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Felix Rosenqvist was taken to a hospital after a violent crash during Saturday’s IndyCar Series at the Raceway at Belle Isle in Detroit.  Rosenqvist’s car went head-on into a tire barrier after the throttle appeared to have stuck on his car. The impact launched tires over the chainlink fence behind the wall of tires and

2:09 PM ET Associated Press WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Organizers of a NASCAR racing series in North Carolina have apologized after a car with a Confederate flag decal competed in a race last weekend, violating the governing body’s ban. The flag was spotted inside Lee Stimpson’s car Saturday night at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, the

The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series returns to action and makes its first Texas stop in Saturday‘s SpeedyCash.com 220 (1 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio), where Johnny Sauter would love to reclaim some of the winning magic he used to sweep the 2012 series stops and to earn trophies in consecutive

NASCAR All-Star Race 8 p.m. ET, Sunday, June 13 Texas Motor Speedway Fox Sports 1 Format Six stages, 100 laps Caution laps do not count toward the 100-lap total Race winner earns $1 million Drivers already qualified Christopher Bell, Ryan Blaney, Alex Bowman, Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch, William Byron, Cole Custer, Austin Dillon, Chase Elliott,

Cup Series cars are going to be slower at Daytona and Talladega. NASCAR announced Tuesday that it was reducing horsepower and reinforcing the roof area of Cup Series cars after Joey Logano‘s car landed on its roof in a crash at Talladega back in April. Logano’s car went airborne after it got hit in the

5:35 PM ET Associated Press Helio Castroneves had hoped his fourth Indianapolis 500 victory would lead to a seat this weekend at IndyCar’s doubleheader in Detroit. He asked, many times over, but Meyer Shank Racing held to its original plan. The team said Monday it will field just its usual one car with Jack Harvey

8:05 PM ET Associated Press SONOMA, Calif. — Kyle Larson beat teammate Chase Elliott in overtime at Sonoma Raceway on Sunday to win his second consecutive race as Hendrick Motorsports continued a month of dominance. Hendrick drivers have won four straight races dating to Alex Bowman‘s May 16 victory. Larson’s win a week ago in

Kyle Larson made it through two late-race restarts to win his third race of 2021 and his second consecutive race when he took the checkered flag at Sonoma on Sunday. Larson had the fastest car by far throughout the race. Hendrick Motorsports teammate Chase Elliott and Martin Truex Jr. were able to keep Larson in

4:59 PM ET Associated Press LEXINGTON, Ohio — A.J. Allmendinger rallied from a penalty, benefitted from a late caution and used a sweeping three-wide pass for the lead to win the Xfinity Series race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Saturday’s victory was Allmendinger’s second of the season and came on what Kaulig Racing considers its

A.J. Allmendinger and Justin Haley finished 1-2 for Kaulig Racing in Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Allmendinger, who recovered from a mid-race penalty on pit road to win, is the first repeat winner in eight Xfinity races at Mid-Ohio. The track did not host an Xfinity race in 2020 due

Bettors like Kyle Busch at Sonoma. Busch is the most-bet driver ahead of Sunday’s race at the Northern California road course. Busch’s odds have dropped from +1000 to +750 as 12.2% of the wagers and 25.4% of the handle — the amount of money bet on the race — has been put on the two-time

Hendrick Motorsports’ domination the past three weeks has been impressive, but it comes with an important caveat. All three wins were at tracks that are not in the playoffs. In a season where teams will transition to a new car next year and the focus on playoff tracks has evolved, the question is what does

Azerbaijan Grand Prix Sunday, June 6, 7 a.m. ET (ESPN) This could be the week for a driver not named Lewis Hamilton or Max Verstappen to visit Victory Lane. Hamilton and Verstappen have won each of the first five races in 2021. Hamilton has three wins while Verstappen has two victories and the points lead

The massive dip in television ratings for the Indianapolis 500 was simply a pandemic-induced blip. Sunday’s race won by Helio Castroneves and broadcast on NBC was watched by an average of 5.58 million people. That’s up nearly 50 percent from the audience that watched the postponed 2020 Indianapolis 500 that was won by Takuma Sato. 

Hendrick drivers are starting 1-2-3 at Sonoma. Coca-Cola 600 winner Kyle Larson will start first at Sonoma ahead of teammates Chase Elliott and William Byron. It’s the fourth consecutive time that Larson has started first at Sonoma; he won the pole ahead of the 2017, 2018 and 2019 races at the track. Those pole positions

Toyota/Save Mart 350 3:00 p.m. ET (Fox Sports 1) The Cup Series is returning to Sonoma for the first time in two seasons. NASCAR is set to run its first race in the state of California since June 2019 on Sunday after none of its national series ran at either Sonoma or Auto Club Speedway

Axios World anxiously waits to see where Biden will send America’s vaccines The U.S. is about to pivot from hoarding vaccines to sharing them globally, and countries around the world are trying to secure their places in line.Why it matters: President Biden has promised to donate 80 million doses by the end of June. With

6:00 AM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Christian McCaffrey’s life in sports has been all about speed, but the Carolina Panthers running back had never experienced it the way he did on Sunday, when he served as an honorary pace car driver, leading 38 cars with 750 horsepower each to the green flag for the start