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2:50 PM ET IMOLA, Italy — Lewis Hamilton wrote off his chances of competing for the Formula One title this year after falling 50 points adrift of championship leader Charles Leclerc at Saturday’s sprint race at Imola. Hamilton finished 14th in the sprint race, which sets the grid for Sunday’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, after

1:37 PM ET IMOLA, Italy — Lewis Hamilton is hoping to salvage a result from this weekend’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix after qualifying 13th on the grid ahead of Saturday’s sprint qualifying race. The seven-time champion failed to make the top-ten shootout in Friday’s qualifying session after struggling for performance in wet conditions. Saturday’s sprint

10:15 PM ET Associated Press BAYTOWN, Texas — Brittany Force had the fastest pass in Houston Raceway Park history Friday to take the lead in Top Fuel qualifying at the final NHRA SpringNationals. Force broke her own speed record at the track with a 3.695-second run at 333.58 mph. The track that hosted its first

2:34 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — The IndyCar Series and Indianapolis Motor Speedway are going green. Penske Entertainment, the parent company of the series, announced Friday that it will start implementing more eco-friendly plans starting with next month’s Indianapolis 500. The race is scheduled for May 29. All tires delivered to the speedway will

8:05 AM ET Ferrari’s Formula One championship leader Charles Leclerc said he was fully focused on his Italian team’s Imola homecoming this weekend despite being robbed of a watch potentially worth millions. The 24-year-old Monegasque, winner of two of the first three races, had his exclusive Richard Mille timepiece stolen off his wrist in the

5:22 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — IndyCar drivers waited out a four-hour rain delay and worked through their concerns over a slippery warm-up lane Thursday. It didn’t take long for the 31 drivers to start turning laps topping 225 mph. Thirty-one of the 32 drivers entered in next month’s Indianapolis 500 participated in the

4:53 AM ET Spaniard Carlos Sainz will race for Ferrari in Formula One until the end of the 2024 season at least, the former champions said on Thursday. The 27-year-old, who was fifth in the overall standings in 2021 in his debut season with Ferrari, has finished on the podium in the first two races

5:35 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Jimmie Johnson looked every bit like a four-time race winner on Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s historic oval Wednesday. Only this time, his blue No. 48 was an Indy car turning laps in excess of 215 mph. The seven-time NASCAR champion climbed as high as No. 3 on the daily

7:29 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Three Indianapolis 500 winners spun while coming out of the pits Wednesday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and four-time race champion Helio Castroneves hit the second turn wall with about 80 minutes left in an unusually chaotic testing session. Castroneves was taken to the track’s infield medical center where

7:20 AM ET Carlos Sainz and Ferrari are close to confirming a two-year contract extension, according to a report in Spanish publication AS. Sainz is in the second year of his current Ferrari contract and has looked likely to stay beyond 2022 for a while, with the team showing little interest in shopping around for

11:54 AM ET Formula One championship leader Charles Leclerc escaped unharmed after being robbed of his $320,000 Richard Mille watch in Italy on Monday night. Leclerc reportedly had the watch snatched while with friends and his trainer, Andrea Ferrari, in the Tuscan city of Viareggio. According to reports in Italian media, Ferrari driver Leclerc was

2:38 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — IndyCar team owner Beth Paretta announced Tuesday she intends to bring back her all-woman team for three races this season but doesn’t intend to compete at next month’s Indianapolis 500. Swiss driver Simona de Silvestro will pilot the No. 16 Chevrolet at all three stops — June 12

12:37 PM ET Formula One’s governing body defended the Aston Martin safety car on Thursday, reminding drivers that its top speed was of secondary importance, after world champion Max Verstappen compared it to a turtle. Aston Martin and Mercedes both provide safety and medical cars for grands prix, with the championship divided between the two

6:59 AM ET The Haas Formula One team has rejected former title sponsor Uralkali’s demand for a refund of $13 million and asked for compensation from the Russian company, according to a report by Motorsport.com. Haas split from Dmitry Mazepin’s company Uralkali and dropped his son Nikita as driver several weeks after Russia’s military invasion

11:25 AM ET Years of hard work are paying off for Ferrari with a stellar start to the Formula One season, company chairman John Elkann said on Wednesday. Charles Leclerc has won two of the first three races, finishing second in the other, and has a 34-point lead in the championship. Ferrari, who last won

