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1:00 AM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Justin Ashley led Top Fuel qualifying Friday night in the NHRA U.S. Nationals with a 3.716-second pass at 330.23 mph. “You always want to come out hot and make a good run down the track,” Ashley said. “It’s a special weekend for us and we always want to

4:53 PM ET Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — Colton Herta receives a buzz on his phone alerting him every time his name is linked to a Formula One seat next season with AlphaTauri. The speculation is so rampant that Herta said Friday that he has stopped reading the reports. He has also informed his father,

9:52 AM ET Oscar Piastri will replace Daniel Ricciardo at McLaren in 2023 after the FIA’s contract recognition board (CRB) upheld the team’s contract with the Formula 2 champion. McLaren and Alpine both felt they had a valid contract for the Australian’s services for next season. On Friday the CRB upheld McLaren’s contract, revealing he

1:18 PM ET ZANDVOORT, Netherlands — Media day for the Dutch Grand Prix on Thursday was dominated by talk around the remaining seats on the 2023 grid, with Pierre Gasly increasingly looking like a major player in the driver market. F1 is waiting for clarification from the contract recognition board on whether Alpine or McLaren

1:00 PM ET Can Kyle Larson win the NASCAR Cup Series for the second consecutive season? Peter Casey-USA TODAY Sports Welcome to the NASCAR playoffs! Helpful hint: Don’t call it the Chase. And don’t dare call it the Playoff, singular. That’s what they do over in college football, where only four teams are in the College

4:06 AM ET Lewis Hamilton literally put a cap on a verbal spat with Formula One rival Fernando Alonso in a teasing social media post on Tuesday. Alonso, a former team mate and fellow world champion, had branded the Briton an idiot after a first-lap collision at last Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix. Mercedes’ seven-times world

6:56 AM ET The FIA hearing to settle the contract dispute between Alpine and McLaren over Formula 2 champion Oscar Piastri started on Monday. Over the summer break, Alpine released a statement confirming Piastri would replace Fernando Alonso in 2023, only for the Australian to later tweet that he had no contract with Alpine and

2:21 PM ET Lewis Hamilton said he will not talk to Fernando Alonso about their collision at the Belgian Grand Prix because of what Alonso said about him immediately after the incident. Old Formula One rivals Hamilton and Alonso collided on the opening lap Sunday while fighting for third position at Les Combes chicane. Immediately

9:49 AM ET Fernando Alonso labelled seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton “an idiot” who only knows how to race at the front after they collided on the first lap of the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday. The two old rivals were battling for third position down the Kemmel Straight with Hamilton looking to overtake Alonso

2:07 PM ET SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium — Charles Leclerc is concerned Ferrari’s rival Red Bull has found a significant step in performance after Max Verstappen qualified over 0.7s clear of the rest of the field at the Belgian Grand Prix. Grid penalties for Verstappen and Leclerc mean they will both move down the grid and start

8:36 AM ET Formula One is not seeing the real Daniel Ricciardo and the Australian needs to find a drive for next season that helps him rediscover his mojo, Red Bull team boss Christian Horner said on Saturday. Ricciardo is set to leave McLaren at the end of the season, after the team terminated his

11:48 AM ET Alpine boss Otmar Szafnauer has accused Oscar Piastri of lacking integrity and said he’s gone back on his word by trying to race for McLaren. Piastri is in the middle of a legal dispute between McLaren and Alpine, with both teams set to visit the FIA’s contract recognition board next week to

9:15 AM ET Marshall Pruett With two races remaining, 41-year-old Will Power, right, leads 42-year-old Scott Dixon in a seven-way fight for the IndyCar title. Chris McDill/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Myspace. Blackberrys. Presidents. All have come and gone during Scott Dixon‘s three-decade reign atop the IndyCar Series. The New Zealander’s breakthrough championship came a lifetime

3:22 AM ET Car manufacturer Audi has confirmed it will enter Formula One in 2026 as a power unit constructor. The deal was announced following the sign-off of F1’s new engine regulations for 2026, which will provide Audi with an opportunity to enter the sport on more equal terms with the sport’s existing power unit

12:53 PM ET Lando Norris said he has no sympathy for the struggles which led to teammate Daniel Ricciardo’s early departure from McLaren. On Wednesday, Ricciardo and McLaren confirmed they will part ways at the end of 2022, one year before his contract was due to expire. McLaren’s decision was ultimately prompted by Ricciardo’s disappointing

