Charlotte Motor Speedway has announced the Coca-Cola 600 has been postponed until Monday due to wet weather. The Cup Series race will begin at 3 p.m. ET on Monday. NASCAR has moved the Xfinity Series up to an 11 a.m. start. The Xfinity Series race had been scheduled to run Saturday but was a…
Josef Newgarden finally won his first Indianapolis 500 with an audacious pass of defending race winner Marcus Ericsson in a 2.5-mile sprint to the finish. Newgarden gave team owner Roger Penske his 19th win and first since buying Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The race had been red-flagged for…
Formula One champion Max Verstappen’s lights-to-flag victory at the Monaco Grand gave the Red Bull driver his fourth victory of the season and extended his championship lead. Spanish veteran Fernando Alonso was a season’s best second for Aston Martin as he collected a fifth podium in six rac…
NASCAR drivers have long considered the Coca-Cola 600 the most grueling race on the schedule. It's expected to be even more challenging Sunday for Alex Bowman, who'll be racing for the first time since fracturing his vertebra last month at a sprint car race in Hendrick Motorsports' teammate …
Alex Palou is the pole sitter and IndyCar points leader headed into the Indianapolis 500. The Spaniard is performing at a high level despite his rocky future. He is headed to McLaren Racing next season but currently is a Chip Ganassi Racing driver, so he's trying to balance the obligations o…
Defending Formula One champion Max Verstappen produced a superb final lap to take pole position at the Monaco Grand Prix and deny Aston Martin veteran Fernando Alonso his first pole in 11 years. Verstappen called his first pole at Monaco "very lovely" but there was nothing to cheer for his R…
Johnny Rutherford and Gordon Johncock will always be linked to the 1973 Indianapolis 500. Rutherford made the first of his three pole-winning runs that year. Johncock captured the first of his two Indy wins. What they remember most from that tragic month is how it was a catalyst for safety i…
Katherine Legge remembers her days as a youngster driving go-karts and how at times she was ruthlessly bullied by the boys. Or the trouble she had growing up in racing and in securing sponsorship and support. There are many reasons why Legge is the only female driver starting in this year's …
Fernando Alonso fancies his chances of a victory in Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix. The Spanish driver last won a Formula One race 10 years ago but he has four third-place finishes in five races with Aston Martin this season. The two-time F1 champion says "I will attack more than any other weeke…
Two-time champion Takuma Sato led a strong showing from the Chip Ganassi Racing quartet in final practice for the Indianapolis 500 on Friday. He turned a fast lap of 227.855 mph early in the session, while teammate Scott Dixon was right behind with pole sitter Alex Palou third on the speed c…
A federal judge has granted Churchill Downs' motion for summary judgment that dismisses Bob Baffert's claim the track breached due process by suspending the Hall of Fame trainer for two years. Churchill Downs Inc. suspended Baffert in June 2021 after his now-deceased colt, Medina Spirit, fai…
Scott Dixon is aiming for his second Indy 500 win on Sunday, 15 years after first kissing the yard of bricks at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. There have been many close calls over the years, including three second-place finishes and a third. He led much of the race last year, too, before a pe…
McLaren Racing missed the Indianapolis 500 in 2019 with Fernando Alonso in a humiliating defeat that could have stopped the team from making a full-time move to IndyCar. But McLaren did enter the series in 2020 and has slowly built itself into a top contender. Arrow McLaren will start all fo…
Miles Mikolas will stay on his normal schedule and start Tuesday against Royals at Busch Stadium. That recasts Matz as a reliever, but how long is up to him.
Lowen scored on a free kick from distance and had another long ball knocked in by Vancouver, and then Perez brought down the house with a late goal
While Mizzou favors expanding the conference schedule to nine games per year, the SEC lacks consensus heading into this week's meetings in Destin, Florida.
Team Penske has struggled at the Indianapolis 500 the past few years, both in qualifying and the race, and the pressure has been building to produce some results. Will Power qualified 12th for Sunday's race, matching the best qualifying effort of any Penske driver since the 2019 race. That's…
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NASCAR has opened an investigation into how a derogatory message was broadcast on the radio channel of Bubba Wallace's race team during last weekend's All-Star race. Wallace, NASCAR's only Black driver in the Cup series, had just finished the race at North Wilkesboro Speedway when a person n…
Alex Bowman has been cleared to return to racing this weekend for the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway after missing four events with a fractured vertebra. Bowman was injured April 25 while competing in a sprint car race in Kyle Larson's new racing series in West Burlington, Iowa. H…
A.J. Foyt Racing is one of the underdogs of Gasoline Alley. It has been turning heads in the run-up to the Indianapolis 500 this weekend. The team put Santino Ferrucci and rookie Benjamin Pedersen in the Fast 12 of qualifying. Ferrucci was in the six-car shootout for the pole, and both of th…
Honda is set to return to Formula 1 as an engine partner for the Aston Martin F1 team in 2026.
More than half of the respondents to an NCAA-commissioned survey of 18- to 22-year-olds acknowledged placing sports wagers, with two-thirds of those who live on college campuses saying they engage in betting.
Agustín Canapino will be carrying the hopes of Argentina when he starts the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday. Just the fourth driver from his nation to qualify for The Greatest Spectacle in Racing will do so against the backdrop of a home nation suffering through political problems and economic wo…
Graham Rahal will replace the injured Stefan Wilson in the Dreyer & Reinbold Racing entry for the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday. Wilson was hospitalized with a fractured vertebra following a crash in practice on Monday. He was ruled out of the race, and that left car owners Dennis Reinbold …
Pato O'Ward has become a breakout star in IndyCar and goes into the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday ranked second in the standings. He could have three wins but instead has had to settle for three runner-up finishes. He's OK with that because he's chasing the IndyCar championship. Winning the 500…
The horse racing community was stunned earlier this year when 23-year-old Avery Whisman and 29-year-old Alex Canchari died by suicide less than six weeks apart. The deaths sparked renewed conversation among jockeys about their mental health.
World champion powerlifter Chris Janek, a former AFL and Wisconsin football player, is making a comeback after a life-saving heart transplant.
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