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10:31 AM ET Valtteri Bottas shot down media speculation on Thursday that he could be replaced as Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes teammate midway through the season and said such talk was just part of being in Formula One. 1 Related The Finn is out of contract at the end of the year and already 37 points

The NASCAR Next Gen car, which made its public debut Wednesday, has so many hopes riding on it ahead of its competition debut next season in the Cup Series. Chevrolet, Ford and Toyota? They hope the Next Gen car’s looks – more akin to GT sports cars than traditional boxy stock cars – get fans

NASCAR is very, very excited about its newest Cup Series car.  The hyperbole hose was cranked up on Wednesday as NASCAR officially unveiled the “Next-Gen” cars that Chevrolet, Ford, and Toyota will use during the 2022 season. Next season’s cars are drastically different than their present-day counterparts, both in construction and design.  That different design

9:27 AM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The car will definitely not be the star this summer in the Superstar Racing Experience, which has been formatted for drivers to showcase their skills using what series co-founder Ray Evernham calls “old-school tools.” The good old steering wheel, gas pedal and brake pedal. “With this format,

8:15 AM ET Red Bull has signed five more people from Mercedes to key roles in its new Formula One engine division. Red Bull will manufacturer its own engines from 2022 onwards following the withdrawal of Honda at the end of this season. It has already poached one of Mercedes’ senior power unit enginers, Ben

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Chase Elliott, Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin drove their sporty new pony cars through the smoke and lights of the fog machines NASCAR used for its first fancy presentation in more than a year. The future of the sport is riding on the Next Gen car unveiled Wednesday in a darkened

5:26 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — After two years of waiting and with ten months still to go before its on-track debut, NASCAR’s pandemic-delayed Next Gen race car was unveiled Wednesday afternoon in Charlotte. A Chevy Camaro, Ford Mustang and Toyota Camry were rolled out amid rock concert lighting and smoke, their faux headlights pointed

NASCAR‘s newest car met NASCAR‘s oldest superspeedway Wednesday night in the eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series — and one of the sport‘s most iconic cars brought home the checkered flag. Erik Jones raced his No. 43 Richard Petty Motorsports Chevrolet from fourth place on a late-race restart to surge past Timmy Hill and Anthony Alfredo

Last week NASCAR visited their fourth similarly-configured, 1.5-mile track with the Buschy McBusch Race 400 at Kansas Speedway. This week they head to a course that does not have a strong comparative. Rough surface courses like Dover International Speedway or Bristol Motor Speedway with their concrete pavement come close, but nothing is like Darlington Raceway

The 2022 Cup Series car has officially been unveiled. The three versions of NASCAR’s new Cup Series car became public on Wednesday as Chevy, Ford and Toyota showed off their car designs for the first time. NASCAR is implementing an all-new car design in 2022 as it looks to lower ownership costs for teams at

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR’s next generation race car is finally here after two years of hype and hope that it will revolutionize the stock car series. How can a spec car radically change a sport? Competition. Cost containment. Manufacturer relevance. The Next Gen car, first proposed in 2018 and originally slated to debut this

Brad Keselowski is starting first for a second consecutive week. Keselowski has the pole for Sunday’s race at Darlington (3:30 p.m. ET, FS1) after he had the pole at Kansas. Keselowski was third at Kansas and is currently sixth in the points standings. He earned the pole through NASCAR’s qualifying formula.  The formula consists of

Goodyear 400 3:30 p.m. ET, Fox Sports 1 The number of realistic first-time winners in 2021 is dwindling. Kyle Busch became the 10th driver to win in the first 11 races when he took the checkered flag on Sunday at Kansas. Busch and those nine other drivers with wins so far in 2021 are provisionally

3:17 AM ET Romain Grosjean will drive a Formula One car for the first time since his dramatic accident at last year’s Bahrain Grand Prix after world champions Mercedes organised a one-off test for the French driver. Grosjean will drive the 2019 title-winning Mercedes W10 in a private test day at Paul Ricard on June

The Telegraph Giro d’Italia teams 2021: Full list of teams and riders starting in Turin As with all WorldTour races, each of the 19 teams that make up the top-flight of professional cycling receive an invite and in the case of the Giro d’Italia, all teams are contracted to race the first grand tour of

Pocono Raceway will operate at 100% capacity for its NASCAR doubleheader weekend June 25-27, the track announced Tuesday. Pocono becomes the second NASCAR track to announce it will open to full capacity. Atlanta Motor Speedway, which hosts the Xfinity Series on July 10 and Cup Series on July 11, previously announced it would have all

Before NASCAR Cup Series stars honor racing history for Throwback Weekend at Darlington Raceway, they‘ll look toward the future in Wednesday night‘s eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series race by competing virtually in the NASCAR Next Gen car (8 p.m. ET, FS1). Drivers and fans will get a first look at NASCAR‘s new car, which will

12:25 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Stefan Wilson will return to the Indianapolis 500 with Andretti Autosport and complete the team’s six-car lineup for this year’s race. Wilson will drive the No. 25 Honda with sponsorship from LOHLA SPORT, a women’s golf lifestyle brand. He will be attempting to qualify for his third Indy