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12:27 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Helio Castroneves celebrated his record-tying fourth Indianapolis 500 victory in May. The rewards are still rolling in. When the popular 46-year-old Brazilian driver returned to Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Thursday, track officials presented him with a bronze brick, and on Friday, he was named as the headliner of

7:17 PM ET ESPN News Services Longtime racing announcer Bob Jenkins, a former radio voice of the Indianapolis 500 whose career spanned more than five decades on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network, died Monday at the age of 73, Indianapolis Motor Speedway said in a statement. Jenkins revealed in February that he had been

Bob Jenkins announced in February that he was battling brain cancer. (Michael Hickey/Getty Images) Longtime Indianapolis 500 broadcaster Bob Jenkins died Monday after an eight-month battle with brain cancer, the speedway announced. He was 73. Jenkins has been in the booth calling NASCAR and IndyCar races for decades. He worked as the play-by-play announcer calling

7:46 AM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing will field a car for Formula 2 Championship driver Christian Lundgaard in Saturday’s IndyCar road course race in Indianapolis. The Danish driver recently tested an Indy car for the first time with the team at Barber Motorsports Park. He’ll drive the No. 45 Honda

6:15 PM ET Associated Press WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — Kyle Larson won the NASCAR Cup Series race at Watkins Glen International on Sunday, building a big lead in the final stage and keeping Hendrick Motorsports teammate Chase Elliott at bay over the final laps. Elliott was seeking his third straight victory at The Glen but

The only driver who can beat Chase Elliott on road courses is Kyle Larson.  Larson got his second road course win of the season on Sunday at Watkins Glen as he held off his Hendrick Motorsports teammate over the final seven laps. Elliott had to start at the back because of a pre-race inspection failure

Harris English fired five birdies in a five-under par 65 on Saturday to maintain a two-shot lead over hard-charging Bryson DeChambeau and Cameron Smith in the WGC-St. Jude Invitational. English, seeking a third US PGA Tour title of the season, stayed on course to become the first player this year to post a wire-to-wire victory

2:54 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Speedway Motorsports named Texas Motor Speedway executive Rob Ramage as the track’s new general manager on Wednesday after Eddie Gossage had overseen the facility through its first 25 seasons of racing. Ramage had been the track’s general counsel since 2013, also serving as director of governmental

Go Bowling at the Glen 3 p.m. ET, Sunday, Aug. 8 NASCAR is back. All three NASCAR series come back from their Olympic break this weekend at Watkins Glen. It’s the first Cup Series and Xfinity Series race weekend at Watkins Glen since 2019 because of COVID-19, while the Truck Series races at Watkins Glen

8:30 PM ET Associated Press POMONA, Calif. — Ron Capps and Leah Pruett gave Don Schumacher Racing a nitro sweep Sunday in the Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals at Auto Club Raceway. Capps topped the Funny Car field and Pruett won in Top Fuel for their first victories of the season. Capps raced to his 67th

Lewis Hamilton’s points lead grew hours after Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix. Formula 1 announced Sunday afternoon in the United States that Sebastian Vettel had been disqualified because the sanctioning body was unable to take a fuel sample from the car after the race. F1 cars have to have a minimum fuel level in the car

12:41 AM ET Associated Press POMONA, Calif. — Ron Capps took the No. 1 spot in Funny Car qualifying Saturday night in the Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals at Auto Club Raceway. Capps had a 3.941-second run at 321.35 mph in a Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat in the final session of the day. Winless this season,

Kevin Harvick headed into NASCAR’s two-week break during the Olympics delighted to be away from his own race car but with plans to be wrapped up in his young son’s fledgling career behind the wheel. Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr. are happy to have the break, too, and a chance

6:55 PM ET Associated Press IndyCar rookie Jimmie Johnson is hopeful of testing in August on the oval at Homestead-Miami Speedway as part of a path toward running in next year’s Indianapolis 500. Johnson, a seven-time NASCAR champion, jumped this season to IndyCar and has competed in seven races for team owner Chip Ganassi. He’s

6:50 PM ET Associated Press FAIRMONT, Minn. — An announcer who was fired by an Iowa racetrack after a racist rant was back behind the microphone in southern Minnesota last weekend, but he did not receive a standing ovation as promised because he was apparently uncomfortable with that plan, according to the promoter of Fairmont

The top two drivers in the points with four Cup races left in the regular season also are among the leaders in most pit road speeding penalties this season. Denny Hamlin and Kyle Larson each have four pit road speeding penalties in the first 22 races of the season. Five others are tied with them

9:34 PM ET ESPN News Services SONOMA, Calif. — Top Fuel star Steve Torrence won the NHRA Sonoma Nationals on Sunday for his third straight victory. Torrence, the points leader and three-time defending series champion, beat Leah Pruett in the final with a 3.757-second run at 327.98 mph. He has six victories this season and

3:31 PM ET Associated Press NASCAR has penalized the Hendrick Motorsports teams of reigning Cup champion Chase Elliott and Alex Bowman for engine allocation infractions at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Elliott’s No. 9 team and Bowman’s No. 48 were found in violation of a rule that covers engine assembly. A statement from Hendrick Motorsports released