services World Rally Championship driver Craig Breen has died after a crash in a pre-event test in Croatia, Hyundai Motorsport said in a statement Thursday. Breen was 33. The team said co-driver James Fulton was unharmed in the incident just after midday local time. Motorsport.com reported that Breen’s car went

9:11 AM ET Long Beach is one of the most picturesque stops on the IndyCar calendar. Greg Doherty/Getty Images You’ll find Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles located two blocks off the Long Beach Grand Prix’s landmark Turn 11 hairpin corner. Not only is Southern California’s sweet and savory cultural tentpole a longstanding fixture in movies,

7:45 AM ET Christian Horner has dismissed suggestions legendary car designer Adrian Newey will leave Red Bull for a rival team. Newey is considered the best technical mind of the modern Formula One era, having designed championship winning cars for Williams, McLaren and Red Bull, who he joined in 2006 and where he is currently

6:22 PM ET Associated Press CONCORD, N.C. — Chase Elliott will return to racing this weekend at Martinsville Speedway after he missed the past six NASCAR Cup races with a broken left leg. The 27-year-old Elliott was injured in a snowboarding accident in Colorado in early March. The 2020 Cup Series champion rehabilitated in Colorado

9:43 AM ET Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur does not think Red Bull’s windtunnel penalty will have a meaningful impact on the team’s Formula One advantage this year. Red Bull was fined $7 million and lost 10 percent of its aerodynamic testing time after being deemed to have breached the 2021 cost cap. Windtunnel time is

7:00 PM ET Formula One will feature a new sprint format at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix after unanimous agreement among the teams to make a change. Pending official ratification of the change, F1 is dropping Saturday’s practice session, which usually precedes the sprint race, in favour of a standalone qualifying session for that event. It

11:49 AM ET NASCAR Cup Series team owners boycotted a meeting with the series Wednesday. David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images NASCAR‘s kumbaya has been replaced by a record scratch. And a boycott. This feels like a bad idea. Remember 2020? That’s when the pandemic shuttered the world, but it was NASCAR, bunkered in with

8:41 AM ET George Russell suggested Red Bull has not shown its true pace advantage this year because of fears Formula One will step in to slow them down. The Mercedes driver’s prediction of Red Bull winning all 23 races this year is still on, with the reigning world champions going three-from-three to kick off

4:56 AM ET Formula One teams will welcome more than their drivers the breathing space provided by a long April break in a record 23-race season. Fans must wait until the last weekend in the month for the next race in Azerbaijan after Sunday’s triple-stopped Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, the gap caused by the

5:26 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Formula One has always been a complex sport, but the chaos of the final few laps at the Australian Grand Prix even left some drivers and team bosses confused. In the space of the last four laps, the race was red flagged twice, resulting in one standing restart, four

2:56 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Josef Newgarden won at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday for the second consecutive year when a thrilling wheel-to-wheel battle with Pato O’Ward came to a sudden halt by a crash behind them. Newgarden and O’Ward — at one point the only two drivers on the lead

9:53 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Haas’ protest over the result of the Australian Grand Prix has been thrown out by the FIA’s stewards, meaning the race classification is now official. The race finished with two red flags in the last four laps — the first of which led to a messy restart on lap

6:03 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Seeing the top three drivers get out of their cars after qualifying session at the Australian Grand Prix, you’d be forgiven for being transported back to 2021. A Red Bull driver on pole followed closely by two Mercedes cars is nothing new in F1, but in the context of

8:25 AM ET Indian driver Kush Maini of Campos Racing fought off a strong challenge from Arthur Leclerc of DAMS in a rain-interrupted race to claim his first-ever Formula 2 podium with a third-place finish in the Sprint Race at Albert Park, in Melbourne on Saturday. Maini started from P3 on the grid on prime

2:45 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Sergio Perez says a technical issue affecting the brake balance on his car was to blame for his early exit in qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix. The Red Bull driver ran wide at Turn 3 after locking up under braking on his first flying lap in qualifying. The

4:28 PM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Just three months in to his first year away from the Formula One grid, Daniel Ricciardo is already eyeing a return to a race drive next season. When McLaren decided to replace Ricciardo with Oscar Piastri at the end of the 2022 season, the 33-year-old Australian was left with

9:20 PM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — The FIA has clarified the rules around penalties being served at pit stops so as to avoid a repeat of the confusion over Fernando Alonso’s podium finish in Saudi Arabia. Alonso finished third on track in Saudi Arabia, but received a 10-second penalty after the podium ceremony — demoting

12:06 PM ET In his 17th full-time season in the Cup Series, Denny Hamlin is still searching for that elusive first championship. Michael Allio/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images You can hate Denny Hamlin all you want. If you are a NASCAR fan, you can boo him. If you are a fellow NASCAR competitor, you can feud

9:50 AM ET ESPN staff The 2023 Formula 1 racing season is in full swing, with expanded viewing options for American F1 fans across a variety of platforms. This weekend, the action heads to Melbourne, Australia. When is the Australian Grand Prix? How can I watch? The Australian Grand Prix will air on Sat., April

1:45 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Carlos Sainz says Ferrari is currently experiencing one of its toughest moments since he joined the team in 2021. Sainz finished fourth and sixth at the opening two rounds of the season, while teammate Charles Leclerc retired from the Bahrain Grand Prix and was seventh in Saudi Arabia after

5:24 AM ET Former British American Racing (BAR) founder Craig Pollock has confirmed he is looking to enter Formula One with a 50 percent male, 50 percent female team called Formula Equal. Pollock has submitted an expression of interest to racing’s governing body, the FIA, who opened up the process for finding an 11th F1

11:47 PM ET Australia’s Formula One driver Oscar Piastri has been warned the home-town hype could exhaust him before arriving at the Melbourne circuit. Damon Hill, the F1 world champion in 1996, has cautioned Australians to temper their expectations around Piastri at the grand prix in the Victorian capital. Photo by Bryn Lennon – Formula

2:46 AM ET Former Formula One world champion Jenson Button said that he suffered heat exhaustion and nearly retired from the race before finishing 18th at his NASCAR debut in Texas on Sunday. The 43-year-old Briton, who won the F1 world championship in 2009, said he feared fainting while driving his Ford Mustang during the

9:17 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — A.J. Allmendinger dominated early, then had to fight to retake the lead at the start of the final stage to earn his 11th career NASCAR Xfinity series road course victory Saturday at the Circuit of the Americas. Allmendinger bumped Sheldon Creed out of the lead with 14

5:19 AM ET Brazil’s triple Formula One champion Nelson Piquet must pay $953,050 (5 million Brazilian Reals) in moral damages for racist and homophobic comments against Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, a Brazilian court ruled on Friday. In an interview in November 2021, Piquet used a racial slur referring to the seven-time world champion, when commenting

4:03 PM ET The Las Vegas Aces, the reigning WNBA champions, have added to their championship credentials. Seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady acquired a minority stake in the team whose majority owner is Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis. “I have always been a huge fan of women’s sports, and I admire the work