Busch, 39, has more wins than any other driver in NASCAR Xfinity Series history. The two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion has won 102 NXS races, as well as the the 2009 series title.The closest driver to him on the all-time wins list is Mark Martin at 49, less than half of Busch's impressive total. The most successful active NXS driver is Justin Allgaier, who recently earned his 24th career win.It ...Keep reading
The defending race winner of the Indy 500, Newgarden served up a flying lap of 226.238mph in the No. 2 Team Penske Chevrolet to edge out Andretti Global’s Colton Herta by 0.0028s.“The team's done a great job,” said Newgarden. “I love this place. We're going to see how things shake up because you got to be ready for everything.”Herta, who was routinely in the mix and moved through the ...Keep reading
The 37-year-old Briton has been out of racing action since the start of May after sustaining the injury in a practice crash ahead of the Monaco E-Prix.Bird went into the run-off area at Sainte Devote, leaving his hands on the wheel as the car struck the barrier, which broke a bone in his left hand.The injury immediately ruled him out of further action that weekend in Monte Carlo, and he was also ...Keep reading
Larson had already had a full day, qualifying fifth for next weekend’s Indianapolis 500 earlier in the day, and arrived at North Wilkesboro about 30 minutes before driver introductions for the main event.Because he did not drive his No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet in practice or qualifying this weekend – Kevin Harvick filled in – Larson had to start the 200-lap main event from the rear ...Keep reading
Aston's major Imola update, which included a floor redesign, a front wing and diffuser, was shaken down by Fernando Alonso in FP1 before Lance Stroll also received the parts from FP2 onwards.However, on a weekend where rival teams also wheeled out new parts or further dialled in those from Miami, Aston's upgrades may have delivered absolute performance but not relative competitiveness.Alonso's ...Keep reading
McLaughlin set a memorable record-setting four-lap average of 234.220mph having set off as the last of the Fast Six, scoring Penske’s 19th Indy 500 pole.Team-mates Will Power and defending race winner Josef Newgarden will start alongside McLaughlin - the trio giving legendary team owner Roger Penske his first front-row lockout for the race since 1988, when Rick Mears sat on pole, alongside Danny ...Keep reading
Series promoter the Automobile Club de l’Ouest has stressed the importance of capping the expansion of the series, at least temporarily, following its return to its traditional eight events in 2024 after a contraction resulting from COVID.“It is not in the plan today to add a race, because of the cost,” ACO president Pierre Fillon told Motorsport.com. “The most important thing is to be ...Keep reading
This month marked the 30-year anniversary of Senna's fatal accident at Imola on 1 May 1994, which came the day after Austrian Ratzenberger lost his life in a crash.The death of Ratzenberger, which itself followed a serious practice accident for Senna's compatriot Rubens Barrichello, shook the Williams driver to the core at the time.In the wreckage of Senna's crashed car, marshals found an unfurled ...Keep reading
Formula 1 headed back to Imola after the 2023 Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix was cancelled due to flooding in the Italian region. This time, the sporting contest went ahead in sunshine throughout.The race was awfully dull until Max Verstappen's struggles aboard his Red Bull and Lando Norris's hard tyre brilliance in his McLaren combined to produce a thrilling late coda. That again enlivened a lead ...Keep reading
The Mexican had failed to make the top 10 in qualifying, knocked out in Q2 with a lap time 0.015s slower than Daniel Ricciardo's on his RB.Perez started the race on hard tyres in a bid to make the most of any timely safety car intervention, virtual or otherwise, which failed to materialise as the whole race was run uninterrupted.Perez did manage to outperform both RB cars and Nico Hulkenberg's ...Keep reading
The Italian has endured a torrid switch from the VR46-run Ducati he raced last year to the factory Honda in 2024.Marini hasn't qualified inside the top 20 across the first five rounds, while he is the only Honda rider not to score points in 2024, with his best grand prix result so far a 16th.At the French Grand Prix, Marini finished last of the classified runners and was 40 seconds off the lead at ...Keep reading
Charles Leclerc took a popular podium at Imola, with Carlos Sainz in fifth, as Ferrari was beaten by McLaren as F1's closest challenger to Red Bull's Max Verstappen.With overtaking nearly impossible on similar tyre strategies, Ferrari feels it effectively lost the battle for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in qualifying, with Vasseur saying: "I think that if we do 1-2 in qualifying, we do 1-2 in the ...Keep reading
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In the opening phase of the race, it was Verstappen who had the edge as, after holding the advantage at the start, he was steadily able to eke out a gap on the medium tyres to be more than six seconds clear up until the first round of stops.Things did not seem to change much as drivers switched to the hard, as Norris, who briefly lost a bit of time getting past Red Bull’s Sergio Perez, did not ...Keep reading
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. gives his side of the story after he and Kyle Busch had an altercation after the All-Star Race.
Relive the 2024 NASCAR All-Star Race from North Wilkesboro Speedway in this week's Race Rewind.
In what turned out to be a rather tame first 100 laps of the 200-lap main event, the race actually got off to an eventful start as Kyle Busch tagged the outside wall on the opening lap as the field went three-wide.Busch, who thought he had been hit by Ricky Stenhouse Jr., then knocked Stenhouse into the wall on lap 2 in retaliation. The damage was extensive and brought an early end to ...Keep reading
Watch as Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Kyle Busch get into it post-race at North Wilkesboro.
Hours after team owner Roger Penske’s IndyCar drivers swept the front row for this year’s Indianapolis 500 in qualifying, Logano added a $1 million prize with his win in NASCAR’s annual all-star event.Logano, who has yet to win a points-paying NASCAR Cup race this season, started on the pole and led 199 of the 200 laps, which included the use of multiple tire compounds this season.Denny ...Keep reading
Reality hit the 43-year-old Aussie in exactly the 38.3753s it took team-mate Scott McLaughlin’s opening lap that equates to running 234.526mph around the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway.“It sucks, man,” said Power, a two-time IndyCar Series champion. “As soon as I saw the first lap, I knew it was over.”Power ended up with a four-lap average of 233.917mph, while McLaughlin soared to ...Keep reading
Vittorio Ghirelli and Martin Doubek both completed a sweep of their respective EuroNASCAR Pro and EuroNASCAR 2 events on Saturday and Sunday at the 4.085-kilometer road course outside of Rome.Ghirelli seemed invincible at Vallelunga. After leading all practice sessions, winning the pole and the race on Saturday, the Italian completed a dominant weekend sweep with another victory on Sunday.The PK ...Keep reading
Former F1 racer Ericsson, the 2022 Indy 500 winner, was on course to make the field when he backed off at the end of his third tour of the four-lap qualifying run.After realizing his error, he got back up to speed but it was too late to set a representative speed.That meant he had to sit in the pits, cooling his car, before a last-gasp final run which ended inside the final five minutes of the ...Keep reading
Ty Gibbs, who drives the No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, dominated the 100-lap All-Star Open from start to finish, leading every lap at North Wilkesboro (N.C.) Speedway and cleared Wallace by 1.572 seconds at the checkered flag.“I feel we were pretty solid, so it’s good to make it in,” said Gibbs, who made it to last year’s All-Star Race after finishing second in the Open. “Hopefully, we ...Keep reading
