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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

10:59 PM ET Associated Press CONCORD, N.C. — Kyle Larson ended six years of struggles at Charlotte Motor Speedway, winning the Coca-Cola 600 in dominating fashion to give team owner Rick Hendrick a record-setting victory. It was the 269th career Cup Series victory for Hendrick Motorsports, passing Petty Enterprises for the most in NASCAR history.

The Guardian A new generation is rising in this year’s NBA playoffs While LeBron James and Kevin Durant still grab the spotlight, the players who will dominate the NBA in the next decade are starting to emerge Ja Morant has emerged as a force for the Memphis Grizzlies in this year’s NBA playoffs. Photograph: Justin

7:08 PM ET INDIANAPOLIS — On Saturday morning, roughly 24 hours before the start of the 2021 Indianapolis 500, an impromptu meeting of Indy’s most exclusive club took place as the drivers meeting of this year’s 33 competitors was being adjourned. A.J. Foyt, Al Unser and Rick Mears, the only four-time winners over 104 years

3:25 PM ET ESPN News Services Written off as too old to race full time, too old for a fourth Indianapolis 500 win, Helio Castroneves at long last joined that exclusive club in a popular victory for the old guys. Then Spider-Man scaled the Indianapolis Motor Speedway fence for his trademark victory celebration at the

Helio Castroneves’ chase for a fourth Indianapolis 500 lasted over a decade. Castroneves became a three-time winner of the Indianapolis 500 in 2009 when he started on the pole and led 66 laps. That victory followed wins in 2001 and 2002 — his first two races at Indianapolis — and was his eighth top-10 finish

2:15 PM ET ESPN News Services Scott Dixon‘s perfect Indianapolis 500 fell apart when the six-time IndyCar Series champion ran out of gas before his first pit stop Sunday. The pole sitter was on track for a regularly scheduled stop when Stefan Wilson crashed as he entered pit road to bring out a caution 33

May 30, 2021 Associated Press FLORENCE, Italy — Swiss motorcycle rider Jason Dupasquier has died following a crash during Moto3 qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix, the Careggi Hospital in Florence announced Sunday. He was 19. “Despite the best efforts of circuit medical staff and all those subsequently attending to the Swiss rider, the hospital