11:46 AM ET Monaco is still discussing a new contract with Formula One but the future of the showcase race beyond this year is assured, according to the head of organisers the Automobile Club de Monaco (ACM). ACM president Michel Boeri hit back at media reports that Monaco was in danger of dropping off the

4:48 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jimmie Johnson doesn’t intend to let a fractured right hand keep him off the track. On Tuesday, the seven-time NASCAR champion, who has become an IndyCar Series regular, announced on Twitter he had surgery Monday night in Charlotte, North Carolina, to repair the injury he suffered in

4:47 AM ET Italy has seized properties worth some €105 million ($114.45 million) owned by Russian former Formula One driver Nikita Mazepin and his oligarch father. The operation targeted a villa — known as Rocky Ram — located in the north of the island of Sardinia. It is part of broader efforts aimed at penalising

Apr 10, 2022 Associated Press LONG BEACH, Calif. — Josef Newgarden won for the first time on the downtown streets of Long Beach, holding off Romain Grosjean on Sunday to make Team Penske 3-for-3 to open the IndyCar season. Newgarden led a race-high 32 laps to win a second consecutive race. Penske teammate Scott McLaughlin

12:41 PM ET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A Russian go-karter who made what appeared to be a Nazi salute on a race podium is under investigation, the FIA motorsports governing body said Monday. Artem Severiukhin was filmed extending his raised right arm then laughing as he stood on the podium after winning a European

8:51 AM ET Reigning world champion Max Verstappen has likened Formula One’s Aston Martin safety car to a turtle, saying it was going too slow during its deployment at the Australian Grand Prix. Formula One has two safety cars which alternate at races, an Aston Martin V8 Vantage and a Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series. The

6:45 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — The Beast is on top in MotoGP, with a win and the lead in the season championship. Enea Bastianini of Italy, nicknamed “La Bestia,” passed Australia’s Jack Miller for the lead with five laps to go and pulled away to win the MotoGP Grand Prix of the

6:14 AM ET On the basis of pure performance, there has been very little to choose between Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen this season. But on the basis of championship points, the gap is already vast. With three of this year’s 23 races complete, Leclerc has a 46-point lead over Verstappen — a margin larger

5:43 AM ET Lewis Hamilton has explained what he meant when he told Mercedes they had put him in a “difficult position” while running behind teammate George Russell at the Australian Grand Prix. Hamilton had spent the race ahead of Russell until a late Safety Car allowed the Mercedes newcomer to have a pit stop

4:59 PM ET Associated Press LONG BEACH, Calif. — Colton Herta broke the Long Beach track record in Saturday qualifying, and the California native will start from the pole for his home IndyCar race. Herta turned a lap at 1 minute, 05.3095 seconds on the temporary street course set up through downtown Long Beach to

11:01 AM ET Associated Press LONG BEACH, Calif. — Jimmie Johnson pulled one glove over the carbon-fiber splint built specifically for his broken right hand. A piece of tape around two fingers outside the glove was to prevent him from using his pinkie — the digit closest to the fracture — as he drove his

7:05 AM ET Charles Leclerc‘s Australian Grand Prix pole position could be at risk after he was summoned to see the stewards on Saturday evening. Leclerc has been called to see the stewards at 20:55 local time for driving unnecessarily slowly during an in-lap to the pits in Q1, the opening segment of qualifying. For

9:58 PM ET Associated Press LONG BEACH, Calif. — Jimmie Johnson injured his hand Friday in a crash during practice at the Long Beach Grand Prix. The seven-time NASCAR champion said he needed further evaluation. Johnson did not remove his hands from the steering wheel — standard practice in open wheel racing but not common

8:27 AM ET Sebastian Vettel took an unorthodox way back to the pit lane during a Friday practice session at the Australian Grand Prix, and it cost him €5,000. Vettel was forced to stop his Aston Martin at Turn 10 of Melbourne’s Albert Park circuit after suffering a loss of power. To get back to

6:35 PM ET Associated Press LONG BEACH, Calif. — Alex Zanardi has been invited back to the Long Beach Grand Prix time and time again in any official race role he wanted. The Italian was informed he would be inducted into the Walk of Fame, but Zanardi was always too busy. Training for the Paralympics,