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2:46 PM ET INDIANAPOLIS — — Felix Rosenqvist continued to fight for his seat in the IndyCar Series with a pole-winning run on the road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The Swede earned his second pole of the season with a run of 1 minute, 10.2265 seconds in Friday qualifying. It’s the second pole of

6:03 PM ET Assocoiated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Two-time IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden was cleared Thursday to practice at Indianapolis Motor Speedway following his collapse after crashing at Iowa. Newgarden will be reevaluated Friday after practice to determine whether he can compete Saturday on the road course at Indianapolis. Newgarden was leading and headed to a

6:34 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — IndyCar champion Alex Palou, who has contracts signed with two different race teams for 2023 and is being sued by Chip Ganassi Racing, declared Thursday: “I will be in the McLaren family next year.” The soap opera over Palou’s future continued with more twists and turns than the

1:59 PM ET It wasn’t the Brickyard 400, but AJ Allmendinger still kissed the bricks after winning at Indianapolis last season. Stacy Revere/Getty Images The Brickyard is the Brickyard no longer. Yes, the race still has the word in the title — the Verizon 200 at the Brickyard. Indy is still Indy and Indy will always

9:50 AM ET Sebastian Vettel’s retirement from Aston Martin has left a sizeable void on next year’s grid — a lucrative seat at one of Formula One’s most ambitious teams. With the grid’s biggest names — Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc — locked down for the foreseeable at their present teams, the top

10:36 AM ET Associated Press The fight over IndyCar champion Alex Palou is headed to court as Chip Ganassi Racing filed a lawsuit in Indiana against the Spanish driver who is attempting to leave the team at the end of the season. Palou is in his second season driving for Ganassi. The team owner said

12:07 PM ET Darlington Raceway has signed Coastal Carolina quarterback Grayson McCall in the first lengthy name, image and likeness partnership between a NASCAR racetrack and a college football player. Atlanta Motor Speedway has done one-off social media promotions with a trio of Georgia football players to promote its most recent NASCAR Cup Series events,

7:04 AM ET Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton has said that he knows what Charles Leclerc is going through after the Ferrari driver threw away a shot at victory at the French Grand Prix last weekend. Leclerc spun out of the lead of the race, handing victory to title rival Max Verstappen, who extended his

2:32 PM ET Haas will run its first upgrade of the season on Kevin Magnussen’s car at the Hungarian Grand Prix this weekend. Haas is the only one of F1’s ten teams not to have upgraded its car in any significant way this year and had originally targeted last weekend’s French Grand Prix for its

1:06 PM ET Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa — Two-time IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden was released from a Des Moines hospital on Monday and returned to his Tennessee home, where he will wait for an evaluation to determine if he can race this weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Team Penske named Santino Ferrucci as its

5:16 AM ET LE CASTELLET, France — The devastation was audible in Charles Leclerc’s voice as he screamed over team radio. His car was nose into the barriers at Turn 11; his championship chances were in pieces. What made it so difficult to bear was that this moment was on him. On a weekend when

2:49 PM ET Denny Hamlin was stripped of his Pocono win on Sunday night after his Toyota Camry failed technical inspection. Logan Riely/Getty Images Next Gen car, Next Gen punishment. On Sunday evening, so soon after the finish of the 21st race of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season that the confetti was still stuck to

6:36 PM ET Associated Press NEWTON, Iowa — Josef Newgarden collapsed in the motorhome lot following his late crash Sunday at Iowa Speedway and was taken to a Des Moines hospital by helicopter for evaluation. IndyCar medical director Dr. Geoffrey Billows said Newgarden was transported by helicopter to Mercy One Des Moines Medical Center because

9:40 PM ET Associated Press SONOMA, Calif. — Brittany Force raced to her fourth Top Fuel victory of the season and 15th overall in a record-setting Sunday in the Denso NHRA Sonoma Nationals. Force had a 3.709-second run at 335.48 mph to beat Mike Salinas in the final round and move ahead of him for

5:37 PM ET Carlos Sainz defended Ferrari’s French Grand Prix strategy on Sunday after making a late pitstop to finish fifth rather than pushing for the podium. The Spaniard went from 19th on the grid to third but had a five second penalty hanging over him for an unsafe release from his first pitstop, and

7:07 PM ET Associated Press NEWTON, Iowa — Josef Newgarden extended the Team Penske dominance at Iowa Speedway, winning the first race of a weekend doubleheader Saturday for his fourth victory at the shortest track on the IndyCar schedule. Newgarden raced to his series-best fourth victory of the season and moved from fourth to second

