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Ryan Blaney’s car sustained significant damage near the end of Stage 1 when a left-front tire went down.
The Penske driver and 2023 NASCAR Cup Series champion was running 12th when disaster struck the No. 12 team. He was unable to maintain control as a left-front tire went down, careening into the outside wall.
Blaney limped the car back to the pits before exiting the vehicle, which ...Keep reading

NASCAR been racing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway since 1998 with Mark Martin winning the inaugural event. Joe Gibbs Racing and Hendrick Motorsports drivers hold the top six starting spots on the grid with Denny Hamlin leading a 1-2-3 for JGR.
However, the pole-sitter has only won this race once before, and that was Kyle Busch back in 2009. Recent races have seen an emergence of Penske-powered ...Keep reading

Williams boss James Vowles reckons overtaking will look much different in the 2026 Formula 1 campaign, with more emphasis on technical skill rather than driver aids.
The championship is in the process of introducing what’s arguably its biggest regulation change in history, with overhauls to both the chassis and power unit. 
There will be more emphasis on electrical energy, a near 50-50 ...Keep reading

The 10 drivers who will fight for the 2025 Supercars title in its maiden Finals series have been chosen following a dramatic Bathurst 1000 at Mount Panorama. 
After Matt Payne and Garth Tander took the win in the race for Grove Racing, and taking with it Supercars’ Enduro Cup, Anton De Pasquale (Team 18), Thomas Randle (Tickford Racing), Ryan Wood (Walkinshaw Andretti United) and Kai Allen ...Keep reading

Aprilia is interested in bolstering its MotoGP test line-up with Miguel Oliveira next year, but says such a move would require the blessing of his new employer BMW.
After losing his Pramac MotoGP seat for 2026, Oliveira accepted an offer from the German manufacturer to join its World Superbike Championship squad as a factory rider, teaming up with fellow ex-MotoGP rider Danilo Petrucci.
The ...Keep reading

Ferrari's long-time former chairman Luca di Montezemolo has spoken about how a new feature documentary has captured the life he "lived at full speed". 
The film, titled Luca: Seeing Red, charts the highs and lows of the Prancing Horse brand as it battled through its place in racing. Directed, produced and written by Manish Pandey, the writer of Senna, and co-directed by Christopher M ...Keep reading

Haas Formula 1 driver Oliver Bearman has been backed to be in a "big seat" and "fighting for wins" in a year or two by racing driver and pundit Sam Bird.
The Briton signed with Haas for the 2025 season after impressing on his F1 debut at the 2024 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, when he stepped in at the last minute for Ferrari's Carlos Sainz. While he has only scored 18 points, placing him 19th in ...Keep reading

Racing driver and pundit Sam Bird has delivered a crushing blow to Red Bull Formula 1 driver Yuki Tsunoda, claiming that it is only a matter of time before he is replaced.
The Japanese driver replaced rookie Liam Lawson in the seat alongside four-time champion Max Verstappen for his home race at Suzuka, the third round of the 2025 season. While Tsunoda has shown some improvement in recent ...Keep reading

Matt Payne and Garth Tander gave Grove Racing and Ford a dramatic victory in a 2025 Bathurst 1000 that was hit with mixed conditions at Mount Panorama on Sunday. 
A race that started under brilliant blue skies became a fight for survival when bad weather rolled in, turning the 6.213km circuit into an ice rink. After six safety car interventions, the race came down to a three-car train, sliding ...Keep reading

Super Formula was forced to cancel Sunday’s second race at Fuji Speedway owing to dense fog. 
The decision was made to abandon the 10th round of the season at around 3:35pm local time amid a lack of visibility, with conditions at the Toyota-owned venue taking a turn for the worse just before the reconnaissance laps were due to start. 
It follows a Saturday race that was cut short due to ...Keep reading

Now that Red Bull has passed the high-downforce test in the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix, it’s clear that its progress over recent weeks hasn’t been limited to just one type of circuit.
Of course, the Circuit of the Americas up next will pose a completely different challenge with its many medium-speed corners – the very type of corners that team boss Laurent Mekies pointed out to at ...Keep reading

Aric Almirola is heading back to Phoenix Raceway at the end of the month with unfinished business.
He has an Xfinity Series championship to win for Joe Gibbs Racing.
No, this isn’t the Xfinity Series championship but Almirola winning the Focused Health 302 does send the Joe Gibbs Racing No. 19 to the owners championship, which does have some monetary and pride value to the ...Keep reading

 IMSA’s four classes put on a show, with noteworthy results in every group of cars after an intense race.
Action Express trio Jack Aitken, Earl Bamber and Frederik Vesti gave Cadillac a second consecutive Petit Le Mans victory as Porsche’s Matt Campbell and Mathieu Jaminet took the IMSA title.

#6 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche 963: Mathieu Jaminet, Matt Campbell, Julien ...Keep reading

For a moment, it looked like Jesse Love might lock himself into the Championship 4 with a victory at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Unfortunately for the Richard Childress Racing driver, despite leading 22 laps and scoring a lot of stage points, that's not how the story ended.
After losing the lead to Connor Zilisch just before the final caution of the race, he lost an additional spot on pit road to ...Keep reading

Aric Almirola held on against Connor Zilisch, collecting his tenth career win and his third of the 2025 season. The ex-Cup driver took the lead after Zilisch was chasing a loose race car and bobbled in Turn 2, with the two cars made door-to-door contact down the backstretch as Almirola moved ahead. Zilisch tried to respond, but his car was out of control and Almirola managed to hang on.
"Thank ...Keep reading

The driver ratings for iRacing Studios' newly released NASCAR 25 video game have sparked a lot of debate across the fandom. NASCAR also posted a video where drivers guessed and debated the ratings, which featured several humorous but very real disagreements. 
A lot of the discussion centers around how and why William Byron was ranked as the No. 1 driver with a perfect score of 100, but there ...Keep reading

At least for the next month, through the duration of what could be the final season under the current NASCAR elimination playoff format, the Sanctioning Body is working to stay ahead of any attempts to manipulate races and advancement into the final four.
This comes in the aftermath of what transpired last year in the penultimate race at Martinsville, a concerted Chevrolet blockade that ...Keep reading

Joe Gibbs Racing dominated qualifying for the Round of 8 playoff opener at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Denny Hamlin secured pole position with a fast lap of 29.213s, besting teammate Chase Briscoe by 0.036s and teammate Christopher Bell by 0.042s.
"I felt good about it," Hamlin told TruTV. "There wasn't a whole lot left out there for it, but great job to get my car good. It was good in the short ...Keep reading

For the most part, the Cup Series driver roster has taken a ‘there is nothing to lose’ mentality in response to NASCAR’s decision to marginally increase the horsepower target on short tracks and road courses next season.
Currently, the Cup Series uses a 670HP tapered spacer and will increase it next year to 750HP. While the industry has made gains in recent years through the development ...Keep reading

Fernando Alonso's former race engineer Mark Slade has discussed in an interview the moment the Spaniard gave his McLaren colleagues thousands of euros after a successful race at the Nürburgring in 2007 - something the team shut down almost immediately. 
Speaking in an interview, as quoted by Marca, Slade detailed the moments that led to the two-time champion giving out envelopes of cash as a ...Keep reading