NASCAR

8:57 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Jimmie Johnson felt comfortable from his very first laps of Indianapolis 500 preparation. The seven-time NASCAR champion knows his way around The Brickyard — he won at Indianapolis Motor Speedway four times in a stock car — so not even a brush with the wall in an Indy

7:00 AM ET NASCAR is hitting its annual All-Star break (yes, I realize there’s not an actual break, and there won’t be one for another month, but Sunday is the All-Star Race, so work with me here), and the Cup Series season now has 13 of the 26 regular-season events in the books. We’re halfway

Can Max Verstappen overtake Charles Leclerc in the Formula 1 points standings in Spain? Verstappen is at +100 to win the Spanish Grand Prix (9 a.m. ET, ESPN2) on Sunday. Verstappen has three wins to Leclerc’s two so far in 2022 but Leclerc is 19 points ahead of Verstappen in the standings thanks to Verstappen’s

It’s NASCAR All-Star Race weekend at Texas again. The track is set to hold its second All-Star Race after a deal that replaced the spring points race at the 1.5-mile track with the exhibition. Texas Motor Speedway got the All-Star Race (8 p.m. ET, Fox Sports 1) after the race spent a year at Bristol

7:21 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Takuma Sato shot to the top of the speed chart late Tuesday on the first day of preparations for “The Great American Race.” Sato went 228.939 miles per hour (368.44 kph) around Indianapolis Motor Speedway to bump six-time IndyCar champion Scott Dixon as fastest

7:05 PM ET Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Kurt Busch was slowly driving his Jordan Brand-styled ride toward victory lane at Kansas Speedway on Sunday when car owner Denny Hamlin stopped him in his tracks, ducked his head through the window and said: “We did it.” Did they ever. Busch survived a weary day

Kurt Busch has his first win of 2022 and now has wins with four different car manufacturers. Busch passed Kyle Larson with eight laps to go to win at Kansas Speedway on Sunday and clinch a spot in the Cup Series playoffs. The win stops a free fall in the standings for Busch after he

10:25 PM ET Associated Press DINWIDDIE, Va. — Matt Hagan made the quickest Funny Car run in Virginia Motorsports Park history Saturday to top qualifying for the Virginia NHRA Nationals. Hagan had a 3.853-second pass at 331.45 mph in Tony Stewart Racing’s Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat for his second No. 1 of the season and

Can Kyle Larson go back-to-back at Kansas? Larson enters Sunday’s race (3 p.m. ET, Fox Sports 1) as BetMGM’s favorite to win at +600. Larson won the fall 2021 race at Kansas Speedway on his way to winning the Cup Series title in a dominant season. Larson was the fourth different Kansas winner in four

More adults under the age of 50 watched Sunday’s Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix than the NASCAR Cup Series race at Darlington. The Miami Grand Prix won by Max Verstappen was the second-most watched F1 race in U.S. history, with 2.07 million viewers for both the pre-race and race on ABC and ESPN. Over 700,000

8:29 AM ET MIAMI — In the hours before the Miami Grand Prix, Formula One’s paddock was teeming with VIPs, sport stars and celebrities. Everywhere you looked, famous faces emerged from the crowd. Tom Brady crossed paths with Michael Jordan in the Mercedes garage. David Beckham greeted the Williams sisters outside Red Bull. Pharrell Williams

7:41 PM ET Associated Press DARLINGTON, S.C. — Joey Logano bumped leader William Byron from behind on the next to last lap to win the Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway on Sunday. Logano, the pole-sitter, tracked Byron for about 25 laps until catching him and hitting him hard in the rear bumper turn three. Byron

Max Verstappen has the most wins in Formula 1 so far in 2022. Verstappen held off a late charge from Charles Leclerc after a safety car for Lando Norris’ crash to win the Miami Grand Prix on Sunday for his third win of the season. The race looked like it was going to be uneventful

5:19 PM ET Associated Press DARLINGTON, S.C. — Former NASCAR Cup Series champions Chase Elliott and Kevin Harvick will start at the rear of the field Sunday at Darlington Raceway. Denny Hamlin will be back there, too. Elliott and Harvick had trouble Saturday in practice. Hamlin had problems in qualifying later in the day. All

With a blistering lap at 170.720 mph on Saturday, Joey Logano earned the Busch Light Pole Award for Sunday’s Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway (3:30 p.m. ET, FS1). Logano rebounded from a dismal weekend at Dover to claim his first career pole at the “Track Too Tough to Tame” as well as his first pole

12:06 PM ET As he watched his dad’s van pull back on to the Autostrada without him, Max Verstappen was struggling to digest what had happened. In all of his 11 years and 11 months on this earth, he’d never seen his dad as angry as he was at the go-kart track a couple of

Matt Kenseth, Kirk Shelmerdine, and Hershel McGriff are the newest members of the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Kenseth and Shelmerdine were elected to the Hall on Wednesday through the modern ballot while McGriff made it through as one of the five nominees in the pioneer category. Longtime NASCAR vice chairman Mike Helton was named the

Denny Hamlin will be without his crew chief and two pit crew members for the next four races after NASCAR suspended them Tuesday for a wheel coming off Hamlin’s car Monday at Dover Motor Speedway. Kaulig Racing’s No. 16 Cup team also was penalized for having a wheel come off AJ Allmendinger’s car at Dover.