9:12 PM ET Associated Press SONOMA, Calif. — Funny Car leader Robert Hight took the No. 1 qualifying position Saturday in the Denso NHRA Sonoma Nationals in a bid to become first NHRA driver to win four straight races at Sonoma Raceway. Hight’s run of 3.825 seconds at 332.75 mph in a Chevrolet Camaro held

1:53 PM ET LE CASTELLET, France — Toto Wolff said Mercedes’ qualifying performance at the French Grand Prix felt like a “slap in the face” after the team failed to meet expectations. The layout of the track and its smooth surface was expected to favour Mercedes, which has won all but one of the races

1:17 AM ET Associated Press SONOMA, Calif. — Leah Pruett led Top Fuel qualifying Friday night in the Denso NHRA Sonoma Nationals at Sonoma Raceway. Coming off a victory last week in Colorado, Pruett had a 3.689-second run at 327.59 mph in her Tony Stewart Racing dragster during the lone qualifying session of the day.

5:51 PM ET Associated Press NEWTON, Iowa — IndyCar champion Alex Palou insisted Friday he wasn’t lying last month when he told The Associated Press he was happy driving for Chip Ganassi Racing, wasn’t talking to any other teams, and was set to return to the No. 10 next season. Well, something dramatically changed in

3:36 PM ET Mercedes cannot do much to help Nyck de Vries secure a Formula One drive and may let him go, team boss Toto Wolff said after the Dutch reserve replaced Lewis Hamilton in first Friday practice at the French Grand Prix. De Vries, 27, is the reigning Formula E champion with Mercedes and

6:20 PM ET One team is stalling on Lewis Hamilton’s diversity charter for Formula One, the seven-times world champion revealed on Thursday. The Mercedes driver would not name the team. “We are very close to getting this diversity inclusion charter going and I think it’s still one team, still the same team, is not willing

12:48 PM ET Fernando Alonso (L) won the 2010 Bahrain Grand Prix with Ferrari, while ex-McLaren teammate Lewis Hamilton came third. Paul Gilham/Getty Images LE CASTELLET, France — Ahead of his 300th Formula One race, Lewis Hamilton has named his former McLaren teammate Fernando Alonso as the toughest competitor of his career. In Sunday’s French Grand

8:12 AM ET Nicholas Latifi will have the same performance upgrades on his car as his Williams Formula One teammate Alex Albon at this weekend’s French Grand Prix. The team said on Tuesday it now had parts for both cars after Albon tried them out in Britain and Austria. 1 Related “Although the weather in

4:20 PM ET Associated Press Colton Herta posted a fast lap of 59.2698 seconds in Saturday’s qualifying at Toronto, becoming IndyCar’s first two-time pole winner this season. The Californian will start from the No. 1 spot for the ninth time in his career and first since competing in Long Beach, California, in April. A different

5:40 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — Scott Dixon had been waiting more than a year to join Mario Andretti in second place on IndyCar’s career wins list. The only one ahead of him now is A.J. Foyt. The six-time series champion finally snapped a 22-race winless streak Sunday when he held off pole sitter

9:18 PM ET Associated Press MORRISON, Colo. — Leah Pruett raced to her first Top Fuel victory for Tony Stewart Racing, powering past Shawn Langdon in the final of the NHRA Mile-High Nationals at Bandimere Speedway. Pruett, who is married to Stewart, had a 3.884-second run at 316.38 mph in the final for her 10th

10:08 AM ET Associated Press Dr. Julia Vaizer, an assistant professor of clinical emergency medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine, will become the first female medical chief for IndyCar and Indianapolis Motor Speedway when she takes over next season. Vaizer has spent the past year assisting Dr. Geoffrey Billows, the series’ longtime medical

11:23 PM ET Associated Press MORRISON, Colo. — Brittany Force took the No. 1 spot in the final Top Fuel qualifying session Saturday in the NHRA Mile-High Nationals at Bandimere Speedway. Force had a 3.758-second run at 325.61 mph at Thunder Mountain for her fourth No. 1 qualifier of the season and 36th overall. “We

5:44 PM ET Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — Bobby East, a three-time USAC national champion driver, has died. He was 37. The United States Auto Club announced Friday that East died Wednesday. It didn’t provide details of the death. East, whose father was a noted short-track car builder, won SAC Silver Crown championships in 2004,