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9:04 AM ET In the hours after Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix some of Max Verstappen’s rivals seemed ready to hand him this year’s title with 22 races still to run. The Red Bull driver won the opening race of the season by 11 seconds from his teammate Sergio Perez and by a massive 38 seconds

7:22 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — One way or another, a Hendrick Motorsports driver figured to win Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas. Kyle Larson nearly won the Pennzoil 400 in regulation, but a late caution put teammate William Byron in position to capture the checkered flag in overtime. Byron took

3:47 PM ET Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Jack Harvey was taken to a hospital for observation and Helio Castroneves needed an ice pack and X-rays. A pair of cars went airborne, the leaders crashed into each other and the entire Andretti Autosport fleet was eliminated. Indianapolis 500 winner Marcus Ericsson, meanwhile, won the

12:48 PM ET SAKHIR, Bahrain — Eight months after gambling on a move to Aston Martin, Fernando Alonso said he could not believe he has a car to fight for a podium at the Bahrain Grand Prix — even if Saturday’s qualifying performance didn’t quite live up to the hype of the past 24 hours.

7:56 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Austin Hill overtook Chandler Smith just before the final lap to win the NASCAR Xfinity Series race Saturday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Smith, who was the pole sitter, led 118 laps of the 200-lap race and appeared to be in good shape before Hill made his

5:59 PM ET Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Andretti Autosport has insisted for months that it was doing the behind-the-scenes work to recover from last year’s brutally disappointing IndyCar season. The team won only two races among its four drivers, former Formula One star Romain Grosjean was a bust in his first year with

7:51 PM ET ESPN News Services NASCAR superstar Chase Elliott had successful surgery for an unspecified injury to his left leg Friday night, hours after a snowboarding accident in Colorado. He will miss this weekend’s NASCAR race at Las Vegas. Team owner Rick Hendrick told The Associated Press on Friday night that Elliott was “just

12:56 PM ET SAKHIR, Bahrain — Lewis Hamilton fears Mercedes will be a long way off the pace of its rivals at this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix after he finished Friday practice eighth fastest. Fernando Alonso set the pace during Friday’s evening session in Bahrain, with Hamilton’s best effort 0.636s slower than the Aston Martin

7:42 AM ET Formula One champions Red Bull could be racing against themselves in Bahrain this weekend judging by preseason testing, according to Mercedes’ George Russell. Red Bull’s double world champion Max Verstappen and Mexican teammate Sergio Perez have been sounding confident after their new car was quickest at the Sakhir circuit last week. Editor’s

11:36 AM ET MANAMA, Bahrain — Lewis Hamilton has said he is a fighter and has no plans to leave Formula One if he is unable to challenge for a title this year with Mercedes. The seven-time champion failed to win a race last season for the first time in his 16-year career and goes

4:06 PM ET The entire IndyCar field will be chasing defending champion Will Power, front, in the 2023 season. Jamie Squire/Getty Images Nine different winners from six countries. Seventeen races saw 5,881 passes produced. There were 98,145 laps turned and 186,224 miles of racing covered, with a 41-year-old champion crowned:Team Penske’s Will Power. The 2022 edition

10:42 AM ET SAKHIR, Bahrain — Seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton has called on Formula One to do more to raise awareness of the human rights records of the countries it visits, after saying very little progress has been made in Bahrain since the sport first raced there in 2004. Hamilton’s comments came after 20 members

9:54 AM ET Susie Wolff, former principal of the Venturi Formula E team and wife of Mercedes boss Toto Wolff, has been appointed managing director of the new all-female Formula One academy, F1 said on Wednesday. The new series aims to help young female drivers move up the motorsport ladder. No woman has started a

9:53 AM ET Formula One drivers can help steer the sport away from a “moral vacuum” by speaking out at season-opening races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, human rights campaigners said on Tuesday. Paul Scriven, a member of Britain’s House of Lords, told a news conference organised by the London-based Bahrain Institute for Rights and

8:37 AM ET Associated Press Marco Andretti will attempt to defend the only professional championship of his career when he returns this summer to Superstar Racing Experience, the all-star series created by Tony Stewart. Andretti was among five IndyCar drivers named Tuesday to the series, which last week confirmed Stewart would return to run the

