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6:35 PM ET Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Alex Palou celebrated his move to Chip Ganassi Racing with his first career IndyCar victory by beating a pair of series champions to win Sunday’s season-opening race at Barber Motorsports Park. The Spaniard used a two-stop strategy on the picturesque permanent road course to take control of

7:05 PM ET Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — Another week, another agonizing loss for Denny Hamlin. And this time it was to Alex Bowman, who came from nowhere with 10 laps to go at Richmond Raceway to put the No. 48 Chevrolet in victory lane for the first time in nearly four years. Bowman won

Jimmie Johnson didn’t even make it a lap in his first IndyCar Series race before he had to navigate through trouble. Johnson started 21st of 24 cars on Sunday at Barber Motorsports Park and found himself having to avoid a large crash just seconds into the race after Josef Newgarden spun and collected a handful

Formula 1 is coming back to Florida. F1 announced Sunday that it had signed a 10-year agreement for the Miami Grand Prix beginning in 2022. The race will be held in the parking lot around Hard Rock Stadium, the home of the Miami Dolphins.  “The USA is a key growth market for us, and we

5:59 AM ET ESPN News Services Pato O’Ward ran three blistering laps around Barber Motorsports Park to win the pole for IndyCar’s season-opening race and make good on his promise to become a headache that series veterans must deal with all year long. O’Ward, in his second full season of IndyCar and the centerpiece of

12:58 PM ET Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Jimmie Johnson hopped on a scooter and navigated his way through an unfamiliar Alabama paddock. He stopped to lean against a stack of tires for a quick conversation with childhood hero Rick Mears then went to work on his new career. The seven-time NASCAR champion turned 22

11:14 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Brittany Force took the No. 1 spot in Top Fuel qualifying in the DENSO Spark Plugs NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Saturday. Force had a final qualifying run of 3.732 seconds at 320.66 mph in her dragster for her first No. 1 qualifier

5:29 PM ET Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — John Hunter Nemechek passed teammate Chandler Smith with 17 laps to go and outran team owner Kyle Busch to win the NASCAR Truck Series race at Richmond Raceway on Saturday. Nemechek, already the series points leader, gave Kyle Busch Motorsports its fourth consecutive victory in the series

12:47 PM ET It was a little over a month ago when seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion-turned-IndyCar rookie Jimmie Johnson and four-time IndyCar champion and one-time NASCAR Cup Series rookie Dario Franchitti sat in Johnson’s Charlotte home and talked racing. OK, they were trying to talk racing. But they were quickly interrupted by Chandra Johnson,

11:39 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Robert Hight raced to the provisional No. 1 spot with a standout performance in Funny Car qualifying Friday night, the first NHRA four-wide race in two years. Hight, the runner-up at this year’s season opener, had a run of 3.922-seconds at 327.59 mph in his Camaro at

6:35 PM ET Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — Bubba Wallace says get the shot, like he did. Brad Keselowski says he hasn’t decided yet whether to get vaccinated against COVID-19 while Austin Dillon and reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion Chase Elliott say it’s a personal choice and no one else’s business, though Dillon’s Richard Childress

The Guardian Hundreds protest in Chicago over police shooting of Adam Toledo About 1,000 gather in park a day after police released video of officers shooting 13-year-old Dozens of protesters march down the Magnificent Mile after the city of Chicago released videos of Adam Toledo, 13, being fatally shot by a Chicago police officer, on

Could Chip Ganassi Racing end the 2021 season employing a pair of seven-time champions? Scott Dixon won his sixth IndyCar championship in 2020 and enters 2021 as the favorite for the championship yet again. A seventh championship for Dixon would tie him with AJ Foyt for the most championships in major North American open-wheel racing.

Are we in for a season-long battle between Red Bull and Mercedes? Red Bull’s Max Verstappen sure looked to have the fastest car over the course of the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix weekend. But some canny pit strategy by Mercedes and some even better driving by Lewis Hamilton meant that the defending Formula 1 champion

3:56 PM ET Associated Press NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace is partnering with Novant Health to address the hesitancy to get vaccinated for COVID-19. Wallace, the only Black driver in NASCAR, received his COVID vaccine on Tuesday at his race team’s shop in North Carolina. He says it’s important to learn about the vaccine and for

9:48 AM ET Jennifer Jo Cobb is set for her topflight NASCAR debut later this month at Talladega, which would make her the first woman to race in the series since Danica Patrick in 2018. Cobb will drive the No. 15 Chevrolet for Rick Ware Racing on April 25, the team announced Tuesday. “I have

The Telegraph Rafael Nadal accuses Novak Djokovic of being ‘obsessed by the race for grand slam titles’ Six weeks before the French Open, defending champion Rafael Nadal has highlighted the major difference between himself and Novak Djokovic, the man chasing his record tally of 20 grand-slam titles. According to Nadal, it is a question of

Toyota Owners 400 3 p.m. ET (Fox) Denny Hamlin. Kevin Harvick. Kyle Busch. Chase Elliott. Brad Keselowski.  Those are five of NASCAR’s biggest stars. And neither of them has a win so far through eight races in 2021. All five of those drivers will find themselves in the playoffs. They’re all in the top 11