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Two former NASCAR Cup champions had a surprising run-in with each other during Sunday's race at WWT Raceway (Gateway).
While battling for fifth position near the end of Stage 2, Kyle Larson made an aggressive lunge to the inside of Ryan Blaney. He slid up the track and made contact with Blaney, fully sending the No. 12 Team Penske Ford around into a spin.
While Blaney rebounded to finish ...Keep reading

Denny Hamlin earned his 59th career win and fifth of the 2025 season at WWT Raceway, locking himself into the Round of 12. 
"Yeah, it's so big for everyone at Toyota, Joe Gibbs Racing," said Hamlin. "Progressive Toyota was great there at the end. So happy to get this victory. My dad's not feeling well at home. Just shout-out to him. The whole family's here.
He later added: "Man, it's just a ...Keep reading

Austin Dillon entered the NASCAR Cup playoff race at WWT Raceway eight points below the cutline, and desperately needed to make up ground.
Unfortunately, both he and teammate Kyle Busch (who failed to make the playoffs) struggled with the balance of their Richard Childress Racing Chevrolets.
Busch triggered the first caution of the race, spinning on his own at the exit of Turn 2. Dillon ...Keep reading

After making the playoffs for the first time in his career, Josh Berry entered WWT Raceway hoping to rebound from a difficult outing at Darlington. After qualifying third for the Southern 500, he crashed on the opening lap.
The wreck left him at the bottom of the standings, 19 points below the cut line. At Gateway, he was running solid in the early laps, up in 15th place. However, before the ...Keep reading

Winner: Max Verstappen

Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing
Photo by: Mark Thompson - Getty Images

In Budapest, right before the summer break, Max Verstappen said his Red Bull team wouldn't win any more races this year after the drubbing it received in the Hungarian GP.
That win certainly wasn't going to come at high-speed Monza, the scene of its worst performance of last ...Keep reading

Bill Davis was a staple in the NASCAR garage for two decades, operating a winning NASCAR Cup Series team between 1993 and 2008 and competing across several eras of the sport.
The team won five Cup races during its time in the sport, including the 2001 Southern 500 and  2002 Daytona 500 with Ward Burton. Burton is responsible for all five Cup wins for Davis, earning the team's first victory at ...Keep reading

Mercedes Formula 1 chief Toto Wolff reckons McLaren's call to ask Oscar Piastri to let Lando Norris past after a slow stop for Norris in the Italian Grand Prix was a "very difficult precedent to undo".
As Norris and Piastri were on course to finish second and third behind dominant winner Max Verstappen, McLaren allowed Piastri to make his only pitstop before Norris to help defend his gap to ...Keep reading

Oliver Bearman is on the edge of a Formula 1 race ban after his penalty for clashing with Carlos Sainz during the Italian Grand Prix.
The Haas driver moved on to 10 penalty points for the rolling 12-month period, meaning if he picks up two more before his next points are erased he will be handed an automatic one-race ban in F1.
Bearman was given two penalty points alongside his 10-second ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton reckoned he could have finished fifth rather than sixth in Formula 1’s Italian Grand Prix, which in itself was a respectable return given the contentious five-place grid penalty he carried over from Zandvoort.
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McLaren's decision to swap positions between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri during Formula 1's Italian Grand Prix was a matter of "fairness" and "consistency of principles", per team principal Andrea Stella.
The Woking-based squad found itself facing scrutiny during the race when, after Norris suffered a slow pitstop and dropped behind Piastri, it elected to swap the drivers around. This put ...Keep reading

Alex Marquez got his “revenge” on Turn 10 in Barcelona, claiming victory in the Catalan Grand Prix and raising the middle finger at the corner that had cost him a likely MotoGP sprint race win.
The Gresini rider was on course for victory in Saturday’s sprint race but made a mistake into the tricky left-hander and ended up on the ground.
However, just a day later, he bounced back from ...Keep reading

The 2025 Formula 1 championship fight is very unlike many that have come before.
It is being fought by McLaren duo Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris, but even as the season approaches its end, the pair are still playing ‘happy family’ rather than the intra-team bust-ups of years gone by like that of Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg.
That was seen on Sunday at the Italian Grand Prix when ...Keep reading

Marc Marquez believes his brother Alex Marquez excels in the same areas where he struggles himself, as he explained how the Catalan Grand Prix was decided by their contrasting riding styles in MotoGP.
The factory Ducati rider’s 15-race winning streak came to an end at Barcelona on Sunday, as Alex Marquez took a convincing 1.7s victory on his Gresini GP24 bike.
This was only the second time ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen produced a vintage display of dominance at the Italian Grand Prix with a commanding Formula 1 win over Lando Norris, who was at the centre of a McLaren team orders kerfuffle following a slow pitstop.
Norris, who had given up his place in the McLaren pitstop queue to team-mate Oscar Piastri after the two went long into the race on medium tyres, then suffered with a slow stop – ...Keep reading

Verstappen: From Monza ‘monster’ to 2023-style win
After Max Verstappen called the Red Bull car a “monster” at Monza last year, few had high hopes for Red Bull heading into the Italian Grand Prix this year. But from the very first practice session, reality turned out differently. When Helmut Marko said behind the garages on Friday that Verstappen could fight for victory, many in the ...Keep reading

Ever since he fell off the car in Victory Lane at Watkins Glen and broke his collarbone, 19-year-old Connor Zilisch has been very careful when celebrating his many race wins.
At Portland, he crawled out of the roof hatch instead of the window, and humorously tucked the window net inside the car after slipping on it at The Glen.
His ninth win of the year came this weekend at Gateway, where he ...Keep reading

Alex Marquez held off his elder brother Marc Marquez to take a brilliant MotoGP victory in front of his home crowd at the Catalan Grand Prix.
At the start, Gresini rider Alex Marquez pulled away from pole position and briefly held the advantage, but brother Marc outbraked him into Turn 1 to seize the lead on the factory Ducati.
Initially, the older Marquez was doing enough to stay at the ...Keep reading

The 2025 Rotax MAX Challenge Euro Trophy heads into its decisive chapter with the fourth and final round taking place at one of the most prestigious venues in the international karting scene - the Circuito Internazionale Napoli, in Sarno, Italy.
The 1,547-meter (0.96-mile) layout, both fast and technically demanding, will welcome the Euro Trophy for the very first time, despite already being ...Keep reading

Pierre Gasly, Daniel Ricciardo, Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc, winners of the past five grands prix at Monza, have something in common besides the obvious fact of being Formula 1 drivers who have won the Italian GP.
None of them started from pole position.
Indeed, races won from pole are in the minority at Monza, which has hosted a world championship grand prix every year bar one since ...Keep reading

On 6 September 2020, Pierre Gasly lived what was the most prestigious day of his Formula 1 career so far, as he won the Italian Grand Prix with AlphaTauri.
Now called Racing Bulls, the team wasn’t a frontrunner by any means, with Gasly collecting 18 of its 20 points over the first seven grands prix of a pandemic-impacted campaign.
Still, the Frenchman consistently outperformed team-mate ...Keep reading