9:41 AM ET SAKHIR, Bahrain – After three days of testing in Bahrain, Formula One is just seven days away from the first race of the new season on March 5. The single preseason test ran remarkably smoothly for the vast majority of teams, but it was clear by the evening of the final day

8:39 AM ET Brazilian Felipe Drugovich will make his Formula One race debut in next weekend’s Bahrain season-opener if Lance Stroll cannot return in time from a cycling injury, Aston Martin said on Sunday. The team said they would give the 24-year-old Canadian, son of the team’s billionaire owner Lawrence, every chance to race. “Should

7:58 PM ET Associated Press FONTANA, Calif. — NASCAR postponed the Xfinity Series race at Fontana to Sunday night because of steady rain at Auto Club Speedway on Saturday. Practice and qualifying sessions for both weekend races at Fontana had already been canceled because of consistent, heavy rain from an extraordinary Southern California storm. The

2:46 PM ET SAKHIR, Bahrain — Aston Martin team principal Mike Krack would not rule out the possibility of Sebastian Vettel making a remarkable comeback to replace the injured Lance Stroll at the opening race of the Formula One season in Bahrain next week, but said their favoured plan was still to have Stroll in

Feb 23, 2023 Ferrari have moved their Formula One head of strategy Inaki Rueda out of the line of fire with Ravin Jain taking the high-pressure role on the pit wall for the season starting in Bahrain next week. A team spokesperson said Jain, an Oxford physics graduate who joined the team in 2016, would

Feb 23, 2023 SAKHIR, Bahrain — Toto Wolff said the early signs are that Mercedes’ 2023 car does not have the same bouncing issues the team struggled with so much last year. After eight straight titles, Mercedes won only a single race last year as it struggled to get to grips with its erratic car.

10:02 AM ET SAKHIR, Bahrain — McLaren looks set for another tough start to a Formula One season after missing car development targets over the winter. McLaren started 2022 on the back foot after encountering brake issues in the Bahrain preseason test and has had a quiet start to the same test this year, which

5:18 AM ET The Haas Formula One team reckon they will save $250,000 (£207,914) in freight costs this season after slimming their pitwall perch down to a three-seater. The U.S.-owned outfit’s new seating arrangement caught the eye among all of the attention on the 2023 cars testing in Bahrain. Instead of the usual six or

12:15 PM ET SAKHIR, Bahrain — Reigning world champion Max Verstappen topped the opening day of preseason testing as Formula One returned to action in Bahrain. The three-day test at the Bahrain International Circuit is the only chance teams will have to run their cars on track ahead of the opening race at the same

12:26 PM ET Associated Press In IndyCar’s effort toward environmental sustainability, one of the world’s largest tire manufacturers will rely on a desert shrub to produce a new source of natural rubber for its tires. Bridgestone Americas said Thursday it has used the offseason to incorporate more sustainable and bio-circular materials into its tires this

6:50 AM ET SAKHIR, Bahrain — Reigning world champion Max Verstappen started the 2023 Formula One season where he left off in 2022 by topping the first morning of testing in Bahrain. The Red Bull driver set a 1:32.959 — 2.5 seconds off last year’s pole position time at the same circuit — as all

3:25 PM ET There will be just three days of preseason testing before the opening race weekend of the 2023 Formula One season and they are about to get underway from February 23 to 25. The number of test days has been halved this year due to stability in the regulations from last year, and

5:50 AM ET The charred remains of the Formula One car Romain Grosjean crashed at the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix will go on display at a new exhibition in Madrid next month. Grosjean survived the terrifying accident, which saw his Haas crash into an unprotected barrier at 120mph, split in two and burst into flames.

11:12 AM ET Formula One’s preseason officially kicks off this week with three days of testing at the Bahrain International Circuit, but all 10 teams have already unveiled their cars to the world over the past few weeks. We saw a handful of big ‘season’ launches, as they appear now to be known — some

5:43 AM ET Honda says it has been contacted by multiple Formula One teams since signing up for the 2026 Formula One engine regulations but is not yet ready to confirm whether it will remain in the sport. Honda’s current F1 commitment extends to the end of 2025 as Red Bull’s engine supplier, but it