7:36 AM ET The Belgian Grand Prix‘s Formula One future after Sunday’s race is yet to be decided but reports of its demise may be premature, the sport’s chief executive Stefano Domenicali indicated on Wednesday. The 2023 calendar is due to be published in October and is set to feature a record 24 races, with

2:52 PM ET McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl has said he is willing to shoulder some of the responsibility for Daniel Ricciardo’s struggle to secure results in the past two seasons, which ultimately led to the team’s decision to terminate the Australian’s contract one year early. On Wednesday, McLaren confirmed Ricciardo’s departure at the end

10:24 AM ET The future of Daniel Ricciardo’s Formula One career has never looked so uncertain. On Wednesday, he and McLaren confirmed they will part company at the end of 2022, one year before his contract was due to expire. It’s a remarkable turn of events for one of F1’s most talented and popular drivers.

3:14 PM ET Formula One CEO Stefano Domenicali said the sport has no plans to hold future races in Russia. The Russian Grand Prix was scheduled to be held in Sochi this year before moving to Igora Drive in St. Petersburg in 2023, but F1 canceled the race after Russia invaded Ukraine. Domenicali said the

3:43 PM ET Associated Press DARLINGTON, S.C. — Dawn Staley will be out front again, this time at Darlington Raceway. South Carolina’s two-time national women’s championship coach will drive the pace car for the first race of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs – the Southern 500 on Sept. 4. Staley attended the event in 2017

5:00 AM ET Ferrari reserve driver Antonio Giovinazzi will take part in two practice sessions for Haas this year. Giovinazzi will replace Kevin Magnussen and Mick Schumacher respectively for the opening session of the Italian and U.S. Grands Prix, giving him his first experience of Formula One’s new generation of race car. The move comes

7:18 PM ET Associated Press BRAINERD, Minn. — Four-time defending Top Fuel champion Steve Torrence raced to his first victory of the season Sunday, defending his event win at Brainerd International Raceway in the 40th annual Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals. Beating eight-time season champ Tony Schumacher in the final round, Torrence picked up his 52nd

7:51 PM ET Associated Press BRAINERD, Minn. — Defending event champion Matt Hagan topped Funny Car qualifying Saturday in the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals at Brainerd International Raceway. Paired with points leader Robert Hight for the final passes of the day, Hagan had a 3.843-second run at 331.36 mph in Tony Stewart Racing’s Dodge Charger

11:54 PM ET Associated Press MADISON, Ill. — Josef Newgarden considers teammate Scott McLaughlin one of his closest friends, his “Bus Bro” at the racetrack, and the driver he knows will race him clean with a win on the line. That made it a lot easier for Newgarden to chase down McLaughlin on a restart

3:08 PM ET Associated Press MADISON, Ill. — There was no chance Meyer Shank Racing would risk four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Helio Castroneves making history with another team. Curtailing that possibility, the team announced a one-year contract extension Friday that will bring Castroneves back for a 26th full IndyCar season. Castroneves won his fourth 500

6:52 PM ET Associated Press MADISON, Ill. — IndyCar points leader Will Power won the pole for the Saturday night race at World Wide Technology Raceway and tied Mario Andretti for series pole record. The 67th pole of Power’s career was won Friday on the short oval near St. Louis. The Australian turned a lap

12:23 PM ET As IndyCar’s youngest-ever winner, Colton Herta is drawing interest from F1. AP Photo/Darron Cummings Just call it the Curious Case of Colton Herta. This weekend marks the third-from-last event of the 2022 IndyCar season, and the final oval race of the year, on the egg-shaped World Wide Technology Raceway outside St. Louis. The

4:24 AM ET Seven times Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton says he feels “transformed” after travelling in Africa during the racing series’ August break. The Briton, Formula One’s only Black driver whose paternal grandparents emigrated to Britain from the Caribbean, has documented across social media his trip to Namibia, Rwanda, Kenya and Tanzania. “These

7:24 PM ET Associated Press MOORESVILLE, N.C. — Kurt Busch said Thursday he’ll miss the final two races of NASCAR’s regular season, bringing it to six races the 2004 champion has been sidelined with concussion-like symptoms. Busch wrote on Twitter he’ll miss the Sunday race on the road course at Watkins Glen International and then

5:44 AM ET Mercedes chief Toto Wolff has revealed that he studied Manchester United‘s failures to avoid a decline at the Formula One team. In an interview with the Financial Times, Wolff claimed he looked at the Premier League club’s mistakes to understand why “great teams” are not able to continue their success. Manchester United