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8:24 AM ET Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff says he has no desire to talk to the FIA’s race director Michael Masi, saying his values and sense of integrity are not “compatible” with the decisions taken by Masi at the title deciding Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Masi’s role in Max Verstappen’s championship victory over Mercedes

Jimmie Johnson is going to attempt the 2022 Indianapolis 500. The seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion made his longtime Indy 500 dream official on Wednesday with an announcement that he would run full-time in the IndyCar Series in 2022. Johnson ran part-time in the IndyCar Series in 2021 but did not make a start on

10:13 PM ET EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally published on Dec. 24, 2020. Since then, Bubba Wallace earned his first career Cup win — making him the first Black driver to win a Cup Series race since 1963. That win came on Oct. 4, 2021, at Talladega, the same track that what was believed to

2:13 PM ET Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — NASCAR champion Kyle Larson‘s first Formula One race was the season finale, and he is as conflicted as anyone over the controversial ending of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Max Verstappen passed Lewis Hamilton on the final lap Sunday to win the title, but

Editor‘s Note: This continues the series of season reviews for the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs drivers. Driver: Kurt BuschCar: No. 1 Chip Ganassi Racing, Chevrolet Camaro ZL1Crew chief: Matt McCallFinal 2021 ranking: 11thKey stats: 1 win, 6 top fives, 14 top 10s, 208 laps led How 2021 ended:The elder Busch brother struggled with consistency

10:11 AM ET ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates – Max Verstappen claimed an astonishing first F1 world championship title by overtaking title rival Lewis Hamilton on the final lap of a hugely controversial Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Verstappen appeared to have lost out to Hamilton until a crash by Nicholas Latifi triggered a Safety Car

Mercedes filed two unfruitful protests to the FIA about the procedures at the end of the season finale in Abu Dhabi. Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton was passed for the race win and the championship by Red Bull’s Max Verstappen on the final lap after the race was restarted with one lap to go. The race

Max Verstappen has a Formula 1 world championship. Verstappen passed Lewis Hamilton on a final lap restart to win the 2021 world title at Abu Dhabi on Sunday. Verstappen had fresh tires for the final restart after he was 11 seconds back of Hamilton when Nicholas Latifi crashed with five laps to go. That crash

Four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Al Unser Sr. died Thursday after a lengthy cancer battle. He was 82. Unser is one of the most accomplished open-wheel racers in American history and one of just four drivers to win the Indy 500 four times. “Al achieved his successes competing against many of the best our sport has

Chevrolet has announced a multi-year engineering and marketing partnership with Rev Racing, the competition arm of the NASCAR Drive for Diversity Program. Additionally, Chevrolet will partner in the development of two rising D4D drivers, 19-year-old Rajah Caruth (Washington, D.C.) and 20-year-old Nick Sanchez (Miami, Fla.). Next season, both Caruth and Sanchez will run full-time in

7:14 AM ET Associated Press NASCAR veteran Landon Cassill will drive for Kaulig Racing in the Xfinity Series in 2022 and is bringing sponsor Voyager Digital with him, which will again pay him entirely in cryptocurrency. Cassill, who has been avid in the the market for several years, pitched NASCAR sponsorship to Voyager CEO Steve

Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen enter Sunday’s race at Abu Dhabi tied in the points standings. But the estimated race for the title isn’t that close, according to oddsmakers. Hamilton enters the season finale (8 a.m. ET, ESPN2) at -185 to win the race while Verstappen is +175. The Abu Dhabi track has been the

7:00 AM ET At the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix this Sunday, Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen will look to emerge victorious from one of the most dramatic championship contests Formula One has ever seen. It’s been incredible, it’s been unpredictable and it’s been controversial. It might sound clichéd, but if you were to make a

8:32 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The GMS Racing majority purchase of Richard Petty Motorsports will be called Petty GMS Motorsports going into next season and NASCAR Hall of Famer Richard Petty will be chairman of the new two-car Cup Series team. Petty GMS Motorsports revealed its plans for 2022 at the NASCAR

Game on. Lewis Hamilton won a wacky and baffling Saudi Arabian Grand Prix to tie Max Verstappen in the points standings with one race to go in the 2021 Formula 1 season. “That’s got to be the craziest race I remember,” Hamilton’s race engineer Peter Bonnington radioed after the race. Hamilton and Verstappen dueled at

7:47 PM ET Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Chase Elliott held on to one of his NASCAR titles Thursday night when fans voted him most popular driver for the fourth consecutive year. Elliott was both the reigning Cup champion and most popular driver this season, but he was ultimately beaten by new Hendrick Motorsports teammate

12:40 PM ET JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — Lewis Hamilton says he does not feel comfortable racing at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix this weekend, saying Formula One is “duty bound” to raise awareness about human rights concerns in the country. Saudi Arabia will host its first F1 race this weekend at a new circuit in

Formula 1’s awesome battle for the championship is heading to a new track for the penultimate race of the season. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen leads Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton by eight points ahead of Sunday’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix (Noon ET, ESPN2). Hamilton has won each of the last two races to close the gap on